UNSC Tofu XII

The UNSC Tofu XII (: DDC-1520) is a Drake-class corvette, sharing its name with eleven preceding corvettes of a same crew and from varying classes through the . An artifact from a time when UNSC warships suffered high attrition rates compared to their Covenant adversaries, the Tofu XII was the twelfth corvette-turned-landing ship to bear the unimaginative name.
After the Human-Covenant War, the ship went on auction for a credit-strapped . A former sailor and cook that once served aboard the ship, Vincent Yoon, acquired the vessel through formal bidding and rechristened the vessel Tofu Station upon acquisition and transformed it into a traveling merchant and restaurant vessel.
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==Service History==
===Construction and Circumstance===
The original UNSC Tofu was part of the initial order for Drake corvettes ordered in 2542. Construction was unexceptional and the corvette saw completion in less than five months and commissioned on January 23, 2543. 
At the time of her commissioning, the name Tofu was not seen as notable, more so a joke as too many ships were flying out of shipyards every day in the Covenant Wars halfway point. But it would be the start to many more to bear its name as part of a greater trend in wartime of recycling names. Similarly designated and infamous ships commissioned in the 2540s would go on to include the destroyer UNSC Red Star IX, the heavy prowler UNSC Ajax XIII, and the light corvette UNSC Riptide XXVIII. History even records the UNSC Rainbow 118, a light freighter commissioned in December 2542. Nevertheless, the particularity of her name brought the Tofu lineage considerable attention as she rose to prominence through harrowing missions, miraculous escapades, and survivor's tales.
===First deployment (January - August 2543)===
The demand for ready warships was so great in 2543 that the UNSC Tofu deployed with a skeleton crew of eleven sailors. Due to the chaotic nature of the day, the corvette departed early for its first assignment, with eight civilian contractors as 'accidental' passengers and no ammunition beyond bullets for the crew's sidearms.This is not strictly accurate. Beyond two dozen pistol magazines, the corvette also had a pair of magnetic accelerator cannon slugs that had been loaded on board accidentally.
The corvette's critical lack of ammunition was realized while in transit, leading acting captain Lieutenant Brandon Moller to plan out potential maneuvers for the defenseless corvette. 
The Tofu XII arrived in the Gliese 1214 System at an opportune time: the convoy it was assigned to was under attack by a pirate raiding group, the Eridanus Survivors. The corvette, lacking any offensive weapons, immediately initiated a ram attack against the closest pirate raider. Last-second maneuvering by the raider avoided the attack but resulted in a fatal collision with the raider's would-be victim, the agricultural freighter Sweet Wave VI, rupturing the raider's hull. The shattered raider was in fact the command ship for the raiders, and its destruction caused the rest of the Eridanus Survivors to abandon their attack on the convoy and flee into slipspace.
==Trivia==
*UNSC Tofu XII was created with permission from , creator of the Drake-class corvette. The images used for the vessel were sourced from the ARMA3 game mod, Operation Trebuchet, with permission from the OpTre development team Article 2 Studios. The specific asset was designed by the asset modeler TheDog.
==Notes==