Colbert

**Light Cruiser, *De Grasse*-class, C 611, MN Colbert**

No. 38 Colbert

## **Character**

### **Appearance**

Moderate height, with green eyes and long silver hair with a black bow. She wears a red blouse under a long sleeve white jacket, with a black bow on her chest. She wears a black and red dress, black leggings, and black shoes.

Her rigging consists of a split-hull like design, with her right side mounting two main and one dual purpose turret, and her left mounting her third main turret, a second dual purpose turret, and her torpedo launcher.

Upon remodel, her hair gets longer, she gets taller, and her chest gets slightly larger.  Her remodeled uniform consists of a long gray jacket with gold trim over a white and red dress, with a frilly white collar and black bow. She also wears tall black boots with rudders and armor plates on her feet.

Her remodeled rigging changes to a traditional split-hull. Each side mounts an AA mount and four main turrets. Also attached to each side is a shield-shaped armor plate which depicts her hull number. The split-hull attaches to her back, where her funnel is located. Her rigging is painted with a two-tone blue and gray camo pattern.

When in CVL form, her uniform stays the same, but her turrets are demounted from the rigging. In their place are a flight deck on the left half of the rigging and a superstructure on the right half. Since the design is of German origin, she take after the German carriers in the fleet by using a bolt action rifle to launch her aircraft; in this case, it is a French MAS 36. Her air group is also made up of German aircraft; these being Bf-109T fighters and Ju-87C torpedo and dive bombers, with French markings.

For summer, she wears a blue and white bikini, a small white jacket, and brown flip flops.. She also wears a white hairband with a pink flower, and her hair is in a ponytail. She is relaxing on the beach, eating doughnuts and reading a book. What a life.

## **Skills**

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**Adrenaline Rush (Base, CLAA)**

For every 10% of the ship’s HP lost, increases main gun rate of fire by 10% (CLAA = 12.5% RoF increase per 10% HP lost.)

**??? (CVL)**

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## **Notes**

* Her Deux and Deux CVL forms are reversible.
	+ The first time remodeling to Deux CVL required materials, but switching forms after this is free.
* The skill "Adrenaline Rush" is only available when in base and CLAA form; "???" is only available in CVL form.

## **Trivia**

* Named for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, First Minister of State of France.
	+ The sixth French Navy ship to be named *Colbert*.
* The initial *De Grasse* design (base) was designed to be an improved version of the *La Galissonnière*-class.
	+ *De Grasse* was laid down in this form in 1938, but construction was suspended due to the fall of France.
	+ During the German occupation, Germain engineers drew up plans to convert her hull into a light aircraft carrier (deux CVL); this plan was never realized.
* After the war's end, French designers heavily modified the now outdated original design into an AA cruiser (deux).
	+ *De Grasse* was completed to this design; *Colbert* was built from the ground up as an AA cruiser.
* Launched on 25 March 1956 and commissioned on 5 May 1959.
* Went on cruises and received multiple refits.
* Her only combat experience came in 1991 with the Gulf War, but she was decommissioned in May of the same year.
* She would remain as a museum ship in Bordeaux from 1993, but would eventually be scrapped in 2016.
* When remodeled, she continues to wear her base uniform casually.

## **CG**

**Base**

**Deux**

**Deux CVL**

**Sweet Summer**