The JBS Pandora is the famous dreadnought flagship of House Julii.
Description[]
The Pandora is several kilometers long, and is considered a massive floating city with districts and multiple fire departments.
The ship was originally painted black, but was repainted jade green at some point after The Fall.[1]
History[]
Pre-Saga[]
The Pandora was built somewhere around 554 PCE, though some areas of the ship, such as the locker rooms in one of the barracks, were built much earlier.[2]
Golden Son[]
Though not mentioned by name, the Pandora presumably served as Agrippina au Julii's flagship during the Martian Civil War, and was present during the Lion's Rain when Victra convinced her mother to switch sides and ally with House Augustus during their invasion of Mars.
Morning Star[]
After the Triumph Massacre, control of the Pandora fell to Antonia, who used it as her personal command ship when she was deployed to Jupiter in June 742 PCE to reinforce the Sword Armada in the final months of the Second Moon Lord Rebellion. Toward the end of the Battle of Ilium, Antonia fled with the Pandora, only for the ship to be recaptured by Victra around four weeks later.
Dark Age[]
In November 753 PCE, Victra used the Pandora to begin moving her entire household, including soldiers and other employees needed to run a city, from Luna to Mars. The ship arrived in Martian orbit in December 753, and remained in orbit over Phobos until the end of January 754. On January 31st, the ship was invaded by Volsung Fá and the Ascomanni, forcing Victra to abandon the vessel and order all her staff to evacuate through the escape pods. The ship and many of House Julii's employees were ultimately captured by the Ascomanni, and used by Fá to transport his Obsidian followers away from Mars after they sacked the city of Olympia and enslaved its surviving population.
Light Bringer[]
Following the Sack of Olympia, Volsung Fá took the Pandora as his flagship and led the Obsidians on a campaign of conquest against The Rim. When Fá's army attacked Io, the Pandora was used to bombard the capital of Sungrave. After the fall of Sungrave, the Pandora was used to transport House Raa's sigil beast, the dragon Abraxes, to the Arbor of Akari for Fá to eat its heart. While the Obsidians feast on Abraxes, Fá meets with Atlas au Raa and Lysander au Lune aboard the Pandora in the stateroom he had claimed, where they discuss the accelerated timetable for their subjugation of The Rim.[3]
After Fá's death at the hands of his granddaughter, Volga Fjorgan, the Pandora is retaken from the Ascomanni by Sevro, Darrow, Cassius, Diomedes, and the Daughters of Athena.