HFB-Polyphemus

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ID: Markus Brass
Rank: Fleet Commander

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Ship's Callsign: [HF]-HFB-Polyphemus
Role: Experimental battle-carrier
Status: Active
Location: Magellan

Strikecraft Wing Status

Nemea-1: Operational
Nemea-2: Operational
Nemea-3: Damaged
Nemea-4: Operational
Nemea-5: Operational
Nemea-6: Operational

Armaments & Special Equipment

• Capital Armor Upgrade MK8
  
• 3x C-48 "Cerberus" Battleship Turret
  
• 4x H4-X "Firelance" Hellfire Legion Battleship Primary Turret
  
• 8x UB3-R-H4-X "Hailstorm" Hellfire Legion Battleship Secondary Turret
  
• 2x Flak Turrets
  
• "Hermes" Cloak Emitter
  
• "NEMESIS" Electronic Jamming Device
  
• "ZEUS" EMP Emitter
  
• "APOLLO" Long Range Scanner
  

Polyphemus's First Voyage

Polyphemus was in the plans for a few years before it's construction in 817 AS. It received the name "Polyphemus" because there were many discussions involving it, both positive and negative. Some were saying that the resources were scarce and shouldn't be used on a project of this scale while others believed that this would be a huge step for the Legion. It was planned to have enormous carrier bays, capable of fitting 6 strikecrafts (mostly bombers), armed with some of the most devastating anti-capital arrays and close-range support weapons in combination with the special equipment, this ship would be a killer.

It's construction was completed early in January 819 AS. It's first deployment happened in Magellan under the command of Fleet Admiral William Draxton and his second in command, Fleet Captain Markus Brass. It's first task was to intercept a convoy of slavers who were approaching Freeport 4 from the Leeds jumphole. Polyphemus was lurking in the nebula with the scanner and comms jammer active and the fighters on standby for launch.

Several minutes later, the convoy jumped through to Magellan. With communications and scanners malfunctioning, they were on alert for potential hazards. Soon, the Nemea wing was launched to intercept and pin the convoy while boarding crafts were approaching to seize their ships. With excellent coordination that was provided from Polyphemus's bridge, the damages were kept to a minimum and the slaves were liberated and the slavers were dropped off at the IMG officials on Freeport 4. The slaves which were mostly of Bretonian origin, left to find their homes and those who were from the borderworlds were accepted at the Legion colonies of Guadalajara in Vespucci system.

After the assignment's successful completion, the Engineering Corps were amazed by the efficiency of the project many detested few years ago and began implementing several of it's characteristics to other designs.

Two weeks later, Fleet Admiral Draxton retired at the age of 64 his last words were: "This is the end of the line for me, I've seen a lot of fighting and many people younger than me lose their lives. It's time to put down the arms and live the rest of my life as peaceful as I can." and went on to live the rest of his life on Guadalajara. Fleet Captain Markus Brass was promoted to Fleet Commander and was given the command of Polyphemus per request from Fleet Admiral Draxton.

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