Redeemer

Redeemer
Galactic Registry ID	3919388
Production Date	Year 24 Day 199
Classification	Heavy Cruiser
Model	Subjugator
Owner	Paul Luz

The Redeemer is a Subjugator-class Heavy Cruiser currently undergoing retrofitting in Ternion Corps shipyards.

Missing, Presumed Destroyed

The Redeemer was originally laid own as the Horumonu. Construction was completed sometime in late Year -24, but the exact launch date and the shipyard have been lost to time. Its first captain was a Nemoidian, captain Mal Trower, who commanded the ship with a majority droid crew. Instead of being deployed to the front lines, the Horumonu was sent to a CIS Shipyard complex in the Hevvrol sector where its ion weapon was removed and used by researchers to create a large, asteroid-sized version of the weapon to be deployed in asteroid fields or by hyperspace waypoints to ambush Republic battlegroups. The project was codenamed Black Ice. It was nearly complete when two Jedi, master Klunda Disaik and her padawan Bral Pardos, were captured nearby by Separatist forces. It was assumed that the pair of Jedi were involved in espionage and may have been working with an advance party of clones to sabotage the project entirely. The difficult decision was made to pause the project and relocate. The weapon prototype, the researchers, and equipment were loaded onto the Horumonu, along with the two captured Jedi. The excess power that was previously intended to power the cruiser’s ion weapon was instead converted into energy containment fields to keep the Jedi from escape.

The Horumonu and its prize were ordered deeper into CIS territory until the government decided where to locate next following the siege of Dolomar. En route, however, it flew in the path of a massive radioactive burst- the origin of which has not been confirmed. As a result, the ship was pulled out of hyperspace with many of its systems fried, as well as most of the droid crew. The small sentient crew partially reestablished life support and other vital systems, but navigation and communication systems had been rendered inoperable. The crew attempted to navigate by the stars, but without a precise location they only became more and more disoriented. Even as they were able to bring more of the ship’ droid crew and functionality back online, desperation and madness began to take its toll. A standard month later, few of the sentient crew remained. None remained after two standard months, and the acting captain – tactical droid- decided to offer their Jedi captives a deal. Help them navigate to a safety, and they will be allowed to live.

The two Jedi were in rough shape. They were physically malnourished, emotionally scarred from their solitary confinement, and spiritually devastated from experiencing the horror of Order 66 from a distance, feeling the anguish and deaths of their fellow Jedi without knowing what was happening or why. Bral Pardos would later confide that it was the eerie silence in the Force that followed the deaths that had the most detrimental effect. The Jedi agreed on the condition that they not return to the known galaxy, but find a safe harbor in the Unknown Regions, beyond the reach of whatever had befallen the Jedi Order and, surely, the Republic. The acting captain accepted the terms, its own circuits being damaged from the radiation burst and who was now no longer seeking orders from its former masters. The pair began helping the ship to navigate through hyperspace using the Force. After a month of travel, master Disaik succumbed to the difficulties of the technique and died. Shortly after her death, padawan Pardos helped the Horumonu locate a small mining and manufacturing colony on a planetdoid. The acting captain negotiated a deal for repairs for the ship and safe harbor for the droid crew in return for defense of the colony and its asteroid mining operations. The warship spent the intervening years defending the claims from pirates and rival operations.

Rediscovered

In Year 23, the astronavigation corporation Blue Glow Ltd. began encroaching upon the asteroid fields claimed by the Horumonu’s mining colony. The Blue Glow expedition refused the Horumonu’s demands that they leave, and after Blue Glow began prospecting the asteroids the warship fired its ion weapon, rendering the entire battlegroup dead in space. Mining vessels associated with the colony began scrapping the vessels, killing all on board. After losing communication with the first expedition, Blue Glow deployed a second battle group to locate the first, which also encountered the Horumonu and was similarly disabled.

Before the battlegroup could be scrapped, however, the asteroid field was discovered by a party led by a Ternion Corps coalition also sent by Blue Glow to investigate the disappearance of the first expedition. The largest of the party’s ships were disabled by the ion weapon, but several freighters and corvettes were elsewhere in the field and avoided the blast. They identified the warship as the Horumonu despite its designation in records as “presumed destroyed” in Year -25. Its identity and location were reported to both Ternion Corps and the Trade Federation. The party immediately began planning to get the disabled ships online and take out the Horumonu’s ion weapon. Teams led by Trade Federation Colonel Chaf Ocal Pimi set about boarding disabled Blue Glow and Ternion-allied ships and began working with maintenance teams work around the ion weapon’s damage. Upon meeting hostility by some of the Blue Glow crews, Colonel Pimi and her clone units took control of most of the vessels by locking the crews behind blast doors in nonessential sections of the ships. Meanwhile, General Vir Calder, Major Kaze Zill, and Colonels Ben Rivengold and Panzer Burnier battled through automated droid starfighters towards a small clump of asteroids where they believed the ion weapon was located. As they neared their target, however, they were caught in the ""Horumonu""’s tractor beams and captured by the warship.

Once inside the hangar, the party fought to secure their ships, empty the hangar of battle droids, and fight their way towards the bridge of the Horumonu. They were shortly intercepted by Bral Pardos, who by this time had undergone several massive surgeries in an attempt to make himself a droid and cut himself off from the Force. Bral brought the party to the bridge where the captain, tactical droid TT-2128, interrogated the party and attempted to turn them against Blue Glow and those who would threaten the small mining colony the droid warship defended. After reviewing logs and records, the party agreed to help the warship and the colony defend itself but refused to help destroy the encroaching battlegroup outright. Upon their return, though, they discovered that the Blue Glow fleet had already been captured by Colonel Pimi who had threatened to alert the Galactic Concordiate of Blue Glow’s aggression towards a warship that was still, technically, a CIS vessel. Several of the vessels agreed to dissociate from Blue Glow, and while the other vessels retained their affiliation, the CEO of Blue Glow vowed to never return to the colony’s claims in return for Pimi’s not reporting his activity. Pimi also contacted the Trade Federation and reported that the ship she had reported as the Horumonu was simply using the vessel's transponder, and that the ship was definitely destroyed.

Becoming the Redeemer

Holding up their end of the deal, Panzier Burnier and Ben Rivengold helped procure additional scanning equipment, energy shields, and weapons platforms to help defend the mining colony and asteroid field claims. Now no longer the solo defense for the colony, the Horumono accepted an offer to make its way clandestinely to the Austan system where Ternion Corps would help make substantial repairs and retrofit the vessel with modern technology. The vessel needed a new temporary designation, though. Official wartime records listed the Horumonu as missing, presumed destroyed. Should the existence of the ship make its way to the modern Confederacy of Independent Systems, the CIS may attempt to reclaim the vessel. Slicers working with Ternion created a new transponder and identity for the warship with the name, Redeemer, flying under the auspices of Ternion Corps for the time being.