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'''GTVA Colossus''' is a spacecraft from the video game [[Freespace 2]]. 

== Background ==
The result of a joint Terran-Vasudan venture, the Colossus was built with the goal of protecting the GTVA from the threat of future invasion of GTVA space, especially a renewed [[Shivan]] incursion.

Following the destruction of the [[SD [[Lucifer]] as it was en-route to destroy the Earth, the Vasudan Emperor Khonsu II proposed Project Colossus to the GTVA General Assembly.  The Project was an effort to build a superior warship with both Terran and Vasudan technologies, a ship that could ably fend off any further invasion of Terran-Vasudan space.  Taking over 20 years to complete, the product of this Project was the GTVA Colossus.

The Colossus is over 6 km long - the largest spacefaring warship ever constructed in Terran-Vasudan history - and holds a crew complement in excess of 30,000.  Armed with twelve (12) heavy beam cannons, forty-five (45) laser turrets, twelve (12) missile batteries, and fifteen (15) flak cannons, the Colossus also carries up to sixty (60) fighter and bomber wings within its fighter bays (approximately 240 craft).  Estimates place the firepower of the Colossus as greater than five (5) Orion-class Destroyers - the most powerful class of Terran warship during the Great War - combined.

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== Initial Deployments ==
During the battle at Enif Station (The Sixth Wonder), a GTI Arcadia-class installation in the [[Epsilon Pegasi]] system, the GTVA Colossus saw its first combat deployment, destroying NTF fighters and warships that were besieging the GTVA station with ease.  With a fresh resupply of fuel from the newly discovered nebula beyond [[Gamma Draconis]], the Colossus and its battle group then went on the offensive, engaging NTF forces remaining in the Epsilon Pegasi system.  The NTF, for it(contracted; show full)w and twenty years of Terran-Vasudan engineering.  However, the actions of the Colossus gave enough time for the Bastion to close in on the Epilson Pegasi node.  The player is scrambled to defend the Bastion and reinforce its fighter escort on the last leg of its run toward the node.  The arrival of the Bastion at the node successfully seals off the subspace link between Capella and Epsilon Pegasi, preceding the final Shivan-induced supernova of the Capella star.

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