Polonia Prime Navy Modified Destroyer
Designation: PPS Błyskawica
Class: Sino-Confederation Destroyer (Heavily Modified)
Length: ~300 meters
Primary Allegiance: Polonia Prime Navy
Captain: Maria Roszak (as of final engagement)
Role: Advanced rapid-response destroyer, flagship of Roszak’s squadron
Status: Decommissioned with honors following the Battle of the Crucible
Overview
PNS Błyskawica (“Lightning”) began her service as an aging Sino-Confederation destroyer purchased in desperation—but through daring leadership and alien-derived upgrades, she became the most iconic warship of Polonia Prime. Her hybrid systems, exceptional crew, and tactical record made her not just a vessel of war, but a symbol of resilience, independence, and national pride.
Key Features
- Alien-Derived Structural Integrity Field: Reinforces the ship’s hull and internal compartments, enabling it to survive damage that would destroy a standard vessel.
- Micro-Jump Bubble Drive: Allows short-range translations in combat, enabling ambushes, evasions, and precision engagements.
- Advanced Point Defense Grid: Integrated alien-human systems form a deadly anti-missile network.
- Jury-Rigged Hybrid Power Architecture: Combines human and alien systems to push performance beyond original specs, at the cost of occasional instability.
- Legendary Crew: Hardened over years of service and led by Commodore Maria Roszak, the crew’s cohesion and training were vital to every victory.
Major Engagements
- Theta² Tauri Discovery: First to detect and board an alien derelict, triggering a technological renaissance for Polonia Prime.
- Station Alpha Incident: Intercepted and disabled a rogue vessel smuggling stolen technology. First confirmed evidence of Caliphate neural implant experimentation.
- Supercarrier Encounter: Survived and outmaneuvered a Caliphate supercarrier, coordinating a devastating bubble missile counterattack with Burza.
- ⚔️ Battle of the Crucible (Pivotal Engagement):
- Fought in the unstable region known as the Crucible, a chaotic convergence of bubble-space corridors.
- Błyskawica served as Roszak’s command ship, anchoring the defense against a coordinated Caliphate and covert Coalition assault.
- Sustained catastrophic damage while holding a key chokepoint, including near-total system failure and hull breaches across multiple decks.
- Survived only due to the Structural Integrity Field, emergency power reroutes, and the crew’s refusal to abandon ship.
- Despite overwhelming odds, Błyskawica coordinated the decisive counterattack that repelled the enemy and preserved Polonia Prime’s control of the Bubble Gate Network.
Final Fate
After the Battle of the Crucible, Błyskawica was towed back to Polonia Prime—barely functional, her structure warped and scarred. Though engineers considered a full retrofit, her systems were too compromised. Instead, she was formally decommissioned with honors, her name etched into Polonia Prime’s military history. Her command crew moved on to newer ships, but Błyskawica herself became a memorial vessel, anchored near Polonia Prime as a training simulator and ceremonial monument.