The Palamecia(旗艦パラメキア,Kikan Paramekia?) is a location in Final Fantasy XIII. It is a PSICOMairship that serves as the base of the Sanctum Skyfleet. It is where Sazh Katzroy and Oerba Dia Vanille are held after being captured by Jihl Nabaat. In Final Fantasy XIII Ultimania Omega it is revealed that the Palamecia is actually a fal'Cie modified by the Sanctum military to use as an airship. On the underside of the ship one can see the shape of a face, which is the mark of Cocoon fal'Cie.
The flagship of the Sanctum Skyfleet, this imposing craft is an anti-Pulse juggernaut built using the latest in military technology. The Palamecia bristles with powerful weaponry, and its multiple decks hold several dozen warships, as well as hundreds of crew members.
During the Purge, the Palamecia transported the entire Pulse Vestige to the Hanging Edge.
When Vanille and Sazh are captured in Nautilus at the end of Chapter 8, Jihl Nabaat imprisons them upon the Palamecia. Lightning, Snow, Fang and Hope mount a rescue mission with the aid of Cid Raines and the Lindblum. During their imprisonment, Vanille tells Sazh about her backstory of becoming a l'Cie on Gran Pulse centuries before and coming out of Crystal Stasis in Cocoon. Hearing of the others onboard trying to rescue them, Sazh and Vanille succeed in escaping themselves.
After the alarm system passes through red, green and purple, Galenth Dysley, who is also on board the ship, changes it to code white, shutting down the engine and allowing the Kalavinka raiders to get near the ship's exterior and attack Lightning's party. They destroy one and Sazh and Vanille blast their way out, meeting up with the others.
On the ship's external shell, they defeat another of the raiders, which gives Fang an idea about how to infiltrate the Palamecia'ss main cabin, where Dysley and Nabaat are. Vanille uses her weapon to entangle a Garuda Interceptor, and Fang subdues it. All six of them ride on the Garuda's back, evading gunfire from the Palamecia, and jump into the airship's central part.
The l'Cie reach the bridge, and Nabaat leaps down to confront them. Dysley has other ideas, however, and he strikes Nabaat and the PSICOM soldiers with his magic, killing all of them and dissolving the Palamecia's roof. Soon after revealing his ideology on humanity, Galenth assumes his true form as the fal'Cie Barthandelus and attacks the party. He resumes his human form after apparently being defeated, and tells the group their Focus is to destroy the fal'Cie Orphan and wreak destruction upon Cocoon by one of them becoming Ragnarok.
The fal'Cie Menrva assumes an airship form and the party uses it to escape the Palamecia as it falls from the sky. Dysley ensures their escape from the sinking air fortress with an arranged destination to Eden. The party is attacked by Yaag Rosch in the Proudclad before Menrva takes Lightning's group to a location below the city of Eden known as the Fifth Ark.
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