CSS Farragut

The **CSS *Farragut*** was a heavy frigate built by the CSS (Colonist Survivors) during the Colony War. The vessel was also called several other names, including the ***Sleezy Sunflower***, ***Cheese Wedge***, ***Cathedral City***, ***Citadel Cheese***, and multiple other "joke" names by the members of the Colonist Survivors. It was primarily designed and built by Bashfulvideos, but was finished by Chris after Bash's temporary disappearance. It was quite heavy and slow, but bristling with weaponry of all kinds. It met its end along with the rest of the CSS fleet at the Battle of the Colonies.

## History

### The Colony War

#### Construction

During the Colony War, Bashful and his friend Lyderian were rescued from GDA (Green Drone Armada) forces by the Colonist Survivors, and joined the team. Lyderian was killed in a battle on the surface of P3-X2, but Bash escaped to space with the rest of the crew. Once safely back at the Colonists' space base, Watchtower Station, he began construction on, at the time, a relatively small wedge-shaped starship which was jokingly referred to as the *Cheese Wedge* due to its triangular appearance and light-orange paint job.

Over time, the starship grew and Bash added an immense amount of weaponry of all kinds, from PDCs to huge Mk3 Battleship Cannons. Unfortunately, the ship gained a reputation of accidentally firing at the Watchtower and other friendly vessels, such as Captain Jack Roberts' dreadnought, the CSS *Vengeance*. This led to it either being powered down or hidden behind one of the large asteroids in the cluster where Watchtower Station was located to avoid more friendly fire incidents. Bash continued making the ship bigger and adding more guns to it, until one day, shortly before the Battle of the Asteroids, he disappeared from the team.

The ship was left alone for a short period of time until Lieutenant Chris, a rescued officer from a crashed RWI (Red Wood Industries) frigate, took over construction. Despite a number of design elements missing from the ship, he did his best and built around what flaws Bash left in the ship, and with some help from Captain Roberts, he was able to complete it shortly before the Battle of the Colonies. By this point, the strange friendly fire incidents had also stopped.

#### Evacuation of Watchtower

Just before the Battle of the Colonies, Watchtower Station was invaded by GDA Destroyers. Roberts ordered the crew to get all the ships to safety and evacuate the base. The *Farragut*, as it was called by that point, jumped out along with the CSS *Odin* and the RWI *Gauntlet*. The rest of the fleet soon followed and the *Farragut* rendezvoused with them when they arrived at a rally point some distance away.

#### Battle of the Colonies

The *Farragut* was piloted by Chris for the Battle of the Colonies, the final battle between the CSS and their main enemy, the DRF (Drone Reactionary Force). Unfortunately, because the vessel was made primarily out of heavy armor and did not have good thrust force in every direction, the *Farragut* accidentally collided with the CSS *Dawnbreaker* in the first few minutes of the battle, although it took little damage from it.

After most of the DRF's first wave was defeated, the *Farragut* turned to engage the massive hybrid dreadnought, the DRF *Exturtle*, with the other Colonist ships. However, more DRF ships emerged and engaged the CSS ships in one-on-one combat. The *Farragut*'s old tendency of friendly fire returned and Chris had to briefly disable the ship's weapons to prevent it from firing on the *Vengeance*. It suffered heavy damage from that period, but Chris managed to get it back under control. However, as the battle dragged on, the *Farragut* took more and more damage, and ultimately was destroyed, taking Chris down with it. Its wreckage was left in the orbit of P3-X2.