UNSC Gettysburg

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Gettysburg
The Gettysburg docked at the Borneo Space Tether in late 2552.
Ship history
	Unified Earth Government
Name:	Gettysburg
Class:	Paris-class heavy frigate
Namesake:	Battle of Gettysburg
Operator:	UNSC Navy
Manufacturer:	SinoViet Heavy Machinery
Status:	Active as of late 2552
Captain(s):	Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb
General characteristics Type: Frigate Length: 535 meters (1,755 ft) Width: 199 meters (652 ft) Mass: 1.3 million tonnes Power plant: Fusion reactor Maneuver drive: Fusion drive (2 primary, 6 secondary) Slipspace drive: Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine Borer (Retrofitted during FIRST STRIKE) Complement: D77 Pelican dropships GA-TL1 Longswords Hull: 60cm Titanium-A armor Armaments: 1 light 65P8V1 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon 3 M2475 Shiva nuclear missile silos 26 M58 Archer missile pods 12 M870 Rampart point defense guns 12 M2950 Harpoon nuclear missile silos Air facilities: One primary hangar bay located in the lower mast of the ship

The UNSC Gettysburg was a Paris-class heavy frigate in service with the UNSC Navy during the Human-Covenant War.

Design

Built around a Magnetic Accelerator Cannon and armed with numerous Archer missile pods, the Gettysburg was a fairly typical UNSC frigate.

It had an Officers' Club aboard, housing a large table of oak, which was heavily scored with numerous gouges and scorches from cigars set upon its surface. There was also a bar stocked with a number of varieties of liquor. It also housed a gold-fringed blue UNSC flag, photographs of past officers and captains of the Gettysburg, and a tin Civil War daguerreotype that displayed battlefields of charging men, cavalry and cannons.

Service history

Wartime service

Main articles: Battle of Sigma Octanus IV, Fall of Reach

Gettysburg participated in the defence of Sigma Octanus IV on July 17-18, 2552. In the early hours of July 17, Gettysburg was one of three warships present in the Sigma Octanus system (alongside the frigate UNSC Allegiance and light destroyer UNSC Iroquois) when a Covenant invasion force consisting of four warships arrived to attack the colony there. At this time, Allegiance and Gettysburg were both too far from Sigma Octanus IV to assist in its defence, estimated to arrive at the planet in an hour, leaving Iroquois alone to defend the colony using the "Keyes Loop". After Iroquois managed to destroy three of the escort ships in the Covenant battlegroup, the carrier at the heart of the formation broke off to disengage, with Allegiance and Gettysburg set to intercept it. The vessel then presumably joined Battle Group