UNSC Arizona

The UNSC Arizona was a Vanguard-class battleship of the United Nations Space Command, destroyed during the Battle of Carpathia II in 2542. Part of the first flight of the UNSC's most powerful class of Insurrection-era battleships and commissioned in 2494, the Arizona, much like her sister ships, would be placed into reserve as the Insurrection oriented from a conventional war into a campaign of terror and guerrilla warfare. However, upon the onset of the Human-Covenant War, she would undergo modernisation and conduct several black-operations for the Office of Naval Intelligence, before the UNSC would wrestle her back into frontline defence. Leading defensive fleets in fighting retreats and counter-offensives, the Arizona would be destroyed at the hands of the Fleet of Zealous Sanctity above the planet Carpathia II. She would be memorialised in the commissioning of a postwar Block IV Vindication-class battleship.
==Construction==
The Arizona, much like the other Vanguards, were ordered and designed due to a need for the UNSC to counter the huge Punic-class supercarriers being built for the Colonial Military Authority. Due to this requirement, the Vanguard-class was built to be the pinnacle of ship-to-ship combat, rather than the ground-suppression and orbital assault doctrine that suited the Punic best. This led to the equipping of the Vanguards with the most powerful Magnetic Accelerator Cannons the UNSC had available, the CR-01D Series 6 MAC. With two of these enormous coilguns, the Vanguard would prove more than a match for any ship it could come across, until the beginning of the Human-Covenant War.
Laid down above the Inner Colony world of Chi Rho in a very public ceremony, the Arizona was touted as the pinnacle of warship design, along with its Vanguard brethren. A thinly-veiled threat to the CMA, at its ceremony several CMA crewmen attempted to sabotage the beginning of construction by ramming a crane's arm into the side of the slipway. This failed to halt the construction, and those responsible were taken away for questioning by ONI. 
Launched in 2493, the Arizona, much like its slipway stablemate UNSC Berlichingen, would be commissioned into the fleet in 2495, after undergoing trials around Chi Rho. Whilst several issues were encountered with both ships' secondary fusion drives, this did not stop their entry into service with the UNSC Navy. In a display of the UNSC's might, the two ships would then join their sister ships in a procession through the Sol System, containing all commissioned members of the class. This impressive display would serve as a reminder to the CMA of the UNSC's strength, and to the Insurrection as a warning against rebellion.
== Operational History==
===The Insurrection, 2495 - 2525===
The Arizona would immediately be utilised in an operation above the planet Rishii, which was in civil turmoil as Insurrectionist forces had launched a coup against the colonial parliament. Engaged in civil war, the two sides had both called upon their allies to assist in the other's destruction. The Insurrectionist Front responded by dispatching a squadron of older CMA warships, centered around the Diligence-class destroyer Don't Tread On Me. The UNSC in return, as a way to test the Arizona's crew, would send her, along with several Lancer-class frigates and the Gorgon-class destroyer UNSC Scylla.
Arriving above Rishii on the 18th of August, the UNSC task force would encounter the Insurrectionist flotilla, which had arrived several days prior. In a fierce twenty minute engagement, the UNSC would destroy the entire Insurrectionist squadron for the loss of one Lancer, in a clear victory for the Arizona. Her SMACs were considered overkill by many of the crew, as one round simply gutted an Insurrectionist frigate stem-to-stern, pulling her hull compartments apart using sheer force and annihilating the ship in a fiery explosion as the MAC round reached her reactor. 
However, this victory came at a cost to the Arizona's systems, specifically her SMACs. Contrary to their orders, the crew had fired the SMACs at full capacity, which severely damaged the magnetic coils powering the main armament and led to a magnetic coil overheating and melting through several reinforced bulkheads. The crew responsible were reprimanded, as the Arizona had to withdraw to Reach for expedited repairs, which would take five weeks.
