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[s]Vessel Name: [i]Baghdad[/i]

Vessel Class: Light Cruiser

Armament loadout: Main armament consists of many small-caliber semi-autoloading rail cannons mounted along either side in an old-timey broadside.  They have variable velocities and fire rapidly. She also has an array of smaller chemically propelled autocannons, flak rail-gatlings, and some antimissile lasers for point defense and fights against smaller craft. She carries small banks of rockets on either side, but her primary armament is her many railguns. 

Onboard vehicles: Four utility shuttles for repairs, scouting, personnel transport, or cargo hauling.

 In this mission, she also has three one hundred and twenty five meter frigates tagging along... [i]Taurus[/i], [i]Ursa Major[/i], and [i]Fornax[/i]. [i]Taurus[/i] and [i]Ursa Major[/i] are torpedo frigates, essentially overgrown bombers with one hundred and seventy crew each. Their main armament is an array of guided torpedo tubes, They look like the [i]Baghdad[/i] herself, but smaller and with two round engine pods and large "cheek" bulges to hold the torpedo tubes. They have other tiny point defense weapons, but they lack somewhat in that area as the extremely explosive magazines need thick armor. [i]Fornax[/i] is a subvariant of that class, with sensor bulges all over her body and with many fewer weapons but a much more advanced and capable electronic warfare suite. All three are commanded by young Commanders, not Captains. 

Crew: Roughly four hundred and ten. She has her usual compliment with a Captain leading the ship, plus the Command staff and their needed equipment.

Overview: [i]Baghdad[/i] is a one hundred and eighty-five meter long light cruiser shaped simply like a rectangle with rounded edges. Various bulges, antennas, and other protrusions dot her length, with a thicker middle section that houses her missile banks and a rounded off fore section with a pointed warp engine exhaust at her very rear end. Around her rear end are four triangular engine pods that are mounted on a spindly mess of struts, raked back somewhat. She is not the most impressive design to ever be, but she is not a small ship. There are few actual portholes on the vessel, and the only penetrations to her interior are various hatches for varying purposes. The Baghdad is painted a dark purple color with white stripes and lighting strips running all over her body, which act as both running lights and signal lights.

[i]Baghdad[/i] is part of a support cruiser class, meant to operate in groups, move swift and fast, and kill with a thousand cuts. She is quite the glass cannon, however, and can only take glancing blows or a few lucky hits before the shots go straight through. The poor girl has always had a bad reputation for mechanical failures and for technical faults, although these were fixed after she redeemed herself in an epic way. [i]Baghdad[/i] rammed a carrier and drove her round nose into its hangar bay, putting it totally out of action and winning that fight. A lot of her bridge crew and other crewmen died in the process, but she had saved her reputation and had to be rebuilt, allowing for an intensive refit which hopefully solved her technical difficulties. Of course, this has never been tested, and this cruise will be the ship's trials after a new bow has been welded on. 

Captain: Felix Nevermor
M/F: Male	
Age: 54
Rank: Rear Admiral
Bio: Felix is a brainy man with a strangely Type B personality for his rank. He is spontaneous and quick to react, but not the best planner, although he is capable of a good strategy or decent tactics. Felix rose through the ranks quickly because of his quick thinking and capability to contain any sort of crisis or catastrophe, but his career has stalled at Rear Admiral. He is just above the rank of Captain, at an age where he should be a full Admiral with a fleet under him. His years are running out, and he knows this all too well. He has no connections and appears on the outside to be lazy and uninspired... but he wants nothing more than to show the higher ups otherwise. He wants the full rank, and he is going to die to try to get it. [/s]
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REPLACED BY ARK ROYAL