SSV Emden
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Length: |
569m |
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Width: |
65m |
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Height/depth: |
81m |
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Max acceleration: |
20 kilometers per second |
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164cm of Titanium-A2 Ablative Heavy Armor |
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Crew: |
1,900 |
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Skeleton crew: |
110 |
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Commissioned: |
13 September 2154 CE |
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19 July 2183 CE |
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Attacking enemy ships/orbital fire support |
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First Fleet (2154 CE - 2159 CE) |
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Captain Heribert Weininger |
SSV Emden AE-10 (Attack/Escort-10) was a Geneva-class heavy cruiser in the Alliance Navy. The tenth ship of her class to be built, the Emden was assigned to the First Fleet under Admiral Adina Netanyahu before the First Contact War, and then reassigned to the Fifth Fleet under Admiral Steven Hackett following its establishment after the war. The Emden was one of the initial thirty Geneva-class ships built following the formation of the Systems Alliance in 2149 CE, being assigned to the First Fleet shortly after its commissioning to bolster what was at the time the largest of the three main Alliance fleets. Due to issues with the Alliance not being able to properly specialize the Geneva-class ships, and the fact that the First Fleet was largely dedicated to protecting the inner colonies and the Sol system, the Emden spent much of its early years stuck in the home system, running combat exercises for a war it was not expected to see. The Emden would first see action in 2157 CE when the First Contact War broke out, fighting in both the Battle of Charon and subsequent Second Battle of Shanxi. Like all other Geneva-class ships, the Emden went through minor upgrades after the war in an attempt to modernize it, and shortly after returning to active service, it was transferred to the then-newly formed Fifth Fleet under Admiral Hackett. In its new posting, the Emden would participate in the Skyllian Blitz, taking part in the Battle of the Dhopris System: the ship replaced the impounded SSV Cairo in the position of a reserve ship during the Theshaca Raids, although it saw no action during the conflict outside of a "skirmish" with a pirate band that took one look at the heavily armed cruiser and its destroyer escorts and immediately withdrew from the system.
In 2183 CE, after the outbreak of the Eden Prime War, the Emden would be present at the Battle of Armstrong, where it provided anti-aircraft protection for the supercarrier Ulysses S. Grant, while the carrier screened the Fifth Fleet with fighter and bomber support. The Emden then returned with the rest of the Fifth Fleet to Mars where the Emden would transfer repair crews to the Ulysses S. Grant to stitch up damage it took from geth bombers during the battle. These repairs were still taking place when Hackett gave his emergency orders for the fleet to mobilize: with the Grant in no position to head back into battle, Hackett opted to leave the supercarrier behind: as a result, the Emden was forced to join the fleet and leave its repair crews behind. The Emden was part of the first wave of Alliance reinforcements at the Battle of the Citadel, where its MAC gun scored numerous hits on geth capital ships during the Alliance's opening salvo, firing almost 30 rounds before the fleet mopped up the remaining geth forces. While the ship initially managed to survive the defenses of Sovereign, with the Reaper's main gun scraping the side of the ship, it was a second hit that destroyed the ship, cutting it from bow to stern in a sweeping blast that left no survivors. The sacrifice of the Emden and her crew is noted on the Heroes of the Citadel monument, along with the other ships of the Fifth Fleet that were destroyed saving the Citadel.
The ship was named after the city of Emden in the former European Union on Earth.