SSV Madrid
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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: |
1,850 |
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Skeleton crew: |
110 |
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Commissioned: |
11 November 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: |
First Fleet (2154 CE - 2159 CE) |
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Commander(s): |
Captain Joaquin Grano |
SSV Madrid AE-19 (Attack/Escort-19) was a Geneva-class heavy cruiser in the Alliance Navy. The nineteenth ship of her class to be built, the Madrid 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 Madrid 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 Madrid spent much of its early years stuck in the home system, running combat exercises for a war it was not expected to see. The Madrid 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 Madrid 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 Madrid would participate in the Skyllian Blitz, taking part in the Battle of the Dhopris System where it was part of the battlegroup spearheaded by the SSV Jakarta tasked with destroying a batarian anti-aerospace installation on Uighur's fifth moon, Ek. The ship would be placed as a reserve force during the Theshaca Raids, and although the ship itself would never take part in any combat operations personally, several marine detachments would be deployed from the ship to take part in raids on merchant vessels in the region. In 2181 CE, the Madrid was given the assignment of surprise search-and-seizures on ships in the Attican Traverse that the Alliance deemed suspicious as part of a larger task force operation handled by the Fifth and Sixth fleets to counter further pirate activity in the area. However, during this operation the Madrid stumbled upon what seemed to be an abandoned ship in the Gemini Sigma cluster, the MSV Worthington. When a boarding party was deployed to search the ship (following failed attempts to contact the vessel), the team were ambushed by the crazed lone survivor on the ship, Julia Mengela, who had planted jury-rigged explosive devices to set up traps around the ship. Two marines were killed and six injured by these explosives, while another was killed by Julia herself before Julia was put down following her refusal to surrender. Investigation following the incident discovered her boyfriend had been mortally wounded in a zero-g incident, and that Julia's combination of helplessness, shock, grief, anger and stress severely overtaxed her L2 implants, leading into an episode of insanity that caused her to kill the crew in order to protect her boyfriend: post-mission reports concluded that had the boarding team been properly aware of the situation, they may have been able to save Julia. As it was, the boarding team received permission from Naval Command to shut down the boyfriend's life support (as he had been dead for quite some time) and the Madrid towed the derelict ship to Elysium before returning to its duties.
In 2183 CE, after the outbreak of the Eden Prime War, Operation Gyrfalcon was suspended indefinitely and the Madrid reassigned back to the Fifth Fleet in time to take part in the Battle of Armstrong, where it was charged with holding the left wing of the Fifth Fleet during the battle. The Madrid then returned with the rest of the Fifth Fleet to Mars where the ship would briefly enjoy some shore leave. When Hackett hastily assembled the fleet to counter the geth assault on the Citadel, the Madrid formed up in the middle of the formation for the attack, and was part of the first wave of Alliance reinforcements at the Battle of the Citadel. The ship was destroyed by Sovereign during the final stages of the battle, becoming one of the last ships that Sovereign would destroy before the Reaper was finally brought down. The sacrifice of the Madrid 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 Madrid in the former European Union on Earth.