LSV Charon's Pride

## Specifications

### Armament

1 spinally-mounted Titan-grade tachyon beam lance24 turreted kinetic artillery cannons

48 turreted Daeshon Defence high wavelength lasers

16 turreted multi-launch missile systems

2 turreted magnetically accelerated 'Giga' cannons

## Career

### Launched

Around the start of the Burning Years

The **LSV *Charon's Pride*** (formerly ***Charon's Regret***) is a *Charon*-type titan and current flagship of the Argent Pact.

## History

The *Charon's Pride*, or as it was known then, the *Charon's Regret*, was constructed around the start of the Burning Years, and had a much different purpose than the flagship it is in modern day. Originally, it was a simple bunker-buster, designed for the sole purpose of destroying enemy starbases and planetary fortifications.

The *Regret* first saw action during the Battle of Carida, where it was deployed to break the stalemate by destroying the enemy's forward operation base, allowing the Pact to retake the system.

Overtime, the *Regret's* mission profile began to shift as the Burning Years ramped up, and the Pact military required more and more ships to combat the ever-growing conflicts. The vessel went from a 'cannon with engines', as it was described by one Ardentan officer, to a powerful command ship capable of coordinating Pact offensives on the move.

By the last decades of the Burning Years, the ship had fallen under the direct command of the Sovereign Commander of the time, Ardon Valus, who led it in the pivotal Battle of Titana, where it was presumed lost in a friendly-fire incident that had been secretly orchestrated by a traitorous military officer who believed the Sovereign Commander's leadership had failed the Pact. The ship, however, was not lost, having escaped into an emergency shadowpath when Ardon realised he was being targeted by one of his own ships. Damaged and far from League space, the *Regret* began a slow crawl back home, but only made it so far before the rest of the Pact enacted their contingency plan and fired their psionic weapon, which killed the ship's organic crew. The robotic crew, already having been disconnected from the Mainframe and now without leadership, enacted emergency protocols, hiding the ship in an uninhabited system and beginning the long, arduous process of repairing its extensive battle damage.

Over 100,000 years later, when the Ardenta were resurrected and the Pact partially restored under the banner of the old Ardentan League, the units aboard the *Regret* managed to reconnect with the Mainframe and started their journey home anew. However, the traitor, now posing as the Sovereign Commander, found out about the ship's survival and ordered it be destroyed. The *Regret* soon came under attack from warships commanded by the traitor's co-conspirators and managed to fend them off, but not before suffering damage to its already battered systems. Fortunately the ship was located by the Darexi Republic, and was brought into drydock to be fully restored to fighting condition.

After Ardon Valus ousted the traitor and took back his position, the *Regret* underwent a three-week refit to replace its aging systems and weapons, before being placed back into service as flagship. And when the League merged with the Sorannen Concordact, becoming the Argent Pact once more, the now-renamed *Charon's Pride* became its flagship as well.