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The MV Jewel 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 Jewel, 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 Jewel 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 Jewel would be sent to the San Francisco bay and launch missiles targeting Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco itself using Chameleon clones of North Korea's Taep'o Dong-2'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, Eritrean troops were stationed onboard the MV Jewel 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 Jewel.

Since Shane Schofield was the only one who could disarm the CincLock-VII systems, he arranged to have one of his trusted allies, David Fairfax, escorted to the Jewel by a team of Marines so that they could provide a satellite uplink for him to disarm them.

Fairfax and Andrew Trent's team started taking fire as soon as they set foot on the Jewel from the Eritrean troops Killian had left onboard, however the Marines were quickly able to take them down. Once they reached the missile control panel, Fairfax 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 Jewel was presumably decommissioned and scrapped.

Features[]

Missile Silos[]

Beneath the fore-deck of the Jewel 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 Jewel, 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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