The Leonidas and Agamemnon are fearsome battlecruisers of equivalent capability. Both feature a double-decker mixed mass driver broadside of light and heavy calibre weapons, allowing them to lay waste to multiple foes. They lack meaningful firepower on the front quarter, making them best employed in the heart of an engagement. PHR battlecruisers are efficient broadside platforms where superior toughness gets these lethal ships to the heart of any fight.

The Scipio and Priam are two battlecruiser-carrier hybrids of equivalent performance, the latter being more frequently encountered. Much like the Leonidas and the Agamemnon, the differences in hull design may be down to shipyard, planet of origin or to another unknown factor. Both vessels are equally dangerous opponents and have similar mission profiles. Generally, the Scipio and Priam are tasked with destroying large groups of enemy light vessels and merchant shipping, making their roles closer to that of traditional battlecruisers. They are equipped with an extensive light calibre broadside, configured for excellent target acquisition and multipleengagement of smaller ships. In concert with this, these vessels include cavernous launch bays the equal of a Bellerophon heavy carrier. Since lighter ships with poor point defence are particularly vulnerable to bombers, this supports the ship’s primary role. In addition, the ability to throw up an enormous swarm of fighters allows the Scipio or Priam to protect friendly ships, often the lighter escorts that may accompany it on interdiction missions behind enemy lines.

The Pompeius was the first of a new wave of Republic battlecruisers with a novel superstructure. Unveiled in the third month of the battle for Earth, the Pompeius’ distinctive vertical configuration and massed engine banks quickly earned the grudging respect of the Admiralty. It’s understood that this new hull has an even smaller crew requirement than the Agamemnon-type, barely more than a UCM frigate while matching one in speed and rivalling a battleship in firepower. The Pompeius is built around some of the largest mass drivers built by the PHR - each as long as a frigate and it packs four of them. These are mounted in a quad, forward-facing battery, making the Pompeius a focused sledgehammer. The guns’ massive calibre and cumbersome traverse makes them most dangerous against the heaviest targets, when a single salvo at maximum power can cripple a battleship.

The Agrippa's fin arrays launch drone swarms that generate EM fields mimicking debris signatures, rendering covered ships invisible to enemy sensors. Hostile vessels entering the field trigger proximity detonations; friendly ships pass freely. The Office of Naval Intelligence notes the class has been observed screening movements unrelated to any declared operation.

Named for the conspirator who ended Caesar, the Brutus is a pocket battleship built around an axial Glaive Lance — a precision energy weapon paired with full-spectrum broadsides.

The Cato trades the Brutus's heavy broadsides for a balanced suite of medium guns, all-arc Hornet drones, and the same axial Glaive Lance — a generalist's pocket battleship.

The Antony folds carrier capacity (Fighters & Bombers) and a Deployable Feature into the pocket-battleship hull, a flexible flagship for Vizier-level admirals leading mixed task forces.

The Heracles Class battleship is a truly awesome vessel and one of the most resilient battleships yet encountered in the Reconquest. Its vast and stocky hull is built around an enormous broadside array of heavy calibre mass drivers, its beam wide enough to conceal these massive weapons within. The ship’s characteristic and ominous silhouette is increased by a complex series of manoeuvre fins, lending this leviathan a surprisingly graceful appearance for such a brutal tool of destruction. In addition to its broadsides, the Heracles also features the dreaded Dark Matter Cannon, an enormous prow mounted weapon as monumentally destructive as it is advanced. In addition to the extensive damage it can inflict, a single shot is dangerous enough to cause crippling effects to the largest of vessels, making it an awesome foil to enemy battleships. The Heracles also sports superlative levels of point defence in addition to close action weapons of extreme potency. The combination of these attributes makes this ship an obvious choice as flagship for admirals lucky enough to have access to one, if not a rock around which a full scale attack can be based.

The Minos is just as vast and deadly as the Heracles, mounting the same heavy calibre broadside. However, it features an entirely different prow armament: a pair of Nightfish torpedoes, massive ordnance designed to resist all point defence with sheer armour thickness. These may be loosed independently or simultaneously to cripple a battleship outright. Once torpedoes are launched, the Minos adopts an ultra-aggressive approach to bring its neutron missiles into play, the most dangerous close action weapons yet encountered by the UCM, designed to inflict appalling carnage and crippling effects.

Following the same deign ethos as their dreadnoughts, all of the Sarpedon battleship’s main weapons are energy-based. One of the Republic Grand Fleet’s latest creations, scans suggest that this class features a state of the art, single-unit power core with an output/volume ratio twice that of anything the UCMF can field. This allows the mounting of four, colossal energy weapons. Firstly, a linked pair of Meganova lasers provide superlative ship-slicing capability - even another battleship may be crippled by a single, sustained burn. Secondly, two hull-mounted multi-lance lasers can bracket and pulverise smaller ships with frightening ease. In the limited time that the UCMF have been able to observe this class, it seems it’s only weakness may be extreme heat buildup over sustained combat, although this is only an issue if any adversaries remain to return fire.

The Kairos class has only just been observed in combat, and it’s superstructure suggests it is part of the Grand Fleet’s new family of battleships. Utilising the same advanced power core as the Sarpedon, the Kairos forgoes the Meganova lasers in favour of additional drives for a massive increase in combat speed. Indeed, unlike most PHR leviathans, this Kairos is one of the fastest battleships in known space. It uses this speed, primarily, to achieve firing range for its crest-mounted battery of neutron missiles - battleship-grade munitions which can inflict crippling damage to any target. Once in the fray, the class’ hull-mounted multi-lance lasers can mop up any escort vessels fleeing the flaming wreck of the Kairos’ latest victim. Such a fighting profile makes the Kairos best suited to hyper-aggressive admirals who choose to lead from the front and by example - not as uncommon a trait as one might expect from the stereotypically serene post-humans.

