Command carrier

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Command Carrier
A Peacekeeper Command Carrier suffers damage.
Affiliation	Peacekeepers
General Characteristics
Fighters	Marauders Prowlers
Armaments	Frag Cannons

Command Carriers are the capital ships of the Peacekeeper fleet in the fictional Farscape universe.

Command carriers serve as a mobile base of operations for the Peacekeepers; they are immense ships with a crew compliment of about 50,000. Many peacekeepers live their entire lives on a command carrier, and they have all the creature comforts needed to sustain their large crews (including large indoor "gardens" that simulate a planet's surface and are used for combat training exercises).

Command carriers primarily rely on their large complements of Prowlers and Marauders to project Peacekeeper power where needed. They are however powerful battleships in their own right, armed with four Frag Cannons (2 fore, 2 aft) they each have a 90-degree radius of fire allowing for target acquisition all around the ship and protected by powerful defence screens. It is also rumoured to have Missiles/Rockets however was never seen in action in an episode. They are also quite fast, as the crew onboard Moya have to routinely starburst away when a command carrier gets too close, but they never seem to stay ahead of them for very long.

While used as a plot device in the series, this indicates that Command Carriers and most other space vessels in the Farscape universe are not equipped to achieve instant FTL speeds, as it is possible in other popular science fiction universes.

Larger variants of Command Carriers exist and are attached to fleets as flagships (The Zelbinion may have been one of these variants due to the remarks that have been made in the series about its size and power). If these vessels are destroyed whole fleets can be thrown into disarray and will eventually crumble.