Sergenious

The Sergenious is the very first shipkiller ever constructed in all of Earthfleet history. It was a revolutionary starship of its time, faster, more agile and better armed than many ships 20x or more its size. The concept and doctrine of the Sergenious was to create a ship that could go toe to toe with most light to medium battleships within the galaxy, and win single-handedly without outside help. For larger ships, the Sergenious class would join together in a three ship formation and combine their strengths to defeat the battleship or battle cruiser, and in some cases, certain dreadnoughts if larger, more powerful ships weren't available. The Sergenious class went through two primary iterations in its lifetime. The original version was very stocky, boxy and bulky, its core design harking back to the more spartan and utilitarian designs of the Gayik'Von, from which most of Earthfleet's earlier starships took their inspiration.

However, what is known as the "Gen 2", or "Generation Two" refit, was a complete rebuild of the Sergenious class, providing it with newer, better armor, shields, weapons, defensive systems and more. It also took away much of the older, blockier, utilitarian design of the ship and replaced it with lower profile turrets, engine modules and a much sleeker design. Even the FTL drives and Coaxial Power Core were upgraded to make her faster and more agile. The Sergenious class then served out the rest of its life, which included a long and decorated service history, before finally being replaced by the Raven and Wolfpack classes. Over time, Earthfleet built two more shipkiller classes, the Samurai and the Pegasus, with the intention of improving on the original Sergenious design. However, both of them failed to do so as their larger size and heavier design slowed them down, causing them to lose some of what made the Sergenious class so great.

Eventually the Samurai class found a niche of its own, acting as the bigger, heavier companion to the light, swift and powerful Sergenious class, whereas the Pegasus class, which was considerably bigger than either the Samurai or the Sergenious, ended in failure due to the ship's size and weight creating problems with speed, maneuverability and durability, and more or less turning it into an over powered frigate rather than a shipkiller. As a result, the Pegasus class was eventually scrapped, whereas the Sergenious and Samurai classes continued to serve for years afterwards, until eventually replaced by a newer generation of shipkiller. The namesake ship of this class is also unique in fleet history as it's the only Sergenious class vessel to ever undergo a Gen 3, or Generation 3 upgrade. This was only made possible by the intervention of Eric Rogers after the retirement of Mike Clayton from his position as Grand Admiral.

What made this possible was that, shortly after the Sergenious completed its Gen 2 upgrades, she was given to, and became the flagship of then Admiral Clayton, and remained with him as his personal starship all the way up until he became Grand Admiral. After is retirement, and given the age of the ship at the time, it was decommissioned, retired and stricken from the official record as an Earthfleet military vessel and recommissioned as a private, albeit insanely powerful personal civilian starship. It was during this time that Eric, her chief engineer ever since her Gen 2 refit, stripped the vessel down to its Spaceframe and rebuilt it entirely from the ground up as nearly a brand new ship, and outfitting her with a much newer Linear Hyperdrive, newer shields, fluidic armor and many other improvements. The bridge was also rebuilt and the crew requirements to operate it dropped from nine to four, although the fourth station was rarely ever manned, except in special circumstances.

Therefore the new stations became helm, command and tactical, auxiliary/operations, and engineering. Due to the ship's newly installed