TAS Hood

-Dual medium trubolasers (200)

-Triple medium turbolasers (200)

-Ion cannons (200)

-Dual heavy ion cannons (50)

-Laser CIWs point defense batteries (120)

-Space Sparrow missile launchers (50)

-Starhawk missile launchers (60)

-80 walkers or 200 tanks

-32,000 soldiers

-Ship to ship combat

-Liberation of Kashyyyk

-2nd Battle of Saleucami

-Invasion of Kamino

-Battle in the Anoat System

The TAS Hood is a Repulse-class Battlecruiser built for the Terran Starfleet by Terran Starship Industries. The ship was the fifth ship of the class, and was named in honor of the WWII era battlecruiser HMS Hood.

The Hood was commissioned into the Terran Starfleet in 2008. She spent four years in the Home Fleet before she began leading expeditions across the Milky Way Galaxy.

When the Galactic Civil War broke out, the Hood, along with most of her sisters was deployed to the Andromeda Galaxy. She first saw combat at the 2nd Battle of Naboo, and continued to serve on the front lines of the conflict in many battles throughout the war.

Following the war, the *Hood* was sent on a special mission into the Unknown Regions to locate the world of Exegol. However, mere weeks into the mission, she disappeared without a trace, and rescue efforts failed to find her. The Hood's disappearance was the result of a battle with the Super Star Destroyer *Eclipse*.

After her battle with the *Eclipse*. the *Hood* lost her navigation maps and all communication. The *Hood* preceeded to wander the Unknown Regions for over 30 years, settling on several different planets and mapping a large portion of the Unknown Regions. After decades, the *Hood* finally discovered Exegol, and discovered it was the home of a massive fleet of Imperial ships. The *Hood* then spent years mapping two routes to Exegol before finally encountering a Chiss ship, which helped them make their way back to the known galaxy.

## History

### Construction and Early Service

The *TAS Hood* was laid down at the Terran Star Forge on March 30, 2007 as the fifth *Repulse*-class battlecruiser. The ship was sponsored by Ted Briggs, the final living survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hood.

The *Hood*  was the lead ship of the *Hood* sub-class of the *Repulse*-class. The *Hood* and other ships of her subclass were designed with an improved reactor design that could go much longer without refueling, a more durable hyperdrive and engines, and the addition of a few additional missile launchers.

*Hood* was launched on February 10, 2008, and commissioned three months later on May 2, 2008. Ted Briggs was in attendance at both occasions.

A few months after *Hood*'s commissioning, on October 4, Ted Briggs passed away. The *Hood* descended into British airspace and moored over London, and Briggs' remains lay in state in the battlecruiser's hangar bay to allow people to pay their respects. The *Hood* then bore his remains to their burial place, and part of her crew was present at his funeral.

In May of 2011, the *Hood* was put on standby to support Operation Neptune Spear if necessary. While nobody aboard but the captain were informed of the reason in order to maintain secrecy, the ship's fighter squadrons were put on high alert, and a team of soldiers were ordered to be on standby to be sent down if they were needed. Ultimately, she was never during the operation.

The *Hood* spent almost all of her first 5 years of service in Terran orbit as part of the Home Fleet. She was known for her efficient crew, and routinely won awards for performance during training exercises.

### Galactic Civil War

When the Galactic Civil War broke out, the *Hood* was put on standby for deployment to the Andromeda Galaxy. In December of 2013, she finally received orders for deployment with the 1st Fleet under Fleet Admiral Zambellas, and traveled to the recently captured planet of Naboo to serve as part of the planet's defense force, arriving just before New Year's.

On February 16, 2014, the Empire attempted to retake the planet of Naboo. The *Hood* served as Fleet Admiral Zambellas' flagship during the battle for the planet. She participated in the trap to keep the Imperial fleet from escaping, and engaged in a broadside duel with the *Bellator*-class dreadnought *Obliterator*, in which she sustained light damage. However, the Imperial fleet was able to escape before the *Hood* could destroy the *Obliterator*.

