Cynthetic Certainty

Cynthetic Certainty

Cynthetic Certainty is a warship in the service of Tagon's Toughs. Her captain is Kaff Tagon, and her shipmind is Cindy.

Ship Description

Cynthetic Certainty is a customized Dragon-class Cruiser, like the Toughs' original ship, the Kitesfear. Like other Dragon-class cruisers, it was shaped as a flat kite with a massive main annie-plant protruding from its surface. Unlike Kitesfear, the Certainty was brand-new and equipped with a main gun: a spinal-mount, gravity-braided plasma beam weapon that was omitted from the original CDS Dragon fleet for budget reasons. The weapon had a forty-five meter barrel and was powered by a dedicated five-meter annie-plant. At close range, the gravity-braid would breach enemy shields with devastating effect, but it was ineffective against shields at long range.

When the ship was teraported to Andromeda to attack the Pa'anuri long gun, the main gun was replaced in transit with a Mk V Teragun, as conventional weapons were ineffective against dark matter.

Ship History

The name Cynthetic Certainty is based on the name of her shipmind Cindy and the logical term "synthetic statement". The sentiment of the name is something along the lines of "we say things and then make sure they come true." Cindy chose the name herself.

Urtheep Industries

As her first mission after construction, Cynthetic Certainty was dispatched as part of job working for Urtheep Industries to investigate a renegade Gzeaul research ship, Jozagle's Purse. After exploring an unknown alien artefact the size of a stellar enclosure, the ship had murdered a Urtheep supply freighter, then teraported to Sol to the icy subgiant Bacchus and crashed. The Certainty was sent when the Broken Wind was denied entry into Sol due to its Oafan hull (which were unwelcome in the system over fear of Long-Guns, despite Broken Wind not carrying one, and the location of Long-Guns being irrelevant by definition anyway). The investigation was fruitless because the Purse had thoroughly self-destructed via a gravitic pulse after crashing.

The Certainty was then redeployed via teraport into the Urtheep Industries returns receiving dock, in order to defend against an attack by agents of the same entity that had suborned Jozagle's Purse. Here Cindy got her first opportunity to use the new main gun, firing it at point-blank range at an enemy tank. The Certainty and her crew won the battle with only some casualties: Corporal Peri Gugro received a chest wound after entering combat without her armor, and several nodes of the Ot-Skadak hive-mind Akkro-Afka had to be killed after being suborned, in order to protect the rest of the hive-mind.

Outer Uuple

The Toughs were indirectly drafted into assisting with the recovery of victims from the explosion of a deep space refinery facility in the Uuple system. The mission was complicated by the xenophobic Uuplechan system politics, which technically forbade outsiders from contracting or even volunteering for such work. Using a loophole in Uuplechan law, the Toughs were ostensibly led by Corporal Peri Gugro (playing the role of "Marshall Gugro"), on an invitation by her sister, Doctor Viki Gugro, a citizen of Uuple.

Uuplechan traffic control, unable to deny the mercenaries entry by legal means, resorted to a loophole of their own: They unofficially invited the Uuplechan Patriot Armada (nominally a paramilitary defense fleet, but actually a xenophobic group of pirates who routinely attacked, murdered or even enslaved civilian traders) to "aggressively discourage" the mercenaries, who would not be legally allowed to engage in combat even in self-defense. The Toughs nonetheless engaged the three UPA vessels and easily boarded their flagship before disarming and detaining Shiplord Srabben on suspicion of piracy.

Gallery

Yet named Cynthetic Certainty under construction at JumpStar City.

Firing it's Teragun in combat with Pa'anuri

Cynthetic Certainty being intergalactically teraported to the Andromeda Galaxy.

Ship in low orbit

Notes

• It's unclear as of this writing, what the Cynthetic Certainty's secondary weapons or other weapons are. Other than she has turrets for other direct fire weapons.