RWI Serenity

The **RWI Serenity** is one of the first Defender Class MKII frigates that was brought into production. Originally intended to lead a battle group, she was heavily modified and assigned to Task Force Epsilon by Admiral Adam Williams in order to find Grand Admiral Jack Roberts and the RWI Eclipse.

## History

### Serenity

Due to Grand Admiral Jack's disappearance shortly after the First Battle of Epsilon Base, an RWI ship was sent to track down and save him. However, after the disappearance of the RWI Ardent Moon, Admiral Williams convinced the Red Wood Council to commit three more ships in searching for their lost Grand Admiral. The *Serenity*, one of the three ships and appointed flagship of the new task force, was taken by Admiral Williams to Cyrus Station for refit. Included with the refit was advanced sensors and four of the newly-released RWI V203 fighters. After the modifications were complete, the *Serenity* met up with the other two task force ships, the RWI Belfast and the RWI Vision, and started their search.

Some time later, the captains of the task force decided to split up the ships to cover more ground. The *Serenity* headed out on its own, due to its enhanced engines and weapons, while the other two ships continued onward together. The *Serenity* had a run-in with a Pirate Alliance ship but managed to destroy it with the help of its V203 fighters. After its discovery of the Earth-like Planet, the *Serenity* destroyed a Shadow satellite in orbit before making its way down to the surface.

### Planet Wars

After launching Hellfire Squadron from space, the *Serenity* made its way towards Dr. Isaac Ward's research lab and managed to drive away the Shadow corvette before arriving. The *Serenity* then launched an RWI Valkyrie dropship to deal with the remaining Shadow ground forces before retrieving Jack and Captain Ryan "Venom" Kazz. Afterwards, the ship pursued the Shadow corvette and found it crash site, after it was damaged by Hellfire squadron. It was later ambushed by the Shadow Commander's rescue team and slightly damaged.

The *Serenity* later made its way to the RWI *Eclipse* crash site to discover that the *Eclipse* was now gone. Unfortunately, the Shadow Carrier arrived to the crash site and began overpowering the Serenity with its laser cannon and weaponry. The *Serenity* was spared from imminent destruction due to Captain Venom crashing the captured helicarrier into the Shadow Carrier but lost its jump drive due to Shadow strike teams. The *Serenity* and the re-acquired *Eclipse* then made it into space and began its slow transition back to RWI space.

#### Post-Planet Wars

The *Serenity*, along with the *Eclipse,* have traveled for two months into its return journey to RWI space. The artificial intelligence DJ has been maintaining the systems of both ships in order to prevent unnecessary fuel and power consumption.

During that time Commander Marcus Ford, now acting captain of *Serenity*, awoke from cryo-sleep and began recording audio files depicting events related to himself and the crew aboard the Serenity. He also managed to assist DJ in repairing a few of the *Serenity*'s ship systems that required physical repairs. Some time later, a vessel belonging to the Shadows had managed to track down the *Serenity* and *Eclipse,* hacked into the *Serenity* computers and began shutting off systems and suppressed DJ. In that time, Ford was mind-probed for information. Luckily, DJ managed to free itself and the mind link was broken.

Due to the *Serenity* being unable to pursue the retreating Shadow vessel, it managed to get away. Ford later debriefed Jack on the events that happened with the Shadow Man. Once the debriefing was finished, both crew members returned to cryo on their respective vessels and the ships continued its journey back to RWI space.

## Crew

The men and women that made up the *Serenity*'s crew was the best of the best to ensure the retrieval of Grand Admiral Roberts was successful.

### Command Crew

* Commanding Officer
	+ Captain David Stake | (???? - ????) (KIA)
	+ Commander Marcus Ford | (Acting) (???? - )
* Executive Officer
	+ Commander Marcus Ford | (Promoted to CO)
	+ Lieutenant Commander Jacob Simmonds | (???? - ) (Field Promotion)
* Security Chief
* Science Officer
* Helmsman/Conn Officer
	+ Unnamed Officer | (???? - ????) (KIA)
	+ Ensign James Harris | (???? - )
* Chief Communications Officer
* Operations Officer
* Chief Medical Officer
* Chief Tactical Officer
	+ Unnamed Officer | (???? - ????) (KIA)
	+ Lieutenant David Jones | (???? - )
* Chief Engineer
	+ Lieutenant Commander Tom Benson | (???? - )
* Marine Detachment Leader
* Wing Commander (Leader of Hellfire Squadron)
	+ Lieutenant Commander Jacob Simmonds | (???? - )

### Wing Members

* Hellfire Squadron
	+ "Hell 2" - Master Sergeant John Kelvin | (???? - )
	+ "Hell 3" - Sergeant Connor Rigby | (???? - )
	+ "Hell 4" - Sergeant Aidan Trace | (???? -????) (KIA)