SSV Tokyo
From FABT
' |
|
Production information | |
Manufacturer: |
|
Class: |
|
Operator(s): |
|
Technical information | |
Length: |
569m |
Width: |
65m |
Height/depth: |
81m |
Max acceleration: |
20 kilometers per second |
Engine unit(s): |
|
Shielding: |
|
Hull: |
164cm of Titanium-A2 Ablative Heavy Armor |
Sensor systems: |
|
Targetting system: |
|
Armament: |
|
Crew: |
1,800 |
Skeleton crew: |
110 |
Usage | |
Commissioned: |
16 November 2154 CE |
Decommissioned: |
17 February 2186 CE |
Destroyed: |
2 June 2186 CE |
Role(s): |
Attacking enemy ships/orbital fire support |
Engagements: |
|
Affiliation: |
Systems Alliance |
Fleet: |
Second Fleet (2154 CE - 2159 CE) |
Notable crew members: |
Lt. Gregory Adams (2168 CE - 2182 CE) |
Commander(s): |
Captain Sakaguchi Utsuwa (2154 CE - 2176 CE) |
SSV Tokyo AE-20 (Attack/Escort-20) was a Geneva-class heavy cruiser in the Alliance Navy. The twentieth ship of her class to be built, the Tokyo 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 Tokyo 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. Like all of the other Geneva-class vessels in Drescher's fleet as well, the Tokyo found a role to fit that its sister ships in the First and Third fleets didn't, with Drescher using the firepower of her ships to have them defend humanity's furthest takings, namely the burgeoning colonies of Shanxi, Eden Prime and Terra Nova. The Tokyo itself was charged with defending Eden Prime from asteroids, being the flagship of a small asteroid clearing unit, and would many of its food supplies would be sent to the planet when the original Edne Prime colonists abused their own. 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 Tokyo among them. While the Tokyo 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 Tokyo 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 early 2176 CE, the ship's captain retired and command of the ship was given to David E. Anderson, who had previously commanded the Munich. The Tokyo would participate in the Skyllian Blitz, taking part in the battles of the Ursae Majoris and the Dhopris System, where the ship helped bombard batarian positions on Uighur. The ship took part in the Theshaca Raids, where it managed to thwart an attempt by the pirates to pilot kamikaze drone ships into the Tokyo, destroying each of them in turn and then subsequently hunting down the pirate base that launched them and destroying the facility from orbit with a MAC round.
In mid 2182 CE, Anderson was chosen to advise Captain Elli Zander in working with the turians on the joint human-turian Normandy-class stealth ship program, but when Zander refused to work with the turians, Anderson was ultimately offered command of the Normandy in her stead. Anderson accepted the offer, taking the Tokyo's chief engineer (and most of his team), medical officer and chief of security with him, and the Tokyo was given a third captain, along with replacement staff for the ones Anderson took with him. In 2183 CE, after the outbreak of the Eden Prime War, the Toyko would be present at the Battle of Armstrong, charged with holding the right wing during the battle. The Tokyo 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 Tokyo formed up the rear of the fleet and was the first wave of Alliance reinforcements at the Battle of the Citadel. The Tokyo survived the battle, and would later take part in the Counter-piracy campaign of 2184 CE. In early 2186 CE, the Tokyo returned to Earth for the last time to begin decommissioning, being replaced by the newly commissioned Richmond-class SSV Damascus. The Tokyo was in the process of being scrapped at the Davo-Hamish Shipyards when the Reapers began their invasion, and the ship was destroyed with the rest of the docks at the Fall of Earth.
The ship was named after the city of Tokyo in the former United Republics of Asian Nations on Earth.