After returning to service in early October, the Arizona would conduct several patrols with Battlegroup Princeps through the frontier of the Inner Colonies, mostly around the Camber sector as they attempted to halt a steady flow of black-market weapons from leaving the sector to the Outer Colonies. However, these patrols would be for naught, as the sluggish, unwieldy battleship proved unable to keep up with the Insurrectionist's nimble blockade runners, let alone her actual escorts. 
From 2495 to 2501, the Arizona would spend time as the flagship of Reach's Epsilon Eridani Fleet, hosting the fleet's command staff in its spacious command decks. Whilst they would often engage in war games and exercises, the Arizona, much like the other Vanguards, simply spent time gathering dust in the Inner Colonies, as their original goal of countering the CMA's Punics would never be realised, with several being seized by the UNSC, and the others kept under lock and key by several of the more loyal CMA admirals. 
In 2501 the flagship of the Epsilon Eridani Fleet would be exchanged, with the newly-commissioned UNSC Trafalgar taking over. In 2505, the Arizona would be dispatched to escort the Punic-class supercarrier CMA Jutland back to Reach, after an attack by members of the Jutland's crew did severe damage to the combined CMA-UNSC operation occurring at Gravel's Ridge. The Arizona would then bounce around between Inner Colony defence fleets until November 2507, when she was called in to aid UNSC forces in the Siege of St. Andrews. 
St. Andrews was a small, extremely loyal UNSC world that had come under siege when its neighbour in its star system, the planet Moesia, declared independence from the UEG. Almost immediately, Moesian Colonial Militia, augmented by CMA deserters and Insurrectionist regulars, had begun a planetary assault on the world, quickly capturing several key cities and encircling the loyalist forces in the capital city of Elizabeth. 
The Arizona would be the flagship of the newly-formed Relief Force St. Andrews, containing several Lancer-class frigates and Gorgon-class destroyers, escorting two Athens-class carriers, carrying supplies, food and several UNSC Army battalions to reinforce the planet. Normally this would be an easy objective for the UNSC to accomplish without the need for a battleship, however according to intelligence reports the Insurrectionists had gathered a large fleet of frigate-size and above, even including several MAC-armed warships. This was the only reason why the Arizona, and her fellow Vanguard the UNSC Collingwood, were brought: to neutralise the Insurrectionist fleet with extreme prejudice. 
Upon arriving in the system, the Arizona and Collingwood would display the superiority of their SMACs against the smaller, lighter and less powerful weapons of the Insurrectionist fleet. Whilst several UNSC officers considered it a misallocation of resources, the results could not be disputed. At the battle's end some two hours later, the pair of Vanguards were responsible for the destruction of eighteen Insurrectionist vessels, including the flagship, the destroyer Desperado. This time, the directives issued on the power of the SMAC rounds were followed, and as such the coils did not overheat and melt. 
The relief convoy would make it to St. Andrews, giving them the reinforcements necessary to push back and eventually defeat the Insurrectionist forces. The Arizona would withdraw from the system on the 25th, along with several frigates, leaving the Collingwood and the remainder of the fleet to garrison the gravity well, to assist in the eventual recapture of Moesia. 
The remainder of the Insurrection period for the Arizona was again spent mostly as a deterrent against Insurrectionist raids, with assignment to the UNSC's white elephants seen as a "lackluster job with nothing to do and no one to fight," as one crew member put it. In 2520, the Vanguard-class as a whole would be moved to reserve status, and placed into deep storage around Tantalus, where they could be reactivated if necessary. The Arizona was one of the lucky three of her class (Vanguard, Arizona & Collingwood) in that they were not stripped for parts and weapons as much as their sister ships. 
===Reactivation & Modernisation, 2525-2528 ===
In 2525, the Human-Covenant War began with the glassing of several Outer Colonies. The incapability of most UNSC vessels to combat the Covenant's larger capital ships led to FLEETCOM deciding to reactivate most of the UNSC's heavier capital ships from the Insurrection, including the Vanguard-class. The three ships to be prioritised for rejoining the fleet were the Vanguard, Arizona and Collingwood, due to their better overall state. However, this wasn't to say that they didn't have issues.
