SSV Jakarta
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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: |
1,948 |
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Skeleton crew: |
110 |
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Commissioned: |
5 July 2154 CE |
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Destroyed: |
19 July 2183 CE |
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Attacking enemy ships/orbital fire support |
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Fleet: |
Second Fleet (2154 CE - 2159 CE) |
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Captain William De Villiers |
SSV Jakarta AE-5 (Attack/Escort-5) was a Geneva-class heavy cruiser in the Alliance Navy. The fifth ship of her class to be built, the Jakarta was assigned to the Second Fleet under Admiral Kastanie Drescher before the First Contact War, and then reassigned to the Fifth Fleet under Admiral Steven Hackett following its establishment after the war. The Jakarta was one of the initial thirty Geneva-class ships built following the formation of the Systems Alliance in 2149 CE, being assigned to the Second Fleet shortly after its commissioning, where its position in the fleet took it to the very edges of rapidly expanding Alliance space. Despite the Alliance being unable to ascertain a proper role for the Geneva-class to fit into, Admiral Drescher wasted no time in taking advantage of the extra firepower the ships gave her and assigned them to protecting the colonies her fleet was charged with, with the Jakarta specifically assigned to defending Terra Nova as the flagship of a small asteroid clearing unit. When reports of the Relay 314 massacre reached the rest of the Alliance, Drescher immediately ordered the Second Fleet to mobilize over Shanxi, with the Jakarta among them. While the Jakarta was not part of the task force Drescher took to Relay 314 to get revenge for the massacre, the ship would participate in the First Battle of Shanxi, surviving the battle to later fight in the battles of Charon and Second Shanxi as well. Like all other Geneva-class ships, the Jakarta 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 Jakarta would participate in the Skyllian Blitz, taking part in the Battle of the Dhopris System where it was part of a battlegroup tasked with destroying a batarian anti-aerospace installation on Uighur's fifth soon, Ek. The ship did not take part in the Theshaca Raids, with the ship undergoing retrofits at the time.
In 2183 CE, after the outbreak of the Eden Prime War, the Jakarta would be present at the Battle of Armstrong, charged with holding the left wing of the Fifth Fleet during the battle. The Jakarta then returned with the rest of the Fifth Fleet to Mars where the ship and its crew would briefly enjoy some shore leave. When Hackett hastily assembled the fleet to counter the geth assault on the Citadel, the Jakarta formed up alongside the SSV McKinley as it formed the first wave of Alliance reinforcements at the Battle of the Citadel. The ship was one of many destroyed when it was overwhelmed by geth return fire whilst saving the ARW Destiny Ascension, with the ship lost with all hands. The sacrifice of the Jakarta and its crew is noted on the Heroes of the Citadel monument, along with the other ships of the Fifth Fleet destroyed saving the Citadel.
The ship was named after the city of Jakarta in the former Empire of Oceania on Earth.