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|We are the people who disobeyed. We are the humans who '''would not''' go to war… A wise soldier chooses her battlefield, and we did not want this one. We '''rejected''' the call to arms, and so the first people we disobeyed were our own leaders. That is the soul of the '''Defiant'''.
|We were nomads among the stars then... We were a community made up of communities, traveling the stars together. Part mercenary fleet, part trade fleet. Our own people.▼
|[[Gran-Gran]] telling
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== Fleet ==
{{quote
▲|We were nomads among the stars then... We were a community made up of communities, traveling the stars together. Part mercenary fleet, part trade fleet. Our own people.
|[[Gran-Gran]]
}}
The fleet is comprised of one main ship, the ''Defiant,'' four smaller ships, the ''[[Yeong-Gwang]]'',{{book ref|sky1|8}} the gunship ''[[Antioch]]'',{{book ref|sky1|7}} and two others, as well as thirty [[starfighter]]s.{{book ref|sky1|45}} These ships are made up of a combination of trade and mercenary vessels.{{book ref|sky1|45}} The ''Defiant'' is the only ship in the fleet that is capable of [[cytonics|cytonic]] hyperjumps, with the other ships attaching themselves to the ''Defiant'' before the jump occurs.{{book ref|sky1|45}}
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}}
== Legacy ==
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|We are the people of the engines. Clan Motorskaps. Once, we moved the Defiant — the ship that was our home. Now we live here, but our duty is the same. To keep them safe. To be the engines.
|[[Gran-Gran]] talking to [[Spensa]] about their families legacy{{book ref|sky4|12}}
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Some technology, such as [[light-line]]s{{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, however, much of the knowledge possessed by the fleet was lost.{{book ref|sky1|3}}{{book ref|sky1|27}} Some information of [[Earth (Skyward)|Old Earth]] survived, including histories and philosophical writings, and is stored in the archive building at [[Alta Base]].{{book ref|sky1|37}} Before the crash, light-lines were used by the engineers while they worked on ship machinery in zero gravity.{{book ref|sky1|14}} Schematics of starships also survived the ships destruction.{{book ref|sky1|6}}
Knowledge of the mutiny is suppressed, where possible, by modern day officials, who believe that it would cause division if it became wildly known.{{book ref|sky1|44}}
▲*Descendants of the engineers are known as the Motorskaps, based off the old words for engine crew.{{book ref|sky1|1}} It is unknown if the original engine crew of the Defiant were also known by this name.
== Notes ==
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{{complete|[[User:LadyLameness|LadyLameness]] ([[User talk:LadyLameness|talk]]) 06:24, 22 February 2020 (UTC)}}
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