The Galleon is a Colossal designed and built by the Black Anchor Heavy Industries used by the Mercenaries of Western Immoren. The colossal fires a rolling broadside before reaching out with its enormous cargo claw to toss warjacks like rag dolls. It can also use its massive trident to reel in foes and finish them off at close range with a series of punishing blows. The Galleon commands a high price, but for those mercenaries who have the fortune to spend, it fights as a symbol of unquestionable affluence and might.[1]
Only the Black Anchor Heavy Industries consortium situated in Clockers Cove could have dreamed of bringing together the engineering specialties and manufacturing capability needed to create a weapon like the Galleon. The feat required tremendous resources, hundreds of laborers, and dozens of highly skilled craftsmen and mechaniks, including those who might otherwise be employed by military armories. Originally established several decades ago as the Black Anchor Shipwrights they soon attracted a number of ambitious and talented engineers and mechaniks, including Steam and Iron Workers Union members who had enjoyed employment with prestigious factories such as the Cygnaran Armory, Engines West, and Rohannor Steamworks and gained a reputation with merchant guilds and privateers including several major projects allowing it to expand to the steamjack industry. Starting from repairing and assembling steamjacks they began outfitting labor ’jacks with weaponry. Facilities once built to service ships increasingly began to create parts for both labor ’jacks and decommissioned warjacks. Eventually shipbuilding was over taken by warjack production and thus the governing board renamed it Black Anchor Heavy Industries. This further helped gain the attention of wealthy financial backers such as the merchant families of Ord.[1]
Black Anchor’s owners learned of colossal factories operated by the Cygnaran Armory in nearby Caspia as well as the Rigevnya Complex in Korsk through its contacts, beginning the most ambitious mechanikal project ever undertaken by a private interest. It's lead mechaniks began to draft the schematics while one of its largest dry docks was converted to produce its first colossal and negotiated with the Fraternal Order of Wizardry for a limited run of custom-built, oversized arcanum cortexes—an expensive grade normally intended for heavy ’jacks. The design was influenced by their expertise in maritime engineering with guns identical to that of Black Anchor frigates, and its huge trident being based on the designs of massive harpoon cannons used by commercial whalers. The Cygnaran Reconnaissance Servicenoted that the first of these machines was loaded onto an Ordic privateer vessel connected with the Four Star Syndicate. The existence of such a dangerous weapon ensures an interesting—and undoubtedly profitable—future for those mercenary companies with the resources to procure a colossal of their own.[1]