This class has been operating since just prior to the opening salvos of the Battle For Earth. The UCMF previously gave this a unique superstructure designation, which it now shares with the Kairos and Sarpedon. However, unlike those vessels, the Rhadamanthus uses the PHR’s older power core structure, most likely because it simply wasn’t needed or because it was rushed into service. Augmenting the fearsome neutron missiles with even more close action weaponry, this is the PHR’s most aggressive battleship, since these weapon’s low power consumption allow it to achieve the same blistering thrust as the Kairos. The class has been observed on multiple occasions at the head of so-called ‘javelin’ strikes - lightning assaults on certain, enigmatic surface positions before rapid and unexplained retreats. Some suggest that limited ammunition payload may explain this, but senior operatives of the Office of Naval Intelligence suspect that’s just wishful thinking.

The Amphion was the first recorded vessel to utilise the Republic’s latest battleship superstructure. This evolution in post-human naval architecture features miniaturised, hyper-efficient core systems and thus enlarged internal spaces. An expanded power matrix allows it to accommodate Energy Glaive broadsides previously only seen aboard dreadnoughts as well as a ventral meganova laser.

The Memnon class supercarrier leverages this new superstructure’s increased modularity by removing more of the ships’ generators to create further space of flights of launch assets. This vessel carries a more substantial fighter and bomber compliment than any other known PHR vessel in addition to torpedoes and hornet drones.

The Trajan class battleship uses the same internal power structure as its cousin the Memnon, but this class is more overtly offensive and aggressive. Multiple attack drone and nanomachine systems make this giant lethal at close range while a sizable compliment of fighters and bombers can deploy in support or to strike at more distant targets.

The Augustus class was the first of the Republic’s new super battleships. A design centred on aggressive firepower, captains of this devastating vessel may drive it into enemy formations like a thrust to the heart. While its bulk and armour shrugs off defensive fire, its Black Nano Drones and Neutron Missiles annihilate close victims already pummelled by its torpedoes, all while its Energy Glaive broadsides destroy oblique targets.

The Ceasar class super battleship strains this new superstructure’s cutting-edge power matrix to the maximum. Featuring a terrifying array of forward-facing energy mega-weapons, this leviathan is designed to focus on one victim. Often, this target is obliterated in a single combined volley.

The Octavius class super battleship features a broad array of gunnery designed to devastate large targets. A heavy calibre broadside, torpedoes, Neutron Missiles, and the dreaded Dark Matter Cannon all combine to make this one of the most fearsome non-dreadnought vessels in the cosmos.

Director Javelin is a man of few words, and seemingly fewer actions. Every fleet movement, every communication, always short and to the point. He is not a man to mince words or waste effort on the superfluous. The UCM believe that Javelin is more machine than man, that his cold calculating persona is a complete lack of humanity.

The truth is that Javelin is rather lacking in many of the extra augmentations PHR admirals get to further interface with their ships. Making him more human than his peers. His cold stoicism comes from his natural temperament when dealing with the unknown, and his caution comes from the knowledge his high-level clearance burdens him with.

He values PHR life incredibly highly and will defend them with singular efficiency, even going so far as to force the hand of his superiors to allow prototype self-repairing armour systems to be installed on-board his flagship. Thanks to the extra durability this provides his flagship, Javelin is able to plant his feet, so to speak, on critical locations

Helena of Asgard is one of the most aggressive ranking officers active in the Asgard System. Part of the force tasked with destroying as many UCM Strike Carriers as possible.  Retreating groups learned to steer clear of her flagship’s Heavy Quad Battery lest the entire group be obliterated. While the UCM believe Helena is part of the external PHR forces, the truth is that Helena is an Asgard native. During the PHR’s initial dealings with the resistance forces on Asgard Prime a young Helena started a rapport with PHR naval personnel, listening to tales of sights she would never see staying put on her home planet. Resolved to go with the returning PHR forces she sneaked aboard an outbound PHR transport. To her new allies, however, her infiltration attempt was painfully obvious. Although among plenty of other Asgardians that had decided to join their PHR allies, Helena showed great enthusiasm and promise in fleet-based operations. Proving herself again and again, Helena returned to Asgard Prime shortly before the ambush on the UCM fleet.

Claudia Rhee is a rarity amongst the PHR. Once a Siren, her tactical aptitude and control over countless Familiars gained her a place as a Medusa, one of the most elite members of the already elite Siren Corps. She earned her place in the captains chair when her ship was ambushed by Shaltari pirates. Their initial volley had struck right through the ship’s CIC, killing many of the command crew and leaving vital systems unmanned. Acting immediately, Claudia networked her Familiars with the ships’ systems, restored order and brought weapons to bear. Her quick thinking saved the lives of many that day and while the ship itself was unsalvageable, Claudia was approached with an offer that would one day see her commanding not only her own ship, but an entire fleet.

As the daughter of Octavia Rhee, there has been high expectations of her since the day she was born. Fortunately for her she has exceeded every single one of them. She was able to control multiple Familiars by the time her peers were only just able to operate a single Familiar. She aced every single combat proficiency test thrown at her and her field operation record is impeccable.

Though despite all of this she still lives in her mother’s shadow, made even darker by her recent sacrifice in the Shangri-La system. While Claudia is determined to make those responsible pay, the alliances made before the Battle of Earth make this a difficult prospect as of late. It is only a matter of time, however, before that all breaks down, countless simulations calculated by her Familiars have shown her that over and over again.