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==Background==
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Built in 826 A.S by the [[Norfolk Shipyard]], the Shenandoah, a [[Liberty Dreadnought]] of the [[Overlord]] class was intended to serve on the [[Gallic]] front lines, mainly in the California system to release the pressure which Battleship Alma was receiving. The hull of the Shenandoah was of that conventional [[Liberty Dreadnought]] - however it received a significant compliment of crew, with an experienced Captain, Alice Heyes, who was a veteran of [[Rheinland]]-[[Liberty]] war and went on to serve up until the end of that war. Upon completion of the construction, the vessel was sent to oversee the terraforming operations on [[Planet California Minor]] where it held off the presence of the known [[Gallic Royal Navy]], it was only upon announcement of [https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=171054 Operation Vanguard] that Shenandoah started to shine as a special warship as she took helm of the patrol base in the system, holding off until the [[Battleship Betheny]] was destroyed and the experienced [[Battleship Yukon]] returned to California system - unfortunately, both capital ships were destroyed and Shenandoah was recalled back to Norfolk Shipyard for refits and repairs - it was a surprise for Captain, as the fate of Los Angeles citizens were on her hands. However, any more attacks weren't focus on Los Angeles, more against the [[Planet California Minor]] garrison forces. Upon Shenandoah's arrival in dry dock, it received significant upgrades to systems and the weaponry placement, adding up three additional secondary turrets.
  
Built in times of the testing Gallic war against both [[Liberty]] and [[Bretonia]] Navies - the LNS Shenandoah - an anticipated warship for the California Minor defensive garrison - was completed on May 1st, 826 [[A.S]] in order to secure more surely the California system from the raiding parties of the Battlegroup Carcassonneand the flagship itself. The ship overseen mainly the terraforming operations on California Minor and defended the supply convoys to it from [[Gallic Royal Navy]]. When Battlegroup Alma and the ship itself left for the Operation [[Vanguard]] - Shenandoah chosen to defend the Planet Los Angeles from the known threat of the [[Battleship Carcassonne]], however, it's operations to defend Planet Los Angeles was un-eventful as Carcassonne focused more on striking the supply convoys to Bretonia. It wasn't long before Operation [[Vanguard]] turned out to be a successful in taking out [[Battleship Betheny]] - but for a cost of the oldest defender of California, [[Battleship Yukon]]. With the threat of [[Battleship Carcassonne]] being lower than unusual, the vessel was sent back to Norfolk Shipyard for repairs and refits. It didn't take long before Shenandoah was launched from Norfolk once more to head finally straight into New London system to finally remove [[Gallic Royal Navy]] from there. Days later after Alma and Concord arrived in the system, [[Gallic Royal Navy]] executed a blitz which was anticipated by the Allied strategists after Crayter Military Operation [[Ice Land]] captured the Tau-31 system and successfully broke the supply line.
 
  
Shenandoah stood strong in defense of the Bretonia capital - she took on several Valor Battleships and emerged victorious over the course for the blitz, both striking fear to Royal Navy and respect towards [[Liberty Navy]] and [[Bretonia Armed Forces]]. It was reported by the Shenandoah during the blitz that it encountered the feared Valor type Battleship called [[RNS-Sombre.Destin]] which was responsible for many vessels being heavily damaged in New London and the course of the invasion into the capital system - both vessels, how reported Captain of the Shenandoah at the time Alice Heyes, sustained heavy damages and both needed to retreat back to the safe positions to emergency repair. The blitz was heavy but the fighting continued until the August 17th, 826 A.S when all of the [[Gallic Royal Navy]] ships were either destroyed or disabled, or even escaped. Through the Blitz, the [[Battleship Gettysburg]], [[Carrier Warwick]] and [[Battleship Essex]] were destroyed and their remaining escorts regrouped at the [[Battleship Ottawa]] and [[Battleship Norfolk]] to finally take back Leeds system and finally end the very blood-lust war which has started many years ago.
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With Shenandoah's repairs and refits finished at the end of the month, Shenandoah was sent directly to the Gallic front line heart: the New London system, with the Independent worlds cleansed from [[Gallic Royal Navy]]'s forces, allied supply ships had been given major breathing room, together with the other allied forces. Shenandoah arrived days later, and it wasn't long before the expected rapid push by [[Gallia]] happened, since the [https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=172135 Operation Ice Lance] proceeded to disrupt the enemy supply line in the [[Tau-31]] system. With that, it forced a hand for the Gallic Military, proceeding to make a terrible mistake which costed them many of the veteran fleets - but not without Battleship Dax proceeding to siege the [[Planet New London]]'s surface before retreating, making significant damage to several major cities and those minor ones. With the victory against Gallic invaders, allies went on the offensive for the [[Leeds]] system to save it from the terrible fate of being destroyed and polluted, [[Gallia]], having a concern that allies would breach the Leeds via the connection they established, had deployed with conjunction of [[Gallic Royal Intelligence]], the Montagne prototype weapon platforms which proceeded destroy [[Battleship Ottawa]] - one of the more important battlegroup leaders in New London - upon entering [[Leeds]] system thanks to the defectors handing them over the jump gate codes to allied forces.
  