In the analysis taken of the Arizona's condition, it was revealed that several of her smaller, secondary fusion reactors had melted through a lot of the radioactive protection during her service. Not only, but several of her magnetic coils were inoperable, bulkhead doors were welded shut, even more bulkheads couldn't be opened, rust had developed along the port side of the ship due to a lack of anti-oxidant paint, dents, scratches, markings and craters had developed along the hull due to a lack of protection against asteroids, which had severely affected her armour plate, and several of the point defence batteries and missile pods were simply broken, either from a lack of utilisation or malfunctioning equipment. 
It was predicted that if the Arizona was refitted at best speed with Priority One, she could rejoin the fleet in mid-2527. However, the UNSC also had to refit an entire class of battleship, as well as the Punics, and as such the Arizona's overhaul was given a Priority Two completion index, putting her on par with her fellow battleships Collingwood and Nagato, and the Punic-class carriers Marlborough and Jutland.
The first to be modernised on the vessel were the smaller, secondary armament. The Breakwater naval coilguns were in good condition, due to them being replaced several months before the Arizona went into reserve. Apart from the occasional malfunctioning missile silo and point defence gun (that damaged the corvette USNC Shadows of the Night when being audited), all the other systems were in good condition, and would just need a quick service. Two of the Arizona's SHIVA missile silos had never been loaded, and as such the hatches were frozen shut. The two silos would be left there, eventually being replaced with a few more Archer pods in a later refit.
The main issue with the weaponry were the SMACs. Due to the inoperable magnetic coils, they could not be fired without endangering the entire ship, and would have to be replaced. However, due to the nature of the ship's construction, replacing the coils would prove to be an extremely difficult task, having to remove them one by one through the barrel of the SMAC. This process took the longest to complete, taking over 14 months to do due to the lack of prioritisation, and a distinct lack of magnetic coil specialists available. Nevertheless, it was eventually completed, although by then further discoveries had been made. 
Upon undergoing a new paint job, and having all the asteroid marks buffed out, the focus on the hull turned to the engine output. There, it was found that upon maneuvering the battleship into storage, several small cranes had been caught in the exhaust, with the storage crews not bothered to salvage them from the ship. This led to an extremely tedious process, where the Arizona would have to remove some of the engine paneling in order to remove the cranes. Upon completion, the engines themselves had to be repaired, as the cranes had caused some surface-level damage. 
Finally, all that was left was the refurbishment of the innards of the ship. The closed bulkheads were opened, either by being torn off using power-lifter suits, cut through with high-density laser cutters, or simply removing the entire door assembly and replacing it. This process took four months, until the ship was finally ready to rejoin the active UNSC Navy. Entering service in September 2528, she would be deployed along with the Orion-class assault carrier UNSC Olympus Mons and a small force of escorts to the colony of Hat Yai, where she would act as the flagship for the defence fleet. Under a new captain (Isla Ruand) and staffed by sailors who had served on the Vanguards in the past, she was considered ready to take on the Covenant. 
===Outer Colony Engagements & ONI's Black Ink, 2528-2534===
Her first engagement with the Covenant would come a month after she arrived at Hat Yai, when a Covenant fleet would arrive in the system in November of 2528. Consisting of seven CCS-class battlecruisers, the fleet jumped in-system quite close to the planet, where they disembarked their collection of ground troops and heavy weapons. The UNSC fleet in response made their way to the fleet, attempting to close to such a distance where the Covenant ship's shielding was nullified by the short range. At the direction of the squadron's commander, Rear Admiral Rachel Underwood, the Arizona and two destroyers would deploy their ODST component to the surface to deal with the Covenant invaders, and then rejoin the fleet in engaging the Covenant. 
Upon deploying their complement of ODSTs, the Arizona would be the first battleship of the war to destroy a Covenant ship, with its SMACs penetrating and destroying a Covenant battlecruiser's shields. Followed up with a volley of Archer missiles and a barrage of slugs from the Breakwater coilguns, the battlecruiser was severely damaged, whereupon another SMAC salvo finished it off. The Arizona then turned to aid in the destruction of another two Covenant vessels, despite the losses the UNSC fleet was suffering.
