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 UNSC CCHC-1049 Kindred Defiance [Defiance Class Heavy Cruiser] 

OVERVIEW

The UNSC Kindred Defiance CCHC-1049 was a state of the art warship (officially designated as a Defiance class experimental heavy cruiser) created by ONI section three during the Human covenant war. Little is known about its conception or the years of its construction, but it is known that it was launched on March 3rd 2537. It was the only one of its class ever built. Its sole purpose: war.

At 1.95 kilometers long, UNSC Kindred Defiance was Humanities first attempt reverse-engineering Forerunner technology and integrating it into UNSC naval vessels. The Defiance also made use of covenant technologies integrated into it. Its super-structure was largely based off contemporary Cruiser templates of the time, but with a few minor, and major modifications. It, however, did make use of the classic hexagonal sections of most cruisers, and some of the honeycomb cross-bracing of the Halcyon class light cruisers. The base for its structure, due to ever increasing shortages of materials, was actually made from two already existing ships. Parts of the super-structure from both the decommissioned, partially deconstructed UNSC Halcyon (a halcyon light cruiser) and the salvaged, tattered remains of the marathon class heavy cruiser, UNSC Endurance.

The data collected from its construction and service would eventually be used as a basis for the UNSC Infinity, Eternity and many other post war ships.

COMMANDING OFFICERS

Captain Mirei Itsaki (Commanding Officer of the Kindred Defiance)

Lieutenant Commander MARK-404 (SPARTAN 404) (Leader of SPARTAN GHOST company and second in command of armed forces aboard the Kindred Defiance)

Commander Joshua Frank Reeves (Second in command of Kindred spirit, 1st in command of armed forces stationed on board Kindred Defiance)

SERVICE

The Kindred Defiance was used primarily as a hit and run, deep strike unit through most of its service. Using its stealth systems and slipspace drive, it would drive deep into enemy lines, deploying and recovering head hunters, single-handedly disrupting supply lines, assassinating and destroying high value targets, and mapping out covenant space and monitoring movements in preperation for operation: RED FLAG. Much of the information gathered gave the UNSC complete star charts of covenant space and popular routes after the war.

It also participated in conflicts with the covenant in defense of multiple colony worlds including briefly at Harvest, Arcadia, Jubilance, Troy IV, New Titan, Tribute, Reach and several other colonies. However in contradiction to its more stealthy role, the Kindred Defiance was non-the-less a true warship, able to take on multiple covenant ships alone, and decimating ships above its own tonnage.

It reportedly had one encounter with High Charity and its escort fleet, taking, as the crew would call it, "pot shots" at the mega-structure and its fleet and fleeing via random slipspace jump before the covenant could engage.

Many actions like this convinced the covenant to keep crucial warships to defend the space instead of devoting them to the offensive against humanity. When fighting with UNSC forces, the Kindred always had a positive IFF tag, but an unidentifiable ID, and sometime displaying the ID of an entirely different ship altogether. In time, both UNSC and Covenant forces alike came to call the Kindred Defiance, a ghost ship.

It was recalled to Reach giving information necesary for the SPARTAN-IIs new operation, and in order to resupply before heading off on its own on that same mission; operation RED FLAG. However, just as it was casting off the Invasion of Reach began, and RED FLAG was halted as the Kindred and its compliment took priority in defending Reach. Providing both its ground forces, and its Spartans, the Kindred Defiance and her men fought valiantly, but in the end, it was vain and she was forced to retreat leaving several spartans stranded on reach. Left heavily damaged and venting atmosphere the ship fled covenant forces,at Reach however her slip space drive wasn't working properly and could not escape via FTL. The last time the Kindred was seen she was spotted by the Pillar of Autumn, fleeing into the Epsilon Eridani asteroid belt, pursued by 2 heavy corvettes, a destroyer, and three CCS battle cruisers.

Sometime during the battle the Kindred managed to rescue the adrift-in-space Spartan II, James-005 (after his jet pack was hit and he went flying off into space) and provided aid to Tribute, however all contact with the Tribute detachment was lost.

CURRENT STATUS AND FATE: MIA, PRESUMED DESTROYED

The Kindred Defiance is currently listed as MIA (Missing In Action) Presumed Destroyed: Lost with all hands as of 2552, after it participated in the Fall of Reach, Tribute (to a lesser degree), and the rest of the Episilon Eridani System.

When the first pioneers came back to Reach, they detected very weak, unstable, and nigh untraceable COM pings on the UNSC emergency distress frequency from the asteroid field in Episilon Eridani, meaning the ship, heavily damaged, may have successfully fled into the asteroid field to hide after being incapable of jumping into slipspace for some reason. Sadly the distress transmission is always lost as quickly as it is picked up. As of 2562 neither the ship, or its wreckage have been located. Some speculate this may just be a damaged distress beacon floating around, with the ship itself, long destroyed.

ARMAMENTS AND SPECS

The UNSC Kindred Defiance had a wide range of varying weapons of equally varying origins. The main armament was an early iteration of the super efficient burst magnetic accelerator cannon that would later be installed on the UNSC Pillar Of Autumn. It also had a reverse engineered plasma glassing beam, however, when compared to covenants, it was very low yield. Early on, the power drain caused the glassing beam or MAC unusable when using one or the other due to power drain. This problem was worked out in 2539.

In addition to these the Kindred also made use of an extensive, and what some would call, excessive amount of weapon systems. Although classified as a heavy cruiser, its armaments put it on par with many of the UNSCs' Dreadnoughts and Battleships.

Its basic shape is very reminiscent of both the Marathon class and Halcyon class cruisers with a long protrusions running down each side of the ship, some what akin to the mid-section of a covenant ship.

