Editing Hephaestus (TOS-RH)

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'''''Hephaestus''''', known affectionately by its crew as '''The Forge'''<ref name="p113">{{Cite book/RH|1|113}}</ref>, is the {{TOS-RH|The Fleet|fugitive Fleet}}'s manufacturing ship.

By way of materials from an unnamed planet the Fleet encounters during its exodus, an obsolete freighter is both repurposed and rechristened as ''Hephaestus'' circa {{TOS-RH|7352}}. Using these materials, ''Hephaestus'' becomes the Forge from whence the construction of two new {{TOS-RH|Viper}} classes and updated technologies<ref name="p81">{{Cite book/RH|1|81}}</ref>, including {{TOS-RH|laser pistol}}s that can only be used by their owners as of {{TOS-RH|7358}}<ref name="p117">{{Cite book/RH|1|113}}</ref>, came. 

In its reconstruction, ''Hephaestus'' features a lounge overseeing the construction and repair berths, so that operators of their vessels may wait while repairs are underway. For longer repairs, a shuttle is available to return operators and Warriors to their assigned vessels<ref name="p113"/>.

In {{TOS-RH|7360}}, its captain, [[Heimdall]], and his crew back the movement to install Ambassador [[Puck]] as commander of both ''{{TOS-RH|Galactica}}'' and the Fleet<ref name="p162">{{Cite book/RH|1|162}}</ref>. This is likely due to the fact that ''Hephaestus''{{'|s}} crew were paid notoriously low wages<ref name="p113"/>. 

A bomb planted on a transport shuttle by [[Paris]] and his [[blackshirt]] cohorts inflicts damage to ''Hephaestus'', trapping Major {{TOS-RH|Boomer}} aboard. A crisis response crew from ''[[Neptune]]'', the Fleet's crisis response ship, is subsequently trapped aboard despite Boomer's assistance<ref name="p200">{{Cite book/RH|1|200}}</ref> {{RH|Armageddon}}. 

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