Battlestar Olympia
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Battlestar Olympia specifications:
Nova Class Battlestar
Crew Compliment:
Length: 8,123 ft
Width: 3,020 ft
Height: 1,153 ft
20 squadrons of Viper Mark VII's
Weapons:
8 Primary KEW Turrets
92 Secondary KEW Turrets
Point-Defense Turrets
Ship-to-Ship & Ship-to-Ground Missiles (Nuclear & Conventional)
Crew of the Battlestar Olympia BS-102:
CO: Admiral Dean Baran
XO: Colonel Ford Fearman
Tactical Officer: Captain Raymond "Ray" Leone
Communications Officer: Ensign Jack Norman
CAG: Captain Deanna Seena "Heartbreaker"
Deck chief: Petty Officer Agathon
It is a particularly busy day aboard the newly minted Battlestar Olympia, The newest ship in the fleet. In fact, she wasn't even in the fleet yet technically as she had yet to be commissioned. The second of her kind, she was one of only 4 Nova class Battlestar's in existence her sister ship, the Atlantia, currently serves as Admiral Nagala's Flagship. Her two other sisters the Orion and the Poseidon, were still under construction. He also heard a rumor that a fifth was on the board and was to be named Galactica.
She was designed to be the next step in Battlestar design and technology she was equipped with a Jump Point Detection System. The JPDS is a new innovation aboard Nova class Battlestars. It detects the energy build-up that occurs before a ship FTL jumps in and plots its position. Today the Olympia was due to have Its Vipers and Raptors delivered as well as being loaded with fuel and ammunition in preparation for her shakedown.
Captain Ray Leone was having a hell of a day. In the sleek CIC of the Olympia, he was working furiously on the targeting controls. "Frak me" he muttered, "Damn engineers", the men who hammered her together obviously knew nothing about combat or combat related systems, because the targeting controls were a complete mess. He sighed. The Olympia was five days away from her first shakedown cruise and the Admiral had ordered the ship to be ready for her trials.
Admiral Dean Baran was not a particularly liked man, he was a selfish, fat, arrogant jackass, who didn't give a fig about his crew or his ship. He got off on ruining people's careers and lives. He only became an admiral because he has lofty connections. But how he got the Olympia, Ray will never know.
"Sir?" Ensign Norman spoke up, "the Admiral wants to speak to you". "Oh joy" Leone mutters, he then picks up the phone and speaks into it. "Yes sir? The Admiral speaks with a condescending voice "what is the status of the ships tactical systems? "I want to begin to ready the ship for its maiden voyage, I do hope you are doing your job and not frakking around, Captain".
Said Captain mutes the phone and mutters, "Gods give me the strength". "No sir, the targeting systems need to be recalibrated before we begin testing sir". The Admiral sighs. "Maybe if you did you job well the first time we wouldn't have this little issue". Ray grinds his teeth "and just what the hell is that supposed to mean? SIR." The admiral laughs snobbishly.
"You are bordering on insubordination. And what it means, "Captain" is that if you can't accomplish my orders in a timely matter, then you are an incompetent fool and I will not have you on my ship." "Is that understood captain?" Ray squeezes the phone so hard, that Norman is afraid he might snap it in half. "Understood sir. "One last thing, Captain".
"Yes sir"? "Me and the XO are going to attend a meeting with the commander of the shipyard, I need you to prep a shuttle." "it will be done sir". He hangs up the phone. "For the love of the gods" he mutters and hangs his head from stress.
"Mr. Norman, I need a shuttle prepped take the Admiral and the XO to the station." The young man quickly responds with a "Yes sir" and gets to it.
"I heard they are finally retiring the Galactica today."