The Fate of the Legion

The behemoth flagship of the late Veniczar Cullen and the fake Veniczar "Arcadius," the mighty super-dreadnought was rumored to be an reawakened ship of the ancient Ryuvian Empire due to its formidable firepower. The truth was more mundane: The Legion was actually none other than the repainted Emperor's Hand, the flagship of the New Empire's Ebon Fleet, after PACT successfully disabled and commandeered the mighty vessel for itself. Possessing terrible firepower, incredible armor, and capable of launching a swarm of ryders, the Legion stroked fear into the minds of every being in the Neutral Rim during the early years of the Neutral Rim War. Her sordid reputation was sealed when Cullen mercilessly used the Legion to reduce Cera City into a smoldering crater in one of the most shocking massacres of the war.

Much of the Legion's true history has been lost due to PACT propaganda. Some reports allege that Captain Kayto Shields successfully sunk the Legion in the Battle of Helion. Official PACT sources vehemently deny these reports as nothing more than Alliance propaganda. Other intelligence reports suggest that the Legion did indeed survive the battle.

However, even in reports indicating the Legion's survival, she found herself more and more shunned by the PACT leadership upon the promotion of Admiral Kuushana. The bottom line was that the Legion was an aging warship from a different era of warfare. In the latter years of the Neutral Rim War, slow, cumbersome ships like the Legion no longer brought any real tactical benefit to the field of battle. In her twilight years, the Legion served as nothing more than a moving hotel for high ranked PACT officials, her tactical role replaced wholesale by the newer, sleeker, and cheaper Sagittarius-class.

Finally, six years into the Neutral Rim War, Admiral Kuushana ordered the decommissioning of the Legion, citing spiraling costs to maintain an obsolete relic of the New Empire. Ceran Prime Minister candidate Miirage Foster delivered a solemn decommissioning ceremony at the rebuilt New Cera City, bringing hope that the scuttling of the terrible beast will bring peace to the millions of souls lost in the fires of the Neutral Rim War. In a twist of fate, the Legion's hull was largely recycled to build  housing for New Cera City, its sordid history becoming increasingly forgotten in the minds of Cerans - at least, according to the PACT media machine.