Excalibur

The Excalibur was a Endurance Class Heavy Destroyer was built as the first batch of newly designed warships. It would serve in the fleet for over 280 years, an excessively extended period with little modifications and refits during her carrier. It would be well defined and as famous as the Spirit of Endurance would become. It would be the last Endurance class active for a time, before her sister ship was reactivated in 2552.

History
The Excalibur was the second of the Endurance Class ships launched, completed ahead of schedule it would however be recalled soon after being launched due to a failure of her super-structure blowing out her back. The ship would be forced to limp home under thrusters only and would return to active service four years later after a major overhaul.

During her long carrier she would participate in major battles that would dictate the war, but would go in for her major refit in 2500 to undergo a series of experiments on cloaking devices to test.

The ship would be reactivated in 2525 under the command of Commander Mathew Mercer who was under orders to test the new cloaking system and conduct long range scans in enemy space. The mission was a failure after an unknown phenomenon caused the ship to suffer a catastrophic disaster known as a "spin out" killing most of the crew. Only a handful survived only to suffocate in next few hours.