UECNS Lakhesis

UECNS Lakhesis is the second of the three Fate-class strike cruisers. Its operating intelligence, Cerulean Two, was originally somewhere between an advanced expert system and a full AI; based on Red One's own neural net, but not a direct copy of her complete intelligence, this system was designed to learn and modify itself to better respond to mission parameters until she eventually became a fully fledged AI.

After refit Lakhesis had a relatively small livable area, largely restricted to her armoured central core and a few sections outside it. Most of those regions provided access to ship systems, with little in the way of recreational functions.

Operational History
Lakhesis and the other two Fates would initially be used as part of the system defenses for Shuruppak, but after the return of UECNS Nemesis along with her newly acquired crewmembers and UECNS Hekate, followed by the departure of the crew aboard Pale Liberation, she would be assigned to follow and protect them if possible.

The strike cruiser would operate inside the Compact for some time using its stealth and concealment systems, tracking the movements of the four crewmembers. It eventually caught up to Marcus de Vries and Lydia Jameson halfway through the Battle of 1893-Yiren, and destroyed the entire remaining elements of the Compact squadron sent to destroy Hala and its escorts. Having apparently failed in its mission (with Hala a broken wreck and no apparent Red Hand survivors in sight), it returned to Shuruppak. The Compact gave it the code name Scar, later extended to all Fate-class ships.

Several months after, the Battle of Galhemna would take place. As a modern Confederate asset, Lakhesis was present, and was one of the ships escorting Nemesis and Hekate as they moved deeper in-system. After the Confederate victory and subsequent relocation to Zerzura, it would recieve immediate repairs for redeployment on the entry corridor through the Black Veil. In this role it would form a hunter-killer team with UECNS IKagge, chasing down the battlecruiser CSFWV Ecanok's Blade.

When a fleet led by Ecanok's Blade attempted to map the Black Veil, Lakhesis and IKagge tracked one of their courier drones to Ecanok's Blade and attacked, destroying the Compact courier ship CSFWV Izabiel. This left Ecanok's Blade with the only copy of the shockspace data for the Veil. They pursued it and attacked again, damaging IKagge in the skirmish''. Ecanok's Blade escaped several more times, with both it and its pursuers suffering damage from shockspace, but IKagge finally caught up and engaged, followed shortly by Lakhesis. In the ensuing duel, IKagge'' was disabled and its computer core destroyed, along with the neural net within. The shock of this event sparked Cerulean Two's sapience. She destroyed Ecanok's Blade and returned to Zerzura to meet with Red One and Echo.

The Naiads observing Nemesis' fleet named her Lichesword.