SC-017 Solaris

The Trade Space Vessel Solaris or TSV Solaris, and officially the SC-017 Solaris is a Sovis-class Carrier and Capital Ship in the United Trade Coaltion Space Fleet. It was originally constructed in 2687 in the Ganymede Shipyards as a light battle carrier and was utilized during the Meade Way Rebellions of the early 2690's. After the rebellions the vessel was decommissioned in 2692 from a military carrier to a civilian cargo vessel where it then held civilian merchant services for 10 or so years before being recommissioned back into military service again in 2707 with the onset of rising tensions within the Ring Worlds and the Core Worlds as well as sporadic uncontrolled pirate activity.

The 2700's before the outbreak of the Unification Wars the Solaris was strictly patrolling the Middle and Outer Rings in an attempt to keep the Ring Worlds into line and as well as providing logistic support and security to the merchant fleets travelling through mostly the Meridian Way.

Upon the outbreak of the Unification Wars in 2738 the ship was in the midst of the heaviest fighting throughout the course of the 5 year long civil war, participating in the Battles of Calgary, Illyrio, Nephaterys, Ion, and Amphorra, among others. It was also briefly captured by the Nilitheim Rebels in November, 2742 during the Battle of Amphorra and was utilized by the rebel faction as part of a vanguard fleet en route to Earth to begin Operation Raining Fire. On January 27, 2743 this fleet was intercepted near the confluences of the Rushway and the Meridian Way trade routes in the Skirmish over Hakone, where it was then recaptured by Trade Coalition Forces.

After Operation Raining Fire, the newly recaptured ship was then given a brief overhaul at the Ganymede Shipyards and then was promptly put back into service where it then participated in the Liberation/Subjugation of Calgary and finally the decisive Battle of Zanstra in June 2743.

Six years after the Unification Wars and the massive retrofit promotion jump as well as another crew overhaul the Solaris is now currently embroiled into a new war with an extra-galactic alien civilization known as the Tamarid Empire in 2749.

The vessel's current commander is Captain Michael Allan Grant.