Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid is the summit of galactic heavy engineering and incorporates many of the gravity-oriented devices available. It is the noisiest ship ever designed, by far. The most remarkable feature is the Spindizzy. This operates as follows:

• A ship with a Spindizzy turned on can tow any ship, whatever the mass. It always wins towing battles.
• The unlimited multi-tow facility allows the Great Pyramid to tow all co-located ships that have it as an escort target. They do not require to have their engines on. The Spindizzy couples with the ships and drags them along in its wake. No tow target needs to be set, everthing is taken along.
• A Spindizzy can even tow a planet.
• A Spindizzy cannot tow: stars, wormholes, jumpgates, fuzzy nebulae nor buoys.
  
• Fuel use is only what it costs to move the original ship, no matter what's being towed. Note that the GP has a gravitational accelerator too.
• Spindizzies cannot move a planet nearer to another planet than 4 LY due to gravitational perturbances. This is also just out of transport range.
• Spindizzies only work when the ship is crewed by IMT.
  

There are two main reasons to move Planets. Firstly, is to acquire resources - moving planets makes for a compact, easily defensible core. Secondly, planets can be used as supercarriers, mobile bases which can take entire shipyards protected by base shields and unlimited fighters deep into enemy territory.

A large IMT fleet may consist of a single Great Pyramid towing a planet, an entire fleet of ships, accompanying free large Wings [because the maximum Wing size in IMT carriers is 500 fighters, and sometimes you want bigger ones], and the planet may have several Bases on it; for example, a Robot ally's (with a Gun Zero), and an IMT one with lots of ion cannon and AA guns.

So powerful and massive are flying planets that they smash through minefields.

Great Pyramids can tow anything but are not well armed - probably the worst armament of any tech 10 hull. However if cornered these supertugs can become quite dangerous by turning the Protomatter Cannon(PMC) on enemies. The Great Pyramid can take quite a battering (even a superlaser fired at point blank range) before it goes down.

The Great Pyramid has a power bank large enough to fire the PMC almost as soon as it enters combat. As long as it can take enemy shields down below 2500 points before firing the PMC then not many enemy ships will survive such an encounter.

They are best set to enter combat on the second wave. Like any IMT ship, setting them to "Ram" boosts their attack bonus, but some timid players consider these ships too valuable to risk in serious combat. Lacking serious heavy weapons, they prefer to fit it with Photon Torpedoes and use Standoff Range in order to try and keep enemies at a distance whilst the Protomatter Cannon charges up. Wusses.
 
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