Following the loss of the Royal Navy in New London, it was decided by the King Charles to burn [[Planet Leeds]] to the ground while he himself was escaping the Ile-De-France system as the Council forces were closing on the system. It wasn't long before the Gallic News reported the disappearance of the King and the attack on one of the transports, it is still to this day discussed if King Charles IX is still in comatose or alive, commanding the [[Gallic Royal Enclave]] in the [[Aquitaine]] system and Hebrides itself. With the allied fleets closing in, Shenandoah joined up [[Battleship Ottawa]] which was going full hard onto the [[Planet Leeds]] with [[Battleship Norfolk]] - however, the gate to the system was sealed and the access codes were nowhere to be found before the [[Gallic Royal Navy]] [[Cruiser]] came in and surrendered to allied forces, giving them the access code to the gate. With this, allied forces had a chance to stop the burning of the Leeds - however to their knowledge, they didn't knew what was coming next. When Ottawa jumped through the gate, it was met with the experimental Montagne weapon platform which can fire an Heavy Beam corona which was developed by the [[Gallic Royal Intelligence]] - it's first combat test was [[Battleship Ottawa]] and thus, the ship itself fallen to the experimental weapons but not before being taken down by the Battlegroup escorts of the Ottawa, Shenandoah included and faced once again the [[RNS-Sombre.Destin]] but not much of the engagement with it happened and both ships retreated back to their respected positions - the [[Battleship Ottawa]]'s staff bridge alerted about the situation before going down and thus the Battlegroup moved in as well to support allied forces. When allied forces arrived in [[Leeds]], it was already over - the [[Planet Leeds]] and whole system infrastructure was destroyed by the [[Gallic Royal Navy]], with this strategic end, the Gallic war was over and the Liberty Navy forces were sent back to New London.
 
