SSV Einstein
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Length: |
727m |
Width: |
183m |
Height/depth: |
102m |
Max acceleration: |
20 kilometers per second |
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Hull: |
300cm of Titanium-A2 Ablative Light Armor |
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Crew: |
1,900 |
Skeleton crew: |
700 |
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Commissioned: |
4 August 2166 CE |
Destroyed: |
14 September 2186 CE |
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Carry and deploy fighters, bombers and interceptors whilst being cheap to build/escort larger task groups |
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Affiliation: |
Systems Alliance |
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Commander(s): |
Captain Aldogan Zaim (2166 CE - 2170 CE) |
SSV Einstein CD-36 (Carry and Deploy-36) was a Lincoln-class escort carrier in the Alliance Navy. The thirty-sixth ship of her class to be built, the Einstein was assigned to the Eighth Fleet under Admiral Duncan Ward not long after it was commissioned in mid 2166 CE. The Einstein was one of the initial sixty Lincoln-class ships that were ordered and built for the Alliance Navy, part of the second generation of Alliance warships that were designed and brainstormed following the First Contact War, with the Lincoln-class in particular following a greater increase in focus on producing carriers. The Einstein was simultaneously commissioned alongside the Tecumseh, Antigonus, Charlemagne and Agrippa following the completion of all five vessels in roughly the same time period, with the Einstein itself being assigned to a carrier patrol group in the Kepler Verge in the Attican Traverse. The Einstein, like the other ships of the Eighth Fleet, would see little to no action, suffering through a dismal career of non-stop patrols and little to no battle, with the Einstein being deprived of much of its aircraft due to this exact problem, as the aircraft were needed on more pressing fronts. The only action the Einstein really saw following its commissioning was four years later in 2170 CE when it was the first ship to respond to a Hegemony slaver raid on the colony of Mindoir, along with its 4 frigate escorts: the Einstein deployed 135 marines to the surface to expel the slavers, but the Alliance ground forces were met with heavy casualties and were unable to save any of the colonists, with the Hegemony successfully killing or enslaving the population. The captain of the Einstein took temporary leave due to his guilt over failing to save the colony, retiring only two weeks later: the commander of the marines on the ground, First Lieutenant Ernesto Zabaleta, suffered severe post-traumatic stress as a result of the incident, and was later honorably discharged after he repeatedly turned up drunk on duty. The XO of the Einstein, Hannah R. Shepard, would continue to serve on the ship for another five years before transferring to the Kilimanjaro. The Einstein would continue its patrol of the cluster, with the Eighth Fleet's presence in the area increased significantly: however, the Einstein would not take part in the Skyllian Blitz.
The Einstein accompanied the Eighth Fleet on the 2 June 2186 CE when it was ordered to begin assembling in the Artemis Tau cluster for preparation in invading the Batarian Hegemony pre-emptively from the north: they were instead taken aback when they were suddenly assaulted by a Reaper fleet emerging from Hegemony space, forcing the Eighth Fleet to scatter and retreat before losses became too great. The Einstein and the rest of the Eighth Fleet would regroup over Ontarom, and it would survive the second Reaper ambush of the Fleet over the planet. With the Eighth Fleet's power smashed to pieces, it was largely split apart and set to work operating with the other Alliance fleets that survived the Fall of Earth, with the Einstein operating with the Sixth Fleet. Ward later organized with Hackett to have the Eighth Fleet model its new tactics after the Thessian Second Fleet, which was primarily built around relieving sieges, reinforcing larger fleets and surgical strikes: the Einstein became one of many carriers to be reallocated to use these tactics, with the carrier being outfitted entirely with fighters and interceptors for its new role. The Einstein would excel at this role in the Evacuation of Thessia, where the carrier would be used to extract asari forces en masse at speeds that impressed the asari troops who were saved by it. As the evacuation continued, the Reaper presence in the area reached dangerously high levels, and the UGC Command warned that the situation was deteriorating fast and that they could no longer guarantee the safety of an orderly evacuation, and within an hour of this warning, it ordered a general retreat of all assets in the sector before they were trapped, swarmed and destroyed. The captain of the Einstein belayed these orders, as it was in the middle of extracting asari civilians, and refused to abandon its post. As the situation deteriorated, the UGC was no longer able to provide adequate support to protect Einstein, and as such, when it attempted to escape the planet, it was immediately swarmed by an Atlas-class megacruiser and destroyed, with the ship lost with all hands.
This ship was named for Albert Einstein, a 19th to 20th Century German-born theoretical physicist most famously known for his theory of relativity, one of the pillars of modern physics, as well as his influence on the philosophy of science.