- Orphius_Rex
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- Exalted Member
GROSSMAN: Do you think of the Culture as a utopia? Would you live in it, if you could?
BANKS: Good grief yes, to both! What's not to like? ...Well, unless you're actually a fascist or a power junkie or sincerely believe that money rather than happiness is what really matters in life. And even people with those bizarre beliefs are catered for in the Culture, albeit in extreme-immersion VR environments.
KOTOR
United Rebel Front Vessel: Damocles
Hull Classification: This, but on fire.
CLASS: Freighter, outfitted with cobbled together sensor packages and a stealth system sent from an unknown benefactor.
Manufacturer: URF Militia
Created: January 24th 2545
Length: 120 meters
Width: 30 meters
Height: 37.5 meters
Engine unit(s): Fusion Drive, can be overclocked for 30 minutes to provide the best possible speed boost.
Slip Space Drive: Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine Mark IIr (r means it has been customised by Insurrectionist Scientists.)
Power Plant[/b]: Fusion-Fission custom drive, designed before the one installed on the Pillar of Autumn, funded again by the unknown benefactor.
Hull: 1 metre of Titanium-A Battle-Plate, painted in the insurrectionist white and red.
Navigation Systems/Electronic Systems: Smart A.I: Shirley
Armaments: Point Defense guns, ECM Mines, 1 Havok nuclear mine. (The reactor itself can be used as a last ditch weapon.)
Complement:
20 Rebels, armed with various guns.
1 MKII Viper, a hand built fighter resembling one from a pre spaceflight era tv show, used for close space support.
1 Stolen Pelican, used as a transport, stripped of all the essentials, such as weapons and seats.
History:
In 2545 the Damocles was fit for the scrapyard, until it was noticed by one Joshua Rose, a little known insurrection scientist. He took it upon himself to build the fastest ship in the known galaxy, so that the Innies could communicate with each other without sending cryptic messages through UNSC controlled lines.
Captained by one Alex Shaw, this ship became infamous throughout the UNSC, as the ship no one could catch, and famous throughout the colonies as a symbol of resistance against "the Man." Songs were written about it, legends were born.
During the Human-Covenant war, the UNSC tried to get in contact with Shaw, asking him if he'd help the war effort in return for a full pardon. He accepted, on one condition, that he be tried for ALL insurrectionist crimes at the end of the war, and all other insurrectionists would be released from prison with a letter of apology. The UNSC Brass agreed to this, but only if the released insurrectionists would take up arms against the bigger threat. The militia helped, but only until they could disappear, hoping that one day Shaw would reunite them with their families.
Near the end of the war, Shaw was reported missing, presumed KIA while extracting civilians off of Reach in the days before it burned.
This is close to the truth. He faded into the inky blackness of space, to go and find Admiral Preston Cole. To this day, no one has seen him or his crew...
Some say he found Cole. Some say Cole was his unknown benefactor.
[Edited on 04.17.2011 2:01 PM PDT]