Normandy CBS-61944

## Senior Staff

* Commanding Officer: Admiral Leogryn Romeli
* Executive Officer: Commander Kytec Switchblade
* Chief Engineer: Lieutenant Commander Hayz
* Chief Tactical Officer: Captain Sinbad Naiver
* Chief Science Officer: Lieutenant Commander Hetaxi
* Chief Communication Officer:
* Chief Helm Officer: Lieutenant Lucas Moon
* 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 cerement 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.

## Achievements

* Ship of the Year - 2420
* Ship of the Year - 2421
* Best Ship Bridge Award - 2452
* Best RP Episode Award of the Year - *"By the Grace of God"* - September 2452
* Ship of the Year (2nd Place) - 2452

## Combat Record

* Battle of Aventis - April 2452
* Battle of Terra Secunda - June 2452
* Battle of Io - August 2452
* Battle of Va'Toh - October 2452
* Battle of Barras - December 2452

## First Contacts

* Jux Essentialism - May 2452
* Yuvis Theocracy - June 2452
* Jaqc Monocracy - August 2452

## Enhancements

* **Aventis Coaxial Warp Drive**

The *Battlestar Normandy,* being a vessel equally of Aventis Empire design as well as Galactic Commonwealth is equipped with an *Aventis Coaxial Jump Projector*. This method of propulsion was fitted once *Commonwealth Fleet Engineering* had decided that conventional warp drive would not be appropriate for the *Battlestar* type of vessel due to structural limitations.

Since the vessel was designed from ancient plans discovered on Aventis Prime, the *Battlestar Normandy* would be the first vessel to test the design in combat, after the destruction of the U.S.S. Normandy (NCC-61944-A), due to *Admiral of the Fleet Leogryn Romeli* taking an interest in these large scale vessels as a potential counter to the powerful U.S.S. Claidheamh Mòr, due to the *Battlestar-Type's* emphasis on fighter superiority.

The *Aventis Coaxial Jump Projector* was suggested by *Queen Hild MacLowan,* who had taken a personal interest in the first Fleet Development Programme since the Aventis Empire had formally joined the Galactic Commonwealth following the loss of their home planet to the *Rothian Liberation Army*. As a result, one similar to the model used by the S.S. Trident was loaned to the *Battlestar Normandy* allowing it to travel faster-than-light by folding space, which proved to be more ecologically sound and less damaging to subspace then conventional Warp Drives and the newly developed *Phoenix Warp*.

However the technology used is bulky and cumbersome, taking up considerable mass inside the vessel and explaining when Aventis Bastion Classes and other Aventis ships move so slowly at sublight speeds, meaning that the sublight speed of the *Battlestar Normandy* is severely restricted compared to that of a normal *Federation Starship*. However, the drive does allow for a maximum 300 Lightyear jump after every 20 minutes of cooldown time, allowing the Normandy to become one of the fastest ships in the fleet in terms of time to a specific location.

* **Post Abyss-War Refit**

Following The Abyss War of 2452, the Normandy was extensively refitted by Curnaris Shipyards to streamline the design of the *Battlestar Project*, with the assistance of renowned Aventis ship designer, *Aeron Merriweather.* The Normandy's engines were almost completely redesigned to make use of advancements of *"Phoenix" Warp Technology*, installing several *Programmable Matter Projects* to the Normandy's *Flight Pods*, allowing the vessel to create a successful *Alcubierre Field* and bringing the ship in line with other vessels of the Black Eye Galaxy who also needed to make adaptations following the destruction of subspace.

Other improvements include;

* New hull design with *Triburnium Allow Armour Plating,* making the Normandy one of the most durable vessels at the Commonwealth's disposal.
* New hull decals and paint work.
* An extensive new fighter fabrication facility which allows the Normandy to replace her own fighters using replication technology however this is fairly limited due to extensive power requirements.
* Bow Cannons have been equipped with a *Transphasic Energy Projector*, using the same basic design as the weapon on the legendary U.S.S. Trident, allowing the Normandy to fire a compressed *Transphasic Phaser* beam at stationary or slowing moving targets, doing considerable damage.

## Combat Abilities

### Romeli’s Gambit

Energy Cost: 5 Energy

IC Description: Fleet Admiral Leogryn Romeli, experienced Commander of the Normandy has the ship’s sophisticated A.I. SORA launch a pre-programmed set of micro jumps created by Romeli himself, allowing the Normandy to reposition itself on the battlefield using its Enhanced Aventis Coaxial Warp Projector.

OOC Description: The Normandy can make “micro-jumps” up to 3 times in a turn, up to 5 spaces per jump and can make an attack after each successful jump.

### Flak Barrier

Energy Cost: 1 Energy (1 Energy per Turn Used)

IC Description: Tactical Officer Sinbad Navier switches the Normandy’s canons to “Flak mode”, this mode has the unique ability to destroy any projectiles or fighters that come within Normandy's position.

OOC Description: The Normandy can deploy a Flak Barrier, rendering it immune to Torpedo attacks and destroying enemy fighters within 1 square of the Normandy’s current position.

### Bow Cannons (ULTIMATE ABILITY)

Energy Cost: 5 Energy

IC Description: The Normandy is equipped with devastating “Bow Canons”, firing quantum phased kinetic shells.

OCC Description: The Normandy can target one enemy target within 5 squares of the ship, the Normandy must be facing the target and can make one special attack with its Kinetic Bow cannons. This attack ignores armor rating of targets.

## Episode List

### **Season One**

* *"Juxtaposition"*
* *"Hold My Hand" (Part 1)*
* *"Hold My Hand" (Part 2)*
* *"Danger Zone"*
* *"By the Grace of God"*
* *"A Day at the Races"*
* *"Miss. Magius"*
* *"Of Gods and Men"*
* *"Hopeless Cause"*
* *"Garden Variety" (Part 1)*
* *"Garden Variety" (Part 2)*

### **Season Two**

* *"Last Contact"*
* *"Foretold"*
* *"Epitaph"*
* *"Torrent of Light and River of the Air"*
* *"Your Own Good"*
* *"The Brother"*
* *"Anthropia Forever"*
* *"The Sum of Her Parts"*
* *"Royal Wedding"*
* *"A Cry Asking Why"*
* *"Return to Immutis"*

### **Season Three**

* *"Locomotion"*
* *"Dragonheart"*
* *"Suburbia"*
* *"The Neck Trick"*
* *"Warship"*
* *"Doctrine"*
* *"Don't Think to Much"*
* *"The Once and Future King" (Part 1)*
* *"The Once and Future King" (Part 2)*
* *"Counter-Culture"*
* *"It's Been a Long Road"*