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Originally Posted by Rainbow Six
Mate, I think it's a good idea...and I actually think it's cooler using something that's got a bit of history attached.
My only very minor nit pick would be that I think (although I could be mistaken) that Cuba was officially neutral, so maybe keep the Cubans out of the naval battle that causes her to be run aground?
On the subject of Cuba, according to the BYB Guantanamo Bay was evacuated by the US at some point in 1999...maybe try and work that in?
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That works; by '99 or so she's one of the last surviving big carriers in the world and she's providing CAP for the withdraw from Gitmo. As they're coming around the west end of Cuba she gets jumped by a Soviet TF and has a running battle with them. The CVBG soaks a lot of missiles intended for her, most of the boats get away, and her air wing prosecutes the shit out of the Soviets (who have no air cover to speak of), with Saratoga crippled by the aforementioned ASM strikes at the last, but her birds putting paid to the Soviet boats. She loses most of her a/c and many pilots, orders her birds to Key West and finally limps to the shallows off of Fort Jefferson*, offloads her wounded to picket boats and angel flights who then take 'em to NAS Key West or Homestead, and a rotating guard detail keeps her out of the hands of marauders/pirates or New America.
That last part kind of sticks with me a little bit though...It isn't like New America has a floating dry-dock they could put a CV into for the eight to ten years of repairs and rebuilding it'd take, etc. etc., and at best the ship is a wreck.
Maybe there are no guards on her and she was stripped of all weapons, supplies, etc. and it's just her hulk out there now.
Or alternately go back to my original thesis: it isn't Saratoga, but a nuclear carrier and is stranded off of Key West and providing the city with power, facilities, etc...
I dunno, it's more for community use.