File: Virginia "Crash" Belle

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VESSEL FILE

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Name: INS Dahlonega
Hull number: CGB-577
Commissioned: 10-01-828
Status: Not Available

Type: Condor-class civilian gunship
Role: Captain's yacht/Light patrol gunship
Affiliation: Battlegroup Inquisition, Liberty Insurgency
Commanding officer: Captain Peter Stork, Captain Virginia "Crash" Belle (formerly)

Short overview: Captain Belle's personal ship, INS Dahlonega is militarized and modified civilian gunship to give it extra punch and even more range at the fraction of running costs and complexity of military vessels.

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Vessel information

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Description:

INS Dahlonega is named after HFGB Dahlonega, the first vessel which Virginia ever commanded as her own. Unlike her first own vessel, INS Dahlonega is not a pure warship but more like her own personal ship with some military tasks in mind.

Vessel's amenities are capable of housing twelve crewmen and three officers in reasonable comforts for extended periods of time.

After Captain's Belle disappearance, INS Dahlonega was claimed as Captain Stork's personal ship.

Technical state:

Unlike much larger and older INS North Carolina, INS Dahlonega is very well maintained - mostly thanks to its civilian designs, which are easier and cheaper to maintain than pure military vessels. And because it is a civilian hull, availability of spare parts is not an issue as well.

There are some drawbacks, especially lower powerplant and powergrid capacity when compared to the heavy military gunships, which restricts INS Dahlonega from fitting advanced equipment like cloaking devices.

Equipment:

While the hull is mostly untouched barring additions of ablative plating around key system, the main powerplant of the vessel was modified and redlined by engineers to give it extra 7% output to power military weapon systems, enhanced sensors and communication arrays comfortably.

Previous civilian engines were replaced with more compact set of modified Ageira-made engines for longer endurance. That increased vessel's range and allowed it to carry more spare parts and supplies. There is one minor drawback as more compact nature of these engines makes them running hotter than previous ones, which makes working conditions in crawlways and engineering spaces around them more uncomfortable.

Most notable modifications to the vessel is addition of more advanced sensor and communication suites, coupled with installation of military-grade weapons. Vessel is also fitted with one external universal docking point on its belly to allow safe and relatively comfortable access point for the docked snubcraft for both moving personnel between planetary shuttles or recovering pilots from crippled ships.

Future plans:

There are no plans regarding INS Dahlonega as the vessel performs its tasks reliably and there are no known technologies to expand its potential even further at this moment.

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