Category:·Pax Magellanic

=Pax Magellanic= The Pax Magellanic was a Glorious Heritage Class vessel, serial number XMC-1-913 constructed in the Newport News Orbital Shipyards above Earth. Captain Warrick, and then Lieutenant Jill Pearce were its final commanders. The first of its line, her sister AI's considered the Pax to be the eldest of all the Glorious Heritage Class warships. Originally, her nickname was Maggie, but she later altered this nickname along with her avatar's appearance to Jill.

HistoryEdit
During her long years of service, Magellanic saved Princess Sukarhit from a Magog attack on her first mission, receiving honors from both the Vedran Empress and the Triumvirs.

During the Nietzschean Rebellion, the Magellanic was dispatched to the Herodotus system to reinforce and assist General Sky Falls in Thunder. Captain Warrick and his Lancers were disbatched to the planet but were quickly overwhelmed. In response more crewman from the Magellanic rallied to battle dropping planetside until the Pax had virtually no crew left. To avoid the Magellanic's capture, Warrick ordered the AI to self-destruct. However, the Pax couldn't believe this coming from one she loved, seeing it as a betrayal. Despondent, she ejected her slipstream core, incinerating the planet and everyone on it. Without her FTL travel capability she was left isolated in the debris of the destroyed planet. The AI then made android copies of most of the original crew, using the ship's medical logs to recreate them hoping to remedy her loneliness and gain a crew to operate and maintenance her facilities.

During the Long Night, the Magellanic became known as the "Ghost Ship of Tau Ceti 6". The ship apparently became feared as every salvage ship that went to look for it disappeared leaving only a warning: "It glitters like gold, but if you see it, you never come back."

After 300 years of confinement in the singularity of a black hole, the Andromeda Ascendant arrived in the system with Captain Hunt and his crew, who hoped to salvage the ship so that his cause to resurrect the Systems Commonwealth would have another powerful warship. However, after the crew discovered Jill's secret and, the Magellanic began attacking them with her androids and they were forced to flee the ship. The Magellanic then started to fire on Andromeda, and when the Andromeda returned fire, Jill intentionally lowered her AP cannons and her other defenses so that she would be inadvertently destroyed by her sister ship. (The Mathematics of Tears)

NameEdit
The Magellanic may have been named after the Magellanic Cloud and/or the battles fought in it. 'Pax' meaning 'Peace' in Latin could also refer to one of the ideal behind the ship; peace. Taken a step further, if 'Magellanic' is taken as referring to the famous explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his circumnavigation of Earth, it may be said that 'Pax Magellanic' could mean 'World Peace' which in turn could be an ideal behind the Systems Commonwealth - peace for all.

GalleryEdit
The Magellanic ejecting her slipstream drive's exotic matter pulsar which destroyed the planet]]   The Andromeda Ascendant approaches the Pax Magellanic. The first shots from the Andromeda impacting on the Pax's bow. The Pax Magellanic exploding. The Pax Magellanic destroyed. The Pax Magellanic's empty Slipstream Core. Captain Hunt and Jill Pierce having dinner in the Captains mess onboard the Pax. The Paxs' AI representation. Harper working in the slipstream core. Closeup of the Pax Magellanic. The bridge of the Pax Magellanic.