USS Mitchell Paige NCC-1942

Brief description of ship: Basic Miranda style hull with a vastly over powered warp core, standard towing pad, and tug tractor array. She is armed like a heavy frigate. She has a single "thru deck" hanger on the starbord side giving her an asymmetric profile. 
Appearance:  Epiphany Trek:  Matters of Perspective
Campaign role for the ship: Warts are fun to write about. 
Fleet role: Pulling cripples out of the line of battle, while the battle is still raging, or what ever other heavy lifting needs to be done.
Age: Launched 2283 in her current configuration.
Built: Venus Covert Yards. The Mitchell Paige was one more Miranda class frigate in the fleet. During the height of the Klingon tensions of the late 23rd century. Some bright boy got the idea of a heavily armed tug that could rescue ships from under fire, salvaging them for repair and saving their crews. The Mitchell Paige was pulled off the line, and turned into the true bastard of Starfleet, a heavily armed tugboat. How well she might have worked in practice was never discovered. However, being a queen of the odd-job has saved her from the scrap heap a dozen times. There is always, "one more thing we need her for". She is the first, and last of her "class".
Length: Haven't figured it out yet. Miranda length.
Distinguishing Marks: Her paint is not in the best of shape. While the Paige has "enjoyed" nearly continuous service, she has not enjoyed the best of care. Damage from her rough line of work has resulted in a patchwork of slowly aging area repaints and repairs. For some reason she always gets slapped back together for the next job, and shoved out of spacedock. The ship has not had a 100% refit in 70 years.
Equipment Quirks and Problems: The Paige is a ship trying to be two things at once. A frigate of the heavy class, just short of a drednaught, and a heavy tug built for heavy lifting. This makes her a crowded and not comfortable place to live and work. It also means her equipment is a patchwork of systems some almost 100 years old, some installed yesterday. The Paige is as close to the "old days" of Starfleet duty as a Starfleet crewman will ever get. She offically lacks modern amenities such as holodecks. Of note is the quaint old receration deck left over from her days as a miranda class frigate. What no one but the crew knows is that the rec deck is really a holodeck pulled form the wreckage of Wolf 359. When not in use, it replicates the ship's old rec deck. Most ot the ship's real upgrades have been swiped off wrecks, and wedged in.
Equipment Advantages: Power, lots of it and then some. Equally usable for lifting capacity, protection, speed, or whup ass, pick any two.
Shuttles, number, any odd ones?: 30 shuttles 8 of which are "evacuation shuttles" that barely fit into the hanger deck. These large shuttles have oversized docking ports and an additional "jetaxe" port that will attach to the hull of a ship, blast thru and leave a single door docking port behind. These shuttles can be used to quickly evacuate stations or ships with damaged entries. They can hold 100 in relative discomfort for a period of hours, or 10 for months.
Dedication Motto: "Semper Fidelis"
Ships Crest: In a blue oval with a gold border, the ancient eagle, globe, and anchor of the U.S. Marines. The globe is replaced with the Federation star field. The ship's regestry number is below this.
Home Port: La Quinta, California, Earth
Notable Previous Crew: She attracts grizzled oddballs, yet to be determined.
Captain Cornilus Armstong: Armstong thought the Paige would be his ticket into the history books. The Klingons would go to war and he would be the hero. He seriously over estimated the situation. He transfered out as soon as he could. 2283-2291
Captain Roberta Waverly: Tight, is how most people would describe her. Tight when in command, and tighter off duty. Captain Waverly was a hard disciplinarian, a hard worker, and a harder drinker. While she never let whiskey interfere with duty, her rowdy, bawdy, more "colorful" than a longshoreman off duty behavior did her no service at Headquarters. She didn't fit the mold of a Starfleet Captain, yet nothing she did was actionable. The Paige was chosen to warehouse her. Captain Waverly made the most of it. 15 of the Paige's unit citations where earned on this woman's watch. Captain Waverly got the Paige her last full refit. 2292-2310
Captain Ta'thoul: Logical and businesslike this Vulcan woman was a drastic change in pace for the crew of the Paige. However being logical, once she was assured that the effectiveness of the Paige was not impaired by the rowdy nature of the crew, she ignored it. Her tenure did affect the crew in time, and the Paige lost its rowdy reputation by the time she left. 2310-2316
Captain Belia Thorne: Thorne was another Captain sent to the Paige to warehouse him. Thorne had lost a ship under questionable circumstances. No fault could be pinned on him, but Starfleet didn't trust him, and had no official reason not to. Thorne himself was eaten with guilt over the loss of the ship and most of his crew. Within two years circumstances allowed his exoneration by martyrdom. Captain Belia Thorne was killed in the line of duty, and was posthumously awarded the Federation Medal of Honor. His less than two year tenure saw the Paige receive six unit citations. 2316-2318
Captain 2318-2324
Captain 2324-2334
Captain 2334-2344
Captain 2344-2352
Captain Israeli Benjamin Armenson: Armenson is a refugee from an intolerant religious colony. While he disagreed with the methods practiced by his former neighbors, he is not in disagreement with the ethics they failed to practice. He is a militant pacifist. Captain Armenson will not fight you, but he will get his way. The seek and rescue mission the Paige had carved for herself was a perfect berth for this man. When he took command he saw that from the rough from of one Ensign Roberts a good officer could be carved. He proceeded to carve. Captain Roberts can thank this man that he is a Captain, and not a bum. 2352-2372
Captain Harold Artemis Roberts 2372-present
Primary Power/Weapons: Collimator phasers around the front of the saucer and on the "roll bar". The Paige is equipped with a standard cargo pod docking pad. She also has the tractor array of a heavy tug, and knows how to use it.
Secondary Powers/Weapons: Four photon/quantum torpedo tubes mounted on the weapons pod in the middle of the roll bar. Overrated shield generators. She can cover a second ship as well as herself with frigate strong shielding.
Service History: Long, colorful, yet to be determined. The Paige holds 63 unit citations for rescue and valor. More than any other ship in the fleet.
Crew: 200 enlisted and officers

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