Intrepid (Endurance-class)
Intrepid is an existing Endurance-class fleet carrier from Legends.[1]
History
Battle of Charros
At the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Intrepid was still commanded by Captain Pollum Morano, with Floran Welby serving as first officer. For the first two years of the war, it had been away from the front lines. In 27 ABY, it was deployed to the Charros system as part of the Fifth Fleet's Task Force Cloverleaf. During the battle of Charros, Intrepid served as the base for at least two squadrons of K-wings and E-wings, Aklay Squad and Nexu Squad. Intrepid herself mostly stayed out of the battle until cleanup operations began. Immediately afterwards, Task Force Cloverleaf was ordered to nearby Rathalay to assist in the evacuation of the planet.[2]
Battle of Rathalay
During the Yuuzhan Vong attack on Rathalay, Intrepid took on refugees from Rathalay's most populous planet before joining the besieged remains of Task Force Cloverleaf in a slow retreat. The task force was trapped in the system because of a Yuuzhan Vong interdiction field. When a Yuuzhan Vong cruiser analog launched grutchins at the New Republic ships, Intrepid suffered multiple hull breaches; Captain Morano ordered the affected sections opened to vacuum, which stopped the grutchin threat but killed approximately twenty crew, including Chief Kilama, the commander of the engine section. Shortly after, the task force's flagship Resolve took a hit to the bridge which presumably killed Commodore Syub Snunb, and command of the task force fell to Captain Morano. When the ship's last remaining engine was damaged and the engine section commander Chief Kilama killed, Morano personally went to help repair it, passing command of the task force to Captain Vatrim of Sunbeam, and command of Intrepid to Lieutenant Floran Welby. Morano was killed by a grutchin on the way back to the bridge after repairing the engine.
The retired Grand Admiral Grant arrived on Intrepid on a shuttle together with the Jedi apprentices Eryl Besa, Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila. Upon reaching the bridge, Grant tried to take command of Intrepid and the task force, and succeeded in implementing his strategy for the battle despite Welby's insistence that he respect the chain of command. After the Yuuzhan Vong war coordinator was destroyed, Intrepid fell back towards Rathalay's moon. Grant transferred to the gunship Farlight and challenged the Yuuzhan Vong commander to a ship-to-ship duel, which allowed the three Jedi apprentices to destroy the Yuuzhan Vong interdictor. With the help of six Dornean ships under the command of Etahn A'baht, whom Morano had called for help before his death, Intrepid was able to escape the system.[2]