Rheinland Navy CapitalshipWotan Class: Bismarck Crew: 450 men and women Aramants: Classified
Ship History:
Originally constructed on Oder Shipyard in 745 A.S. the Wotan was the state of the art ship of its time serving in the southern fleet. During the nomad war it saw action on many front's and was ultimately destroyed in Cambridge.
Reconstructed from the remains of the Wotan in 819 A.S. and offically launched in 820 A.S. the new Wotan is serving in the Kanzler's fleet once again.
Currently under command from Kapitänleutnant Maximilian Hofman, the Wotan is mainly patroling the Stuttgart system. With new weapon technologies and a motivated crew the ship is a force to be reckoned with.
Ship Informations:
Commanding Officers:
Kommandant (CO): Maximilian Hofman
Erster Offizier (XO): Maria Hecht
Navigation (NO): Udo Stuhler
Techniche Abteilung (MO): Ernst Thalmann
Crew layout
Total: 450
Flieger: 50 (new recruits training onboard the Wotan)
Gefreite: 200 (mainly turret crews and hangar workers)
Gefreite : 20 (pilot's of the 12th squadron)
Feldwebel: 15
Engineers: 100 ( they keep the ship running)
Marines: 50
Officers: 15 (all Military officer above the rank of Feldwebel)
Assigned Squadron's
Currently the Wotan only has the 12th Heavy Grenadier squadron assigned as most other squadron's had to be moved to the Liberty frontline.
12th Heavy Grenadier's
The Heavy Grenadier's are serving as the backbone of the Wotan's fighter contingent.
Well trained for interception of enemy fighter's and bomber's as well as for precision strikes against capital ships. To sum it up you call the target and the Grenadier's are gonna wipe it out.
Total fighter's: 12 72-ARKM-G27 "Phantom" Rheinland Heavy Fighter (1 wing with 4 fighter's)
Mainly used as scout's and for regular patrol's.
90-ARKM-N45 "Wraith" Rheinland Very Heavy Fighter: 8 ( 2 wing's with 4 fighter's each)
Main purpose is the defense of the Wotan against fighter and bomber sized enemy vessel's.
Bio Maximilian Hofman
Born on planet Hamburg in 780 A.S.
Maximilian was part of a traditional Rheinland family. His parents , father Hermann Feldwebel in the Rheinland Military and assigned to the ground troops at Hamburg, and his mother Inga , nurse at a local hospital, were both loyal followers of the Kanzler and members of his Partei. Always discussion politic's at home Max was soon pressed into becoming another proud servant for the Kanzler's military.
Graduating school with 17 (after failing 9th class once) he was soon wrote up for a place in the military education camp at Hamburg to bridge the 1 year gap until he could apply to the military.
Learning the basic's of planetary warfare, marching for day's in the coldness of the northern part of hamburg, learning to shoot with armed weapons and to fight another man one on one were only a few things Maximilian had to get through at the camp.
After finally turning 18 his father went to the recruitment center on Hamburg with him, looking as proud as Max had just won a war all by himself.
798 A.S. and max was shipped to military training camp on New Berlin. Even though the ground stage of the training was difficult he mastered it along with 50 of his 80 fellow recruits.
Learning new tactics and combat moves faster than the average Rheinlander, Max soon found himself in the position of team leader. After a few more successful months he was assigned to the Rheinland Navy academy on New Berlin to become an officer. Finally realizing that he had talent for this "military stuff" he began to enjoy his time at the academy.
With the rank of Leutnant he was assigned to the RNC - Wagner and was serving there during the nomad war.
The Wagner itself was stationed in the Frankfurt system and was constantly fighting of Bundschuh and GMG attack's on the supply lines of the northern fleet. After the rapid end of the war, and the return to New Berlin the Wagner was decommissioned and Max was now ranked of Hauptmann.
He was given some time off and went to have a vacation on Hamburg.
804 A.S. he however returned to active duty and began to work aboard the Westfalen. Mainly training new recruit's there he quickly grew bored of it. Being a veteran by now, he loved the open combat and everything involved in it.
815 A.S. he got promoted to Kapitänleutnant and quickly applied for a different position. He was granted the command over the RNC-Döben, a gunboat class vessel. Mainly securing the Dresden jump gate and the surrounding fields from Hessian raiders the Döben did stay without major damages.
819 A.S. Maximilian had left the Döben as command needed him on the front line. Despit all their efforts the Rheinland Military was facing a hard time in the war against Liberty. Because of the lack of experienced Officers the rank required to command capital ships, was dropped from Kapitän to Kapitänfähnrich. Now Max was assigned to the newly constructed RNC-Wotan a rheinland bismarck class battleship.
