HMS Thunder Child (The War of the Worlds)

The HMS Thunder Child is a warship, an ironclad torpedo ram, from. It has proved itself to be very versatile in speed and combat.

Appearance
The Thunder Child is a long warship with a sharp and low nose, though is relatively small compared with modern military ships.

Abilities
 hull

The Thunder Child's hull is layered by from mimetic polyalloy from s, allowing the vessel to reform its hull. The very tip of the ship originally had the tip of  welded in it, allowing the ship to smash through, but this was removed by.

Torpedo ram

The Thunder Child has a sharp nose, allowing the ship to ram other vessels including submarines, causing significant damage.

Underwater capable

The Thunder Child is capable of travelling underwater.

Equipment
Artillery cannons

The Thunder Child was upgraded with two long range cannons, each with three barrels.

 generator

The Thunder Child possesses the first generation portal generator of the  scientific vessel. Hence, the vessel is capable of generating two giant portals to surround the ship to protect itself or for aiming its own offensive power without aiming the cannons. These portals can be linked to other first generator portals but not with other generations.



The Thunder Child possesses the hyperdrive of the . Hence, the vessel is capable of extremely fast travel. However, due to its weight, it cannot warp nor fly, though it is capable of hovering in the air.

 generator

The Thunder Child possesses a white noise generator so it is capable of covering itself with white noise, protecting itself from a single hit, no matter how powerful.

Pre-
On a Wednesday evening in Universe, immediately after the s conquered  and the surrounding areas, a large number of refugees attempted to escape by sea from the mouth of the  on the  coast of the.

Three Martian tripod fighting-machines then decided to approach the vessels from the sea. The HMS Thunder Child, that had been patrolling about two miles away, raced to engage them but without firing. As her guns remained quiet as she charged the tripods, she was not immediately seen as a threat, so she was not immediately destroyed by their s. In addition, the crowded and turbulent mass of refugee shipping in the area may have also influenced the captain's decision.

The Martians, whom were unfamiliar with large warships, at first responded to the Thunder Child's charge with only a gas attack, which was ineffective. After seeing the ship's continued advance, the Martians deployed their Heat-Ray, inflicting a great amount of damage upon the Thunder Child. She was, however, able to ram one of the fighting-machines, destroying it.

In sinking condition but with steering and propulsion still functional, the Thunder Child turned toward a second fighting-machine and began to use her guns. Although she appeared to score no significant hits and one of her misses sunk a nearby fishing smack, she was able to set a collision course with one of the Martians before the Heat-Rays found her again. The resulting explosion of her boilers and ammunition magazines destroyed the Thunder Child, but the thousands of tons of incandescent wreckage struck the Martian machine and destroyed it.

The remains of the Thunder Child sank to the riverbed.

The Thunder Child was dropped in 's equivalent of the. This territory eventually became part of.

, Post-
As part of, Yamaha recovered the Thunder Child, repaired and enhanced it, adding technology from other resources in Yamaha's possession, including a hyperdrive from the Ebon Hawk, portal technology from the Borealis , mimetic polyalloy technology from Terminators (though only for the hull) and white noise generators. With the hyperdrive, the upgraded Thunder Child is not steam powered like the original. Also, the hull was made watertight and along with the capability to travel underwater. The Thunder Child was changed so it can only be controlled digitally via wireless means to prevent use by anything apart from s.

, a senior programmer of, stationed at the  branch, was put in charge of the ship's software patching system by the Yamaha administration to test the security of the Thunder Child's systems. Melanie was ultimately unsuccessful.

, and  stumbled across the Thunder Child in a warehouse in the coastside town of  while fleeing from the United Kingdom. They commandeered the warship but the vessel's navigation was remotely controlled, sailing to the border crossing the. The Thunder Child fired upon and destroyed five s generating a section of allowing  to follow. Passing through the cooldown of the Sonic Barrier using white noise, the Thunder Child smashed through The Hakurei Barrier into with the aid of white noise and Æsahættr's tip embedded in the ship's nose. This made the Thunder Child the first object to break through the Hakurei Barrier.

Upon passing through the Hakurei Barrier, the Thunder Child was met by a Gensokyo scout force consisting of, , , , , , , , , and , though Reimu was unable to fight due to the breaking of the Hakurei Barrier. A battle ensued between the group and the Thunder Child along with Atlas. Sora, who had control of all the vessel's other systems, demonstrated the Thunder Child ' s abilities, using portals to redirect Marisa's at Yukari who blocked with her. The warship followed with shells, breaking the barrier and knocking out Yukari out to prevent her from using her abilities to bypass the Thunder Child's portal limitations. The portals made Tenshi unable to get close enough to strike.

