Ship Name: Hemera
Class: Deimos
Designation: DRD04HMR826
Hull Number: 07
Crew: Full platoon of AIT. 6 Tech Specialist, 3 Senior Bridge Officer (Nav, Helm, Tactical), 250 Robotics Operator Engineer, 175 Reserve ROE, 2 Chief Technician (AI Systems and Engineering) CORINTH Mark XI Command Assistant. 10 Hangar Personnel, 6 Pilot
Commanding Officer: Commodore James McKinnon
Armaments: CLASSIFIED
The newest Deimos-Class vessel which was in construction since mid 825 A.S. was completed by the end of February 826. As Olympia's defection and Omega Crisis and eventually the loss of Olympia's operational status hit hard the Republic, CDI and CIS came with a solution that allowed the AI to take limited control over the Dreadnought's control, which was only activated automatically if no response could be gotten from senior officers for an extended time or in extreme situations, such as an attempted defection, the President could activate a command code to have the vessel activate it's FTL Drive and position itself near Sabah Shipyard and activate Lockdown Sequence, which completely disabled the vessel's powergrid until another command code entered to "reset" the ship back.
While the Deimos codenamed DRD-04 built upon lessons learned from previous defections and rebellions among Crayter's history and later outfitted with secret command overrides, tracking devices and limited remote control abilities developed and discreetly installed into the ship's "CORINTH" Mark XI AI Command Assistant, it also raised questions, whether allowing a crucial Fleet asset to be tied to CIS in one hand or not by the Admirality. While some seen such a move as a preemptively cautious move, some seen that CIS could tie the hands of Fleet and Military through the one of the most precious assets of First Fleet.
Noticeable features included a FTL Drive, a Cloaking Device Disruptor Mark III, high performance, specially tuned CHN-D27 Deuterium-Burn engines to give maximum push possible to the vessel and fourth generation "Xiphos" Mark VII Powergrid that allowed the vessel to operate with increased versatility and greater allowance to quickly shunt power.