File: Virginia "Crash" Belle

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VESSEL FILE

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Name: FRS Roanoke
Hull number: LBC-28
Commissioned: 08-01-826
Status: Active

Type: Interdictor-class Assault Battlecruiser
Role: Heavy Patrol/Support Vessel
Affiliation: Liberty Free Republic, Battlegroup Inquisition (formerly), Liberty Insurgency (formerly)
Commanding officer: Captain Virginia "Crash" Belle (Acting CO), Commander Fiona Hayes (First XO), Commander William Holmes (Second XO), Commander Ben Sheffield (former XO and CO)

Short overview: Captain Belle's flagship the FRS Roanoke, formerly the INS Roanoke. The ship that she commandeered when changing allegiances. The FRS Roanoke is a versatile platform offering heavy firepower, docking facilities, powerful sensors and cloaking abilities in a compact and nimble package. It is capable of exploiting hidden passages known by the Liberty Free Republic, and thus effectively serves its interests.

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Vessel information

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Description:

INS Roanoke is one of the few remaining escorts vessels of INS North Carolina assigned to it once Liberty Insurgency was formed. Despite being former Liberty Navy vessel, INS Roanoke has been severly modified with Hellfire Legion technology for logistical purposes.

While Captain Belle originally thought about using cruiser, Archer's lack of hangar bay and power for extensive sensor arrays made her to choose battlecruiser instead.

23-03-829, last known position of INS Roanoke was Cortez System. No information about its CO and crew available.

Technical state:

Suffering from similar supply shortages as INS North Carolina, INS Roanoke's technical state is far from perfect. However, being support and escort vessel for most of its insurgent career, INS Roanoke was never an interesting target for enemies as its flagship and as such - it never suffered that many severe hits like INS North Carolina did.

However, its role as secondary warships also meant that INS Roanoke has been scavenged for parts, and some of its non-critical systems are operating at lower capacity or are outright missing. This can be seen with its replaced primary gunnery directors with backup directors, one third of its original shield arrays are missing or burned out and military grade APUs replaced with industrial ones.

While this makes INS Roanoke more reliable and easier to maintain than INS North Carolina, it also makes it less powerful warship when compared to brand new Interdictors when raw strength is concerned, forcing its CO to choose its engagements carefully.

Equipment:

Most notable departure from standard Interdictor-class cruiser is usage of Hellfire Legion gunnery, sensors and weapon systems. As Hellfire's weapons are bulkier than sleeker naval designs, it gives INS Roanoke its more rugged appearance, especially from inside.

For its role as heavy patrol vessel, INS Roanoke has been fitted with backup sensor arrays from disabled Arbiter-class battleship along with its computer systems for much needed raw sensor and ECCM strength at the cost of increased power consumption.

INS Roanoke features docking bays capable of servicing 12 snubcraft for general operations and 2 freighters for shuttle and SaR duties.

Future plans:

While INS Roanoke's hull and powerplant are sound enough, vessel is in a dire need for replacing several its components with more modern or complete systems. Vessel will need proper targeting directors, newer weapon systems, more compact and advanced computer and sensor systems. Once these upgrades has been done to reduce its power consumption, then its gutted shield generators can be restored to their full capacity.

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