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UNSC Survival Class

Survival-class "An energy projector makes up for a multitude of sins -like the fact the crew quarters are barely big enough to lay down in."

- Capitan Allison, UNSC Survival

Just after the battle of earth, earth's fleet consisted of the frigates Aegis Fate and Adriatic and a handful of badly damaged larger ships. Earth needed ships, and fast. The Shadow of Intent was able to repair a destroyer before it left for home. This raised earth's total of fully operable ships to three. But three ships are not enough to defend a planet. One of the few surviving orbital industries were orbital tether foundries one and three and orbital tether assembly frame seven.

An admiral proposed using the materials produced by these to build ships. The results were the Survival-Class, the Remembrance-Class and the Vitality-Class. The Burglar-Class was  also related to this series.

Construction
Many components for these ships came from wrecked vessels. “Parting out” wreaked vessels sped up the construction of these new ships. orbital tether assembly frame seven possessed seven assembly trenches, which were converted to docking slips. UNSC Remembrance launched two months after the second battle of earth, followed shortly by five other ships of it's class. However the scavenging of CCS class components for the energy projector of the Survival class did not go quickly and it was five months before the projector was ready. The reactor setup had to be adapted, requiring another month, but six months after the battle of earth the UNSC Survival was ready to launch.

Service
the UNSC Survival Showed that it had enough strengths to make up for it's many weaknesses when a brute controlled CCS class cruiser attacked the under-construction UNSC orbital ship assembly dockyard. It eliminated the cruiser before it could do much harm, though the damage inflicted would delay the facility another four months.

quotes
"An energy projector makes up for a multitude of sins....like the fact the crew quarters are barely big enough to lay down in, and the mess hall turns out food in two varieties - burnt or cold"

- Capitan Allison, UNSC Survival

"It's real nice to have a ship like that beside you. It's a great morale boost to see it decloak like some sort of Romulan Warbird, blow a Brute frigate apart, and re-cloak"

- Capitan Drake, UNSC Remembrance

"especially when your in a ship that a brute cruiser wouldn't normally consider a threat"

- Commander Alkar, UNSC Remembrance (replying to Capitan Drake )