HMS Pandora
| HMS Pandora | |
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| Ship Class | Liner |
| Built by |  Bretonia
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| Captain | Edward Hope |
| Technical information | |
| Guns/Turrets | 0 / 9 |
| Class 4 Turrets |
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| Hull strength | 800,000 (x4.0) |
| Shield strength | 100,000 Positron |
| Cargo space | 2,500 units |
| Nanobots/Batteries | 700/700 |
| Max. impulse speed | 80 m/s |
| Max. thrust speed | Thruster not available |
| Power output | 90,000 u |
| Power recharge | 7500 |
- This is a player owned ship.
The Pandora is a Bretonia Royal Cruise Liner, built in 819 AS, and under command of Captaion Edward Hope. Her current main duty is the safe transportation of remaining Refugees from Planet Leeds, especially high-ranked officers, politicans and other VIPs. Due to the frequent gallic raids within Leeds, the task has to be done pressed for time. Besides the shipping duty, the Pandora explores for new habitable planets for building new refugee camps.
History
Since the war with Gallia has started, the bretonian citizen was on edge, driven by permanent fear of the gallic forces approaching New London in the future. To avoid possible mass panics, the Bretonian Government decided to take preventive measures, as long as the political and economical condition still allowed it. In early February 819, several well-armored Cruise Liners got ordered to be built at Deptford Dockyard. Their purpose was to step into the breach for war times when public transports can't run the blockades anymore. In simple words - a VIP refugee transport for wealthy and indispensable persons such as politicans, naval officers, doctors, graduates and specialists. When the first of the ordered Liners got completed in July 819, it had its maiden flight to New Anglia, under the name "Pandora" and being commanded by Captain Edward Hope, an experienced Royal Naval Officer.
After the HMS Pandora returned to New London, the jumphole connections to Anglia and Cambria mysterious imploded, cutting off the communication with the stranded populations. If it couldn't get worse, the gallic fleet had approached Edinburgh, capturing all the bases behind them. Leeds was their next huge aim. And pretty soon, the HMS Pandora got assigned to rescue the remaining 'VIPs' from Planet Leeds. Together with the help of the Bretonia Merchant Navy, they resettled thousands of refugees to Planet New London and Planet Cambridge. Not infrequently, their convoys got ambushed by Gallic Royal Navy patrols, who tried their best possible to not let the 'valuable human cargo' escape. Quite often they were more lucky than anything else. However, the hostile increase of capital vessel support made the route more dangerous with each day passing. Despite the danger, the crew of the HMS Pandora has shown loyalty to the crown and bravery down to the present day.
Duties
- • Primary role: Shipping important Refugees off Leeds, and serving as armoured passenger liner.
- • Secondary role: Exploration of habitable planets, rich in ressources, for building refugee camps.
- • Tertiary role: Defence and support within Bretonia space, against foreign threats, especially the gallic invasion.
