SSV Queen Elizabeth
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Length: |
1578m |
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Width: |
750m |
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Height/depth: |
873m |
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20 kilometers per second |
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1200cm of Titanium-A3 Ablative Heavy Armor |
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25,850 |
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700 |
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7 July 2173 CE |
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2 June 2186 CE |
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Carry and deploy fighters, bombers and interceptors/fire support |
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Captain Barbara Clayton |
SSV Queen Elizabeth CDS-3 (Carry and Deploy/Super-3) was a Charles de Gaulle-class supercarrier in the Alliance Navy. The third ship of her class to be built, the Queen Elizabeth was assigned to the Second Fleet under Admiral Kastanie Drescher not long after it was commissioned in mid 2173 CE. The Queen Elizabeth was the third of the initial sixteen Charles de Gaulle-class ships that were ordered and built for the Alliance Navy, where the ship was shortly thereafter assigned to the Second Fleet under Drescher following a successful shakedown run and other tests. Drescher was said to have marvelled at the size of the Queen Elizabeth during her inspection of the vessel, claiming it was nearly large enough to rival even the Ascension-class dreadnoughts of the asari navy, which were then the largest warships in existence: despite this, she would not take the Queen Elizabeth as her flagship, with a preference towards her current flagship, the Kilimanjaro-class dreadnought SSV Shasta, preferring to "stick to her big guns." Nevertheless, the Queen Elizabeth would be put to good use in patrolling along the Hegemony border, and would later be joined by her sister ship Scipio Africanus the following year. The Queen Elizabeth would be present at the opening of the Skyllian Blitz, where it was deployed along with the Scipio Africanus and the other carriers of Drescher's fleet in her vanguard as she deployed her reinforcements to relieve the slaver siege over Elysium. The Queen Elizabeth's firepower, combined with that of her sister ship, single-handedly broke the slaver fleet's rearguard, and this assault was followed up by swarms of drones, fighters, interceptors and bombers that were deployed within the batarian echelons, bypassing their anti-aircraft defenses and allowing them to rapidly chip away the rest of the slaver fleet: by the time the rest of Drescher's reinforcements arrived, the Queen Elizabeth was ahead of where it was supposed to be, the captain getting carried away as the ship carved a bloody path through the slaver fleet. After the battle, Drescher would personally thank the captains of the Queen Elizabeth and Scipio Africanus, saying "Give me two more of these ships, and I'll take Khar'Shan myself." After the Battle of Elysium, the Queen Elizabeth would see further combat in the Skirmish in the Vetus System and Battle of the Dhelile System, and was planned to be used in a proposed assault on Khar'Shan's shipyards that was cancelled after the Second Battle of Torfan and the subsequent batarian capitulation.
The Queen Elizabeth would not take part in the Eden Prime War, and would spend the next two years on more Hegemony border patrols, seeing very little action during this period. The Queen Elizabeth accompanied the Second Fleet when it was recalled to Earth to bolster the Fourth and Fifth fleets in defending the planet during the opening stages of the Reaper invasion on 2 June 2186 CE. The Queen Elizabeth was deployed to the left flank of Drescher's vanguard at the beginning of the Battle of Luna, but once Drescher realized her trademark tactic wouldn't work against the Reapers, she ordered her carriers to withdraw. While many of the smaller carriers were able to fall back, the Queen Elizabeth was simply too large and cumbersome to perform the tight maneveurs needed to quickly retreat, and was rapidly swarmed by 5 Chariot-class ships and 1 Sovereign-class ship, which inevitably led to the ship's complete destruction, including its entire crew.
The ship was named after Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain from 1952 CE to 2038 CE and the single longest reigning monarch in British history, serving as queen of the UK for a total of just over 85 years.