Ace
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The Colossus took from between 2345-2367 to be constructed. FreeSpace 2 showed it's first true deployment in a combat situation, however there is reason to believe that it was space-borne before even the NTF rebellion.
The first decade was namely construction of theory and assembling the base to assemble the vessel.
In the end, as proven on the HLP forums, a single Juggernaut is more cost effective and time efficient in construction than a fleet of Orion class destroyers.
The alliance post-Capella mainly has been focusing on strengthening current fleets as well as developing prototype class ships for the next generation.
These prototypes include the Golgotha, which is designed as an anti-installation ang juggernaut class ship, as well as the Xanthus which is a carrier class developed to field more versatile mobile firepower in Corvette and Cruiser taskforces.
In The Babel Effect you'll be seeing some more civilian traffic during the initial sorties as let's say a crisis which makes Ikeya look like a cakewalk begins...
On the Semnai, it is a juggernaut designed by Vasudan contractors as an extact opposite philosiphy as the Golgotha.
While Dark's "giant killer" is cheap and take take out anything with sufficient numbers and power placed into it's cannon, Bobboau's juggie here is designed with the sole purpose to eliminate the effectiveness of mobile forces.
What do I mean? Look for instance at pirate factions, they rely on hit and run raids with fighters, bombers, modified transports as raiders, and light warships.
The Semnai is designed with almost exclusively anti-fighter and bomber weaponry with peak efficientcy, while fitted also with a forward weapons arc which can quickly neutralize escort fleets while it's bomber compliment uses the ship's cover to mount an assault.
The Semnai uses some differences in it's design than the Colossus to prevent issues with it's bays being rendered ineffective 
To say this much: I'm sure the Apocalypse can finish off the Semnai with a well-aimed fire by the conversion matrix.
However in the time to charge it, as it's other weapons literally bounce off the crystallinum laced molybdenum screening, the Semnai has destroyed it's entire escort fleet, and bomber squadrons have taken out any possibility of resupply.
The Apocalypse may live, but Krazy Khonsu's(tm) Vasudan battlegroups can take out the starving crew at their leisure. 
Edit: On Ash's "sub-space submarines" you'll love what the Laomedon Conclave has done to their Xanthus prototypes...
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