QMFV Cyniad
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Length: |
74m |
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24m |
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56m |
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Max acceleration: |
50 kilometers per second |
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15cm of Arictium light armor |
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50 (under VDF) |
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Commissioned: |
22 December 1896 CE (by Vol Defense Fleet) |
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Decommissioned: |
15 February 1941 CE (by Vol Defense Fleet) |
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Support and logistics vessel during wartime, transport and supply vessel during peacetime (under VDF) |
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Vol Supply and Transportation Forces (1896 CE - 1941 CE) |
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Captain Feda'Gazu (2172 CE - 2184 CE) |
QMFV Cyniad (formerly the PDV Fortune Aplenty) was a Stargazer-class heavy transport shuttle in the quarian Migrant Fleet and formerly of the Vol Defense Fleet. Commissioned in 1896 CE, the Fortune Aplenty was one of a series of heavy transport shuttles designed by the Dax Combine for use by the volus navy as a ferry and transport vehicle for use in supply running, and was therefore not outfitted for combat and was meant for a purely logistical role. While a cumbersome aircraft, the Fortune Aplenty saw nearly 35 years of service within the Vol Defense Fleet, performing nearly 670 runs throughout its lifetime, continuing to remaining in service until 1941 CE, when the Fortune Aplenty was finally decommissioned and put up for auction: due to the shuttle's poor condition, the Migrant Fleet won the bid in a landslide, as they were willing to take the shuttle based on its reliability and service record, and subsequently recommissioned it as a Migrant Fleet scout ship, and renamed the Cyniad. Originally attached to the liveship Shellen, the Cyniad possessed its own crew and even had a captain, effectively serving as its own independent ship like any other vessel in the Flotilla, but with the Shellen serving as its mothership, a place to dock when it was not in active use, but a shuttle that could operate alone and separate from the Fleet for months if need be. In 1973 CE, after 32 years of service attached to the Shellen, the Cyniad was transferred to the newly acquired cruiser, Idenna, to serve as one of two scout ships attached to the vessel, the other being the Bavea: this decision was made due to the Idenna being specialized as an supply transport, and with it able to depart the Fleet to perform extra-fleet activities that a liveship couldn't, the Cyniad was effectively better off in this role, allowing the Idenna to extend its reach beyond even its own parameters. The Cyniad remained a functionally separate ship, although its crew were often considered as part of the larger ship by the Idenna's captain, Ysin'Mal. Despite its cumbersome size, this actually aided the ship in its mission, allowing it more space to store cargo for longer missions, and with some upgrades, the Cyniad was effectively able to travel over larger distances than most normal shuttles couldn't. The Cyniad was even outfitted to store and deploy an all-terrain rover for planetary exploration and transportation, although it was unarmed.
In 2184 CE, shortly before several humans looking for refuge arrived on the Idenna, the Cyniad, out alone on a survey mission as part of the New Home program, was contacted by exile and traitor Golo'Mekk who claimed to want to sell useful technology to the Fleet in the hopes of gaining favor with them. The captain of the Cyniad, Feda'Gazu, wished to hear out Golo despite protests, believing in redemption and that Golo may mean well and decided to meet Golo at his assigned meeting point for the trade on the planet Shelba. Once the Cyniad landed, Feda'Gazu took three of her men and went out to meet Golo at his truck, failing to realize it was an ambush set by the exile, who was helping Cerberus, and a bomb in his truck detonated, killing Feda and her men, who were then stripped of their enviro-suits by the Cerberus commandos, using them as disguises to get close enough to the Cyniad without being detected before assaulting the shuttle itself. The Cyniad was quickly overwhelmed and the crew killed, with only pilot Hilo'Jaa left alive to be interrogated in order to extract a countersign out of him that Golo could use to help Cerberus bypass the Fleet's defenses and land on the Idenna. Following Hilo's death and the successful acquisition of the codes, the Cyniad is taken by its Cerberus hijackers and outfitted with a special short-range laser to scramble the Idenna's communications so they couldn't send out a distress call. With Golo's help and Hilo's extracted countersign, the Cyniad is used as a trojan horse to land on the Idenna, and soon afterwards the Cerberus commando platoon onboard sallies out and slaughters their way through the ship to get Gillian Grayson. The assault ultimately fails, the commando team trying to pull back to the shuttle to escape, only to find the shuttle secured by marine reinforcements and the remaining commandos were boxed in and killed. In case the plan failed, Cerberus had jury-rigged the shuttle with explosives intended to destroy the shuttle and cripple the cruiser, but through the quick actions of Hendel Mitra and Ysin'Mal, they are able to disable the explosives and secure the Cyniad. Following the incident, the shuttle was cleared of any further tampering and returned to service, albeit with a new crew, with members pulled from across the Fleet. Within months of the incident, the Cyniad was back to normal operation, despite the stain of its previous use as a vehicle of terrorism against the quarian people.
The Cyniad would suffer the next stain to its reputation in 2185 CE, a year after the Idenna was approved to depart the Fleet on a four-year expedition to find a new homeworld for the quarian people to settle. The shuttle was dispatched on numerous sorties and survey missions to this extent, used as the eyes and ears of the Idenna as it moved through uncharted territory. One such mission in late 2185 CE brought the Cyniad to Gei Hinnom, but as the shuttle was preparing to land, a sudden and unexpected engine malfunction forced it to make an emergency crash-landing on the planet's surface, stranding the crew and with the captain and a few others killed in the impact. Setting up a distress beacon, the crew set up and camp to await rescue, but were unaware of a large infestation of wild varren in the area, with a specific pack soon choosing the crew as prey and stalking them over many days and nights. One by one the crew was picked off, dragged off to a nest to be eaten by the varren, with the only survivor at the end being the shuttle's XO, Forzan'Cee, who had made makeshift weapons from their equipment and held off the varren two more days, killing several varren but slowly growing weak and weary from a lack of food or water. Before Forzan could succumb to this, the Idenna arrived in orbit and dispatched a rescue team on the Bavea who subsequently landed, fought off the remaining varren and casevac'd Forzan to the Idenna for treatment, and she would make a full recovery, albeit traumatized from being the sole survivor of her crew. The Idenna didn't leave until the remains of their fallen were recovered, bones and half-eaten corpses included, and the Cyniad was later towed by the Bavea back to the ship for repairs. Unable to access additional manpower from the Fleet to man the Cyniad again, it would intermittently be crewed by the Bavea when the latter shuttle wasn't in use. When the Idenna was recalled to the Fleet in 2186 CE, the Cyniad was given a full crew once again and would be used as a ferry for supplies and wounded during the Second Morning War, transporting wounded from the frontlines to hospital ships in the rear for treatment. Following the Reaper War, the Cyniad was finally decommissioned, with the Bavea remaining as the Idenna's sole scout ship going forward. The Cyniad itself was scrapped in 2189 CE following its decommissioning in 2187 CE.