The Calilla, one of the Free Stellar River Alliance's ten greatest Poseidon-class superfreighters, was so immense in size and tonnage that calling it a ship seemed inappropriate. It was more like a mobile city of steel. There were certainly plenty of artificial constructs in the universe larger than her, but a city of steel capable of racing through space at cruiser-class speeds was unheard of.
It was like saying that a fat girl was nothing special, but if that fat girl could routinely break the sound barrier and fly faster than a Blackbird, it would completely overturn one's worldview.
In the galaxy, there really was nothing more suitable for the Alliance to flaunt its technological achievements and shipbuilding prowess.
After all, the Alliance had always claimed to be a friendly, peaceful nation. It would hardly do to imitate the Empire and casually bring out a new Titan to frighten people.
As a result, the captain of a Poseidon ship was necessarily a major figure whose word carried enormous weight in the shipping industry. In addition, the captain had to manage a massive vessel comparable to a city of steel, as well as tens or even hundreds of thousands of crew members and passengers, much like a mayor. Some people said that a Poseidon ship's captain even held greater status than the heads of certain remote minor nations. That was not an exaggeration.
After all, among the member states of the Galactic Civilization Council, quite a few possessed no territory beyond their homeworlds of origin. The combined weight of all the spacecraft in their entire nations did not even amount to a fraction of a single Poseidon ship.
The captain of the Calilla was a Nedian dragonkin named Dejara Shahei. He had been born into the Alliance Navy and had retired