Designed by Olanji/Charubah, Battle Dragons became the primary capital ships of the Hapan Royal Navy, supported by Nova-class battle cruisers. The Hapan fleet, led by Prince Isolder‘s oversized Battle Dragon Song of War, contained at least 63 Battle Dragons, each representing one of the Consortium’s worlds.

Battle Dragons featured a unique dual saucer-shaped hull 500 meters in diameter with a central core connected by sixteen rotation support struts. The ships were armed with forty ion cannons and forty turbolaser batteries affixed to rotating circular sections on the top and bottom hull plates. To compensate for slowly recharging weaponry, the disc would rotate to bring fresh guns to an enemy while the previously used guns recharged their capacitors, which the Hapans viewed as a more efficient use of firepower.

In addition to the rotating weapon emplacements, Battle Dragons were armed with ten proton torpedo tubes, tractor beam projectors, dorsal- and ventral-mounted heavy triple ion cannon batteries and sixteen pulsemass mine launchers. These generators were developed by the Hapans from Imperial gravity well projectors. These variants of the gravity well technology were deployed as mines in hyperspace where they created a false image of realspace masses. Thus, starships were kept in realspace near the generators or brought them out of hyperspace near them. Each mine works for some minutes within a short radius.

Each Battle Dragon carried three squadrons of Miy’til starfighters in onboard hangars and a battalion of 500 troops. The ships required a crew of 1,200 and 190 gunners.