ERA Regaltus Inaugural Launch Successful
By Petty Officer-3rd Class D’ARCY DICKINSON
The Aldamiir Weekly News

NEW WELTHAYUS MILITARY BASE – The Evanglessian aerial navy’s newest legend-class airship launched yesterday, the ERA Regaltus. The ERA Regaltus is 1,455 feet long, making it the third largest airship in aerial navy after the ERAC Integrity and the ERA Murdrum. The Regaltus is named after the Crimson Marshal Godard Regaltus, a man made famous for his archery skill and legendary for his death on the battlefield near the beginning of the civil war, in defense of our emperor, Emperor Deylus Luthricien. At the prow, the ERA Regaltus’s figurehead is a man wielding a silver bow and arrow, in honor of its namesake.

The legend-class airship, a design created by Countess Savannah Fayne-Dreyfus in the final years of the Hurricane Wars, involves the use of sealed hydrogen and numerous graviton spheres. Sealed hydrogen (also invented by Fayne-Dreyfus) has the same properties as hydrogen, but is as non-flammable as helium, making it the new gas of choice for lighter-than-air vehicles. By combining the sealed hydrogen with well-placed graviton spheres, the ERA Regaltus (and its predecessors) are nearly impossible to gun down, and they can carry a complement that will make any Paldoran Stormship think twice before nearing this powerhouse.
The Regaltus is captained by Philomena C. Kingsmill IV. The maiden voyage, which includes a small peacetime crew of 2,200 and carries 280 ironbirds, will be making its first stop in Varsylis in six days.