RWI Serenity

The **RWI *Serenity*** was a modified Defender-class Frigate MK.II built by Red Wood Industries (RWI). It was commanded by Captain Tobias Wells, and served as a diplomatic vessel under Admiral Jack Roberts after the Green Drone War.

## History

### Operation: Condor

Roughly one month after the end of the Green Drone War in 2733, the RWI *Serenity* was dispatched as a diplomatic vessel during Operation: Condor on October 5, 2733, which was a planned diplomatic meeting between RWI and the IMBER Corporation to discuss rebuilding in the wake of the Green Drone War. Although Captain Wells was the ship's captain, the operation was under the command of newly-promoted Admiral Jack Roberts.

Upon the *Serenity*'s arrival in the Sobovis System, the crew attempted to make contact with the IMBER representatives, only to be met with silence. Suddenly, an unknown starship appeared and attacked the *Serenity* from behind, knocking out the ship's shields and several weapons. Admiral Roberts ordered the ship to retreat from the gravity well of Sobovis V in order to make an emergency FTL hyperspace jump, only to have its FTL drives damaged. Captain Wells then insisted that Roberts and a few crewmen, including the *Serenity*'s helm officer, Lieutenant Hamish Lovegrove, to evacuate to the planet in the Valkyrie-class Dropship being stored in the *Serenity*'s hangar. While the dropship departed, the *Serenity* covered them, fighting off the unidentified warship in orbit.

The *Serenity* managed to evade the warship, hiding out inside the shadows of a large crater in the side of an asteroid orbiting the planet. The ship had sustained damage to its comms and main reactor. Captain Wells ordered repairs to be made immediately, as they could not afford to help Admiral Roberts' team at that time. He also ordered his XO to monitor the *Serenity*'s scanners in case RWI sent reinforcements, or in case the enemy ship returned.

#### Capture

However, the enemy faction eventually found the *Serenity* again and overpowered it. The ship was boarded and captured by the enemy faction, which had the tag of "IGC", and towed down to Sobovis V's surface and held in a drydock at the IGC's base. Most of the crew, including Captain Wells, were killed, with many of the bodies being left aboard the ship. A few other crewmen, namely Ensign Timedoctor, were imprisoned in the base.

Despite being held prisoner for a few weeks, Ensign Time managed to secretly send a distress call using the *Serenity*'s beacon data. The signal was picked up by Admiral Roberts and the other two officers, Lieutenants Hamish Lovegrove and Nathan, who soon set out to investigate. They found the *Serenity* mostly intact at the base, broke out Time (who, by that point, was the only survivor left), and made their way aboard the *Serenity*, using the ship to fight their way out and escape back to Roberts' crew's shelter.

## Behind The Scenes

The RWI *Serenity* first appeared in the Redwood Universe series, Planet Wars, in early 2017. In that universe, the *Serenity* was the first of the upgraded new model of Defender-class Frigate, and rescued Grand Admiral Jack Roberts and Captain Ryan "Venom" Kazz from the Shadow forces, before leaving the planet and drifting through space alongside the RWI *Eclipse*. These events are not canon to the Colony Universe. However, the *Serenity* seen in 'Space Engineers: Survivors' bears the same modifications seen on the Redwood Universe version.

The RWI *Serenity* was briefly seen in the finale episode of 'Space Engineers: Colony Lost' orbiting Icarus in the final cinematic. However, it does not include the same armor modifications on the port/starboard thruster bays seen on it later in 'Survivors'. It was also mentioned briefly to have been destroyed (or at least damaged) in the Battle of the Black Hole; it is unknown whether these events have been retconned or altered to reflect the version of the ship seen in 'Survivors'.