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Casting a shadow over an entire city, an Anunnaki warship is as much a location as a vehicle. Of course, the PCs are much more likely to be in its terrifying shadow than aboard it (which is just as terrifying). The battleships are massive, disc-shaped vessels, ranging from hundreds of meters up to multiple kilometers across. Hundreds of Anunnaki might be aboard, although the ship’s impossibly advanced systems allow it to operate quite well with only minimal crew. Technology inconceivable to humans allows the massive ship to simply defy gravity, hovering in place with no visible means of propulsion or lift. When in motion, and sometimes for no apparent reason, the ship emits a variety of deep, loud, and frightening sounds...
—"The Brotherhood of Babylon — Apocalypse," The End of the World: Alien Invasion

Lister's window was filled with red.
And red.
And red.
He couldn't see where it started and he couldn't see where it finished, but it was big. No, it was BIG.
A big, red, red big clenched fist of metal.
As the shuttle accelerated towards the redness, details slowly emerged through the thick gloom of space. Gradually, Lister made out the thousands of tiny pinpricks of windows and a tooth-floss-thin line of light ringing the ship: the vessel's metro system. A huge, shadowy carbuncle jutted a mile or so from the red monster's belly - a small moon, torn out of orbit, had flung itself into the ship's solar plexus and was now embedded in the hull, hanging there like a giant stone leech.
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