Vaptsarov

About
The Vaptsarov (aka. Вапцаров) was a Crimsonian battleship in the Crimsonian Navy and serves as its pride. In 1987, it fought in the Crimsonian-Bistonian War and became only the last surviving battleship in the aftermath of the war. It participated in the Siege of Telvinra and also attempted to arrive at Arshturn to await orders along with the Dustreun, and the Telvinra. In 1992, the Vaptsarov sunk after floaters belonging to the Free Bulgarian Army fired artillery rounds at the ship at night.

History
In the aftermath of the Greco-Crimsonian War in which the People's Republic of Crimsonia emerged victorious, the Crimsonian Navy began their plans to expand their navy to compete with other ones in the Eastern Bloc and the Bistonian Navy, and 8 years later in 1978, a new battleship was constructed and it was later named the Vaptsarov.

The Vaptsarov was ahead of its time compared to other ships in the Crimsonian Navy, as the majority of them had been constructed way from the 1920s and the 1930s, as seen with the battleship Dustreun and Telvinra. It was fitted with latest technology and many other things which made the ship much more effective compared to other older ones. However, despite being served as the pride of the Crimsonian Navy, the Vaptsarov was neglected once other battleships with much more advanced technology and better weapons were constructed.

The Vaptsarov then participated in the Crimsonian-Bistonian War and became effective, however, the Crimsonian Navy was afraid of losing the Vaptsarov, as nearly all of Crimsonia's battleships were destroyed in the process by the Bistonian navy, which had become much more stronger with the help of funds from other governments. The Vaptsarov then also helped the last Crimsonian divisions retreat from mainland Bistonia.

Aftermath
In the aftermath of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War, the Vaptsarov became the only last remaining ship still operating and the only ship that survived the Crimsonian-Bistonian War. Not much was known about the Vaptsarov's activities in the aftermath of the war.

Siege of Telvinra
After heavy clashes between the Free Bulgarian Army and the Crimsonian People's Liberation Army, the offensive had been foiled, and as a result the Free Bulgarian Army arrived into the city of Telvinra with fierce resistance by Crimsonian troops, prior to that, three ships from the Crimsonian Navy, the hospital ship, Telvinra, had arrived and docked at the ports of the city in order to help troops establish a temporary military hospital, as the hospital was destroyed by artillery from rebels in the surrounding areas. The Crimsonian battleship, the Vaptsarov, and finally, the Crimsonian battleship, the Dustreun. Dozens of cargo arrived at the docks and they were loaded into nearly all of the ships.

As the Siege of Telvinra reached into midnight, the rebels were on the verge of destroying the last Crimsonian holdouts and surrounded the city, and as a result Crimsonian troops began to retreat, as part of the navy's plans, most of the Crimsonian troops boarded the Vaptsarov, Telvinra and Dustreun, and the remaining forces were left to fight against Crimsonian rebels. Just as cargo was bound to be loaded into the ship, rebels bombarded a nearby warehouse, and the cargo was immediately dropped. Hours later, the rebels were nearly a distance away from the Crimsonian naval base.

Escape from Telvinra
As the Free Bulgarian Army destroyed the last remaining resistance pockets in Telvinra, they arrived near the Crimsonian naval base, and as a result all two ships including the Vaptsarov had no other choice but to violate their orders and cut the ropes using a knife. Because of this, dozens of Crimsonian troops were left on the naval base as their only possible route of escape had been gone. The Vaptsarov eventually went out of the naval port after the Telvinra also departed, making it the last ship to escape. After their sudden departure from the ports in Telvinra, Crimsonian officers sent a message to the captain onboard the Dustreun, including all ships through their radio room, claiming that the remaining Crimsonian troops had decided to stay in order to fight the rebels attempting to get the city, and that Crimsonian officers gave all ships a task to remain drifting in the Telvinra Sea until Crimsonian troops secured Telvinra from rebel forces and that all ships are given permission to land once it had succeeded.

After the Vaptsarov, Telvinra and the Dustreun had departed away from the port city in Telvinra, most of them had departed their own ways and seperated and cut contact with eachother, unlike the Telvinra and the Dustreun, nobody knew what had occurred on the ship, as there were little to no survivors that survived the sinking.

The Sinking
After 7 days of the Vaptsarov being at sea, the floaters belonging to the Free Bulgarian Army had spotted the vessel being adrift at midnight, with a few dozen crewmembers and dozens of troops spotted doing their usual activities before going to bed, along with a similar incident which had occurred with the Dustreun and the Telvinra, the crew operating the floaters had made a decision to make the ship sink without permission to do so. After the floater went closer and closer to the vessel without the crew realizing it, since it was pitch black at the time of the sinking. Later on, the floater then fired artillery rounds at the port side of the ship. After the floater had punctured a hole in the ship, the floater then drifted away and watched the vessel sink.

Nobody knew what was onboard the ship, although the crew onboard the floaters had held accounts of what had went on in the ship, claiming that soldiers and crew ran all over the place while dozens of people had flocked outside pushing eachother. Then, a minute into the sinking, the Vaptsarov's power then went out, making the ship completely pitch black. As a result of this, the floater then continued to drift away from the ship once more as soon as possible.

Aftermath
After Crimsonian rebels captured several Crimsonian vessels, they would use it to their advantage to look across the Telvinra Sea for the ships which had drifted away from Telvinra weeks prior, and once they had got the vessel to work they would immediately approach a corpse a long distance away from the coast of Northern Arshturn, they then went across and discovered more and more corpses floating in the Telvinra Sea. The corpses eventually led them to an area where they spotted more and more corpses floating on the Telvinra Sea, including belongings, firearms and floating furniture. They were easily identified by their uniforms and tags placed around their necks. After trying attempts to identify the ship, they immediately came across a lifebuoy in one of the lifeboats which had identified the sunken vessel as the Vaptsarov. The vessel immediately began searching for survivors to no avail, and confirmed that all people onboard the vessel had died. In Arshturn, the naval base anticipated that all three vessels had arrived, however after weeks had came, personnel in the naval base attempted to contact the vessels for the final time to no avail, it soon came to them that all the vessels had sunk on their way.