UECNS Jorōgumo

Jorōgumo was the name given to a set of nine hulls, each inhabited by a part Violet Five. Beginning as six battleship-sized hulls, three more cruiser-sized hulls had been added as well as the ability to add more, although this never occured due to the fracturing and continual degradation of Violet Five. The prime vessel of the set contained a large breach core as well as the largest fragment of Violet Five.

The ships that made up Jorōgumo all had extremely powerful shield emitters, designed to project shield facings tens to hundreds of thousands of kilometers across between each ship. By operating as a swarm, enemy vessels (or indeed entire squadrons) could be trapped inside the shields, and would either obliterate themselves trying to ram down a shield facing or be destroyed by the swarm's guns. The battleship hulls contained plasma mortars, while the smaller cruisers had heavy point-defense batteries.

Violet Five had splintered as she spread from the prime vessel to the others, and so was more of a hive mind than a regular AI. She/they had been shut down after a friendly fire incident, with all potential improvements or upgrades shelved, and was left dormant in a debris field in Node 05, with the wreckage of destroyed ships attached to each hull to hide it.

Reactivated upon the Compact's arrival in Node 05, Jorōgumo destroyed a cruiser squadron attempting to aid a stricken cruise liner (but which was actually a trap) and the battlecruiser squadron sent to aid them by trapping them inside the shield web. Two of the battlecruisers annihilated themselves by slamming into a shield when it appeared barely a few thousand kilometers in front of them; the rest were destroyed by plasma fire. Another shield web was projected around CSFWV Light of Judgement and two accompanying battleship squadrons, but only a single Compact a battleship was destroyed before the Chariot brought down the prime vessel's shields and vaporised it with its disruptor lance.