Vengeance (Sakaros)

Vengeance

The Vengeance was a Devastator-class War Cruiser in the armada of the Sith Lord Khrado Ragnos, which was passed on to several of his relatives and comrades, eventually becoming a combination of laboratory and mobile fortress.

Service History
The Vengeance, like all Devastator-class cruisers, was designed jointly by Ragnos and his apprentice Tak Sakaros in the 60s BBY, but only built and put into service in the years preceding the Clone Wars. The Vengeance was an awe-inspiring craft, the first off the production line of the new class of warships, and it was quickly put into service in Ragnos's campaigns of conquest. Performing magnificently, the ship and its fellow Devastators quickly became the staple of Ragnos's front line.

When the Dark Lord died, the Vengeance was left in stasis with the rest of the his fleet under the care of its Massassi crewmen. So it remained for several decades, until the fleet was rediscovered by Tak Sakaros in the early years of the New Republic. Pleased to see how well his conjectural designs had worked out in practice, Sakaros continued to use the Vengeance and her sister ships on the front line of his own conquests.

Not long after recovering the fleet, Sakaros encountered his blood-sister Valadyn Ragnos, and the Vengeance's career as a distinct craft, rather than a mere limb of the larger fleet, began. Unable to convince Valadyn to remain with him and unwilling to dog her footsteps through the galaxy, Sakaros persuaded her to take the Vengeance as her personal cruiser, leaving her a contingent of his best Massassi crewmen.

Valadyn was a scientist and geneticist, a genius on par with her late brother, and she converted much of the spare space inside the Vengeance into science labs and elaborate gene-splicing chambers. She continued her experiments throughout the following decades, sticking to the distant reaches of the galaxy and avoiding most of the conflicts of the Republic, the Empire, and later the Vong. On the only occasion when the Vengeance ran into a Vong squad, its superior firepower massacred the invaders in minutes.

At an unknown point, but presumably in the early 30s ABY, Valadyn encountered her niece, Adrienne Keane, along with her daughter Andromeda. The two Sith joined their aunt, and Adrienne (a competent scientist herself) assisted Valadyn in her experiments. However, an experiment eventually went severely wrong, and Adrienne was exposed to chemicals and radiation which forced her into a coma. Valadyn encased her niece in a protected chamber and took to raising Andromeda.

In 35 ABY, Valadyn took the Vengeance to Naboo, where she found her brother Tak embroiled in a conflict with several other Dark Jedi. Taking Valadyn, Adrienne, and Andromeda under his personal protection, Sakaros reabsorbed the Vengeance into his greatly reduced fleet. When Valadyn died shortly thereafter due to sickness produced by her experiments, the Vengeance remained with the Sith fleet.

Three decades later, when Rin Sakaros departed on her grand tour of the galaxy to study the Force, Tak gave her the Vengeance as her personal craft. The young Sith modified the ship to include a Force-powered command chamber, similar to the one found on the Sith Star. It was also redesigned with an advanced intelligence computer system, to reduce the bare minimum crew to only a few hundred. In the process of investigating the ship, Rin read up on her aunt's experiments, improving her knowledge of the sciences.

When Rin rejoined the Sith fleet years later, the Vengeance was the site of her climactic duel with her father. Afterwards, when the Sith witch took over the fleet, the Vengeance again became a ship of the line.

Special Features

 * Given that the Vengeance was the ship Tak Sakaros used to protect beloved relatives, it had several modifications from the normal class, including advanced targeting systems to fend off starfighters, and reduced fighter capacity to make room for more weapon, shield, and engine power systems.
 * The Vengeance had a series of complex laboratories near its core, which could draw power from the ship's engines for demanding experiments when the ship was in stationary orbit over a system or simply parked in space. These labs had some safety issues which were later corrected by Rin Sakaros.
 * Under Rin's command, the ship had a chamber from which a very powerful Force user (like Rin herself) could minutely control much of the ship's operation.