User blog comment:Angren Túrë/Fleet Update 09/07/2014/@comment-24891101-20140908063152

I'd contest the condition of Arkos. She's heavily damaged, yes, but in no danger of sinking. Came of a munitions mishandling, out of haste in launching a sortie, in conjunction with bombardment and helo ops from Sloth, to assist Frozen Arc, which resulted in an explosion which trashed part of the hangar, destroyed part of her complement, and damaged the flight deck and arresting engines, as well as a catapult. She can still launch, but can't recover, save by barrier. Of course, that mishandling could have been prevented, but the relevant warnings only came afterward from Sloth; hopefully future incidents can be avoided. Earlier such warnings were garbled and unintelligible, which may be due to Sloth's possibly-damaged communications array; we can't tell from here at REMFLTFORCOM, obviously. She needs to come in to port for major repair and refit, but she's still basically fine.

Bumblebee, meanwhile, is still a misconcieved vessel. Designed by the same think tank to complement the never-constructed White Rose dreadnought, she is doctrinally unsound, though not to the degree of her hypothetical sister class. Regardless, she was plagued by severe budget shortfalls both during the construction of her hull and her fitting-out, resulting in an hastily-completed vessel with dodgy systems integration. A recent, concerted lobbying effort has caused her to be upgraded, with legacy systems removed and software patched applied, resulting in a serviceable, if doctrinally-questionable carrier.