Vessel Name: HMS Incomparable Class: Incomparable Role: Support Ship Status: MIA Personnel Number: 500 Stationed Assets: 2 x Fighter Squadrons; 1 x Bomber Squadron
Launched by the Liberty Navy in 808 AS under the name LNS Chesapeake, the Overlord-class warship has endured a lifetime of battles and major events in Sirius during its career.
Beginning service as a training ship, then, as a support vessel for Liberty's efforts against Rheinland, the Chesapeake was crippled by Rheinland bomber squadrons and only barely managed to limp to friendly space for repairs. The damage was so vast that, for the next decade, the ship's only visit was to the berths of Norfolk, undergoing repairs. The crew was rotated over to other vessels of the Navy, keeping in touch with the latest developments on the field of battle.
The eventual commissioning back into active service only happened in 820 AS, a time by which the Chesapeake became hopelessly outdated and outgunned by its modern counterparts. However, one's trash is someone else's fortune – and this materialised when the Insurgency launched an ambush upon the vessel when it was sent to the fringes of Pennsylvania. Capturing it was a bloody effort, during which roughly 80% of the crew perished but bringing down a multitude of insurgent gunboats and strike fighters in the process.
Needless to say, the newly-acquired asset was rechristened into the Enterprise, and turned hastily into an impromptu border fortress in Kansas. There, it saw no action until the invasion by the Liberty Navy, upon which the crew chose once more to switch allegiance.
In doing so, it came in contact with both the Order and Bretonia, both extremely curious and just as eager to get their hands upon the prized Overlord. Though an attempt was made to bring the ship to the Taus, the Kingdom's forces encircled and boarded the Enterprise in 829 in Dublin, taking the crew captive for several days.
But, as the captain had requested a compromise in return for siding with the Crown, the remainder of the personnel were allowed to return on-board and continue flying under a new flag – that of Bretonia – and under a new name: Incomparable. The armistice, came, despite some backlash from other leading figures in the Admiralty, at the cost of allowing several dozen marines on-board at all times, organized as a deterrence force in case of any tries to change flags once more.
