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The MV Ambrose is a Kormoran vessel disguised as a supertanker.

History[]

Scarecrow[]

After the Kormoran Project began during the late 20th century, the Kopassus Shipping Group, build a number of frigates, including the MV Ambrose, which would appear to any outside viewers as an ordinary-looking super-tankers, in order to allow the U.S. to move ICBMs around and launch them without foreign nations realising where they were being struck from.

When the Ambrose was finished, it was docked at the Axon Corporation's ship-building and missile attachment plant in Norfolk, Virginia.

When Majestic-12 began plans to start a new Cold War, they learned of the existence of Kormoran thanks to the Kopassus Shipping Group's CEO, Corneius Kopassus. They planned to destroy a number of western cities in America and Europe, using the Kormoran ships to launch Chameleon missiles in order to stage a terrorist attack. Soon it was decided that the Ambrose would be sent to the New York Bay and launch missiles targeting Washington, D.C. and New York itself using Chameleon clones of Iran's Shahab-5's.

Seeking aide in defending the Kormoran ships if they came under attack before the Chameleon missiles could be launched, Jonathon Killian made a deal with five African nations, who would deploy troops onto each ship in order to defend them. As a result, troops from either Chad, Libya or Angola were stationed onboard the MV Ambrose as soon as Majestic-12 took control of the ship.

The Mossad agent Benjamin Rosenthal was killed before he could share what he knew of M-12's plan with Schofield's allies, but luckily Book II was able to collect several of his notes. Book II and Scott Moseley discovered the plans for the Kormoran vessels, and used the provided coordinates to locate where the ships were, including the Ambrose.

Since Shane Schofield was the only one who could disarm the CincLock-VII systems, he had Book II prepare a team of Marines to infiltrate the Ambrose so that they could provide a satellite uplink for him to disarm them.

Book II and his team started taking fire as soon as they set foot on the Ambrose from the African troops Killian had left onboard, however the Marines were soon able to take them down and reach the missile control panel. Book II then provided Schofield with a satellite uplink that was close enough in proximity to the control panel that enabled him to abort the launch.

After the incident, the MV Ambrose was presumably decommissioned and scrapped.

Features[]

Missile Silos[]

Beneath the fore-deck of the Ambrose are 12 hidden missile silos. Each silo can be uncovered from a control console near the bow of the ship, which also controls the missile launches.

Trivia[]

  • The Ambrose, like all of the Kormoran ships, is named after the ship from the Winthrop fleet that brought people to New England in the 17th century.
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