DILGAR HEAVY CRUISER

	class:	Sekhmet
	type:	Heavy Cruiser
	length:	1,200 meters
	mass:	35.1 million metric tons
	crew:	unknown
	troop:	unknown
	fighter:	YES
	power:	Fusion Reactor [?]
	duration:	unknown
	weapon:	Twin X-Ray Lasers Cannons Heavy Plasma Pulse Cannon Twin Missile Launch Tubes Twin Medium Pulse Cannons
	defense:	Re-enforced armored hull

The xenophobic Dilgar Empire, faced with extinction when it was discovered their sun was about to go supernova* lead a bloody campaign to capture territory and assure the survival of their species between 2229 and 2232.* The Dilgar's murderous rampage across the quadrant was lead by the Sekhmet class Heavy Cruiser. This type vessel was the flagship of the Dilgar race and was considered a match for even the advanced warships of the Centauri Republic.

Measuring 1,200 meters in length*, this class vessel was armed with numerous weapons, including X-ray Laser cannons similar to Centauri in design, pulse cannons, and heavy plasma cannons.* This made the Dilgar Heavy Cruiser similar in power to a modern Hyperion or Omega class Destroyer and their artificial gravity technology and gravimetric propulsion put them on par with the Centauri. Some have even suggested that the Dilgar were more advanced than the Centauri and closer to the Minbari technologically.*

The Sekhmet struck fear in every race in the quadrant. Even the blustering Narns backed down from confronting the Dilgar when their own defenses on the Narn colony of Halax VII proved ineffective in the face of the Sekhmet Heavy Cruiser's assault. By the time Narn forces arrived at the fallen colony it was learned that the Dilgar Warmaster Jha'Dur, better known as "Deathwalker", had experimented and infected the entire colonial populace with biogenic weapons, killing almost all the Narn colonists. After this attack, the Narn dared not stand in the way of the Dilgar invasion of the Nonaligned Worlds.**

Fortunately for everyone in the quadrant, the Earth Alliance joined the battle against the Dilgar in late 2231 and, together with the surviving forces of the League, beat the Dilgar back to their homeworld. In 2232 the Dilgar were defeated and the Earth Alliance accepted their unconditional surrender.** As part of that surrender Earth forces blockaded the Dilgar jump-gate, confiscated all the Dilgar's quantium-40 supplies as reparations and imprisoned the Dilgar in their home solar system. This imprisonment proved to be a death sentence however as the Dilgar's star went supernova a year later**, wiping out the Dilgar and with them, the menace of the Sekhmet class Heavy Cruiser.

NOTE: Jha'Dur the "Deathwalker" was discovered to be alive in 2258. She had been sheltered by the Minbari Warrior Caste "Wind-Swords" and attempted to sell an immortality drug to the highest bidder, but was executed by the Vorlons before she could reveal the secrets behind her immortality serum.**

[*Based on Earthforce Source Book - some conjecture from the episode "Deathwalker."]
[*Dates taken from Babylon 5 RPG and the official B5 Timeline.]
[*Size taken from the B5 video game "Into the Fire."]
[*Weapons loadout taken from the B5 video game "Into the Fire."]
[*Conjecture based upon the Wind-Swords interest in Jha'Dur.]
[**Based on statements made in the episode "Deathwalker."]
[**Conjecture based on statements made in "Deathwalker" and the Earthforce Sourcebook.]
[**Conjecture based on statements made in "Deathwalker."]
[**Based on statements made in the episode "Deathwalker."]