URF John Paul Jones

The URF John Paul Jones, formerly the UNSC Bunker Hill (DD-231), was a warship of the , and later the . Laid down in at the as the UNSC Bunker Hill, hull number DD-231, the destroyer took part in the for less than a year, before the campaign was declared over, and as a result, the Bunker Hill was assigned to anti operations around the planet of .
The Bunker Hill soon proved to be deadly effective against the makeshift navy, destroying rebel ships within its first three weeks. For several more months, with the remainder of the rebel navy hidden in the nearby asteroid belt, the Bunker Hill acted in support of ground operations, including acting as the base of operations for in .
Several months after the raid, as well as the death of , most rebel ground operations had halted completely. The command, wanting to finish off the rebels, sent the Bunker Hill into the asteroid belt to recon the area for possible later raids. However, after several days in the field, rebel ships filled with boarders set upon the Bunker Hill. After a bitter battle, the took control of the vessel.
Over the next years, the ship worked in concert with rebel commander on , Nathaniel Wright, intercepting convoys bringing supplies to the planet in an attempt to weaken the UNSC garrison further for a coup. In , as Wright planned his coup, the , seeing that both hunting the Bunker Hill, now renamed the John Paul Jones, and fighting increasing rebel activity on was diverting precious resources from the quickly worsening war against the , and withdrew from the colony.
With the planet now under the control of the , Wright had the John Paul Jones placed as the flagship of the rebel navy. Save for intermittent engagements against scout ships, the John Paul Jones saw little space combat until , when the returned to the planet. In what later became portrayed as a gallant display of heroism by the , the John Paul Jones led the fleet in a suicidal charge against the . Although the John Paul Jones was able to score several hits on the Infinity with its MAC cannon, it did nothing to massive supership, and the destroyer was quickly destroyed by retaliatory fire from the Infinity.
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