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The ship's hyperdrive and engines are controlled by a cytonic. The ship can move without a cytonic, however, its FTL capabilities would be inaccessible.{{book ref|sky1|45}}
The fleets crews are multicultural{{book ref|sky1|14}} and made up of many divisions including; command, scientists, engineers, marines, and gunners. It is unclear whether the many cultures that can be found within the fleet are dispersed across the ships or whether different ships originated from different countries on Old Earth. The engineers of the ''Defiant'' are treated as outsiders by the rest of the fleet's crew due to their
Some technology, such as light-lines{{book ref|sky1|3}} and holographic projectors,{{book ref|sky1|9}} survived the crash, as well as the subsequent destruction of the fleets electronic archive,
== History ==
The ''Defiant's'' fleet avoided the war with the Krell, being neither the people to begin the war or propagate it. As the war continued, the Defiant found it increasingly more difficult, as well as dangerous, to contact space stations and planets, and as such did not know who the Krell were at the time that they were attacked.{{book ref|sky1|45}} Although the people of the ''Defiant'' considered themselves seperate to the humans involved in the war, the opposing force still required for them to surrender.{{book ref|sky1|epilogue}} When they refused, the Krell were sent after the ''Defiant'' and its fleet to capture and contain the group.{{book ref|sky1|epilogue}}
The day the ''Defiant'' crashed, the engineers, along with the scientists, mutinied against the command and military staff aboard the ship, after the Krell had surrounded the fleet and begun to attack the vessels. At some point during the battle, an explosion occurred on the bridge. The captain called down to the engine room, giving [[Spensa's great-grandmother]] her commands, however, she disobeyed
The electronic archive of the ''Defiant'' survived the crash, however, was destroyed, along with a majority of the senior leadership and professionals of the fleet killed, when the Krell dropped the first Lifebuster bomb, not long after the humans arrival at Detritus.{{book ref|sky1|17}} Following this event, the people of the ''Defiant's'' fleet formed
== Trivia ==
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