Forty minutes had passed, and the UNSC was in fact winning in space. Three of the battlecruisers had been destroyed, albeit with UNSC losses of most of the frigates and a destroyer. However, communications from the ODST force on the surface confirmed that Hat Yai's population centres had been destroyed, and most of the civilians killed. Weighing the fleet's options, Underwood decided to withdraw from the planet, considering the price the fleet would have to pay to defend a now desolate world would not be worth more ship losses. The UNSC would retreat, leaving behind two destroyers and six frigates, in exchange for three Covenant battlecruisers.
This became the theme for the early engagements the Arizona was involved in. Whilst its battlegroup (and the ship itself) could and would often outfight Covenant fleets of the same size, they would withdraw with heavy losses due to the surface engagement being lost. This cycle would continue on through 2529 and 2530, with such planets as Carissa, Eridanus II, and Groombridge-1830. However, in January 2531, the ship would be requisitioned by the Office of Naval Intelligence in what has become an unknown period of the Arizona's history. To this day, it has still been classified under ONI Naval Law, with any attempts to investigate into the subject strongly rebuffed and rapidly shut down. The only known information is that it participated in operations codenamed GLOW WORM, KILLING GROUND and JAMESTOWN in the Sagan Sector of the Outer Colonies, an area that had been glassed and abandoned early on the the war.
===The Arizona's Refit, 2534-2537===
In June 2534, the UNSCN would finally wrestle back control over one of their most powerful assets back from ONI. Whatever she had done during her service in covert operations, it had taken a toll. Her major electronic systems and weapons were all in desperate need of a refit, and her reactors and fusion drives needed a serious overhaul. It was estimated that the Arizona would suffer a serious mechanical failure within two months if nothing was done, and as such the Arizona was sent back to Reach for repairs. Originally meant to be a simple repair-and-replenishment job due to a Covenant offensive at Jericho VII requiring all available assets, the surveyors dispatched by the repair yard were shocked. The terrible state of almost everything on the ship led to the surveyors declaring that the ship would not be fit for combat unless a total modernisation package was implemented, and the ship refitted out of its near-death state.
This refit would begin in earnest in late-July 2534, and last until February 2537. The refit modernised all aspects of the ship's assets, from engineering and weapons to navigation and single-ship capability. The first major project undertaken in the refit was finally fixing the issues with the Arizona's SMACs. Like all other Vanguards, the Arizona's CR-01D Series 6 SMAC systems had issues with firing the weapons at full capacity, which would cause a lot of damage to the installation and the ship. With consulting from several of the Arizona's engineering crew, the dockyard workers sent to repair the coils would instead completely rewire the coils and do some extra 'repair' work on the SMAC systems. This had the unfortunate effect of causing the refit to take much longer than expected, due to the accidental explosion caused by these repairs that killed sixteen people and tore a hole in the top SMAC's barrel.
Whilst this was ongoing, dockworkers were working around the clock on her engines and the drives. The two main fusion drives were entirely taken out and replaced with newer and better-conditioned drives from the destroyed hulk of another Vanguard-class battleship, miraculously recovered by privateers and sold to the UNSC for a price. The entire engine ordeal would take nine months, however would be successfully fitted to the Arizona.