  
Shenandoah however didn't returned to [[New London]] but proceeded to the Magellan, from there, it went to California system where it received orders for repairs and refit once again on [[Norfolk Shipyard]]. After patch-ups were done, she was supposed to reinforce the [[Battleship Mississippi]] and [[Battlecruiser Lehigh]] but the leave of the [[Battleship Rio Grande]] from the [[Colorado]] system left it defenseless and thus the ship was sent to the backwater system for short duration where it fed off criminal elements before being ordered to reinforce the [[Battleship Rio Grande]] in [[California]] as [[Battleship Carcassonne]] location was soon to be located, few hours later after the Shenandoah's arrival in the [[California]] the [[Battleship Carcassonne]] and it's Battlegroup started to run for the [[Cortez]] jump hole in the system, with the fear that the vessel would make more damages to civilian industry in the system from [[Liberty Navy]], High Command decided to chase the vessel down and force either it's surrender or destruction before it can escape for [[Independent Worlds]] however it wasn't long before [[Battleship Carcassonne]] surrendered to [[Liberty Navy]] as the morale onboard [[Battleship Carcassonne]] broke down and mutiny was called upon, making the Executive Officer of the Battleship a new commanding officer which made the ship surrender. With the [[Gallic Royal Navy]], or now [[Gallic Royal Enclave]] threat over in the [[Liberty]], Shenandoah was once again sent on to Norfolk Shipyard to received major upgrades to the vessel, such as the "Triple Hull" design which [[Battleship Missouri]] holds on it's hull to this day.
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Shenandoah was second to enter the [[Leeds]] system, and upon witnessing the Ottawa being destroyed, Shenandoah Captain immediately ordered the evasive maneuvers which saved the vessel from destruction from massively modified corona beams - the crew was lucky enough that the weapon platforms were damaged from firing a second time and could not fire up again and thus Shenandoah proceeded to exchange fire with the enemy until allied forces arrive to clean up and support the vessel, however it was too late for the [[Leeds]] system as it was laid in ruin thanks to the [[Gallic Royal Navy]], which weeks later called themselves the [[Gallic Royal Enclave]]. Upon Norfolk's arrival at the [[Leeds]] orbit, Shenandoah was sent back to the Liberty space for further upgrading as the Admiralty was impressed with the vessel's adaptability - she was escorted by the Liberty Security Force members to Liberty space up until the [[New York]] system where it set course for the [[Norfolk Shipyard]]. Upon docking, the vessel received a compliment of special enhancement upgrades which went on to be used later on strategically, and mostly repairs as the vessel received moderate damage over the course of the counter-offensive. Battleship proceeded to later on patrol the backwater system of the Colorado, but not for long as the Shenandoah was called to reinforce the Battleship Rio Grande and her battlegroup as the [[Battleship Carcassonne]] proceeded to flee the opposition as her supply lines were cut thanks to [[Ageira Technologies]] taking back control of Magellan Jump gate back to Liberty forces. Fearing that the [[Gallic Royal Enclave]] warship would do damage to the civilian infrastructure in border worlds, [[Liberty Navy]] was ordered to hunt down the vessel, however, the vessel surrender to the [[Battleship Alma]] and [[Battleship Concord]] following their return from [[New London]] system.
  
At the end of the 826 [[A.S]], the vessel went onto the Magellan system as the analytics of the system shown that the system could become an second [[Texas]] system if no-one intervened and thus, Shenandoah with it's fresh upgrades was sent to the Independent World. It wasn't long before Shenandoah picked up a distress call from the Fifth Fleet [[Gunboat]] LNS Loyalist which was disabled by the [[Hellfire Legion]] attack. The squadron which was given to the Shenandoah, the 919th "Freedom fighters" were sent to recover the vessel with the Shenandoah as a spearhead of the rescue operation. After the second wave of the [[Hellfire Legion]] attack was fed off, the Loyalist gave out confidential data on where the [[Battlecruiser]] Louisiania is and thus the Battleship went on to save the [[Battlecruiser]] from the [[Hellfire Legion]] forces. The ship was in the Barrier Nebula, the vessel was under attack by an enemy [[Battlecruiser]] and few fighters and bombers when Shenandoah arrived, the vessel neutralized them and proceeded to escort the [[Battlecruiser]] Louisiania out of the Nebula. When whole small Battlegroup came out of the Nebula, the [[Liberty Navy]] High Command removed the Loyalist, Louisiania and Shenandoah from the Magellan as the detachment from the [[Battleship Alma]] was to take over by the executive officer of the Battlegroup, Rear Admiral Helena Montrose of the Battleship Columbia.
 
  
With the Shenandoah surviving such bad place and her experience as a elite Battleship growing, [[Liberty Navy]] decided to retrofit Shenandoah into the newest Mitchell-class [[Liberty Dreadnought]] to serve more efficiently in the Navy. With the this decision, the vessel is currently to this day a rival to the [[Battleship Delaware]] and [[Battleship Arkansas]] which were the first Mitchell-class vessels ever to be launched into Navy service. After the retrofit of the Shenandoah, she went on to support anti-terrorist operations within the New York system before being sent to the Hudson system to secure interests for the [[Liberty]] as the [[Rheinland]] was changing from the Federal Republic to the Imperial - which created a turmoil and in the end civil war. With the relations cold to this day, Shenandoah secured the refugee routes and protected the [[Cold Bay Depot]] from any possible [[Unioner]] or [[Rheinland]] attacks which were unlikely to happen. Shenandoah was later sent back to [[Planet Houston]] in [[Texas]] to resupply and to reinforce the [[Battleship Arkansas]] in the system.
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With the [[Gallic]] threat over in the [[Liberty]], Shenandoah taken up many objectives which led her to be upgraded to state-of-the-art Mitchell class [[Liberty Dreadnought]] with the Triple Hull design, most notable operation was the Magellan incident which saved both the LNS Loyalist, 5th fleet gunboat and the LNS Louisiana, secondary fleet battlecruiser - the vessel went on as well to take back the [[Bering]] system with [[Battleship Concord]] and her cohort, successfully removing the pirate threat from system, but for the cost of losing Captain Alice Heyes into coma. With that, the ship was allowed to be transferred to the first fleet which made a major part of the crew re-assign to different ships, shortly after, the crew was filled with many greenhorns of various nationalities, including Gallic, from the [[West Point Academy]] and currently Captain Marcus Robinson of the first fleet now leading the ship.
  