About a month after the 2nd Battle of Naboo, the *Hood* was reassigned, and sent on a mission to hunt down Imperial convoys. Then, on April 17, the *Hood*, along with her sister *Scharnhorst*, received word of an Imperial attack on the Mako Ta Space Docks. *Hood* led the *Scharnhorst* and their escorts to the Space Docks to hold off the Empire. Upon arrival, both battlecruisers engaged in a duel with the *Executor*. Both battlecruisers sustained damage, but were able to keep the *Executor* occupied long enough for the Rebellion to evacuate a number of their ships. Following the battle, the *Hood* spent 7 weeks undergoing repairs to make her ready to participate in the attack in Kashyyyk.

The Terran Alliance's attack on Kashyyyk began on June 20. The *Hood*  was one of four *Repulse* class ships sent as part of the attack. *Hood* and her three sisters engaged the Star Destroyers over the planet, destroying them with relative ease. *Hood* then began providing orbital bombardment support. Hours after the invasion began, Imperial reinforcements arrived, and *Hood* and her three sisters engaged the Imperial fleet after they had been subjected to fierce attacks by Terran starfighters and bombers, and successfully forced the Empire to retreat.

Following the battle, the *Hood* again went in for repairs, both to repair the damage taken during the Liberation of Kashyyyk and damage from the Battle of the Mako Ta Space Docks that had not been fully repaired. She spent about two months in repairs before returning to active duty on September 1, after which she returned to Naboo to spend the next 9 months as part of Naboo's defense force.

In June of 2015, the Empire recaptured the planet Saleucami, which had been captured by the Terran Alliance about two months earlier. The Alliance immediately prepared another, larger invasion force to retake the planet, and the *Hood* was assigned to the fleet. Upon arrival at Saleucami, she helped to destroy the Imperial fleet over Saleucami, after which she provided orbital bombardment support for the ground forces. She escaped the invasion with no damage.

Just over a month later, *Hood* was assigned to the fleet that would be taking the planet Kamino. During the battle, *Hood* helped to destroy the Imperial fleet over the planet, and then assisted with landing troops on the surface.

Following the Invasion of Kamino, *Hood* was reassigned to again hunt Imperial convoys under the command of Admiral Montgomery, and over the following few months, destroyed several Imperials weapons convoy. However, in mid October, while hunting another convoy, Admiral Montgomery was contacted by Admiral Miller, requesting he come to the aid of the Rebels at Hoth. By the time the *Hood* arrived at Hoth, Death Squadron had departed in pursuit of the Millennium Falcon. After almost a week, the *Hood* and her two *Imperator* class Star Destroyer escorts found Death Squadron in a system near Hoth, and set up a defensive line between Death Squadron and an asteroid field that the Millennium Falcon had fled into. The *Hood* and her escorts engaged the ships of Death Squadrons several times over the following hours, destroying one of the Imperial class Star Destroyers, before Death Squadron scattered through hyperspace to hunt down the Millennium Falcon.

Over the next few weeks, *Hood* participated in an effort to search for the ships of Death Squadron and the Millennium Falcon. On Nov 18th, she received word that the Millennium Falcon and her crew, except for Han Solo, had been rescued by a Terran task force which was now on its way back to Terra. The *Hood* was then sent back to Naboo.

Only a few months later, in February 2016, the Terran Alliance discovered that the Empire was preparing an attack on Terra itself. *Hood*, along with most of the Terran Starfleet, was ordered back to Terra to defend it.

When the Imperial attack came in mid March, 2016, the *Hood* was assigned to Task Force 2, one of the three task forces meant to arrive in the Terran system after the battle began to trap the Imperial fleet. When Grand Admiral Thrawn ordered the trap be launched, the *Hood* jumped into the Terran system with the rest of Task Force 2 and engaged the Imperial fleet. She was credited with destroying two Star Destroyers, and subsequently engaged the *Executor* before the Imperial fleet was able to retreat.

Overall, the *Hood* took little damage during the battle. She spent just a week in repairs before returning to active duty. Unlike many of her sister ships of the *Repulse*-class, she was immediately redeployed to the Andromeda Galaxy. Just three months after the Battle of Earth, she served as Grand Admiral Thrawn's flagship during the capture of the planet Malastare.