As issues with the SMAC were still being fixed and refitted, the secondary armament of the Arizona also received an overhaul. The two sealed SHIVA launch tubes were cut into, with the missiles removed and the tubes turned into M42 Archer missile pod locks. In total, 16 Archer pods and 8 Howler pods were added to the ship. Also added was the addition of 26 more Sentry autocannon anti-aerospace turrets, scattered along the hull in places that had less coverage when the ship was commissioned. The most tedious process, though, was the removal of all M965 Fortress point defence guns, to be replaced by 164 M910 Rampart point defence guns. This took the longest simply due to the long and strenuous process of rewiring all the point defence fire control systems, and the linking of battery clusters to each other and the overall defence network.By October 2536, the refit was approaching completion. The Arizona was mainly waiting on the completion of repairs to the SMACs, which were nearly finished. During these final repairs, the dockworkers found that the meddling the deceased engineers and dockworkers had done actually aided them, as the rewiring of the coils had allowed more power to flow to them whilst also lowering the chance of overheating. Whilst they had erroneously forgotten to institute a power limiter on the open-ended coils as they were working on them, once the repair was finished they were happy to report all issues with the Series 6 CR-01D SMACs were no more, and the Arizona was ready to enter service once again.
Before this took place however, several last-minute additions were included in the refit package. The repainting of the hull with a refractive anti-plasma heat coating to reduce the damage of Covenant weaponry was used along the ship's hull. Countermeasures were also added, with 18 dispensers added along the lower port and starboard sides of the ship. Including basic anti-tracking chaff, flares and decoy beacons, it also included a prototype active-protection system, known as the M991D plasma countermeasure system. This warhead contained electromagnets that would attempt to render plasma torpedoes inert and cause them to dissipate. The prototype mounted on the Arizona would then become standard on all subsequent capital ship designs, such as the Artemis-class battlecruisers and the Richelieu-subclass of Vanguards.
As of the 12th February 2537, the UNSC Arizona returned to service, with previous crew recalled from the various naval colleges, schools and classes they were serving with to operate the ship once more. With yet another captain, Emma Jones, the ship would join then-Rear Admiral Danforth Whitcomb's Battlegroup Victor, as they prepared to battle a Covenant armada that had been reported to be heading to the planet of New Harmony.
===Stalwart Defence, 2537-2542 ===
The Arizona would fight at the Battle of New Harmony, a rare UNSC victory as Admiral Whitcomb expertly out-maneuvered the Covenant fleet, boxing them in and pincering their potential flanking attacks with fierce attacks from single-shipcraft and light escorts. The Arizona would be joined by the Vanguard and several Epoch-class heavy carriers in forming the nucleus for Whitcomb's main force, using their SMACs to great effect against the Covenant fleet. The Arizona would be credited with seven destroyed ships, the Vanguard with nine. The Covenant would retreat from the planet, losing twenty-one ships and retreating from the system, leaving the Covenant ground forces on the surface isolated and vulnerable.
After New Harmony, the Arizona would then fight with Admiral Preston Cole's Battlegroup India at the Battle of Leonis Minoris, another UNSC victory. Whilst two of the UNSC colonies in the system were glassed, the third one was saved thanks to a stalwart defence by the UNSC fleet, which managed to destroy the entire Covenant flotilla, some fifteen ships, in exchange for losing ten vessels. The Arizona would claim two CPV-class heavy destroyers as sunk during this engagement, though would only be awarded one.
After Leonis Minoris, the Arizona would be pulled back, along with all surviving Vanguards, to the Inner Colonies due to the catastrophic losses suffered and the long slew of defeats that were being dealt across human space. The battleship would be pulled back in December 2537, serving with the Sironan Defence Fleet in a brief stint before being replaced by the UNSC Bretagne, which had come out of refit. The Arizona would then spend the remainder of 2538 and several months of 2539 operating with the Paris Defence Fleet as flagship. Whilst in the system, the Arizona would receive several upgrades to her fire control system, and would gain the augmentation of a 'smart' AI via delivery of an ONI prowler. This AI, named Mark, would serve as an addition to the ship's weapons and engineering stations. 
In May 2539, the Arizona would be redeployed from Paris IV to the Quaestro System, in anticipation of a Covenant assault. She would lead the Quaestro Defence Squadron, containing herself, two Marathons, one Epoch and an assortment of UNSC destroyers and frigates. After three weeks of patrols, a force of thirteen Covenant vessels would jump in system. However their approach had been predicted by the AI Mark, who had prepared several firing solutions in advance. The Arizona would target the lead ship, an ORS-class heavy cruiser, destroying the ship in a single salvo. 
