RWI Discovery

The Discovery is a Venture-class Heavy Cruiser built by RWI.

Battle of Demus
After RWI Captains Jack Roberts and Jonathan Hunter were successful at stealing the mysterious obelisk known as the Artifact from the Green Drone Armada during the Battle of Ravcor, albeit at high damage to ships, the crew of Roberts’ ship, the RWI Eclipse, hijacked a GDA transmitter station above the ice planet Demus and sent out a distress call to RWI and its allies. Captain Sarah Hawk and the Discovery were sent to reinforce them, as they were close by and able to help.

The Discovery used it’s experimental laser PDCs to help drive off the attacking GDA Destroyers, Captain Roberts and his two XOs, Commander Sam Reed of RWI and Commander Craz of CNL, met on board the Discovery and talked with Captain Hawk about their situation. Because the Discovery was not carrying any additional cargo, Roberts and Hawk decided to evacuate the heavily damaged flagship of the injured Captain Hunter, the Daedalus-class Battleship RWI Valiant, and transfer them and the Artifact aboard the Discovery, so the Discovery could transfer the Artifact, Hunter, and his crew safely back to Icarus, the RWI capital world. After a brief but intense battle, the Valiant took even more damage and was forced to crash-land on Demus, with Roberts, Reed, and two other crewmen aboard. While the Eclipse traveled down to assess the situation, the Discovery retreated to Icarus.

Scouting Mission
Unfortunately, during the Battle of Icarus, the Artifact was stolen back by the GDA from RWI’s Black Vault facility. Grand Admiral Adam Williams, leader of RWI’s navy, dispatched the Discovery to locate the Artifact using a tracking device planted on it. The Discovery located the Artifact some time later on the rumored GDA capital world of P3-X2.

However, as the Discovery entered the system and began scanning, it was ambushed by several upgraded GDA Destroyers and heavily damaged. Hawk was informed that the ship’s FTL core was offline, preventing them from escaping. As the Discovery began to drift into P3-X2’s atmosphere, Hawk ordered the evacuation, though she and most of the bridge crew stayed aboard as it crashed.

Invasion of P3-X2
When the RWI and CNL invasion fleet arrived three days later, the RWI Osiris was sent to find the Discovery’s crash site and evacuate the survivors. The crew of the Eclipse was later diverted to assist them when the Artifact left the planet aboard the GDA Super-Dreadnaught. However, when the Eclipse crew arrived and made contact with Captain Hawk, the Osiris was being attacked by two GDA Scourge-class Carriers and a large detachment of fighters. The crew managed to cover the Osiris’s shuttles long enough to finish ferrying Hawk and her crew to the Osiris before evacuating the planet on the Eclipse. The Discovery’s remains were left on the planet, and it is possible that they were salvaged or recovered and towed back to Icarus by RWI at some point after the war.