THS Sailing Dust
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Production information
Manufacturer:	Adeptus Fabrica Qualitas
Class:	Century-class light cruiser
Operator(s):	Navy of Palaven Citadel Defense Fleet
Technical information
Length:	502m
Width:	83m
Height/depth:	74m
Max acceleration:	20 kilometers per second
Engine unit(s):	Element Zero Drive Core
Shielding:	Kinetic Barrier
Hull:	130cm of Arictium Ablative Heavy Armor
Sensor systems:	LIDAR Radar Spectroscope
Targetting system:	Rectus Alidia
Armament:	4 GARDIAN 66 cruise torpedoes 33 port side 33 starboard side 10 Scorpio-class defense guns 5 port side 5 starboard side 350 Peacemaker-class anti-ship missiles 175 port side 175 starboard side 8 Talon CIWS
Crew:	1,606
Skeleton crew:	90
Usage
Commissioned:	18 March 2018 CE
Destroyed:	19 July 2183 CE
Role(s):	Attacking enemy ships/orbital fire support (Turian Navy) Defending the Citadel (CDF)
Engagements:	Eden Prime War Battle of the Citadel
Fleet:	Eleventh Fleet Citadel Defense Fleet
Commander(s):	Captain Bania Vargatus

THS Sailing Dust was a Century-class light cruiser in the Navy of Palaven and Citadel Defense Fleet. The eight hundred and eighty-ninth ship of her class to be built, the Sailing Dust was originally assigned to the Eleventh Fleet under Prefect Sentinum Helrian, serving with the Eleventh Fleet for seventy years before being reassigned to the Citadel Defense Fleet, where it would spend the rest of its career. The Sailing Dust spent most of its time in the CDF either patrolling the Widow system, enforcing customs regulations, monitoring traffic and/or running blockade against criminal ships attempting to escape C-Sec. On 12 July 2183 CE, the Sailing Dust was assigned as part of a CDF task force, Task Force Zulu, to guard the Hector relay in the Scorpius cluster in the event of Saren Arterius attempting an assault on the Citadel with his geth army. Despite these precautions, the Sailing Dust and its task force would be ambushed by Sovereign and a massive geth fleet in the opening stages of the Battle of the Citadel on 19 July 2183 CE, with the Sailing Dust and the other ships of the task force being utterly obliterated before they could warn the station of the incoming attack. The Sailing Dust and its crew are noted on the Heroes of the Citadel monument, along with the other CDF ships destroyed protecting the Citadel.