U.F.S Aquatic

WARNING: This article contains spoilers for The Star Republic: Aquatic, a future book series. Read at your own discretion. "'She is the mother of all sunfish. She even has little sunfish babies of her own!'"- Captain(Lower) Alexander Marshall, 3002.The U.F.S Aquatic was a 31st century UIFN Oceanic-class fleet carrier starship operated by UniFed. It was the most technologically sophisticated starship constructed, with the U.F.S. Speedbird following behind. The Aquatic was commanded by Alexander Marshall, a newly-promoted captain.

The Aquatic was the first in her class of her time. She was the revival of many previous starship designs under the Oceanic-class. The ship was also called the 'Sunfish', due to its striking resemblance to a real-life sunfish. It is noted that the ship could be named after the U.W.S Aquatic, the first starship jointly built by members of the United Interstellar Worlds.

She also carried a huge variety of various weapons, as she was originally built as a potential warship. She ran on what was called a Hyper Jump Drive, along with the standard UniFed light core. The Aquatic was the first prototype starship to come out in the last decade, under the SUN development program by UniFed and the FNSA and the first few starships to be able to operate fully and traverse in large water bodies.

Construction and launch
The Aquatic was constructed at the Terra-Luna Orbital Fleet Yards in the Solar System. As found out by Captain Marshall, Earth's sunfish was apparently chosen as the template to base the design of the Aquatic. It took less than six months to fully construct the huge fleet carrier.

It was officially launched on Interstellar Date 3002.242.08, conducting her test cruise traversing the Solar System, before she went on her maiden journey to Xandia a day later.

Maiden Voyage
After the ship was launched, the Aquatic set off for her maiden voyage to the Xandian homeworld. She reached the planet 2 hours later, and proceeded to head back to Earth. While on the return trip, the Aquatic picked up a distress signal, which was soon discovered to have come from a planet in Sector 003. The Aquatic diverted towards Sector 003, and discovered an alien ship stranded in deep space. With the alien ship, the Aquatic successfully made its journey back to Earth.

Underwater Study
The Aquatic was sent to Valour IV for a marine life study after a month of its launch. UniFed's Sciences division had recently discovered what looks to be an alien species similar to Earth's sunfish inhabiting the oceans of the planet. Alexander decided the best way to study them was to bring the Aquatic underwater, considering the fact that the Aquatic could fully function underwater, as well as traverse through water. While underwater, many specimens of the alien 'sunfish' were taken to the Aquatic for close-ups. After spending 10 days in the water, UniFed Sciences got the data needed for a full on analysis, thereby completing its assigned mission. She took along numerous species of aquatic animals from the planet. Breeding experiments also took place, without both the consent of UniFed Sciences or the Captain. The experiments were forced to be called off, however not before a hybrid alien 'sunfish' was born. This intrigued the Captain, who decided to keep it for further study.

Endeavour Incident
On Interstellar Date 3002.350.12, the Aquatic encountered an Andromedan War Planet gone rogue, which had infiltrated Federation space and was in orbit over Endeavour. The Aquatic took a defensive stance, but when the war planet unexpectedly decided to attack, the Aquatic responded in kind. The war planet was destroyed, creating a ring of debris around the planet. Soon after, the debris caused wide-spread damage to the planet surface and the colony, resulting in massive casualties over the days after the incident. This prompted an emergency Federal Convention with UniFed personnel. For the next three days, the Aquatic was part of a task force dedicated to removing War Planets from Federation space, either by destruction or trapping them.

Entering Sector 004
A week after the Endeavour incident, an advanced research destroyer discovered and brought back to Earth a deactivated War Planet. The Aquatic then detected the War Planet was rigged to self-destruct, however it was too late to warn the research destroyer and the other ships nearby. The War Planet created a singularity, becoming a black hole, which the Aquatic got caught in. Unable to escape, the ship was pulled into the black hole and ended up in a planet in Sector 004, its power drained. With the help of an unknown species of aliens, the Aquatic managed to get home via a wormhole that connected to Sector 002.

Encountering a Tritanian
On Interstellar Date 3003.14.01, the Aquatic encountered a derelict alien mothership that had crashed into a planet in an unexplored system. The mothership had crashed over 30 years ago, and an alien biosign was detected on the surface. An away party found the alien slumped against a console on the mothership's bridge, severely injured. After treatment, the alien introduced himself as Kilrauhnoe, a Tritanian and member of the Tritanian Imperial Family. He explained that the Tritanians were once a large empire stretching over hundreds of star systems, however it was caught in a war against two equally powerful nations competing for dominance over each other. The two warring factions carved up Tritanian territory, eventually ending in the demise of the Tritanian homeworld, now uninhabitable. Kilrauhnoe's family had been in exile for over thirty years, and that the mothership was a Imperial vessel used to ferry the Imperial Family. His father had disappeared some years ago and his mother had committed suicide during the demise of the homeworld. The Aquatic then ferried the Tritanian back to Earth, where he and Alexander filed a plea to the President to for asylum in the Federation. The plea went through, and Kilrauhnoe lived in the former apartment of Alexander in Singapore.

Personnel
The U.F.S. Aquatic is a fleet carrier starship, holding over 3,000 UniFed and FNSA personnel.

Commanding officer

 * Alexander Marshall, Captain(Rear)/Captain (3002-3006)
 * Malcom Kelsey, Captain (3007- )

First Officer

 * Malcolm Kelsey (3002-3006)
 * Sisco-532, Commander (3006- )

Second Officer

 * U-Mark X, Lieutenant-Commander

Helmsmen

 * Chadwick Kennedy, First Lieutenant(First Helmsman)
 * Chang Zhijuan, Ensign (Second Helmsman)

Communications Officer

 * Makena North, Lieutenant-Commander
 * K'hyl Jarhna, Second Lieutenant (as stand-in officer)

Head of Tactical and Security

 * K'hyl Jarhna

Head of Medical

 * Cel'aam, Commander
 * U-Mark X

Head of Science

 * Delta-221, FNSA field personnel, Second Lieutenant-in-promotion

Head Systems Officer

 * Sisco-555, Third Lieutenant

Engineering Head

 * Valerie Schwanthaler, FNSA field personnel, Third Lieutenant

Counselor

 * Joral Trej, Commander
 * Uralla (3007, temporary assignment)

Physical Layout
The Aquatic had a total of 250 decks, and was roughly 1 1/2 times larger than the normal Oceanic-class starship. As compared to an old starship of the class, the UR Bayfront, the Aquatic was larger with more interior space.

The Main Bridge was located on Deck 250, as well as the conference room and the Captain's office. These three make up the 'Command Block' of the ship.

The Battle Bridge was bigger than the Main Bridge, located on decks 199 and 200. It occupies the first section of both decks. In times of emergency, or in circumstances were larger spaces were needed for command, the Battle Bridge would serve as the command centre of the ship.

Launch Bays A-E can be found on decks 188-190, as well as the transporter arrays.

The Main Labs were located at deck 170.

Primary Engineering could be found at decks 1-3.

Weaponry
The armament of the Aquatic include 200 beam banks: 150 are phased particle-based, 35 are carbon-dioxide based, 10 fire microwave beams and the last 5 are plasma-based, which a prototypes. Projectile wise, the Aquatic has over 200 missile bays, each holding 100 prototype warp-capable plasma MIRV missiles.

The ship's defences are a triple-layer energy shielding and anti-projectile defence systems. They can be coordinated with the ship's computer, ARC.

The Aquatic also has choreographed attack patterns.