SSV Anita Goyle
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1578m |
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750m |
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873m |
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20 kilometers per second |
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1200cm of Titanium-A3 Ablative Heavy Armor |
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26,109 |
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8 August 2174 CE |
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9 October 2208 CE |
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Carry and deploy fighters, bombers and interceptors/fire support |
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Captain Chelsea Youlten (2174 CE - 2192 CE) |
SSV Anita Goyle CDS-6 (Carry and Deploy/Super-6) was a Charles de Gaulle-class supercarrier in the Alliance Navy. The sixth ship of her class to be built, the Anita Goyle was assigned to the Third Fleet under Admiral Nitesh Singh not long after it was commissioned in mid 2174 CE. The Anita Goyle was the sixth of the initial sixteen Charles de Gaulle-class ships that were ordered and built for the Alliance Navy, with the ship originally planned to be named SSV Frederick the Great: the ship was renamed when the first human ambassador to the Citadel, Anita Goyle, formally retired a week before the ship was scheduled to be commissioned, concluding a sixty year long political career as an ambassador for the European Union on Earth, and then finally as humanity's ambassador. To honor the ambassador's contributions to humanity's advancement, Anita Goyle was invited to the launch of the ship, whose named was unveiled to now be Anita Goyle in her honor. Anita Goyle was invited to tour the ship during its shakedown run, which took the ship from Earth to the Citadel, demonstrating all that humanity had accomplished during her time on the Citadel. Following the ship's shakedown run and Anita Goyle's return to Earth (where she would pass way in her sleep three years later), the Anita Goyle would be formally handed over to the Third Fleet to begin operations in her role as a supercarrier. The Anita Goyle would participate in the Skyllian Blitz, taking part in both of the battles to take place over Torfan, where it joined its sister ship, the Robert Chamberlain, in blunting the batarian counteroffensive during Second Torfan that essentially won the war, as it led to the batarian capitulation not long after. Due to the Third Fleet's lack of participation in the Theshaca Raids and Eden Prime War, the Anita Goyle saw very little action for the next decade, aside from some minor involvement in Operation Gyrfalcon. The ship would take part in the Counter-piracy campaign of 2184 CE, but its involvement was once again very minor.
The Anita Goyle accompanied the Third Fleet when it was recalled to Arcturus Station to bolster the First Fleet in defending the station during the opening stages of the Reaper invasion on 2 June 2186 CE. The Anita Goyle was deployed in the Third Fleet's center, close to the station, to act a shield to absorb enemy fire thrown at it and use its enormous size to effectively block hostile access to it, with its escorts able to destroy any boarding craft. Due to the failure of Alliance intelligence however, the enemy that came through the relay were not batarians, but Reapers, and the ensuing battle began to crumble Singh's forward line. The Robert Chamberlain was destroyed when Harbinger itself tore the supercarrier apart and then fired its main guns through the center of the vessel, piercing its belly and managing to hit Arcturus Station in the process, destroying the station in one hit. Seeing this, Singh desperately recalled the Anita Goyle and ordered it to retreat, and this action alone is what saved the vessel, as Harbinger was preparing to turn on the supercarrier next. The Anita Goyle was one of two supercarriers from the Battle of Arcturus to survive the overwhelming Reaper assault, and would participate in Operation Hornet's Nest further down the line. The ship took part in Operation Defiant, and was present at the final battle over Earth, with the supercarrier managing to survive both. After being heavily modernized post-Reaper War, the Anita Goyle served with the Coalition Third Fleet during the Border War and again during the Post-Apocalyptic War. The ship was destroyed at the First Battle of the Citadel, the Dominion's disastrous first attempt to capture the station in the early stages of the war, when the ship's escort was lured away by a turian flanking maneveur while a krogan cruiser wolfpack jumped in and ambushed the ship, destroying it.
The ship was named for Anita Goyle, a prestigious British ambassador with Middle Eastern descent who had been an ambassador for the European Union at the United Nations, and following the First Contact War, would be chosen to meet with the asari to settle terms for an embassy, eventually becoming the first human ambassador to the Citadel. Anita Goyle served in this role for sixteen years, where she made major contributions to humanity's success such as securing trade rights with all of the major Council races, establishing a mutual defense treaty with the Turian Hierarchy, securing colonial rights to expand into the Attican Traverse, and beginning the path towards Council membership that humanity would eventually achieve nine years after her resignation. Anita Goyle's contributions to the advancement of humanity were so much that, in her memoirs, the ambassador claimed at one point that she had been approached by an agent working for a "organization interested in humanity's advancement", and offered her their resources to further her goals, and she politely declined them: she insisted to her death bed that the organization had to have been Cerberus, and that the Illusive Man himself had personally extended the olive branch.