UNSC Canterbury

The Canterbury, known colloquially as the "Cant" was a Halcyon-class light cruiser that saw service during the Great War under the command of Captain James Holden.

History
Originally commissioned in 2508, the Canterbury 's initial career with the UNSC Navy was, while longer than most others of her class, fairly short in comparison to many of the later Marathon-class heavy cruisers. The Canterbury saw action during Operation: TREBUCHET under the command of then-Commander Jonathon Archer. Like many of her class she was eventually decommissioned at some point prior to 2525.

Holden's captaincy Edit
On April 2, 2531, The Canterbury was refit and reactivated, with former Insurrectionist James Holden being given command of the ship upon his promotion to the rank of Captain. Holden and his crew - who, like their captain, were former rebels - would be tasked with hunting down their former URF compatriots. The Canterbury was eventually destroyed in a surprise attack while responding to a distress call sent by the civilian freighter Scopuli. The surviving crew abandoned ship in the shuttlecraft Knight and were retrieved by the Marathon-class heavy cruiser Donnager.

Original
At the time of her commissioning the Canterbury was built to standard spec for a Halcyon-class cruiser, being equipped with three Hanley-Messer Mark II fusion reactors and two primary S-250 Epstein drives. The ship's armament consisted of a single Mark III (Gen-1) Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, 6 Archer missile pods, 4 Shiva nuclear missiles and 60 twin-linked 50mm autocannons.

2530 refit
Prior to being reactivated following the outbreak of the Great War, the Canterbury, like many of her sister ships, underwent an extensive refit, replacing her original power plant and engines with a pair of Mark IV reactors and R7 Epstein drives that favorably increased the ship's thrust-to-mass ratio by a significant margin. The ship's weapons were also overhauled, now mounting a Mark III (Gen-2) MAC, 24 Archer pods and 100 50mm guns with improved target tracking systems.

Command

 * Captain James Holden - Commanding Officer (April 2531 - ?)
 * Rocinante - Shipboard AI (2531 - ?)
 * Twitch - Backup/gunnery control AI

Officers

 * Lieutenant-Commander Naomi Nagata - Executive Officer
 * Lieutenant Alex Kamal - Helmsman
 * Lieutenant Amos Burton - Chief Engineer

NCOs

 * Master Gunnery Sergeant Bobbie Draper - Marine contingent commander