Dauntless

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Introduction

The Dauntless - Arbiter class Insurgency Battleship was on active duty in the conflict betwen the Insurgents and Liberty. It was commanded by Captain John Miller, a military man from a military family of four generations.
Captain Miller was a man that always did things by the book, without trying to show off and prove himself to the superiors. That being one of the reason for his rapid climb in the military ranks at a young age. His career as a Captain was first put to the test in an Insurgency Judicator class cruiser for several years, until he has proven himself worth of captaining the Arbiter class battleship.

The Dauntless was a standard loadout Insurgency Battleship, with several prototype components including an improved communication encrypting and decrypting hardware along with a prototype long range scanner.
Captain: John Miller
Liuetenant: Brandon Cayden
Comm. Officer: Dominic Lake

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Beginning of the end


In the last days of the conflict in Vespucci, Cpt. Miller was tasked to delay the navy's fleets as much as possible, allowing to evacuate as many people in the meantime. Dauntless's gunners were able to destroy several gunboats and heavily damaging two of the Liberty navy's cruisers, before it had to retreat, as it suffered heavy damage itself. One of the bombers hit a lucky strike with two torpedoes damaging the ships life support and the bridge. The ship was flying full thrust at the set course, without the crew being able to stop it for days until the repair crew was able to seal the auxhilary command room and re-pressurizing it. With Captain Miller realizing the extent of the damage, that he was unable to continue fighting, the order was given across the ships comm. "The fight is over for us, tend to the wounded". It was the last order heard on the ships internal comm, before the war ended.

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Finding a new purpose

With many systems damaged or destroyed, Dauntless was a floating wreck. Every man not injured was tasked with emergency ship repairs and damage control as some compartments were still on fire, draining the remaining oxygen that the ship had rapidly. Cpt. Miller, his First Luietenant and officers, decided to wait out on the edge of Vespucci system, until there was no trace of Liberty ships in the system, it took months of rationing the remaining food, during which the battleship was ducttaped together to a point it would survive a few jumps through wormholes into other systems to make its escape.
Without knowing who to trust and where to go, the only option was to jump through lawless systems far enough to disappear from Liberty Navy's reach.

Nobody knew what future had in store for them, the only thing that was certain was they needed a drydock or at the very least, an outpost to get supplies and resources needed for ship repairs.