The Quaestro Defence Squadron would then slowly yet precisely dissect the Covenant formation, using their ship's emergency thrusters to dodge plasma torpedoes and beam emitters. The Arizona would launch a full salvo of her SHIVA nuclear missiles, disguised behind a barrage of Archer pods, detonating within the Covenant squadron and disabling the shields of most of the remaining ships. From there, the Covenant fleet would be picked apart by Archer pods and MAC rounds, with the two remaining ships withdrawing after forty minutes of fierce combat. Eleven Covenant warships would be left on the battlefield, burning hulks, in exchange for the Epoch and one of the Marathons, as well as fully half of the escorts. Nevertheless it was a victory, with the Arizona adding another three kills to her tally.
Almost immediately after the battle, the Arizona would be deployed to the Drakon System, where she would spend three months defending relief convoys to the system from Covenant hit-and-run attacks. Using her capability as a durable, tough ship, she would blast through the Covenant blockade to the planets in-system four times with the aid of a score of Halberd-class destroyers, allowing UNSC forces on the planet to hold out on the surface. During the 4th and final supply run, the Arizona would end up evacuating 5,000 UNSC marines as the Covenant grew tired of the constant stalemate and began glassing the planet's surface. 
In this campaign the Arizona would take heavy damage, withdrawing to Reach for repair and replenishment. She would come out of drydock in January 2540, where she would remain with the Epsilon Eridani Fleet for two years. However in April 2542, the Arizona, along with five Paris-class heavy frigates and an Artemis-class battlecruiser, would be sent to the Carpathia System, as a quick reaction force, in would what be the Arizona's last and most famous engagement.
===The Battle of Carpathia II, 2542===
Arriving on the edge of the system at 0943 local time on the 23rd of April, the fleet would be immediately detected by the small Covenant fleet that had begun glassing operations on the planet. Made up of three CCS-class battlecruisers and a DRP-class cruiser, they would turn to engage as the UNSC squadron released their complement of Longsword and Baselards to engage the Covenant Banshees and Seraphs.
The sight of the burning planet enraged the captain of the Arizona and task force commander, Captain Jones, ordered the flotilla to close distance and fire upon the Covenant ships when in range. The guns of the Artemis battlecruiser, the Atlas, would fire first, gutting a CCS-class battlecruiser, as the Arizona would fire seconds later, destroying another battlecruiser. The remaining two ships attempted to close the distance as fast as possible, but would then be destroyed by a salvo from the UNSC frigates and the Atlas. This was not the end of the battle, however, as a numerically superior Covenant force exited slipspace less than a million kilometres away from the force.
Made up of twenty four ships, the fleet was led by a CAS-class assault carrier and supported by several DDS-class carriers and more battlecruisers. Jones knew it was a fight she wouldn't win, and as such ordered the Atlas and two frigates to retreat as she and the other escorts would fight a rearguard action. This action would almost certainly doom the Arizona, however Jones and the crew deemed it the best course of action against overwhelming odds.
The Arizona would take the first hit, with a plasma torpedo ripping through the port armour near the fusion drives. In response, the Arizona would use her Ramparts and Breakwater coilguns to unleash a brutal broadside onto a Covenant battlecruiser, ripping through her shields and finishing her off with several Archer pods' worth of missiles. The battleship's SMACs would then fire, destroying one of the DDS-class carriers in an extremely lucky shot, blowing through the shields and hull plating before hitting the ship's reactor, exploding it in glorious fashion.
The Arizona would take two more hits from plasma, destroying her starboard Breakwater coilguns and damaging her fire control systems for the Archer pods and Rampart point defence guns. Several squadrons of Banshees and Seraphs would attempt to get in close for a precision bombing run, but would be ripped apart by the remaining Ramparts and Scythes, as the Arizona prepared a counterattack. The entire complement of her Howler missiles, fifteen full pods of Archer missiles and a salvo of her SMACs would be fired at the assault carrier, which had closed to an extremely short range in preparation for a dissection with her plasma beam emitters. The act of hubris by the shipmaster would cost him.