Part way through the battle,, who was carrying , came across the fight. As Solace prevented Sora from hurting Alice, and hence firing upon Cirno, Cirno was able to freeze the water around the Thunder Child, freezing it in place. This prevented proper use of portals, allowing, piloted by , to get close and rip a hole in the side of the ship. RAY's efforts to destroy the Thunder Child was hindered by Solace with the aid of the and Lynette. Sora shattered the ice using sound waves, causing the vessel to sink. The mimetic polyalloy hull reformed, allowing the ship to recover underwater.

However, the Thunder Child was later intercepted by and s, led by Remilia Scarlet, and , commanded by. Arsenal and Akagi rammed into the Thunder Child, causing huge damage to the smaller ship, forcing Sora, Lynette and Solace to abandon ship. In a fight between and Flandre Scarlet on the vessel, the shirt Solace was wearing over her Super Driver was burnt, allowing Haruhi to recreate the Thunder Child in the form of a fleet of. Using these flying versions of the original ship, Haruhi smashed through The Hakurei Barrier, allowing her to control Sora and everyone else in Gensokyo.

Original Events, Pre-
After the death of Suzumiya Haruhi and the merging of Gensokyo and The North High Colony into, the Yamaha administration realised there are many newcomers in the who were very powerful and had an advantage against s including Vocaloids and. It was decided that an alliance with High Gensokyo would be necessary. As High Gensokyo was also looking for assistance in their own territory, an exchange of prisoners was arranged as a sign of goodwill. Sora, Lynette and Solace, under High Gensokyo's control, were to be traded for Alice, and Cirno, under Yamaha's control, in. However, during the exchange, all six prisoners abandoned both kingdoms and boarded the previously sunk but repaired Thunder Child, piloted by. On board the Thunder Child, Sora realised that it is 's tip on the end of the Thunder Child that allows the ship to break through the Hakurei Barrier. She, along with, remove the tips from the HMS Thunder Child and the SOS fleet. It was decided that they would head north to were '' was being held.

The Thunder Child was intercepted by the helicarrier , under the controls of, and  , of the , a massive group of people devoted to the collapse of. The Iliad successfully took hold of the Thunder Child by a, dragging the warship out of the water where Sora discovered Black was being imprisoned on the Iliad. In an attempt to disable the tractor beam and rescue Black, Sora, Solace and Naluri boarded the Iliad. However, Sora was caught by Superboy-Prime and was thrown into an and her entire data was transmitted to, though the data was also intercepted by. Upon learning about the Thunder Child's crew's plan to use The DeLorean to prevent Cirno's use of the on Haruhi, Doom gave permission for the Iliad crew to disregard. White successfully disengaged the tractor beam, freeing the Thunder Child not long before Superboy-Prime exploded the Iliad.

To get to The DeLorean as fast as possible, used the Thunder Child's hyperdrive to hover over land to the garage. However,, which was capable of firing , attempted to stop the vessel in midflight. Kirisame Marisa overclocked the hyperdrive with her, forcing the ship faster but the hyperdrive exploded, taking Marisa with it. The front half of the Thunder Child crash landed by the garage, its crew confronted by The Anti-Humour Society. The ship was hit by a downed, defeated by , exploding its ammunition and destroying the ship, as well as Rin, who was still inside.

's Changes
Naluri and successfully used The Delorean to  back to just before Haruhi was killed by the Death Note but had a falling out after  was used on Haruhi.

By the time the Thunder Child was hovering through the air towards, , Canada, where The DeLorean was being held, had been recovered from  and passing through a portal to the Thunder Child. She froze time for everything apart from who used Ilse's arm holding the tip of Æsahættr to cut a hole into ship. Ælious pulled Kirisame Marisa out just before the hyperdrive of the Thunder Child exploded.

The Thunder Child still landed by the garage but in the end, due to the presence of reinforcements at the garage as well as prior preparation, the Thunder Child was not hit by Andross.

The Thunder Child was commandeered by and sent to  as a transport. However, it was in turn taken over by, who crashed it into to try to break through the  that surrounded it, though it failed.

The ship was taken over for a third time in a day when it was seized by, , , and , which consisted of , , , , to take them to the. However, the vessel was intercepted by 's forces and was cut in half by.