SSV New Brunswick
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Length: |
1204m |
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Width: |
542m |
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Height/depth: |
289m |
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Max acceleration: |
1 kilometers per second |
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832cm of Titanium-A4 Ablative Heavy Armor |
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Crew: |
17,400 |
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300 |
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Commissioned: |
1 November 2177 CE |
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2 June 2186 CE |
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Destroy enemy warships and carriers |
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Captain Parshand Ravaani |
SSV New Brunswick SF-17 (Stand and Fight-17) was a Colorado-class battleship in the Alliance Navy. The seventeenth ship of her class to be built, the New Brunswick was assigned to the Fourth Fleet under Admiral Viktoriya Arefyev after it was commissioned in late 2177 CE. The seventeenth ship of the initial forty ships of the class that were ordered and built for the Alliance Navy, the New Brunswick assumed duties patrolling the Charon Relay upon joining the Fourth Fleet, being assigned a battlegroup to guard Pluto and the outer edge of the Sol system. As the Colorado-class was brought into service after the Skyllian Blitz, the New Brunswick did not see action against the Batarian Hegemony, and would spend most of its career patrolling Pluto and Sol's termination shock, continuing to do so even during the Eden Prime War. The New Brunswick would be briefly redeployed in late 2183 CE to bombard a training bunker on Luna when its VI went rogue, killing the facility's personnel and using its automated drones and defenses to repulse a special forces unit deployed to take it offline. Fearing that the VI could tap into Luna's subterranean cable network and cause havoc with other facilities and Luna's capital, the Alliance reluctantly authorized the facility's destruction, and the New Brunswick used its enormous firepower to obliterate the facility from orbit. Despite this, a fragment of the VI would be uploaded to a nearby comm buoy, embedding itself there in an inert, dormant state until it was extracted by Cerberus later on and used to create EDI. Following confirmation of the facility's destruction, the New Brunswick returned to patrolling Pluto, and the Alliance covered up the incident as a orbital bombardment training exercise.
On 2 June 2186 CE, the New Brunswick and its battlegroup were pulled back from Pluto to join the rest of the Fourth Fleet in preparing to meet the Reaper invasion over Earth, reinforcing the Second and Fifth fleets in this endeavour. In the Battle of Luna, the New Brunswick was destroyed by a swarm of Oculi that cut through the ship, with some of them digging into the ship's hull and destroying several decks before finally compromising the vessel's integrity, causing an explosion that broke the vessel's spine, with the bridge destroyed in the process, killing the entire command crew. With a loss of control, the ship swung sharply to its left, smashing through one of its light cruiser and four of its frigate escorts before finally stopping as it rammed into its sister ship, Puducherry, tearing a massive gash in the side of the battleship before the stress of the impact upon its broken superstructure finally snapped the ship in half, sending the dead hulk aimlessly through space: however, due to isolated air pockets within the ship, around 700 personnel were able to reach escape pods and survived, although the rest were killed. Carried by its momentum, the ship's derelict hulk would eventually be caught in Earth's atmosphere, where its wreckage came crashing down in the Atlantic ocean. In 2224 CE, explorers managed to locate the wreckage of the New Brunswick, with the bow section coming to rest at a depth of 4,500 meters, while the stern, having landed 60 kilometers west of the bow, rested at a depth of 4,942 meters. Considered a war grave, explorations of the wreck are prohibited, and attempts to raise them were abandoned.
The ship was named after the Canadian Province of New Brunswick in the former United North American States.