First Light

This was the name of the Sunspire when she was commissioned as an Independent ship for Freeground Intelligence under the command of Captain Jonas Valent. She reverted back to being called Sunspire once recalled to Freeground Military service

The ship was refitted by Freeground and the eight rail guns were upgrade to twenty eight including materializers to produce unlimited ammunition, and two particle beam weapons were added and a rocket pack with 48 missiles plus clamps for additional external stores. The fighters were increased to twenty-one Valkyrie fighters.

The ship was also equipped with low energy shielding, multi-purpose materializers distributed evenly across the hull, multi layered refractive energy shields for redirecting incoming beam weapon fire away from the ship, and the Egranian regenerative reflective hull. Using the emitters, the Sunspire would be able to create its own wormholes. It also had hyperspace systems for travelling to other destinations at a much slower rate.

The first engagement took the ship up against the Vindyne Corporation in the Gai-Ian system, where the ship performed admirably; however once Vindyne  moved an Overlord 2 command carrier in-system, Gai-Ian fell and First Light decamped to the Zingara system, capturing and looting the Vindyne Incinerator Destroyer B31-209 and a Marauder class corvette en-route.

In Zingara an additional ten automated turrets were added, including the 6 particle beam emplacements taken off the Incinerator as well as the ability to produce anti-matter rounds for the railguns and fighter, half a dozen Raze fighters were added to the small craft complement and with a power increase the shielding was updated from the plasma based system adopted, whilst the First Light was hiding in the Gai-Ian system, to a heavy energy system to complement the refractive armour.