Bio of "Flieger" Lutz Torwald (currently doing training aboard the Wotan) Lutz was born on station Leipzig in the Dresden system on the 21st August 795 A.S. Being a healthy child , from birth on until he reached the age of 5. Doctor's on New Berlin found out that the bad air on the station had damaged his lungs and he had to stay at the hospital for 2 week's.
Normally that would not be a problem but for a 5 year old child, woes parents had to work in an entirely different system, it was quite a hard time. His mother Sabine decided that her parents should take care of him.
So he after getting out of the hospital he did not move back to Leipzig but stayed with his grandparents on New Berlin. He visited the New Berlin primary and secondary school from 801 A.S. to 811 A.S.
He was good in school ,especially enjoying history class, but never had much friend's. He was not a talkative guy and so he kept playing alone most of the time. Since mother and his father Ulrich both worked on Leipzig and they were only visiting him once a week.
Though being good in school, everything was taking Lutz towards a job at DHC. Working for Daumann was not considered , a good job, among most Rheinlanders but there were little choices if you lacked the money.
Only the richer families could afford to send their children to university, or "buy" them a place in one of the large offices of Republican or ALG. While only a few "gifted" pupil from his school were selected for better career's Lutz and most others were pushed into the worker class. Doing the "dirty" work for the aristocracy on New Berlin.
So without much fund's, or choices Lutz was kind of stuck as trainee for an engineer job at Leipzig. Learning to work with heavy machines, operate various systems aboard the station and maintaining the ship's was a good education for him. Tough he was not satisfied with his life.
Living on a mining station was one above all else, dirty and unhealthy. Most of the miner's simply walked everywhere with their dusty clothes either not wanting to change them, or not able to because of the lack of equipment and money. The hot air from the smelters found its way into the last corner of the station. The damaged air filters were barely keeping up with keeping the oxygen level above minimum. End even in the bar you could smell that all to familiar stench of melting cooper ore and smoke.
Despite all this Lutz managed to stay more or less healthy. Using most of his free time to learn about new technologies and saving every cent to finally get of the station. Though multiple application's to work elsewhere had already been shoot down by Daumann.
814 A.S. was a hard year for Lutz. At first loosing both his parents by an accident, caused by outdated and not maintained equipment.
Sabine and Ulrich were working on a smelter inside the C section, as a coworker overcharged his plasma torch, which lead to a chain reaction and to an explosion of not only the plasma torch but also surrounding mox container's, which were actually stored there without permission.
Ontop of his loss, the station leadership demanded Lutz's team of mechanics and engineers to"clean up the mess that his parent's left behind" to quote one of them. So without any "help" or at least some friend's that would help him over it Lutz was getting more worried that he might end in much the same way his parent's did.
To die for a company which cared so little for their employees was not something he would let happen. He tried to apply for a job at the Ring, but given his background and the lack of founds to bribe his way there, his application was turned down and instead a fresh graduated student from New Berlin was getting the job.
Lutz felt left alone, became sick soon afterwards and was barely able to afford a ticket to New Berlin. Arriving there he was going "home" to his grandparent's to look for help.
His grandmother was taking care of him, getting him healthy and back into shape again.
In 815 A.S. nearly one year after he called in sick, he returned to Leipzig and worked there until 818 A.S.
Having shipped most of the machines and other equipment already, Daumann was loading some last transports to bring all valuable goods to the Ring.
Lucky as he was Lutz was assigned to load one of the transports, and fly to the Ring with it to help unloading. Just as they had left the Dresden system, the Hessians made their move and began their assault on Leipzig.
After the loss of Leipzig he was without a job, without a proper home, so he returned to the only place he knew. His grandparent's house.
Much other workers re applied to work on either Briesen in omega 7 or Rugen in Omega 3. But Lutz did not have the will to return into the slavery of Daumann. He was staying with his grandparents for a few month's until he had some serious arguments with his grandfather.
His grandfather was always helping him out, being a veteran of the Military, he was sometimes very strict but non the less a lovely old man. One day he was dropping one of his usual sentences: "In the old times it was better, under the Kaiser's rule we had enough to eat and nearly everyone had work. We may were not as free as we are now with the democracy but it were better times."
Suddenly Lutz raised his voice. Commenting harshly on this, the two ended up in a fierce argument about politic's.
A few days later after Lutz had calmed down a bit they spoke again. After hearing Lutz out about working for Daumann again both decided that it would do him no good to reapply for a place on a DHC station.
Left without to many choices he tried his luck by the only employer his grandfather trusted. The Rheinland Military.