UAV Cometfencer

Ship that Mike Beringwaite serves on as second in command. Has a cook with more enthusiasm than sense.

Specifics/Layout

• Officers' club looks like a traditional officers' club. Lots of small rooms with dark wood paneling, clusters of chairs and shelves full of knickknacks and books. Wooden floors. Dining tables with utensils tucked into napkins.
• has a second generation housing on the Well compartment at the time Beringwaite was First Commander

Service History

• Prior to the captain's retreat, and during Beringwaite's tenure as First Commander, the Cometfencer did pirate hunting in the Outskirts, (the sectors adjacent to and including Thaka Epta)); no battles but they ran down merchants carrying contraband, including five slavers. This has given them significant experience in working up 'moths'. They had a recent specialist turnover at the Core, prior to the captain's retreat.

• During the captain's retreat, the Cometfencer saw battle in a dark pirate base, alongside the Stardancer, during which they were so significantly damaged they required a tow back to the nearest beachhead, which could only repair them enough to bootstrap them to a starbase's proper drydock.

Trivia

• They brew their own beer, Axeman ale: "brown ale, malty with a nice caramel finish."

Crew

Mixed species/mixed-sex crew.

Has developed an assault team with experience in boarding maneuvers.

Includes:

• Second Commander is a female who is "far less devious" than Alastar Virgil.
• Costello, a "reformed criminal": short human woman with light brown skin, dark hair shaved up one side and bobbed down the other, and monolidded eyes that "looked bored but didn't disguise the alert tension in her body." One of the Old and Proud.
• a Tam-illee who greeted Taylitha on her visit and guided her to the officer's club
• a "cook" (male) who likes to browse the u-banks and newstreams for exotic dishes and add them to the genie