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Schiller - The lost ship? - Jansen - 06-05-2016 Production Information Ship Name: RNC-Schiller Ship Class: "Bismark"-class Product Line: Battleship Built by: Rheinland Military Manufacturer: Oder Shipyard Launched: 790 A.S. Status: Destroyed in Tau-29? History The construction of the Schiller began in 785. A.S. as a part of the latest Rheinland armament program to build a rapidly deployable yet hard-hitting fleet. Learning from the mistakes of the past, the Schiller and her sister ship, the Wotan were both equipped with advanced sensor arrays, allowing better combat performance in nebulaes than it’s predecessors. Both ships were launched from Oder shipyard in 790. A.S. In the years between their launch and the turn of the century, the Schiller and Wotan were part of the Western Rheinland Fleet, both being considered as a serious force in Stuttgart and the Rheinland-claimed Omega systems. During the nomad infestation, the Wotan’s captain and it’s high ranked officers were the first who were indoctrinated by the nomads. The same fate awaited for the Schiller and other Western Fleet ships. Due to the Rheinwehr’s strict protocols, there was little room for disobeying orders. Taking advantage of this, it wasn’t necessary to infect the whole crew of the vessels, though there were significantly more infected officers on the Schiller than onboard of the Wotan. In that time, the Schiller was also equipped with cloaking technology, just like most of the Rheinland vessels. At the start of the Rheinland campaign, the whole Western Fleet was ordered to advance into Bretonia and the Tau worlds. On the hunt for the notorious artifact, Rheinland forces flooded Bretonia, leaving the Wotan in Bretonian House space and two battlegroups, Battlegroup Schiller and Goethe, led by the battleships with the same name respectively, in the Taus. The Battlegroup Schiller consisted of the Rheinland Cruisers RNC Nestor, Rheingau, and Bechthold, the Rheinland Gunboats RNC Bhietigheim and Burgha, 6 Rheinland 90-ARKM-N9 Valkyrie Heavy Fighters and the Schiller itself. However, due to an unfortunate turn of events and the following destruction of the Wotan, neither the units in Leeds, nor the Goethe could stop the party fleeing from Bretonia. The Schiller was in Tau-29 by that time, leaving them the last Rheinwehr units to acquire the artifact. Deeply shaken by the sudden destruction of the Wotan and the Rheinwehr blockade in Leeds, but still determined to find Edison Trent and the artifact, the battlegroups continued the search in the Taus. The entire Schiller battlegroup gathered at Tau-29 and prepared for an ambush, when the Goethe reported the escape. The trick worked as the party ran right into the Schiller and her ships, having a huge advantage in numbers and firepower. However, just as they expected the success of their mission, forces of the notorious Kress interrupted the Schiller's plan to capture the artifact thieves and a massive fight, with huge losses for the Rheinlanders side took place. After the fight was over, only few traces of the battle could be found, the crewmembers and the wreck of the Schiller disappeared and were never found again. Shortly after the battle of Tau-29 the Kanzler posthumously honored the crew of the Schiller for their service to the Republik. RE: Schiller - The lost ship? - Foxglove - 09-20-2016 From Past to Present After the mysterious disappearance of the Schiller's remains in Tau-29, Rheinland and Bretonia joined in negotiotiations with the goal of investigating the missing debris after the Nomad war, though this plan never progressed further than being an idea banned onto a data storage. With Rheinland too weakened to extend forces beyond its own borders and another economic collapse on the horizon, as well as the Omega-3 war with Bretonia relatively shortly after the Nomad war, the stage was set for the Wild in the Omegas to progress their agenda in peace and quiet without having to worry about their formerly controlled puppet house. In the beginning, the prupose of retrieving the debris of their lost Battlegroup in Tau-29 was simply to obtain potentially still usable parts that could be retrofitted onto the few assets the Wild still possessed from the Nomad war. However, they soon found that the Schiller had by far sustained the least damage if compared to its escort ships. An investigation and subsequent evaluation of the data recovered from the fight showed that the Schiller had suffered a catastrophic engine failure. Sustained fire to the engineering section of the ship had caused damage to the reactor, which in turn caused multiple secondary explosions across the ship upon its failure, and was the reason for the ship breaking apart in three. With the majority of their assets having been destroyed or abandoned after the loss of the Nomad War, the Wild saw an opportunity of re-obtaining a capital asset within the Schiller, though the lack of an actual shipyard prevented these plans from taking any sort of shape for the longest time, and thus the parts of the Schiller were stored until such a time would arrive. With the construction of Kaarst Drydock somewhere between 801 A.S. and 816 A.S., the Wild were able to sustain their capital assets again, and with the help of their feared Scorpion Gunboats, emerged to the forefront again 816 A.S.. With Kaarst Drydock came the opportunity to rebuild the Schiller, though it would prove to be a gargantuan effort. Over the course of the next years, stolen resources and abducted personnel were steadily diverted towards restoring the Schiller into something that resembled a ship again, and four years later, the three parts of the Schiller had been painstakingly put back together. Some of the weaponry even seemed to still be servicable, albeit outdated. This, however, did not improve the state of the ship's interior. The almost twenty years in space had caused the ship's hull to wither and deform, and the interior was still not inhabitable due to lack of life support and oxygen filtering systems. The next three years were spent rooting out defective and broken hardware from inside the ship while peeling off molten and deformed hull panels from the outside. Given that the software that operated the ship had already been twenty years old, nobody considered replacing it a loss or unnecessary. The ship's engines were still completely burned out from the catastrophic failure it had sustained during battle, and the time had caused radioactive material to leak from the reactor, contamining the entire engine section, thus the entire reactor was removed from the ship, and many host bodies were lost in the hard-earned success at decontaminating the engine section of radiation. Given this unforeseen complication, the Wild gave up on the idea of making the Schiller seem like a human-operated ship and retrofitted a fission reactor from a derelict Donau class cruiser to fit on the Schiller, afterwards hybridizing it to derive its energy from a Nomad Power Cell rather than Thorium-Mox. With the Schiller's energy signature now decidedly alien, there was no need to stick to purely human tech anymore, which made things like restoring the weapon or cloak system decidedly easier if one could just substitute metal for Nomad bio mass — something for which the Schiller would need to be brought to Altair Research Complex in Omicron Iota once shield, engine and a makeshift cloaking system had been reinstated onto the ship.