Olympus Grand Battleship

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The Olympus is a class of grand battleship constructed by humanity in the pre-Scourge days. Originally designed alongside the Trident class, the Olympus retains many of the design features of the Trident, including the mass drivers turrets, large torpedo capacity, and potent durability. However, the Olympus differentiated itself from its sister class by being a low-production test bed for the experimental vent cannon technology. The first vessel to use these weapons, several Olympuses met with catastrophic accidents in production, resulting in a second version of the ship - the Eden class - being developed to help improve weapon stability. However, little could be done to make such weapons safer, as siphoning unregulated power directly from the ship's core is extremely dangerous even in the best of circumstances.

Despite the instability of the Olympus and Eden classes, they have nonetheless found an admirer in the form of Kalium. The Kabal has poured extensive resources into improving and exploiting vent cannon technology, given its extreme potency, and they now operate more Edens than they do Elysiums. What Olympuses they still possess are all legacy ships built before the Scourge invasion.