UNSC Mithridates

UNSC Mithridates is a in service with the UNSC Navy, serving as the flagship of the Expeditionary Strike Group 7 after the end of the Human-Covenant War.
==History==
===Construction and early career===
The Mithridates was constructed at SinoViet Heavy Machinery shipyard above Reach on 2516, 
and was pressed into service as the Insurrection began to spread.
===Human-Covenant War===
While escorting high-ranking UNSC and ONI personnel to Reach, the UNSC Mithridates and her battle group was attacked by a small Covenant fleet led by Viko 'Krasovee. Taken by surprise, most of her escorts were destroyed before the Mithridates could react, she was eventually able to drive back the Covenant fleet, but suffered major casualties. 
Returning to Reach, the UNSC Mithridates was placed into drydock for repairs until May 17, 2552, when she was reassigned to defend the Inner Colony of Apollyon until the end of the war.
===Post-Covenant War===
With the Covenant in shatters, the UNSC Mithridates was quickly organized to lead a new fleet to conduct operations against those that remained before any one group (besides the Swords of Sanghelios) could consolidate their forces.
For the next several years, the Mithridates led Expeditionary Strike Group 7 against many Covenant remnant groups that pillaged human colonies on the edges of human space, earning a fierce reputation among those few who survived.
===Operation: PITFALL===
After learning the routines of the Forsaken in attacking UNSC fleets, Dominion Squad, led by Spartan-II Ryder-060, was assigned as an addition Spartan Fireteam to participate in a counter-operation against the raiders.
Using a partially damaged Springhill-class mining ship that transmitted a distress signal, UNSC Mithridates and her escort fleet awaited their prey just out of sensor range. Eventually, a Forsaken raiding fleet led by Viko 'Krasov, onboard his CAS-class assault carrier Unrelenting Storms, arrived to investigate the signal they received. When they began to launch boarding craft and troop transports to board the mining ship, Mithridates and her fleet immediately arrived within weapons range and began to engage the enemy fleet, buying enough time for Spartan and Marine forces to hijack transports and board the Forsaken flagship.
==Crew==
===Navy===
*Admiral Warren Craig
===Marines===
*Major Noah Faulkner
===Spartans===
*Commander Jeffrey Atkins
*Dominion Squad
**Ryder-060
**Gordon-G284
*Fireteam Bronco
*Fireteam Charger
Category:Individual UNSC Ships
Category:Carriers