Master Chief's Entry to the Original Ships Category:
UFS All Under Heaven
Download a simulated profile of the UFS All Under Heaven.
A legendary starship of the United Fleets of Earth, the
All Under Heaven used to be the flagship of the UF. She has taken part in over 100 engagements (most with United Rebel Front rogue starships) and was an integral part of the Insurrectionist War effort, reclaiming nearly 40 colonies where Rebel forces had taken over. Her weapon systems (though lacking the more modern developments of ablative armour, sectional shielding and point defence) are still powerful enough to destroy most third-generation UF starships, making her unequivocally deserving of her rank within the Fleets. Being a flagship, it served the Home Fleet well, especially during the Rebel raid on Reach which cost the Republic nearly 100 starships, where she single-handedly took on the Rebel Command Battlecruiser
Invisible Palm in an engagement which caused her to suffer near-critical damage, with both her bow and left wing completely sheared off.
After being repaired, she continued to take part in patrols mostly around the Trinity worlds of Earth, Reach and New Terra, helping to stave off repeated Rebel task forces daring and brave enough to engage the Home Fleet. Ever since the Katuri intrusion occurred at Abundance, the UFS
All Under Heaven has again been called to the front lines, in the hope that her massive firepower and ability to intimidate could assist the war effort, regardless of her second-generation status. She proved her mettle during the Battle of New Constantinople, where she assisted the 5th Fleet in decimating the entire 7th Armada of the Katuri Imperial Navy, in an engagement which lasted nearly 5 hours; and in the Battle of Myriadem, where an apparently lopsided arrangement of 20 stray Katuri starships (which had miscalculated their Slipspace jumps) dropped into realspace in orbit over the world, and were decimated in 10 minutes flat.
Her name itself comes from the Ancient Chinese belief that the entire of China was indeed "All Under Heaven", due to the huge size of their imperial empire. Now, the starship which has dutifully served the UF for over 100 years has proven herself worthy of the same title which was bestowed on Ancient China by her people, truly epitomizing the name through the powerful weapon arrays laid on her hull, which have laid waste to "All Under Heaven (which isn't Terran in nature)", as commonly joked by Fleets Personnel.
Below is a simulation of the
All Under Heaven engaging herself:
As seen above, both starships are firing their first salvos at each other, with the
Artisan Directed Energy Weapons (hyper-yield) and the
Tenacity Plasma Turrets (rapid-firing) clearly visible. The large amounts of
Bee and
Wasp drones being launched reveals, upon inference, the presence of huge launch bays on the
All Under Heaven herself.
The aftermath of the simulation:
One of the starships has been destroyed, while the other has been left in a condition just slightly better that of the actual starship herself after the famous engagement with the
Invisible Palm. Though the actual starship had been repaired after that attack, if you were to inspect her hull closely from the outside using an Extra-Vehicular Pack now, you can see remaining sear marks from the heat created after Rebel mass driver, kinetic missile and shrapnel gun attacks (which are not automatically repaired by nano-repair-bots normally utilised by the UF to patch up damaged starships), which Fleet Command strangely refused to paint over or cover up with another layer of titanium armour, stating that "these marks and scars of battle bring greater testimony to her enduring legacy".
Disclaimer:
No actual starships were used in the simulation above.