The salvo absolutely rampaged through the hull, destroying the shielding and causing extreme structural damage. After the SMACs hit, then came the missiles, dealing huge amounts of damage to the weapons, hull and engines. The Arizona would then use her emergency thrusters to propel herself to starboard, giving way for the remaining port Breakwaters to deal the finishing blow. The assault carrier would explode in a huge ball of plasma and charred metal, bracketing the Arizona with shrapnel. Enraged by the destruction of their flagship, the remaining Covenant ships, which had finished destroying the frigates, then turned to the battleship, and ended the Arizona's rampage. The ship would be completely destroyed, however it had given its life for the Atlas to escape, and destroyed several vessels of extreme value to the enemy.
==Legacy==
The Atlas would arrive at Reach on the 29th of May 2542, bringing the news of Carpathia II and the Arizona's sacrifice. The event was used as a rallying cry for the UNSC, as its sacrifice and dauntless opposition against impossible odds was a great propaganda piece, although with UNSC news severely inflating its exploits. The Arizona also became an idol for later crews of Vanguards, notably the crews that fought on board the Richelieu wartime builds, with a popular rallying cry being "Remember the Arizona!"
The Arizona would be immortalised in the UNSC Navy's Roll of Honour above the UNSC's Highcom Bravo-Six facility in Sydney, which listed all ships lost during the Human-Covenant War. She was featured on the special, commemorative "Against All Odds" plinth, which contained other famous ships, such as the Iroquois, Everest, and the Spirit of Fire. After the war, a Vindication-class light battleship would be christened the UNSC Arizona, by the wife of its last captain, Sarah Jones. With the hull number BB-127, the Arizona II would be assigned to the Sigma Octanus Defence Fleet, fighting against the Guardian dispatched by the Created to subdue the UEG colony.
== Notable Locations==
===Battleship Row===
Battleship Row is a large atrium positioned within the centre of the ship, leading towards several different wings containing shops and pubs. Due to the ship being built in the Insurrection, and the expectance that the crew would be dispatched on long missions without a chance of leave, a large area was allocated to be a relaxing space for sailors off-duty. The so-called Battleship Row earns its name by the engravings on the starboard wall, with the shapes of all the American battleships present at the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, as well the names of those that died at the attack. On the port wall are the engravings of the battleships that made up the USN's 'Fast Battleships', as well as all USN and USMC winners of the Medal of Honour during the Pacific War.
Whilst American-centric, the Arizona was given its name to continue on certain USN traditions within the UNSC, as the last battleship that did so, the UNSC Pennsylvania, was decommissioned in 2477. Battleship Row also contains several bars and pubs, as well as other crew amenities like a large gym, a boxing arena, an indoor gravball pitch, and (per request of the first captain, Alexander Oxbridge of British descent) a tennis court, christened Wimbledon II. 
===Kimmel's Lounge===
=== The Observation Deck===
==Awards & Battle Honours==
=== Awards===
*St. Andrews Medallion (Awarded 2507)
*UNSC Unit Citation (Awarded 2536)
*Meritorious Service Conduct Medal (Awarded 2539)
*Office of Naval Intelligence Blevins Award (Awarded 2542)
===Battle Honours===
*Rishii (2494)
*St. Andrews (2507)
*Hat-Yai (2528)
*Carissa (2529)
*Eridanus II (2530)
*Groombridge-1830 (2530)
* New Harmony (2537)
*Leonis Minoris (2537)
* Quaestro (2539)
*Carpathia II (2542)
===Campaign Ribbons===
*The Insurrection (2491-2525)
*Hydra Campaign (2531-2534)
*Drakon Campaign (2538-2539)
*Defence of the Outer Colonies (2531-2546)
*Defence of the Inner Colonies (2541-2552)
*Human-Covenant War (2525-2552)
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