The following article describes the development of Battleship Abyss in the Evora Shipyards prior to the Toledo destruction in 814 A.S.
Log by Captain Zephyr Van Hallen.
801 A.S
The Order, from period of 801 A.S. Not much can be said about the Order in this period. Saviour of the humanity is self explanatory. During the period of time , 801 to 817 A.S, the Order had gained allies, and enemies.
The greatest Allies up to date are the Zoners, but supplying undercover, without knowledge of the Core, then the Blood Dragons, and the Bundschuh revolutionists. The Corsairs were allies too, but for a brief period of time.
During all the mess to re-construct the colonies after 801 War, and to the 817 A.S, the Order gained enemies on the mankind counterpart. The Liberty lawful forces, the Outcasts and SCRA are the latest Order enemies , including the Bounty Hunter Guild Core.
The Order agenda, quickly realizing the influence they have gained across the Sirius Sector can be lost in an instant. The power of their "alien" and human enemies is growing, and they understood that some time in the future, if an serious invasion is to come at their home world, the Order would somehow need to gain the upper hand no matter what kind of alien force can be thrown at them.
Before the idea of the Dreadnought Thebes, supplied by the Zoners, multiple Osiris Battleships were built in the Evora Shipyards, at the end of 814 A.S to defend the shipyard itself, the O-100 and Omicron Minor, the home world.
One of those Battleships, was dubbed Abyss. It was a direct derivation of the original Osiris. Abyss included the volatile cloaking device , higher armor upgrade but included array of smaller prototype cores inside the hull.
Omicron Minor, 814 A.S - 817 A.S
The main purpose of this Battleship class vessel was to provide intel and data about any incoming incursions. This Osiris class Battleship was operating without any mistakes or errors after the maiden voyage in the 814 A.S from the Evora Shipyard. Issuing daily patrols into Omicron Delta and 92 from a secure location was its secondary task.
The Abyss during a thorough testing was presumed to be able to stay cloaked for longer stretches of time than the Original, and could easily infiltrate Corsair or Outcast home space without being noticed and then conduct spy missions for the High Command.
Of course, none of this was needed. Despite the cloaking abilities, The Order was not desirous on taking any kind of risks of getting the vessel captured in the process.
Overall, this Battleship was operating quite fine, right until the 817 - 818 A.S.
Omicron Minor, 817-818 A.S
Nomad menace in the Omicrons in the 816 and 817 A.S increased violently. The Order in the meantime was constructing Thebes. But the plans of Thebes' launch were altered. Order intelligence gathered up info and assumed a massive attack is inbound. They were absolutely right.
Soon after a few months, Nomads invaded Omicron Minor. The casualties on the Order side were massive. Just like the Isis, to buy time for the retreating Order forces, Abyss commanders activated 2 out of its 4 small prototype cores. The rest of the Order was evacuating to Thebes once they realized the Nomad force has overwhelmed them.
The ship was holding fine. Right until more Nomad Battleships appeared, Thebes left a blinding flash behind it, and the remaining Order forces were starting to retreat once the full Toledo bombardment started.
In the ditch to buy time for the Order capital vessels that remained, Abyss activated all of its 4 small prototype cores. After all 4 cores were activated for probably the first time, Abyss had fired an Antimatter Cannon. Right at that moment, ship was surrounded by gravitational anomaly and achieved abilities like the one of jump drive, and disappeared in a flash.
4 Prototype cores were deactivated as quick as possible, and the ship ended in somewhere in Liberty space. All personnel on board Abyss recognized the familiar , Badlands in the New York. 2 out of 4 prototype small cores were destroyed but the ship maintained the ability to cloak, and they did so until they could completely apprehend what actually happened with the ship.