Victory

Vessel Info

The Corellian Engineering Corporation's CR90 is an extremely successful design, meant for fast and efficient transport and light warship duties. Due to the highly modifiable nature of most CEC designs, there exist many modified versions of this ship out in the galaxy. This ship is no exception.

History

The Victory has an extremely long history, and indeed it was one of the first of the CR90’s to leave the Corellian shipyards. Originally assigned to the Elrood Sector Fleet, she spent quite a bit of time as the personal ship assigned to Moff Forha S’mdal under the command of Captain Jon Baveg. During this time, it handily managed to fight off quite a few pirate attacks, proving the concept of the CR90 class. It also managed to participate during the hunt for the Rebels, notably during the time right before the battles of Yavin and the Imperial victory on Hoth. During the battle of Endor it was being overhauled, so it was not able to participate during that battle, and during that time she received a new Captain, a certain Maskee Hevill. The ship then was part of the fighting withdrawal during the Rebel offensive, and finally was then assigned to the Emperor's Hammer Strike Fleet during its’ creation. It was then assigned by the EH Quartermaster’s Office to the nascent Intelligence Division, which then took it upon itself to modify the ship. The internal cargo space and crew quarters were seriously reduced to add in additional turbolaser and laser batteries to the ship. To make up for the crew shortfall, the Intelligence Division also heavily automated the ship, bringing down the crew compliment down from 104 to 50. Right after the re-commissioning of the ship, it was then assigned to help out with the brand new House Scholae Palatinae that was being formed up within the Dark Brotherhood. Since many of the initial members were Intelligence Division members, this proved to be a good thing. After the initial assignment to the House (And later on when it expanded to Clan-level), it was able to participate in more battles that any other ship in the Clan fleet, always managing to avoid any serious damage.

Its' current commander is quite the change from the ship's previous commander, Captain Sheila Rescando. She is Captain Kayna Noscondra, Captain Rescando's previous Executive Officer. A former TIE Interceptor pilot, she worked her way up the line of command fairly quickly, proving herself at each step along the way. The last Great Jedi War gave her the opportunity to prove her worth at the command of the Victory, since Captain Rescando was temporarily assigned to other duties. She is a very methodical and careful commander, never taking a course of action without thinking the consequences through first.

Deployment

The Victory is currently transitioning into a more active role in escort and transport operations. Previously, due to the small nature of Clan Scholae Palatinae's capital ship fleet, it was mainly the backup warship to the Victory-Class Star Destroyer in many Clan engagements. With the addition of larger ships to the Clan fleet, the Victory can now cover important cargo runs performed by the Clans' transport fleet. Also, due to the crew being highly experienced, it also serves as the first ship assignment to new crew members joining the Clan fleet for the first time.

Finally, the last and vital role that the Victory is tasked to perform includes special operation missions. Its' relatively small size and fast speed makes it an ideal ship for this mission. The Clan Summit has been considering the addition of sensor stealthing the ship for this purpose, but the extremely high cost of this makes this option not as yet attractive.

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