Naming conventions

flagships ships are traditionally named after places from The Kepek's home planet of Xebrik, usually cities or nations whose names survived through history. However, as time goes on, the commonwealth has been more accepting of new sources for names. The ICF. Meatep, for example, is currently the latest colony Flagship in the commonwealth and was named after the captain's first daughter.

Installed Technology

AIGAS

AIGAS (short for Artificial Intelligence Guided Assistant System) is a form of AI assistant installed into many Kepek Commonwealth ships, including the ICF's. In these colossal ships, the AIGAS assists with piloting, monitoring the ship's surroundings to ensure nothing collides with it, docking at space stations, ensuring the ICF captain adheres to galactic traffic laws, keeping track of the number of passengers on board and maintaining their overall living conditions, warn the maintenance crew of any potential issues and much, much more. the AIGAS is the brain of the ship, and while they do still require a captain to oversee them, they can mostly run autonomously thanks to this system.

Warp Drive and Thrusters

Interstellar Colony Flagships have two main propulsion systems: thrusters and a warp drive.

The Warp Drive installed is purpose-built for the Interstellar Colony Flagships. It is capable of moving the flagship via rippling space around it, allowing for high-speed travel at a relatively low fuel cost. It can also create large-scale wormholes for warp-jumping when faster-than-light travel is needed.

When slower speeds or more precision is needed, however, the standard thrusters are used. This creates propulsion by igniting a liquid fuel source, and is much safer to use in close proximity to other ships, planets and space stations, but much more costly. The thrusters are located in a number of places across the ship, including a set of movable "wings" at the top. These wings, when extended, make an "X" shape and can be moved and even fully retracted when not in use.

Chromatashift Paint

All Interstellar Colony Flagships are covered in a coat of chromatashift paint, allowing them to change their colour and markings (such as the name and insignia) using the ship's AIGAS, without having to expend huge amounts of money on repainting them. It also allows the paint to change colour to send signals to other members of the fleet if communication systems fail. For example, an SOS signal can be given by periodically darkening and lightening the colour of the ship.

Power Supply

Powering what is essentially a flying continent is no small task. There are a multitude of ways these colossal ships generate power, and many use a combination of different methods!

Ships that spend a lot of time in or around star systems or other high-energy objects often have a system of panels that can turn radiation into usable power (similar to a modern solar panel). This energy is then used to power the ship's internal systems, provide electricity to the ship's inhabitants and power the Warp Drive. Any excess power is stored in a series of batteries so the ship can maintain power, even when not close to a star system or other source of radiation.

Many ICFs also use a liquid fuel source, which is used specifically for powering the thrusters and low-speed engines. 

Ships that spend a lot of time in interstellar space often have bioreactors to act as an additional source of power or thruster fuel. These reactors turn organic material into power, though they are unpopular among many Kepek who view them as unethical due to the fact that replicated organic material (that being organic tissue that was either cloned or created in a lab, rather than being harvested from a living being such as an animal, plant or person) doesn't seem to produce the same energy output, and so naturally produced organic material must be used. To keep the process as ethical as possible, there are many laws surrounding what can and can't be used in bioreactors, put in place by the Kepek Commonwealth and any creatures raised for the purpose of creating bioreactor fuel must be treated with respect and dignity, with many cultures even seeing those raised for this purpose to be sacred.

Weapons and Defence

Older Interstellar Colony Flagships don't have much in the way of built-in defence, as it was assumed nothing would be able to harm a ship this large. This was an oversight, to say the least, and resulted in many tragedies during the commonwealth's early days. Now, these older ships have dedicated Defence Ships as part of their fleets. These ships are stored in the flagship's docking bay and deployed when threats to the fleet are detected, which can include other hostile ships belonging to pirates, or even talbek.

Most of the modern Interstellar Colony flagships do however have defensive turrets and repellent shields as well. The name "repellent shield" is somewhat misleading, as the "shield" acts more like an EMP, creating a blast of energy around the flagship that shuts down any electronic systems, including most smaller ship's life support systems, making them deadly to any hostile ship that gets too close.

In the event a catastrophic system failure happens, passengers on the ship are evacuated to the top section of the flagship, which can become an emergency escape pod and detach from the rest of the ship. The emergency escape pod has a basic warp drive powerful enough to get it to the nearest inhabited star system, as well as powerful thrusters to aid in escaping from threats.