CMS Breslau

"We had never seen damage doled out so precisely on a ship like this. Usually, a warship simply gets battered to slag by overwhelming mass fire, but it looks like Oppressor succumbed to a thousand stabs of a dagger – all in the same spots."

- A senior starwright at Kuat Drive Yards

CMS Breslau (CLG-57) will be forever known by the names "Gravity Killer", "Needlefighter", and "The Can that Could" for its accomplishments versus the warships of the Imperial Task Force Crimson Star during the Imperial Blitzkrieg of 14 ABY. She was built as the twenty-seventh construct of the versatile Sh'water class of light cruisers in 12 ABY.

In what has become known as the Mikassa Incident, Breslau was deployed on orders to patrol and guard Mikassa during the opening stanzas of heightened tensions between the Empire, the New Republic, and Caspia. She was part of CMS Tuatalin's small flotilla of warships, which also included three Lightning-class sloops, charged with watching over several dozen transports and planetary assault vessels. Marines and MAD resources were in the process of setting up defenses on the ground and in an orbital defense platform, should the Empire attempt to acquire Mikassa as a staging point for further operations against Union territory.

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So masterful was ________'s command of Breslau's weaponry during the battle, that when the Imperial Interdictor was towed into Kuat, a well-travelled starwright remarked, "We had never seen damage doled out so precisely on a ship like this. Usually, a warship simply gets battered to slag by overwhelming mass fire, but it looks like Oppressor succumbed to a thousand stabs of a dagger – all in the same spots."

The cruiser would return to Caspia, and _____________ was fully prepared to take the ship back to Mikassa in the reclamation effort that took place several hours later. Instead, a gracious Admiralty ordered the ship to remain in Caspia to be repaired &mdash; to which ___________ protested mightily, claiming that his ship and crew were better prepared now, even in their current state, than any other cruiser in the fleet. The Admiralty refused, but as a concession, ordered Breslau to guard the hyperspace exit zone from Mikassa's direction. ______________ did so, still under protest, and took up vigil in Caspia. _____________ and his crew were so in a froth that they even refused docking to a supply tender and a repair barge that were dispatched by the Admiralty, only allowing them to do so four hours later when the weaponry officer pointed out that they only had six missiles left in their inventory.

CMS Breslau is named for the Rautheran capital city, and, as a matter of principal, is captained by a Rautheran officer.