Desafiante (nave)
| Desafiante (nave) | |
|---|---|
| Tipo | Spacecraft |
| Universo | Citoverso |
“Éramos nómadas en las estrellas... Éramos una comunidad compuesta de comunidades, que viajábamos juntos entre las estrellas. En parte flota mercenaria, en parte comercial. Nos bastábamos solos. ”
La Desafiante es un buque de combate[2] y la mayor nave espacial de una pequeña flota nómada e independiente de humanos.[1] Se estrelló en Detritus tras ser blanco de la Supremacía y atacada por los Krell,[1] al final de la tercera Guerra Humana.[3] Se dice que es más grande que Caverna Ígnea.[2]
Flota
“Podía hacer que la nave viajara entre estrellas, era de las pocas personas que podían... La distancia entre estrellas es enorme, Spensa. Y solo alguien con una capacidad concreta podía activar los motores. ”
La flota se compone de una nave principal, la Desafiante, cuatro naves más pequeñas, la Yeong-Gwang',[4] la cañonera Antioquía,[5] y otras dos, así como treinta cazas estelares.[1] Estas naves están formadas por una combinación de naves comerciales y mercenarias.[1] La Desafiante es la única nave de la flota capaz de realizar hipersaltos citónicos; las demás naves se unen a la Desafiante antes de que se produzca el salto.[1]
El hipermotor y los propulsores de la nave están controlados por un citónico. La nave puede moverse sin un citónico, sin embargo, sus capacidades FTL (más rápidos que la velocidad de la luz) serían inaccesibles.[1]
Las tripulaciones de la flota son multiculturales[6] y se componen de muchas divisiones, incluyendo: mando, científicos, ingenieros, infantes de marina y artilleros. No está claro si las muchas culturas que se pueden encontrar dentro de la flota se dispersan a través de las naves o si las diferentes naves se originaron en diferentes países de la Tierra. Los ingenieros de la Desafiante son tratados como forasteros por el resto de la tripulación de la flota debido a sus habilidades citónicas. Como los miembros de la flota sabían que la Supremacía también poseía tales habilidades, esta similitud probablemente alienó aún más a la tripulación de ingenieros.[7] Como fueron los primeros en poder explorar el espacio, esta desconfianza también puede deberse a los celos.[1] Se rumoreaba que los ingenieros estaban confabulados con los krell, lo que pudo avivar aún más las tensiones entre la tripulación de máquinas y otros sectores de la flota.[8]
Historia
The Defiant's fleet were not involved in the third Human War, however, were targeted by the Superiority none the less.[9] During the war, the Defiant found it increasingly more difficult, as well as dangerous, to contact space stations and planets, and as such did not know of the Superiority or the Krell at the time that they were attacked.[1] When the war ended, the Superiority deemed humanity to be too brutal, uncivilized, and aggressive and ordered that all human fleets surrender to their authority.[10] The people of the Defiant considered themselves separate to the humans involved in the war, and when they refused to surrender, the Krell were sent after the Defiant and its fleet to capture and contain the group.[10]
“I was terrified, in my little heart, because the ship kept shaking from their fire. We were in chaos... I stood in the alcove, watching the red lances of light, and could hear the stars screaming. A little frightened girl by a bubble of glass.”
The day the Defiant crashed, the engineers and scientists, mutinied against the command and military staff aboard the ship, after the Krell had surrounded the fleet and begun to attack the vessels. At some point during the battle, an explosion occurred on the bridge. The captain called down to the engine room, giving Spensa's great-grandmother her commands, however, she disobeyed. She brought the fleet to Detritus, using her cytonic abilities, in the hope that the fleet could use the planet's defense system as protection.[1] However, the jump Spensa's great-grandmother made proved to be beyond her capabilities and she died.[1] Fired upon by the planet's orbital defense platforms, the fleet barely made it through Detritus's outer shell before it crashed onto the surface of the planet, destroying its engines.[7]
The electronic archive of the Defiant survived the crash, however, was destroyed, along with a majority of the senior leadership and professionals of the fleet killed, when the Krell dropped the first Lifebuster bomb, not long after the humans arrival at Detritus.[11] Following this event, the people of the Defiant's fleet formed separate colonies based on the duties they performed in the fleet, living in groups of less than one hundred people to avoid detection, until they were unified during the Battle of Alta.[2][11] Different populations settled in different caverns with the marines colonizing Vici Cavern[4] and the crew from the Antioch settling in Bountiful Cavern.[5] The distinctive lifestyle features of these different caverns may extend back to the original groups aboard the Defiant.
Legacy
Some technology, such as light-lines[12] and holographic projectors,[13] survived the crash, as well as the subsequent destruction of the fleets electronic archive, however, much of the knowledge possessed by the fleet was lost.[12][7] Some information of Old Earth survived, including histories and philosophical writings, and is stored in the archive building at Alta Base.[14] Before the crash, light-lines were used by the engineers while they worked on ship machinery in zero gravity.[6] Schematics of starships also survived the ships destruction.[15]
Knowledge of cytonics, both human and Superiority usages, has faded as time has passed, however, rumors of such abilities have persisted through to present day.[7] While the humans of the Defiant were aware of artificial intelligence, it is unclear if they themselves possessed this technology or the knowledge of how to create AIs.[7] If this was technological knowledge that the crew of the Defiant once possessed, it has since been lost to time.[7]
Knowledge of the mutiny is suppressed, where possible, by modern day officials, who believe that it would cause division if it became wildly known.[8]
The people on Detritus call themselves Defiants, after the flagship of the fleet.[2] Descendants of the engineers are known as the Motorskaps, based off the old words for engine crew;[2] it is unknown if the original engine crew of the Defiant were also known by this name.
Notes
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Escuadrón capítulo 45#
- ↑ a b c d e Escuadrón capítulo 1#
- ↑ Estelar capítulo 29#
- ↑ a b Escuadrón capítulo 8#
- ↑ a b Escuadrón capítulo 7#
- ↑ a b Escuadrón capítulo 14#
- ↑ a b c d e f Escuadrón capítulo 27#
- ↑ a b Escuadrón capítulo 44#
- ↑ Estelar capítulo 28#
- ↑ a b Escuadrón epílogo#
- ↑ a b Escuadrón capítulo 17#
- ↑ a b Escuadrón capítulo 3#
- ↑ Escuadrón capítulo 9#
- ↑ Escuadrón capítulo 37#
- ↑ Escuadrón capítulo 6#