RWI Valiant

The **RWI *Valiant*** is the fifth Daedalus-class Battleship built by RWI (Red Wood Industries).

## Background

The RWI *Valiant* was commissioned one year after the launch of the RWI *Apollo*, and came into service 6 months before the Green Drone War. The *Valiant* was commanded by Captain Jonathan Hunter and his two first officers, Commander Chris Lock and Commander Sam Reed.

### Green Drone War

#### Campaign in the Monus System

The *Valiant* and its fleet were at or near the planet Monus III when the Green Drone War began, and many of its support ships were destroyed or cut off from the *Valiant* in the ensuing battle. The surviving ships split up and hid throughout the system, and a distress signal sent by the crashing RWI *Intrepid* was received by the *Valiant*'s crew a few weeks into the war. The *Valiant* then moved into the system and assisted the Colonist Survivors led by ex-RWI Captain Jack Roberts in their evacuation after attacking the GDA (Green Drone Armada) HQ.

#### Battle of Ravcor

Soon after the Battle of the Orion System, Captain Hunter made the team officially part of RWI and deployed them to Ravcor, where they infiltrated a Green Drone base and recovered the Artifact. They escaped but the *Valiant* and its fleet sustained serious damage during the battledue to the arrival of the GDA Command Dreadnought, and Captain Hunter was badly injured and Commander Lock was killed, leaving Captain Roberts to take command of the ship.

#### Battle of Demus

After making repairs amidst multiple attacks by Green Drone forces, they were joined by two CNL (Crazy North Logistics) frigates, where they repelled the remaining attackers. They located a transmitter at the edge of the system, where after fending off multiple GDA destroyers, were able to use the transmitter to contact reinforcements. The RWI *Discovery* jumped into the system and provided the *Valiant* much-needed cover fire, and once the battle had quieted for a short period of time, the *Valiant* was evacuated by Roberts, and both Hunter and the Artifact were transferred aboard the *Discovery*, along with the *Valiant*'s remaining crew.

When the GDA attacked again, the *Valiant* then provided fire support and covered *Discovery*'s retreat as it jumped away to Icarus, RWI's capital world. In a last-ditch attempt to break the GDA's lines, Roberts ordered a ramming attack on the nearest GDA destroyer, causing the destruction of the destroyer, but also causing the *Valiant* to be caught in the gravity well of the nearby ice planet Demus, of which it could not escape due to its engines being offline and heavily damaged.

#### Post-Crash

The *Valiant* crashed into the surface of Demus but was quickly located by the crew of Roberts' ship, the RWI *Eclipse*, who landed outside and rescued Roberts and the skeleton crew he took aboard during the battle. They used the *Valiant*'s wreckage to build Outpost Valiant, a makeshift camp for the crew. However, after several attacks by GDA Scourge-class Carriers, the battleship's wreckage and the outpost was eventually abandoned. The *Valiant*'s self-destruct countdown was triggered and the ship soon exploded, destroying any RWI data aboard the ship's computers. The remaining debris was left on the planet.