The Valiance blog - AK151

With the (re)construction project of my flagship nearly complete, I find it appropriate to give a few details about the ship. Along with that, I am going to add the history of the ship in the actual Star Wars universe (or at least, my version).
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Size
33,764 meters in length
10,531 meters in width
3,561 meters in height
Propulsion
120 MGLT sub-light speed
Class 0.25 hyperdrive, class 0.5 backup hyperdrive

Complement
Talon lead
Saber 1
Talon squadron
Raven squadron
1,000 fighter-type vessels
500 gunship-type vessels
10 monitor-type vessels
15 corvette-type vessels
Prefabricated land base
1,000 mechanized combat units (MCUs)
5,000 Drakkar warriors

Defenses
Drakkar ramming steel (Equivalent to beskar at the very least)
Ultra-heavy shielding (600 zettatons)
Drakkar ion shielding
500-megaton point defense turbolasers (2,000)
75-gigaton heavy point defense turbolasers (1,500)
Tractor beam projectors (25)
Internal gravity-well generators (10)
200mm internal heavy hangar defense turrets (25)
100mm internal light hangar defense turrets (50)
Internal defense grid (1)
Internal gravity well projectors (10)
Heavy tractor beam projectors (25)
Advanced ECM/ECCM programs

Offensive Weapons
1250-yottawatt ultra heavy turbobeam cannons (2)
1 zettaton ultra heavy turbolaser cannons (4)
500m ultra heavy mass driver launchers (4)
100m very heavy mass driver launchers (16)
2.5-zettawatt ultra heavy dual turbobeam cannons (16)
900-teraton very heavy turbolaser batteries (450)
720-teraton very heavy turbolaser batteries (500)
540-teraton heavy turbolaser batteries (550)
400-teraton heavy turbolaser batteries (600)
240-teraton heavy turbolaser batteries (650)
Ramming prongs

Role
Command ship
Battlecruiser
Carrier

Approximate Completion Date
DESTROYED

History
*NOTE: A great deal of the later history directly conflicts with known cannon and changes quite a few things. This is around the Legacy era. Don't shoot me.

The Valiance was created along with eleven sister ships prior to the outbreak of the Clone Wars. Each ship represented one of the systems under Drakkar control. The Valiance represented Drakara, and was made the strongest of the vessels. When the Drakkar sided with the CIS during the Clone Wars, the Valiance fought, destroying many ships. After the destruction of the Inferni, one of the Drakiir dreadnoughts, at the hands of the Republic, the Drakkar withdrew to their own borders, fearing the loss of another one of their mighty warships.

As the Clone Wars progressed, opinion of the CIS degraded, but the government continued to support the Separatists. Eventually, one of the Drakkar's key outposts, Arcadia Station, declared independence from the Drakkar Sovereignty after several systems were bombed for trying to secede as well. The Valiance was acting as a flagship for the Loyalists, but it was undergoing a retrofit at the time of the crisis. A commando party from Arcadia Station led by the elite Dragoon Shi'ara Makra and her commanding officer Drake Parker, infiltrated the Valiance and took control, destroying the shipyard the war ship was docked at before moving off and returning to Arcadia Station, arriving just before the station was overwhelmed. The Valiance became the flagship for the resistance, under the command of Drake Parker.

During this time period, an advanced force of Yuuzhan Vong attacked, intent on wiping out the Drakkar. However, another force, the Silentium, who harbored no ill will towards the Drakkar for their previous actions, wanted no further bloodshed and gave the Drakkar advanced technology, which the Valiance received. This also spawned the Saber-class monitor, an advanced frigate capable of taking on the Drakav capital ships of the Loyalist forces. The war against the Drakkar government was put on hold to fight the Yuuzhan Vong, and the Valiance was instrumental, fighting alongside her sister ships in the final battle.

After the Vong were defeated and the Silentium had departed, the resistance forces left under fire from loyalists, who turned on them. The war continued, and the resistance forces began to gain more ground with the help of Sabers and the Valiance. The war cruiser saw less action as the war progressed, as it was not as effective in hit-and-run attacks as Sabers. However, in the final battle, the Valiance was the flagship of the resistance fleet, leading the charge first against advanced forces above the planet Shala'kra, disabling the Drakiir cruiser Rising Justice in the process, and then against the defense grid above Drakara. During the final battle, the leader of the Drakkar, in a desperate and greedy move turned the massive defense grid on his planet before committing suicide, wanting to take his people with him. The majority of the defense grid was disabled or destroyed, but the Valiance sustained major damage in the process, losing her ramming prongs. At one point, she lost firing control from a group of missiles from the final defense platform, and engaged in a suicidal maneuver to ram what was left of the ship into the platform, saving the capital city of the planet from destruction. However, the Rising Justice, now online, intervened, having monitored the situation. It jumped close to the platform and destroyed it, saving the Valiance. With that, the Drakkar Civil War came to an end.

After several months of repair, the Valiance joined the Republic in the waning months of the Clone Wars, joined by the Rising Justice. The majority of the Drakiir cruisers were either decommissioned or destroyed during the Civil War. The Valiance participated in many conflicts, including the first Battle of Kayburr, where she remained in orbit, destroying invading CIS forces while her ground forces deployed to help destroy CIS forces on the ground. From this battle, as a reward for their help, the Valiance received an additional upgrade, self-repairing nanobots that can rebuild ships easily.

The Valiance and Rising Justice found a great deal of action fighting the CIS's Overlord-class dreadnoughts, designed by exiled Drakkar shipbuilders hoping to tip the battle in favor of the droid army. However, these threats were destroyed. Three dreadnoughts were made. One, the Invincible, equipped with an impenetrable shield, was destroyed by the Rising Justice and the Valiance in a joint strike with an elite fighter group. One was destroyed by the Rising Justice at the cost of the ship, and the Valiance destroyed the last, the Bloodseeker, but suffered heavy damage in the process, ambushed by the dreadnought, which had been equipped with a cloaking device. The Valiance was left adrift, its occupants in stasis, waiting to be awakened by whoever found them as nano-bots repaired the damaged vessel.

Several years later, the Drakkar frigate Retribution, one of the flagships for the Galactic Rebellion, discovered a distress signal originating from a ship at least as big as a super star destroyer. The frigate, along with a small Rebellion battle fleet, investigated the signal, discovering the warship. After awakening the crew and explaining the situation, Drake Parker, the captain of the Valiance, agreed to assist the Rebellion. It first took on the task of liberating Drakara. Taken by surprise, the Imperial fleet was easily destroyed, even the massive star dreadnought sent to defend the planet. The planet was easily liberated by the powerful war cruiser. The Valiance became one of the flagships of the Rebel fleet, and participated in many battles.

More at some point in time...