Normandy ABS-61944-A

## Senior Staff

* **Commanding Officer: Admiral Leogryn Romeli**
* **Executive Officer: Commander Shon**
* **Chief Engineer: Lieutenant Hayz**
* **Chief Tactical Officer: Captain Sinbad Naiver**
* **Chief of Security: Ensign T3M-POR4**
* **Chief Science Officer: Lieutenant Commander Hetaxi**
* **Chief Helm Officer: Lieutenant Lucas Moon**
* **Chief of Communications: Lieutenant Jataxi Jataka**
* **Ship's Avatar *(Advanced A.I. Prototype):* Nora Mandy (Battlestar Normandy)**

## Name

**Normandy:**

* A region of Northern France on Earth.
* Region where the Allied invasion began during in 1944, marking the beginning of the end of World War II

## History

In 2452, the **U.S.S. Normandy (NCC-61944-A)** was retired after suffering critical damage during a mission to rescue **Nakaja** from **Aza'lon** at the **Immortal Prison**. Serving the **United Commonwealth of Planets** and it's successor, the **Galactic Commonwealth** for a number of years, the vessel was held in extremely high regard by the **Aventis Empire** who expressed interest in continuing the Normandy as flagship of the Galactic Commonwealth.

Rather then defaulting to standard **Federation/Starfleet** vessel designs from the **Milky Way Galaxy**, the Aventis proposed a radical new direction in ship design, utilising some ancient historical documentation discovered on **Aventis Prime**, which had been long lost to human civilisation on **Earth** and the Aventis themselves. These documents depicted an ancient **"Caravan of the Heavens"** crossing the stars to settle on a primordial Earth, over 150,000 years ago.

These ancient vessels, known as **Battlestars** quickly fired the imagination of the Aventis population, who were still recovering from the loss of their home planet during an attack by the **Avalid Empire** and **Rothian Liberation Army** just a month before at the **Battle of Aventis**. The current reigning monarch, Empress **Hild MacLowan** saw enormous potential in working with the Galactic Commonwealth to design a new type of starship to cerment the Aventis's new place within the Commonwealth.

As a result, a royal commission was established with suggested creating a replication of these forgotten vessels from Aventis history and updating them with modern mid 25th century technology. The Normandy was the first and largest of these new generation of Battlestars to be built and named for the heroic ship that had served the Commonwealth so faithfully all these years.

## Project: Crusader

By **July 2453**, the **Aventis Empire** had obtained significant experience in the refitting and design of new Battlestars, such as the **Commonwealth Achilles Class Battlestar**. **Aventis Royal Shipwright**, **Eron Lyle** used the successful implementation of the Achilles Class in the fleet of the **Old Commonwealth** to design a much larger and more powerful Battlestar then had ever been constructed previously.

This new vessel, dubbed the **Crusader-Class Battlestar** was significantly larger then the older **Aegis-Class Battlestar** and contained numerous new improvements such as **Aventis Covariant Multi-Layered Shielding**, which had previously been developed for the **Aventis Concentric Class** but was not able to be fully finished before the launch date of that class of vessel.

The Crusader-Class also included an impressive display of new weaponry, expanded fighter support and a larger array of different mission options as the interior of the vessel adopted the same modular approach as the much older **Galaxy Class Starship**, allowing different rooms and facilities to be swapped out at will depending on mission profile.

**Transphasic Kinetic** weapons were also developed for the Crusader-Class, rather then traditional energy weapon. These weapons allowed for sub-molecular manipulation of matter, creating a phased state which allowed these weapons to more easily penetrate enemy shielding, opening the way for a full **Quantum Missile Barrage** of over 80 simultaneous missile launches, creating a devastating display of firepower.

However the most impressive feature of the Crusader-Class is the **Hypervelocity Bow Cannons**, which launch **5000mm Kinetic Magnesium Projectiles** with such force that they are able to crack through a planet. These cannons give the Crusader-Class the ability to **"brute force"** most shielding systems within its frontal arc for a devastating assault that can penetrate straight through most modern starships.

Despite all these advancements, development on the Crusader-Class was halted in early 2452 due to the massive amount of resources that would required to design and build the vessel. This problem was solved by July 2453, when the Aventis Empire joined the **Grand Commonwealth** and gained access to **Curnaris Refinement Technologies**.

## Achievements

* **Ship of the Year - 2453**
* **RP of the Year - 2453 - *"The Arrangement"***

## Episode List

### **Season One**

1. ***"The Nickle"***
2. ***"Whorlbreaker"***
3. ***"Weight of the Soul"***
4. ***"A Glaring Truth"***
5. ***"The Arrangement"***
6. ***"Temple of Doom"***
7. ***"I, Sora"***
8. ***"A Whorl Lot of Fun"***
9. ***"Blood on the Scales" (Part 1)***
10. ***"Blood on the Scales" (Part 2)***
11. ***"The Lone and Level Sands"***

### **Season Two**

1. *"**Seven"***
2. ***"Accretion"***
3. ***"All I Want For Christmas... is Moop"***
4. ***"Desperate Prayer"***
5. ***"Inspector Hayz-it"***
6. ***"Consummate Professional"***
7. ***"Hell Trek II: The Wrath of Carmine" (Part 1)***
8. ***"Hell Trek II: The Wrath of Carmine" (Part 2)***