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|manufacturer = Takeuchi Shipyard, [[Mare Marginis]], [[Luna]]
|owner        = [[Sailor Armed Militia]], [[Crystal Millennium]]
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''"Atropos (ship)" redirects here. For the character of the same name, see [[Atropos]]''

The '''Hornblower class''' of cruisers is named after the fictional Captain Horatio Hornblower, from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower Horatio Hornblower series of novels] written by C. S. Forester. Ships in the class are named after ships commanded by Hornblower in those novels; the ''Lydia, Sutherland, Witch of Endor'', and ''Le Reve'' had entered service before the end of the [[Boskone War]], while the ''Atropos'' and ''Hotspur'' were mothballed for a half-decade while still in construction drydock. There was some discussion of re-designing and completing the ''Hotspur'' as an exploration craft, but internal politics within the [[Crystal Millennium]] blocked all proposals to that end.<ref>The Love subfaction refused to fund construction of yet another warship during peacetime, while the Justice subfaction refused to remove the weaponry from the partially-built cruisers.</ref> It took the personal intervention of [[Serenity II]] to break the deadlock, who ordered the ''Atropos'' and ''Hotspur'' completed but no further Hornblowers be built.

The Hornblowers are the most heavily armed combat vessels in the Crystal Millennium fleet. They are all based out of [[Crystal Hiroshima]]; neither the design nor the ships are for sale.

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