ORG:RASALAS

The Rasalas is the name given to an Anvil Carrack with a plethora of dedicated roles; be it an engineer, security, medic, etc. If you’ve ever watched Firefly or Expanse, we are modelled after them; a mid-sized group that bonds as friends and lives aboard the Carrack with similar divisions to those found in Star Trek.

Under the leadership of Captain Demias, our goal is to explore all the systems available, documenting places of interest, mapping, scouting, cave diving, etc. while making aUEC to eventually sustain a small but practical fleet.

History
Much of the crew aboard the Rasalas met in 2945 during the tragic Attack on Vega II. The now Captain Demias who was at the time of the event still a commander, banded together with a pilot, Trevor Corey, a medic, Mitch Massell, and an old friend he trained with on MacArthur, Cassiele Vaughn to rescue as many trapped civilians from the city of New Corvo as they could. One of the rescued civilians was an injured teenage native, Tobis Karliyel who stayed with them after the tragedy.

The group eventually arrived in the Stanton system in 2947, making Area 18 their home. It was during one of their missions to ArcCorp's moon, Lyria that they happened upon the abandoned and severely damaged wreck of an Anvil Carrack which they discovered was once registered within the UEE under the name of Dawn's Hope where it was flown under UEE Marine, Captain Artemis from 2897 to 2925.

Calling in others from the Battle of Vega II, Captain Demias and his newly formed crew refitted the Dawn's Hope with state of the art technology, renaming the vessel - Rasalas.

The name 'Rasalas' was chosen as homage to the northern star in the head of the Leo constellation. The star represents strength, bravery, courage, knowledge and safe travel across a variety of ancient cultures on Earth and was chosen as a fitting tribute to the extreme challenges and setbacks the crew of the ship had undergone to get the ship fighting fit again.

Following the completion of the re-commission in 2949, the Rasalas took its' maiden voyage and first posting in the Stanton system which at the time was rife with system-wide criminal operations that contributed to a hot bed of problems for the UEE, including the increasing threat from Nine tails and XenoThreat blockades and attacks around Stanton, leaving the UEE with a weak grip on authority in the system. Consequently, the Civilian Defence Force's (CDF) plea for vessels to patrol the area and aid authorities was seen as the perfect opportunity to establish the Rasalas as a formidable ship, capable of protecting those in need.

The Rasalas continues to patrol the Stanton system to the present day.