Nightingale

Nightingale
Class	Capital Ship
Type	Prometheus-class Star Craft
Modifications
Type	Modern adaptation of original Clone Wars blueprints.
History
Date of Manufacture	Year 19, Day 330
Affiliation	Dr. Spree Razzix
Events	Trans-galactic research (ongoing)

The Nightingale is a modified Prometheus-class Star Craft and the flagship of Dr. Spree Razzix.

History

The Nightingale is a wholly unique spacecraft, designed specifically as a mobile research vessel. It sports cutting-edge computing and medical technology, as well as a versatile combat, propulsion, and scanning capabilities. Until its creation, the only documented Prometheus-class ships in existence were constructed during the Clone Wars. Through great expense of time, money, and research, Dr. Razzix had found prototype blueprints to the ship. Through even more effort, the vratix had secured a large, private shipyard for its production. He cashed in every favor he could to hire the best and brightest shipwrights, engineers, and scientists to work on the project. After almost a year on the production line, the ship was completed on Day 330 of Year 19.

Its name is inspired by "The Lady with the Lamp", an ancient tale about a healer working with soldiers, training other healers, and performing groundbreaking public health research. Spree first heard this tale on Thyferra as he was just beginning his life as a physician. Her story, however real or mythological it may be, inspired him and shaped his outlook on the medical field forever. The Lady with the Lamp was known only as Nightingale.

Namesake

While the full myth of the Lady with the Lamp is not documented in writing, there have been many works of art completed in her name. Within the Nightingale is a small plaque enshrining the following poem:

The Lady with the Lamp

In the barracks late at night
the wounded soldiers cried.
Their screams echoed down the halls
as their brothers and sisters died.

Sights and smells and sounds of death
cycled through their thoughts.
The pitch-black rooms, the blasts of guns
turned even hardened souls in knots.

Behold! From the darkness comes a light,
brought by a woman's graces.
The Lady with a Lamp had finally come,
bringing hope to warriors' faces.

With healing hands she flits about,
tending injured, weak, and frail.
The angel of the battlefield,
known as the Nightingale.

Current Use

Currently, Dr. Razzix uses the ship for his month-long research expeditions. Its powerful sensor array as well as landing capacity allows for the vratix to investigate both terrestrial as well as astronomical curiosities, of which he has many.

The Nightingale on its maiden voyage.