The Almagest is one of the latest battleships of the Outer Space Confedaracy that appears in the manga Cyber Newtype Story: MAD WANG 1160.
Technology & Combat Characteristics[]
The Almagest is a cutting-edge battleship with heavily automated robotic systems which allow a extremely small crew. However this also mean if the system crashes for some reason the ship is almost defenseless as it cannot use its internal weapons or launch Armed Material but manually piloted Armed Material could still be launched. The ship has a Warp Engine which allow faster-than-light travel and is shown to be capable of entering and exiting planetary atmospheres on its own. Transport Beams can be used to quickly teleport people or objects in or out of the ship but the teleporter has a limited range and if a person goes beyond its range they cannot be teleported into the ship.
History[]
The ship finds and recovers an ancient cryonic capsule that contained the Cyber-newtypes Decoda, Shiva and Meganica, however the ship is suddenly attacked by an Armed Material of the Solar System Federation and the minovsky particles from the capsules infiltrated and disrupted the automated systems. But Decoda, Shiva, and Meganica manually piloted an Armed Material and defeated the attacking unit.
Captain Eruda brought the trio to a station around 40 light years away from Earth but is attacked by another cyber-newtype Zeer who kidnaps Shiva. Captain Eruda allows Decoda and Meganica to take an advanced AM and follow Zeer who warps into Earth.
Later Captain Eruda charges into Earth penetrating the Solar System Federations defense lines and saving the cyber-newtypes just in time. However, the ship was unable to outrun hundreds of AMs following them but to Captain Eruda's surprise, the Cyber-newtypes hold off the enemy and hack the control network to stall the AMs long enough for the ship to escape.
Later the ship is shown to have brought the cyber-newtypes to a lush world within the territory of the Outer Space Confederacy where captain Eruda says farewell and promises to return before he is beamed up to the ship which then leaves the planet.