Leviathan (WarShip class)

This article is about the WarShip family. For other uses, see Leviathan.
Leviathan
Production information
Manufacturer (Clans)
Introduced 3042 (designed)
Use Dreadnought
Tech Base Clan Advanced
Cost unknown
Technical specifications
Mass 2,400,000
Length ca. 1,700 m
Sail Diameter unknown
Fuel unknown
Burn Rate unknown
Safe Thrust unknown
Top Thrust unknown
Sail Integrity unknown
KF Drive Integrity unknown
LF Battery unknown
Armament unknown
Armor Ferro-Carbide Armor
DropShip Capacity unknown
Crew unknown
Grav Decks
Escape Pods/Life Boats unknown
Heat Sinks unknown
Structural Integrity unknown
BV (1.0) unknown
BV (2.0) unknown



A Leviathan-class vessel in dock as of ca. 3057, thought to be the CGB Leviathan (see Notes below)

The original Leviathan-class dreadnought was designed by Clan Ghost Bear, with the help of Clan Snow Raven. The class would go on to have a particularly convoluted design history resulting in several subclasses.

Description[edit]

No ship was ever built to match the original specifications, but several subclasses of the Leviathan have emerged:

  • Leviathan Transport — Clan Snow Raven started construction of two Leviathans (the Leviathan and the Great Bear) for the Ghost Bears in 3042. Halfway during construction the Ghost Bears decided to alter the design specifications and have the hulks completed as armed transporters instead. The two redesigned hulls became the Leviathan Heavy Transport subclass. They saw use in Clan Ghost Bear's migration to the Inner Sphere.
  • Leviathan II — After Clan Ghost Bear had completed the move, the Leviathan and the Great Bear were reconfigured into battleships, but upgrading the heavy transports to designated battleships resulted in a battleship design that was different from the original Leviathan design. This became known as the Leviathan II.
    Following the conversion of the Leviathan and Great Bear, a third such battleship, the Rasalhague, was constructed straight to Leviathan II specifications by the Ghost Bears.
  • Leviathan III — In the Dark Age era, Clan Ghost Bear was said to be in the process of building a Leviathan III-class vessel.

Named Vessels[edit]

(See Category:Individual Leviathan-class WarShips)

Notes[edit]

  • The Leviathan was first depicted on the cover of Technical Readout: 3057 (a Technical Readout heavily focused on spacecraft). However, the Leviathan class was not actually included in the book, leaving many fans to wonder about the mystery vessel shown on the cover. The in-universe date of the book suggests the depicted ship must be either the Leviathan or the Great Bear, as construction of the third Leviathan-class vessel was not begun until around a decade later. Later official miniatures art shows the Great Bear sporting a red, not blue, background for the Clan crest painted on the hull, suggesting the ship depicted to be the Leviathan.
  • No game stats have ever been published for the original Leviathan. The known data from the transport and battleship subtypes does establish its mass (as a different mass would require a different drive core) and strongly suggests that it would have had eight docking hardpoints; beyond that, no hard data is available. Even the length of the transport version (1,623 m) and the battleship upgrade (1,700 m) is different, providing only a ballpark estimate.