APM File: Ailuros

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Vessel Identification Number - APM-EV1288
Hull Designation - Core|APM-Apollo
Classification - Gunship
Assignment - Parasite Craft / Escort

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Vessel Background Information

The Apollo, a sister ship to the Artemis, is the second parasite craft designed to dock directly with the Ailuros when not in use. Designed by Damien Mekal and Marcus Greele, The Apollo is intended to perform escort and combat duties, while the Artemis handles passenger transport and away missions. The Apollo is based on the E78-12 "Spatial" spaceframe, originally a deep space self-sufficient mining vessel. The Apollo makes use of the E78-12's interior space and oversized powerplants to supply an array of 8 gun mounts, experimental shielding, and a prototype pulse weapon based on reverse-engineered Naurian technology. Additionally, the Apollo replaces the original survey probe deployment system with an autoloading antimatter torpedo launcher for engaging hard targets. The exterior hull paneling of the Apollo has been skinned over with iridium-based ablative armor, allowing it to take a substantial beating before any risk of hull breaches.

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The concept and design phase of the Apollo began with two goals: creating a modular and adaptive escort vehicle that could dock to the Ailuros, and building a small combat craft that could be used as a testbed platform for newly-emerging Naurian-based technologies. The initial design and concept were done by Damien Mekal, while the implementation of those concepts and the final build was handed over to the Ailuros' lead engineer, Marcus Greele.

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The Apollo is a two-deck design, moderately larger than traditional fighters. It makes up for this, and a lack of manuverability and speed, by bringing brute force to the field: a combination of high power output stemming from oversized dual reactors, an overclocked shield generator, experimental armor plating, and an overwhelming array of weaponry. This power comes at the cost of a greater crew requirement: the Apollo is designed to be operated by two crew members - a pilot in the lower cockpit, and a tactical officer in the upper deck's gunnery control room. Control of the weapon arrays can be transferred between the two stations, or split, allowing the pilot use of the forward weaponry while the gunner can control omni-directional turrets as well as torpedo targeting and the experimental Naurian pulse cannon. A second seat in gunnery control allows for a third crew member to handle navigation and communications when coordinating with fleet operations.

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Name - Marcus Mekal
Position - Escort Pilot
Age - 32 Years (Born 793 A.S.)
Birthplace - Planet Manhattan, New York System, Liberty
DNA Profile - 86% Libertonian / 14% Bretonian
Prior Assignments - Liberty Navy (West Point Flight Academy), Bounty Hunter's Guild

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Personnel Dossier:

Marcus Mekal is the son of Damien Mekal, the lead scientist and commanding officer of the Ailuros. Marcus was born to a Libertonian woman on Planet Manhattan, and rarely saw his father growing up as Damien was constantly on assignment in the Alaska System working for the LSF. Marcus Mekal applied to the West Point Flight Academy with the intent of joining the Liberty Navy as a combat pilot, but was reprimanded numerous times for insubordination of his instructors and commanding officers, and subsequently dishonorably discharged from service. Taking what he had learned at West Point, Marcus joined the Bounty Hunter's Guild, primarily operating in the Texas system for the next decade.

It was under his father's advisement that Marcus applied, and was accepted into, the Core, passing his training and being assigned to the Omega front fighting the Hessians and Corsairs. Marcus' hot-shot attitude and penchant for disregarding orders to make the kill has served him better in the Core than it did in with the Navy, and he's made a name for himself as an unconventional, but effective, combatant. At Damien's request, the Core has reassigned Marcus Mekal to the Ailuros to pilot the Apollo, with Katrina Summers serving as his gunner.

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