During the following months, the *Hood* served as Thrawn's flagship on multiple occasions, including the Battle of Onderon, where she provided bombardment support for the army, and the Attack on Teth.

In June 2017, Thrawn transferred his flag to the *TAS Freedom*, and he reassigned the *Hood* to serve as part of Fleet Admiral Korlyov's Second Fleet during the Battle of Mandalore. She saw extensive combat during the battle, and helped to destroy the Super Star Destroyer *Whelm*. Following the battle, she was stationed over Mandalore for about two months to protect against any Imperial counterattack.

In September, some Imperial forces commenced Operation Cinder as part of the Contingency. Under the command of Admiral Jones, *Hood* was assigned to lead a task force to help combat the operation. On September 17, she led a small task force to destroy the main Imperial task force carrying out Operation Cinder, and successfully destroyed the Imperial task force.

Several months later, the *Hood* was part of the Terran fleet present at Chandrila for the official formation of the New Republic. Not long after, following the assassination of Warlord Zsinj, she conducted a diplomatic mission to the Hapes Consortium, finally establishing relations between the Terran Alliance and the Consortium.

Almost a month after her mission to the Consortium, *Hood* served as Admiral Jones' flagship during the Battle of Kuat Drive Yards. During the battle, *Hood* was one of the ships that focused on defeating Imperial ships over Kuat, allowing other ships to focus on taking the shipyards.

Shortly after the capture of the Kuat Drive Yards, the Terran Alliance learned of the Imperial forces at Jakku. *Hood* was assigned to the fleet being gathered to be sent to Jakku. During the training period, she was assigned as the flagship of Task Force 38 under Admiral Montgomery.

The Battle of Jakku began on October 17. *Hood* and the rest of Task Force 38 were held back for several hours before being sent against the right flank of the Imperial fleet. However, the following day, as SB-1B bombers launched a nuclear attack against the defensive line of Star Destroyers around the Super Star Destroyer *Ravager*, *Hood* was called back to prepare to attack the Super Star Destroyer. After the nuclear attacks finished breaking open the defensive line around the *Ravager*, the *Hood,* along with the *Freedom, Repulse, Challenger, Lutzow,* and *Bismarck*, together engaged the *Ravager*. As the rest of the ships kept the *Ravager* occupied and wore down its shields, the *Hood* circled around behind the Super Star Destroyer and opened fire on its stern, destroying the ship's engines and causing heavy damage to the stern. The destruction of the engines, as well as the destruction of the bridge by the *Freedom*, resulted in the *Ravager* losing power and being pulled down to Jakku's surface by its gravity.

Following the destruction of the *Ravager*, *Hood* continued to engage the Imperial fleet. By the end of the battle, she was one of the most successful ships of the battle, with at least 16 ships having fallen victim to her weapons, as well as several hundred TIE fighters and bombers. After the Imperial fleet had been destroyed, the *Hood* descended into the atmosphere, conducting bombardment support for the troops on the ground over the next few weeks until the final Imperial forces surrendered on November 11.

Following the Battle of Jakku, the *Hood* was sent to Kuat to undergo repairs for about 3 weeks. She was next tasked with assisting in the invasion of Coruscant, which was now in its final stages of planning. She remained the flagship of Task Force 38, still under the command of Admiral Montgomery. She and her crew trained extensively with the rest of the fleet during the remaining two and a half months before the attack on Coruscant.

In late January, the *Hood* and her task force rendezvoused with the rest of the invasion fleet in the Inner Rim over Onderon before proceeding to Coruscant. The invasion fleet reached Coruscant on February 1. When they encountered the Imperial fleet, the *Hood* helped lead the attack on the Imperial fleet, destroying several Star Destroyers herself. Once the Imperial fleet was destroyed, the *Hood* assisted in the ground invasion, landing the British Army's 3rd Division on the planet's surface. While she was unable to provide bombardment support due to fear of civilian casualties, the *Hood*'s fighter squadrons were on airborne alert for at least 12 hours a day to provide close air support to the troops fighting on Coruscant.

