A corvette in the Archangel Navy and Tanner Malon’s first duty station. It first appeared in Poor Man’s Fight.
History[]
ANS St. Jude was built as a Vigilant-class corvette in the Archangel system. She home ported on Augustine.[1] Her CO was lieuteant Stevens, and she was the first responder to the capture of Aphrodite by pirates in 2274.[2] Stevens’s failure to follow procedure while reporting caused the ship and its captain to be worked very hard with little recognition.[3][4]
Stevens took his duties very seriously, but viewed those duties very narrowly. He was also a poor communicator, focused on appearance over substance, and allowed a culture of bullying to fester on the ship.[4][5] Tanner became the designated target for this when he joined the crew in late 2274 or early 2275.[3]
She responded to an emergency on the freighter Saguaro in May 2275.[6] A few months later she was assigned to intercept and inspect the Yaomo while short-handed. Thanks to the actions of Tanner and lieutenant Gagne they managed to capture the pirate ship, but the ship received no commendation as a unit.[4][7]
St. Jude was destroyed by the pirate ship Vengeance when she responded to the mayday call from Pride of Polaris.[5] She and her crew were presented as the finest ship in the Archangel Navy afterwards.[8]
Crew[]
- Lieutenant Stevens, CO
- Lieutenant John Gagne, XO
- SK2 Flores, medic, storekeeper, cook
- BM1 Freeman, head bo’sun
- Heifer, crewman
- Leone, engineer
- Tanner Malone
- GM3 Miller, gunner’s mate
- BM2 Morales, boatswain’s mate
- Chief O’Malley, engineer
- Reed, ops specialist
- Stumpy, crewman
- Wells, engineer
It is likely that the ship had two more crew in the engineering department, for a total crew of 16.[3][4]
References[]
- ↑ Poor Man’s Fight, chapter 6
- ↑ Poor Man’s Fight, chapter 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Poor Man’s Fight, chapter 8
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Poor Man’s Fight, chapter 10
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Poor Man’s Fight, chapter 12
- ↑ “Grunt Work”
- ↑ Poor Man’s Fight, chapter 11
- ↑ Dead Man’s Debt, chapter 4