User blog comment:Zxjkl/Favorite starship type of the Mass Effect series (not counting the Normandy)?/@comment-3145523-20120623080238/@comment-5415340-20120816131306

Javik said that the dreadnought's main gun matches the Penumbra Apex, the Prothean Flagship. Dreadnoughts were the main point to determine a nation's military prowess.