With the [[Battleship Concord]] moving onto the [[Bering]] system to remove the [[Liberty Separatist]] threat and the criminal one, the Shenandoah was ordered to join up with the Concord to support it in the assault and when it begun - the Shenandoah's commanding officer, Captain Alice Heyes wasn't present and thus the Executive Officer was given a chance to finally show his skills of commanding an Battleship, however, the commanding officer of Shenandoah was away on other vessel which was taking part of the assault and sadly, an Hellfire Battlecruiser came out of cloak and struck the vessel, ramming it, killing whole crew - including Captain Alice Heyes. With this unfortunate turn of the events, the vessel was left without an XO - which has gone insane after death of the Captain - and the commanding officer. After the vessel returned to Planet Houston after the Bering operation, it was decided that the ship will be transferred to the First Fleet and the commanding officer position was given to the capable Captain Marcus Robinson - known for his skills in capital ship warfare.
 
  
With the California system being struck with an allied attack of the Liberty Separatists and Hellfire Legion under one banner of the so called [[Liberty Insurgency]], the Shenandoah was relocated to the Planet California Minor to defend the Planet from the terrorist attacks of the [[Liberty Insurgency]], identified now as a terrorist organization within [[Liberty]] core worlds. Shenandoah currently stands as the elite Battleship of the [[Liberty Navy]], and her future seems to be very much in fame as she engages with patrols across the Core worlds and [[California]] system mainly with her known escort of four gunboats and several fighter pilots from the 919th "Freedom Fighters" squadron.
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It is unknown how long Shenandoah will stay in service, however, her reputation as an elite guardian of the [[Liberty]] has been noted by many, and it continues to serve the ship and the people who want to live free in freedom and peace in the Sirius sector, and will remain a reminder that there's something monstrous waiting to however undermines the people's will and power to choose.

Latest revision as of 22:11, 14 March 2021


LNS-Shenandoah
Shenandoah.png
Ship Class Battleship
Built by Liberty Navy
Captain Marcus Robinson
Manufacturer Norfolk Shipyard
Origin Flag-liberty.png Liberty
Launched 826 A.S.
Current mission Defending Liberty
Status Operational
Zone of Operation Liberty, Independent Worlds sectors
Technical information
Guns/Turrets 0 / 16
Cruise Disruptor

N/A

Countermeasures

Hvy. Countermeasure Dropper

Hull strength 7 200 000 (x4.0)
Shield strength 500 000
Cargo space 1,600 units
Nanobots/Batteries 1600/1600
Max. impulse speed 90 m/s
Max. thrust speed 350 m/s
Power output 8,000,000 u
Power recharge 260,000 u/s (100%)
This is a player owned ship.



Built in 826 A.S by the Norfolk Shipyard, the Shenandoah, a Liberty Dreadnought of the Overlord class was intended to serve on the Gallic front lines, mainly in the California system to release the pressure which Battleship Alma was receiving. The hull of the Shenandoah was of that conventional Liberty Dreadnought - however it received a significant compliment of crew, with an experienced Captain, Alice Heyes, who was a veteran of Rheinland-Liberty war and went on to serve up until the end of that war. Upon completion of the construction, the vessel was sent to oversee the terraforming operations on Planet California Minor where it held off the presence of the known Gallic Royal Navy, it was only upon announcement of Operation Vanguard that Shenandoah started to shine as a special warship as she took helm of the patrol base in the system, holding off until the Battleship Betheny was destroyed and the experienced Battleship Yukon returned to California system - unfortunately, both capital ships were destroyed and Shenandoah was recalled back to Norfolk Shipyard for refits and repairs - it was a surprise for Captain, as the fate of Los Angeles citizens were on her hands. However, any more attacks weren't focus on Los Angeles, more against the Planet California Minor garrison forces. Upon Shenandoah's arrival in dry dock, it received significant upgrades to systems and the weaponry placement, adding up three additional secondary turrets.


