ISAS Summit

The Summit is an Insurmmountable-Class Star Carrier currently in service with the Interplanetary Systems Alliance navy. She is the flagship of the Section 3 battlegroup, and the largest warship in the fleet. She is currently under the command of Admiral Louise Irons.

Construction and Launch
Construction began on the Summit in May of 2334. She is over 14 miles long, 3 miles wide, and weighs over two trillion, trillion tonnes. Evisoned as a multipurpose warship, the Summit is outfitted with three primary docking bays to retrieve star flight squad ships and resupply frieghters. She is armed with numerous point defense laser systems for anti-projectile and anti-fighter support. For defense and ground support, she is equipped with 800 vertically launched torpedo tubes, capable of launching Planet Cracker class missiles and standard Excavation class missiles for ground operations. After 10 years of construction, she began space trials and shakedown cruises, during which she was also fitted with her QST drive and quantum computers. After passing certification, she was assigned to the Section 3 battlegroup responsible for tracking and attacking Singulus bases and fleet movements.

The Summit's greatest strength lies in her ability to retrieve and repair smaller vessels, such as fighters, frieghters, and smaller warships, such as frigates. This allows the battlegroup to endure longer deployments in space without having to rely on planetary assests for repair and maintence. Given the importance and capability of the ship, the loss of such a vessel can gravely cripple a battlegroup's or a fleet's combat effectiveness.

The Summit made history as one of the few ships to make first contact with another species, albiet a disasterous one. On a mission to destroy a Singulus base on a distant planet, the Summit discovered that planet itself was a massive synthetic-like creature of unimaginable power. With little time left to retrieve ground forces already deployed to the surface of the creature, Admiral Irons made the difficult decison to execute an emergency tune out of the system to a nebula in the hope of saving what was left of her battlegroup. After hours of playing a dangerous cat and mouse game in the nebula, the Summit managed to evade the creature's sensors, at the cost of great damage to the carrier and the loss of a Mountain Range-class destoyer, the Andes.