Images of this craft are sparse as most of its records is practically drowned in black ink.

Armaments include: Forty 50mm point defense guns SPECIFICATIONS STEALTH SPECIFICATIONS COMPLIMENT (TROOPS & ARMOUR)
 * One Mark I, Light Coil 56A1D2/MAC (The MAC could fire in either a two shot burst per charge, or higher powered single shots albeit at a much faster rate. Could use modified SHREDDER MAC rounds or standard cruiser MAC munitions.)
 * One Mark II, Light Coil - 56A2D4/MAC (replacing the Mark I, Light Coil 56A1D2/MAC in early 2552)
 * One Mark I, Directed Energy 233D1/PBBM (Plasma Bombardment Beam Cannon) Although successfully reverse engineered, it initially could not be used at the same time as the MAC gun due to power consumption issues. This problem was fixed in 2539. In addition to this, the PBBM had a much lower yield than its covenant counterparts.)
 * Twenty 70mm point defense cannons
 * Six SPARTAN laser directed energy beam cannons
 * Four Directed Energy 245F2/HLC (Hard Light Cannons) Reverse engineered from forerunner weaponry. When compared to other forerunner weapons, these imitations were very low yield
 * Four 320 mm Light ship to ship guns
 * Six Plasma Torpedo Batteries Reverse engineered from covenant tech
 * Eight Mini-MACs
 * Two MARK 2488 Onager Mass Drivers ( Later increased to five MARK 2488C Onager mass drivers in 2546)
 * One hundred and thirty eight (Later increased to one hundred fifty eight in 2541) Archer missile pods
 * Four Nuclear Missile Launch Tubes carrying FENRIS tactical nukes
 * One launch bay for an experimental NOVA bomb
 * Thirty M-45 Missile turrets
 * Fifteen 40mm flak cannons
 * Four recon drone deployment bays (each housing 6 probes)
 * Salvaged forerunner engine and slipspace drive supplemented with covenant technology coupled with a early iteration of the reactor used by the Pillar of Autumn. Unlike the the reactor belonging to the latter, its extra "power boost" only increased its operability by 168% for half the time.
 * Titanium-A armor and battle plate (250mm at thickest, 165mm at thinnest, 200 mm average) supplemented by covenant nano-laminate in certain areas (especially around the MAC gun and its crucial systems)
 * Early energy shields created by a ship wide grid of shield generators
 * 8 ventral main hangers (4 on each side, two of which are smaller than the others)
 * 50 SOEIV (Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle) deployment tubes for deployment of ODST units
 * 60 scattered ventral launch bays for fighters
 * 1 topside launch bay for fighters
 * All hangars make use of energy fields instead of traditional air-lock style launch bay doors, significantly decreasing the size of each bay
 * Salvaged gravity lift and anchors stripped from covenant wreckage and directly integrated into the warship
 * A small foundry and MJOLNIR/SPI armor support deck for use with dedicated SPARTAN GHOST company.
 * An auxiliary hangar located on the bottom of the ship
 * Multiple airlocks and BUMBLEBEE escape pods
 * Large internal areas used as vehicle bays
 * Two ship board AI (SN-09098876C SIREN and BP-09394557 BISHOP)
 * HEVVY thrust modules meant for atmospheric use and lift
 * Two main propulsion thrusters, 2 secondary thrusters, 4 auxiliary thrusters, and a multitude of emergency thrusters commonly used to steer the ship with quick turns and "side steps"
 * 20 mining and repair drones
 * Vehicle repair center
 * Advance stealth packages and arrays
 * Emergency Solar Panels
 * Limited Photo-reactive coating and plates (would be used but as a form of passive camouflage)
 * Cloaking Field (taken from covenant craft and infantry, the cloaking field could be produced by the shield generators switching to produce a light reactive energy field instead of a kinetic barrier. However, using the field also means the generators stop producing a defensive shield. The cloaking "shield" is about 7 percent the strength of the full defensive shield)
 * Radar, COM, and sensor disruption packages
 * Heat sinks and dispersion apparatus in the thrusters
 * Advance sensor and COMMs arrays

SPARTAN GHOST company [66 members] (Spartan II (Class II), and SPARTAN III super soldiers) 104 spartans have at some point been members of GHOST company (and have gone MIA or KIA). However, GHOST maintains 66 members to be at full power. Their last major engagements were at Reach and Tribute leaving them whittled down to 17 (9 active, 5 severely wounded, 3 clinically dead in cryo-stasis: awaiting revival).

Due to the nature of its missions, the Kindred had a sizable compliment. All listed specifications are listed as of its final refit and modification in 2552.
 * Marines: Generally ranged from 800 to 1000
 * ODST: Generally around 400
 * 210 SOEIVs
 * 30 to 40 M-808 Scorpion MBTs
 * 60 to 100 M-12 Warthog LRV and FAVs (varying turrets)
 * 6 UH-144 Falcon Dropships
 * 30-36 D77-TC Pelican Dropships
 * 30 GA-TL1 Longsword Interceptors
 * 12 YSS-1000 Sabre Interceptors
 * 74 life boats
 * 1 M-313 Elephant
 * 1 D-81 LRT Condor
 * Multiple M-274 Mongooses and prototype Kestrels
 * 1 modified type-52 Phantom Dropship
 * 2 M-145D Rhinos
 * 10 AV-14 Hornets
 * 8 experimental SS-D401 Dauntless Interceptors
 * 1 AC-220 Condor Gunship
 * 4 prototype AV-49 Wasps
 * 14 Cyclops
 * 10 Prototype HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark VII Armor Defense Systems (MARK-7 MANTIS)