With Shenandoah's repairs and refits finished at the end of the month, Shenandoah was sent directly to the Gallic front line heart: the New London system, with the Independent worlds cleansed from Gallic Royal Navy's forces, allied supply ships had been given major breathing room, together with the other allied forces. Shenandoah arrived days later, and it wasn't long before the expected rapid push by Gallia happened, since the Operation Ice Lance proceeded to disrupt the enemy supply line in the Tau-31 system. With that, it forced a hand for the Gallic Military, proceeding to make a terrible mistake which costed them many of the veteran fleets - but not without Battleship Dax proceeding to siege the Planet New London's surface before retreating, making significant damage to several major cities and those minor ones. With the victory against Gallic invaders, allies went on the offensive for the Leeds system to save it from the terrible fate of being destroyed and polluted, Gallia, having a concern that allies would breach the Leeds via the connection they established, had deployed with conjunction of Gallic Royal Intelligence, the Montagne prototype weapon platforms which proceeded destroy Battleship Ottawa - one of the more important battlegroup leaders in New London - upon entering Leeds system thanks to the defectors handing them over the jump gate codes to allied forces.


Shenandoah was second to enter the Leeds system, and upon witnessing the Ottawa being destroyed, Shenandoah Captain immediately ordered the evasive maneuvers which saved the vessel from destruction from massively modified corona beams - the crew was lucky enough that the weapon platforms were damaged from firing a second time and could not fire up again and thus Shenandoah proceeded to exchange fire with the enemy until allied forces arrive to clean up and support the vessel, however it was too late for the Leeds system as it was laid in ruin thanks to the Gallic Royal Navy, which weeks later called themselves the Gallic Royal Enclave. Upon Norfolk's arrival at the Leeds orbit, Shenandoah was sent back to the Liberty space for further upgrading as the Admiralty was impressed with the vessel's adaptability - she was escorted by the Liberty Security Force members to Liberty space up until the New York system where it set course for the Norfolk Shipyard. Upon docking, the vessel received a compliment of special enhancement upgrades which went on to be used later on strategically, and mostly repairs as the vessel received moderate damage over the course of the counter-offensive. Battleship proceeded to later on patrol the backwater system of the Colorado, but not for long as the Shenandoah was called to reinforce the Battleship Rio Grande and her battlegroup as the Battleship Carcassonne proceeded to flee the opposition as her supply lines were cut thanks to Ageira Technologies taking back control of Magellan Jump gate back to Liberty forces. Fearing that the Gallic Royal Enclave warship would do damage to the civilian infrastructure in border worlds, Liberty Navy was ordered to hunt down the vessel, however, the vessel surrender to the Battleship Alma and Battleship Concord following their return from New London system.


With the Gallic threat over in the Liberty, Shenandoah taken up many objectives which led her to be upgraded to state-of-the-art Mitchell class Liberty Dreadnought with the Triple Hull design, most notable operation was the Magellan incident which saved both the LNS Loyalist, 5th fleet gunboat and the LNS Louisiana, secondary fleet battlecruiser - the vessel went on as well to take back the Bering system with Battleship Concord and her cohort, successfully removing the pirate threat from system, but for the cost of losing Captain Alice Heyes into coma. With that, the ship was allowed to be transferred to the first fleet which made a major part of the crew re-assign to different ships, shortly after, the crew was filled with many greenhorns of various nationalities, including Gallic, from the West Point Academy and currently Captain Marcus Robinson of the first fleet now leading the ship.


It is unknown how long Shenandoah will stay in service, however, her reputation as an elite guardian of the Liberty has been noted by many, and it continues to serve the ship and the people who want to live free in freedom and peace in the Sirius sector, and will remain a reminder that there's something monstrous waiting to however undermines the people's will and power to choose.