12 sleepless knights was a unique capital-scale ship built around an old slaving vessel. Its powerplant, energy transfer conduits, and sensors were dramatically enhanced and a bank of high-speed angular deflection maser waveguides was built along the port side. Following retrofit, it could be operated by a crew of two with difficulty and only had enough space and life support for 3 people to operate the bridge. There was only one bunk.

It was capable of pinpointing a man-sized object traveling at extremely high speeds on the surface of a terestrial planet from orbit, and could precisely direct massive quantities of wavelength-tailored microwave radiation to said target with a variety of focus geometries.

Other applications for this weapon include ELINT?, gas giant mining, etc.

The 12 sleepless knights had a sister ship, the Quixotic Squire? that was little more than a short range, remote piloted drone equipped with tractor beams specially designed to produce shear force.