After the battle ended on February 25, the *Hood* and her task force remained in orbit over Coruscant for a few days. In early March, the *Hood* and several ships travelled to Mandalore and Hapes to pick up Bo-Katan Kryze and Prince Isolder and bring them back to Coruscant for the signing of the Galactic Concordance, the document that officially ended the Galactic Civil War and made official the Empire's surrender.

*Hood* and Task Force 38 remained over Coruscant for a little over a month before they were tasked with joining Task Force 36 and Task Force 42, and a New Republic task force, in hunting down a fleet of Imperial warships being gathered by Grand Admiral Josef Grunger. The fleet caught Grunger's fleet over the planet Ketaris. *Hood* and her escorts helped draw the rest of the Imperial fleet away from Grunger's flagship, the *Megador*, allowing the Dambusters to hit the *Megador* with several nuclear weapons, inciting most of the remaining ships to surrender. The ships that refused to surrender were quickly destroyed.

After the destruction of Grunger's fleet, the Galactic Civil War was considered over. The *Hood* was one of many ships tasked to begin transporting Terran forces not needed for occupation duties back home to the Milky Way.

In June, the former Imperial admiral Gilad Pellaeon, who had now been commissioned as an officer into the Terran Starfleet, was assigned to lead a special mission into the Unknown Regions to track down Imperial fragments and locate the ancient Sith world of Exegol. For his assignment, Pellaeon was given command of the *Hood*. The *Hood* first traveled to Kuat to get supplies and receive some tuning up, then departed Kuat for the Unknown Regions on June 19.

### Disappearance and Odyssey

Just a few weeks after the *Hood* left Kuat and entered the Unknown Regions, on July 10, 2019, the Terran Starfleet Headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia lost all contact with the *Hood* when the ship was a few parsecs away from the planet Ilum. A task force of 17 ships was quickly dispatched to the area by Thrawn to look for the *Hood*. The rescue task force arrived at the *Hood*'s last reported position on August 1, and spent two and a half days searching the area and surrounding star systems for any sign of the *Hood*, but found nothing. The task force headed home on the 4th, and the *Hood* and her crew were listed as Missing in Action by the Admiralty on the 10th.

However, the *Hood* had not been destroyed. Instead, on July 10, as the *Hood* was mapping a star system, she suddenly encountered the *Eclipse*, an *Executor* class Super Star Destroyer that was Emperor Palpatine's former flagship. The *Hood* was in the midst of a brief maintenance period and so was caught off guard.

The *Hood* engaged in a half hour long duel with *Eclipse*. During that time, the *Eclipse* managed to launch a number of landing vessels that managed to board the *Hood*, depositing a few thousand stormtroopers aboard the *Hood*. The *Hood* had embarked the British 6th Armoured Division and Ukrainian 61st Motorized Infantry Brigade prior to departure, which engaged the Imperial invaders. However, in the process, the battle aboard caused extensive damage to the interior of the ship.

After almost half an hour, the *Hood* was finally able to make a jump to hyperspace. However, the extensive damage to the ship included damage to the hyperdrive, which meant that the *Hood* had to drop out of hyperspace after little more than half an hour in order to avoid destroying the hyperdrive completely. The battle with the *Eclipse* cost not only heavy damage to the *Hood*, but also the lives of 989 of the *Hood's* crew, 851 of the embarked soldiers, and 817 droids. It also saw the loss of a Challenger 2 tank, a Pathfinder walker, 19 starfighters, and an SB-1 bomber. In addition, the detailed maps of the galaxy were lost from its computer, and the ship's communications system was completely destroyed.

After the *Hood* was forced to stop hyperspace travel, Admiral Pellaeon ordered the ship to maintain a constant course in the hopes of eventually finding an inhabitable planet, while reducing engine power to 70 percent to avoid over-stressing the engines, which had sustained damage in the battle with the *Eclipse*.

The *Hood* maintained this course until December. During this time, Admiral Pellaeon had the crew make what repairs they could, while also carrying out war games regularly to maintain their combat readiness.

However, the lengthy voyage took a heavy toll on the ship's crew.

## Appearances

* *The Terran Alliance Strikes Back (first appearance)*
* Terran Alliance The Odyssey