Dahak is the name of a
planet-sized
starship in the
Mutineers Moon,
the
Armageddon Inheritance and
Heirs of
Empire (all collected in the omnibus volume,
Empire
from the Ashes) books by
David Weber.
In these books, the
moon of Earth turns out to
have really an ancient battleship (a
Utu-class planetoid,
of an ancient star empire known as the Imperium) in orbit around
the Earth with a full-strength crew a quarter-million strong, a
normal sublight parasite strength of two hundred warships. Its crew
was stranded on Earth thousands of years ago, due to a mutiny led
by the Chief Engineer Anu of the ship; Anu's people had grown weary
of being in Battle Fleet and wished to find a congenial remote
planet on which to live out their lives. The mutiny fails (but not
before crippling
Dahak), and all crew members are
evacuated to Earth.
The crew is the source of humanity on
earth; the mutineers using ambitious and greedy people to achieve
their ends from their base of operations under Antarctica, while
the loyal crew members use those who are trustworthy and willing to
fight to help save their planet from both the mutineers and
oncoming threat of the Aku'Ultan, a maurading race of sentient
beings hell-bent on destroying any race that may eventually pose
even the slightest threat to their existence. The ship lay dormant
for most of this time. Dahak is also the benevolent sentient
(acquired independent thinking ability, thus a real sentient
entity) computer core of the ship featured in this series. Dahak is
like the many ships named
Enterprise in the
United States
Navy and is the eleventh and there have been twenty-third ship
to bear the name.
Mobile units
Dahak also has multiple
sublight parasites
Sublight battleships (each have 6 Fighters, 6
Assult Shuttles, 2 Pinnaces (Command shuttles) and 6 heavy tanks)
*Shirhan*Escal*Nergal*OsirSublight
cruisersSublight destroyer*ArdatSublight
transport*Bislaht*Cardoh*Transharand
Four Fleet repair units, each effectively a
hundred-fifty-thousand-ton spaceborne industrial complexe, which is
a
clanking replicator.