AssaultStar Phoenix

Phoenix-1202 Phoenix-1202 (Imperial Registry: IWS-840602-001) is a Athena Class Scientific Exploration/Heavy Defense Warstar Commissioned by the United Empire of The 13 Colonies for the long range Reexploration of the Cyranus Galaxy and find any suriving refugees from the holocaust of the original 12 Colonies.

Construction History
IWS Phoenix was 1st commissioned for construction on January 15, 2038 on Aquarian Fleet Shipyards within Sol System on New Aquarius within orbit over Jupiter. The ship was the 1st Stage of the Colonial Heritage Project which was a massive project in which the Empire would try to explore and find its celestial Roots and for the possible recolonization of the Colonials home galaxy.

After the 3rd Cylon Fleet was awakened, it was quickly refitted to maximize its combat capability.

The refit Phoenix served as the basis for the followup NovaStar Betelgeuse

Command Crew

 * Cassandra Andromeda Cain (Commanding Officer) (Fleet Captain)
 * Athena (Series 5-225) (Executive Officer) (Phoenix Cylon Command System Avatar)
 * Sandstrom (Series 10-1440) (Chief Astrometrics/Helmsperson) (Cylon Hybrid Jumpcore System)
 * Gina (Series 6-120) (Chief Tactical Officer) (Weapons Core Command Avatar and Wife of Captain Cain)
 * Callandra Tyrol (Ships Chief Engineer)
 * Cassiopeia Persci Geminon (Chief Medical Officer)
 * James Cottle (Civilian Medical Officer)
 * Alex Thorne (Colonial Marine Commander)

Flight Crew
Blue Squadron Red Squadron Ice Squadron
 * Kara Thrace Codename: Starbuck (Flight Commander)
 * Series 12 (Cylon Fleet Commander & Flight Commander Wingman) Codename: Agamemnon
 * John (Series 7-512) Codename: Maverick
 * Lee Adama Codename: Apollo (2nd in Command)
 * Sharon (Series 5-662) Codename: Boomer
 * Andromeda Athena Aphroditos Codename: Barbie
 * Sasha Catherine Katraine Codename: Cat

Ships Position in Fleet Configuration
The IWS Phoenix is the Command Ship of the Athena Long Range Defense Fleet. Its main purpose is to Coordinate all of the other fleets ships and Fighters in order to maximize combat effencency. The Phoenix as all Imperial Command Warstars are surrounded by at least a minimum of 4 Imperial Allied Cylon BaseStars also known as Warstars. The other ships of the Athena Line are.

Athena Fleet Ships

 * IWS Mercury (GunStar Sniper (Long Range Fire)) Commanding Officer: Alex Adama
 * IWS Hydra (GunStar Blitz (Heavy Short Range)) (Colonial Marine Troop Transport) Ships Nickname: FrakStar
 * IWS Orion (Star Hunter Heavy Combat)
 * CWS Medusa Imperial Cylon Command HyperStar (Heavy Combat) Cylon Equivelant to NovaStar
 * CWS Hestia Imperial Cylon Medical Warstar (All Imperial Fleets include at least 1 Cylon Hospital BaseStar.)
 * CWS Hestia Imperial Cylon Medical Warstar (All Imperial Fleets include at least 1 Cylon Hospital BaseStar.)

Ships Full Fighter & Combat Mecha Compliment
Each ship within the Imperial Fleet are allowed to create their own class of Viper Fighter Named after the ship that it is built on and sometimes is used on other ships in the Empire if the fighters service record is excellent.

Starfighter Compliment (Colonial Human)

 * 4,000 Heavy Combat Stealth MK-VII Vipers (Basic)
 * 850 MK-II Momba (High Impact Heavy Combat)
 * 920 MK-III Vipers (Long Range Quantum SilpJump Capable)
 * 520 VF-120A Phoenix (Command Vipers)
 * 120 VF-01A Stealth Phoenix (Command Stealth Vipers)
 * 140 VF-1215 Ultra Vipers (Command Heavy Combat Vipers)

Starfighter Complement (Imperial Allied Cylon)

 * 450 AX-012 MK-II Heavy Raiders (Cylon Manned Command & Control Fighter)
 * 10,000 CQF-4000-E Ghost Raiders (Unmanned Heavy Combat Basic)
 * 5,000 SF-03A Lancers (Heavy Long Range Combat Mostly used on GunStar Sniper ships)