In the anime series Gundam Seed, Eternal is a space warship in the ZAFT forces designed specifically to support the advanced ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam and ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam mobile suits. In addition to hanger space for them, Eternal also carried their heavily-armed METEOR units on a pair of external docking clamps. It is stolen soon after completion by Lacus Clyne and Andrew Waltfeld, becoming the flagship of the Clyne Faction.
Compared to the two battleships, Eternal was extremely lightly armed, with only a single heavy beam cannon and a battery of missile launchers. Her primary battery, however, was the twin very heavily armed METEOR units and the mobile suits that used them.
This shipclass, similar to the Archangel class, are functionally equivalent to the modern real world aircraft carrier as their main usage being to launch and recover mobile suits and mobile armors.
This shipclass, are heavily armed and equipped with an internal storage bay for its complement of mobile armors, is the backbone of the Earth Alliance's space fleets.
Ship of the class: Nazca, Vesalius, Heusinger, Helderton, Voltaire,Rousseau, Holst, Caernarfon, Amzen, Rembrandt, Gansback, Bonstell