The Vengeance was the most advanced ship of its day, born of the fiscal magic of the Turin Tyranny, when money flowed like water – so long as it went to war. Humanity, at the time, imagined themselves at a stalemate with the Magothi. The Vengeance was one of three ships built to break that stalemate by bringing the fight to them.
That first mission was supposed to be the last – an attack on the Magothi homeworld, do as much damage as possible before you are destroyed. Show them the price of battling humans. It would be discovered upon arrival that Epsilon Eridanni b was little more than an outpost that the Maggothi essentially leased from the Consortium.
In that 70 year journey, the Turin Tyranny had fallen, and the Second Fed had made contact with the Consortium, which, in turn, imposed a cease fire upon the Magothi. By the time they got there, the war had been over for twenty years.
Now the Vengeance, along with its captain, were antiques, statistical outliers in that they somehow kept flying. The Fury and the Justice had both long been cannibalized to keep the Vengeance in space.
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