Editing Kor'Vattra (section)

== Battleship ==

This is pretty Obvious. They're the ships with the giant fucking guns and swarms of fighters and weeb tech. Typically, these vessels are large enough to tow other ships with them. They are the biggest, and like all Tau stuff that's expensive, [[Titan|are not an asset to be risked lightly]].

*'''Gal'leath''': Also known as the Explorer class. Fairly obvious, they are the earliest ships in the Tau navy, first used to explore and colonize outlying systems and expand the Empire. They were also featured prominently in an ad for BFGAII. It has a large cargo space, some Railguns strapped to the top of it, and is fucking slow. Seriously, we are talking 1/5th of warp speed. They show pretty prominently as colony ships, as the Tau met the Orcs, got their asses kicked, and immediately decided that they would need something new and as such began designing newer vessels. However, the Tau don't mothball them for several reasons: They are still decent carriers, can carry smaller non warp ships with them, and they are fucking cheap. Seriously, on a battleship level, these things are cheap to build compared to the [[What|plural centuries it will take the Imperial navy to produce vessels of similar size]].
Some weirdos with missile fetish, namely Bork'an sept, tend to replace half of the space reserved for hangar bays to get even MORE TORPEDOES, turning this log of driftwood into an actually dangerous foe, especially for smaller enemies who don't have the air support or a ton of turrets.

*'''Or'es El'leath''': Also known as the Custodian class. No, not that [[Adeptus Custodes|custodian]]. One of the newer ships in the Kor'vattra, these ships are seen in the T'au Empire trailer for BFGAI. Pretty much an upgrade from whatever the hell the Explorer Class was supposed to be, at the cost of having a [[FAIL|design with a reduced hull strength]]. However, it makes up for this with being a good all-rounder, having more torpedoes than the Bork'an variant of Explorer, almost as many hangars as the default variant, along with superior shielding and weapons technologies in the form of Larger Railguns and Ion Cannons. These guys are part of the Kor'Or'Vesh initiative and despite their hiccups, are a drastic improvement over earlier models. But most importantly, they are faster, and have a decent taskforce inside, so they aren't going to get boarded that easily.