File: Virginia "Crash" Belle

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VESSEL FILE

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Name: INS North Carolina
Hull number: IBB-13
Former name: HFBS Ignis Purgatio
Commissioned: 12-12-823
Status: Not Available

Type: Arbiter-class battleship
Role: Support warship/EWAR/auxiliary carrier
Affiliation: Battlegroup Inquisition, Liberty Insurgency, Hellfire Legion (formerly)
Commanding officer: Captain Peter Stork, Captain Virginia "Crash" Belle (formerly), Commodore Elizabeth White (formerly)

Short overview: Worn out support warship with outdated weaponry, fitted with improved sensors, communications, cloaking device and jump drive. Proper repair and maintenance works pending.

Its misaligned cruise engine is severely limiting its mobility outside of emergency situations, and as such limiting its role to on-demand heavy support vessel and mobile base of operations.

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Vessel information

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Description:

INS North Carolina, formerly known as HFBS Ignis Purgatio, is an Arbiter-class battleship which saw second-line service within Hellfire Legion till the 827 A.S. when the vessel was critically damaged in Bering System and should spent several months in repairs at Fort Leniex. As the demand for repair facilities grew, vessel's repair schedule was cut short and only critical systems were repaired while the rest was patched by its crew later.

Vessel was re-commissioned back into Battlegroup Inquisition in 828 under command of newly appointed Commodore Elizabeth White, vessel was renamed to INS North Carolina by her to give its libertonian crew patriotic feelings.

After fateful bomber strafe in Kansas 2-10-828, Captain Virginia "Crash" Belle was its CO until 30-11-828 when she was critically wounded on Planet Veracruz. As of 5-12-828, Captain Peter Stork is its current CO.

Technical state:

INS North Carolina has seen its better days, to put it mildly, and several of her non-critical systems are barely functioning and are in dire need of replacement. Same can be said about its worn and dented armor plating, which has been patched more times than officially allowed.

Despite her rugger appearance and discomforts for the crew, the INS North Carolina is known for her critical systems' reliability and redundancy, which allows her to operate regardless of its subpar maintenance and spare parts available.

The vessel's most serious design flaw is misaligned engine housing caused by never fully repaired damage after torpedo strike, which causes serious vibrations through the aft part of the ship when the cruise engine is engaged. As a result, INS North Carolina is authorized to engage its cruise drive only when necessary and is required to perform maintenance check-ups every twelve hours.

Equipment:

As built with its secondary and support roles in mind, INS North Carolina has reduced weapon power capacity in favor of her no-less power hungry auxiliary systems, most noticeably various jammers, extended communication and sensor arrays, cloaking device and its experimental short-ranged jump drive for tactical mobility.

Future plans:

INS North Carolina is awaiting major repairs in the near future, mainly regarding its misaligned engine housing, but also rearmament with more modern Liberty Insurgency guns and more advanced heavy batteries.

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