torchShip

The Society's big warships, which are armed and driven by the great engines that give them their name.

Metal behemoths that sail between the planets in fleets. Darrow, in the mines, thinks of them as the most distant thing there could be.

A torchShip is a city with a gun at the end of it. Whole planets' politics rest on the question of how many of them each family can field. Their weapons make orbit the highest of high ground, and their crews number in the thousands, drawn from every Color.