ISS Indominus

The ISS Indominus, registry ICC-0001, is a Dreadnought class warship which was constructed in service of the Imperial Commonwealth of Planets. Upon its completion and christening, the Indominus was given command under Emperor Ricarius himself, to act the ICP's royal flagship. It was also the first starship to be designed and built solely by the ICP, rather than simply being a carryover from the Federation before its collapse.

Origins
The Dreadnought-class design was originally created by the Federation in the 23rd century to act as a heavy tactical warship in the event of all-out war commencing between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Plans for the ship, however, never made it off the design table, as a war of such exceeding danger and scope was not a pressing concern for most Federation officials at the time. The blueprint remained classified and hidden from public knowledge for the next century, until it was dredged up from the archives by the then-nascent Imperial Commonwealth of Planets. Ricarius immediately had a vested interest in the design and its specifications, seeing great potential in the ship's capabilities for tactical defense and long-term operations if it were ever built.

Construction and Operational History
As was originally intended for the Dreadnought class prototypes in the 23rd century, the ship that would later become the Indominus had been manufactured and assembled in an ultra-secure shipyard orbiting the Jovian moon Titan. Construction was classified top-secret, restricted only to the highest levels of the Imperial Starfleet, and conducted under the Emperor's direct supervision by Section 31, due to the vast amount of highly-advanced technologies being integrated into the hull of this imposing vessel. Painstaking time and labor went into retrofitting the obsolete characteristics of the original blueprint, ensuring that the Indominus would be blessed with only the finest of Imperial technology. Upon its completion, the ship left the yards of Titan, before being transferred to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, where it was given a proper ceremony and christening as the ISS Indominus, the first starship christened and deployed under the ICP's banner.

During the ceremonial deployment, Emperor Ricarius made bold proclamations on the nature of the Indominus and its role in the coming years as the Imperial Commonwealth would grow to become a 'great galactic power'. He stated that the ship would act not only as the flagship of the Imperial Starfleet, but also as his own personal royal transport. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the Emperor boarded the vessel and entered its bridge, taking his seat on the Commanding Throne as the ship left from its yard. Its first operational exercise was to travel from the Sol System to Qo'nos, where the Emperor planned to meet with the Klingon High Command in diplomatic concert.

After the first exercise was completed, the Emperor returned to Terra and kept the Indominus at stand-by in Low-Earth Orbit, ready for him to make use of the vessel again should the need arise. In terms of its use as a transport, it was mildly limited by the intimidating nature of the ship, especially during conventional diplomatic encounters (the Klingons being an obvious exception, due to their respect for, rather than aversion towards, military might and battle prowess). Where the ship was more often used and excelled at was in military operations, especially large-scale battles where the Emperor demanded to be present for more direct command of fleets involved in the conflicts. Nearly every time the Indominus was present in battle, the Imperial Commonwealth was the clear victor in all accounts, giving credence to the Emperor's involvement in 'shining moments of the Empire'.

Royal Fleet
As well as being the flagship of the Imperial Starfleet as a whole, the Indominus was assigned to serve as the command ship of a special taskforce known only as 'The Royal Fleet', a flotilla consisting of the Indominus itself, as well as the ISS Enterprise-E under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the ISS Defiant under the command of Captain Benjamin Sisko, and later, the ISS Voyager under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway. The purpose of this taskforce was to consolidate the three greatest living captains in both Federation and Imperial Starfleet under the Emperor's authority, primarily to serve as his advisors in various diplomatic and scientific situations, as well as defenders in military confrontations.