INS North Carolina, formerly known as HFBS Ignis Purgatio, is an Arbiter-class battleship which saw second-line service within Hellfire Legion till the 827 A.S. when the vessel was critically damaged in Bering System and should spent several months in repairs at Fort Leniex. As the demand for repair facilities grew, vessel's repair schedule was cut short and only critical systems were repaired while the rest was patched by its crew later.

Vessel was re-commissioned back into Battlegroup Inquisition in 828 under command of newly appointed Commodore Elizabeth White, vessel was renamed to INS North Carolina by her to give its libertonian crew patriotic feelings.

After fateful bomber strafe in Kansas 2-10-828, Captain Virginia "Crash" Belle was its CO until 30-11-828 when she was critically wounded on Planet Veracruz. As of 5-12-828, Captain Peter Stork is its current CO.

INS North Carolina has seen its better days, to put it mildly, and several of her non-critical systems are barely functioning and are in dire need of replacement. Same can be said about its worn and dented armor plating, which has been patched more times than officially allowed.

Despite her rugger appearance and discomforts for the crew, the INS North Carolina is known for her critical systems' reliability and redundancy, which allows her to operate regardless of its subpar maintenance and spare parts available.

The vessel's most serious design flaw is misaligned engine housing caused by never fully repaired damage after torpedo strike, which causes serious vibrations through the aft part of the ship when the cruise engine is engaged. As a result, INS North Carolina is authorized to engage its cruise drive only when necessary and is required to perform maintenance check-ups every twelve hours.

As built with its secondary and support roles in mind, INS North Carolina has reduced weapon power capacity in favor of her no-less power hungry auxiliary systems, most noticeably various jammers, extended communication and sensor arrays, cloaking device and its experimental short-ranged jump drive for tactical mobility.

INS North Carolina is awaiting major repairs in the near future, mainly regarding its misaligned engine housing, but also rearmament with more modern Liberty Insurgency guns and more advanced heavy batteries.

INS Roanoke is one of the few remaining escorts vessels of INS North Carolina assigned to it once Liberty Insurgency was formed. Despite being former Liberty Navy vessel, INS Roanoke has been severly modified with Hellfire Legion technology for logistical purposes.

While Captain Belle originally thought about using cruiser, Archer's lack of hangar bay and power for extensive sensor arrays made her to choose battlecruiser instead.

23-03-829, last known position of INS Roanoke was Cortez System. No information about its CO and crew available.

Suffering from similar supply shortages as INS North Carolina, INS Roanoke's technical state is far from perfect. However, being support and escort vessel for most of its insurgent career, INS Roanoke was never an interesting target for enemies as its flagship and as such - it never suffered that many severe hits like INS North Carolina did.

However, its role as secondary warships also meant that INS Roanoke has been scavenged for parts, and some of its non-critical systems are operating at lower capacity or are outright missing. This can be seen with its replaced primary gunnery directors with backup directors, one third of its original shield arrays are missing or burned out and military grade APUs replaced with industrial ones.

While this makes INS Roanoke more reliable and easier to maintain than INS North Carolina, it also makes it less powerful warship when compared to brand new Interdictors when raw strength is concerned, forcing its CO to choose its engagements carefully.

Most notable departure from standard Interdictor-class cruiser is usage of Hellfire Legion gunnery, sensors and weapon systems. As Hellfire's weapons are bulkier than sleeker naval designs, it gives INS Roanoke its more rugged appearance, especially from inside.

For its role as heavy patrol vessel, INS Roanoke has been fitted with backup sensor arrays from disabled Arbiter-class battleship along with its computer systems for much needed raw sensor and ECCM strength at the cost of increased power consumption.

INS Roanoke features docking bays capable of servicing 12 snubcraft for general operations and 2 freighters for shuttle and SaR duties.

While INS Roanoke's hull and powerplant are sound enough, vessel is in a dire need for replacing several its components with more modern or complete systems. Vessel will need proper targeting directors, newer weapon systems, more compact and advanced computer and sensor systems. Once these upgrades has been done to reduce its power consumption, then its gutted shield generators can be restored to their full capacity.

INS Dahlonega is named after HFGB Dahlonega, the first vessel which Virginia ever commanded as her own. Unlike her first own vessel, INS Dahlonega is not a pure warship but more like her own personal ship with some military tasks in mind.

Vessel's amenities are capable of housing twelve crewmen and three officers in reasonable comforts for extended periods of time.

After Captain's Belle disappearance, INS Dahlonega was claimed as Captain Stork's personal ship.

Unlike much larger and older INS North Carolina, INS Dahlonega is very well maintained - mostly thanks to its civilian designs, which are easier and cheaper to maintain than pure military vessels. And because it is a civilian hull, availability of spare parts is not an issue as well.

There are some drawbacks, especially lower powerplant and powergrid capacity when compared to the heavy military gunships, which restricts INS Dahlonega from fitting advanced equipment like cloaking devices.

While the hull is mostly untouched barring additions of ablative plating around key system, the main powerplant of the vessel was modified and redlined by engineers to give it extra 7% output to power military weapon systems, enhanced sensors and communication arrays comfortably.

Previous civilian engines were replaced with more compact set of modified Ageira-made engines for longer endurance. That increased vessel's range and allowed it to carry more spare parts and supplies. There is one minor drawback as more compact nature of these engines makes them running hotter than previous ones, which makes working conditions in crawlways and engineering spaces around them more uncomfortable.

Most notable modifications to the vessel is addition of more advanced sensor and communication suites, coupled with installation of military-grade weapons. Vessel is also fitted with one external universal docking point on its belly to allow safe and relatively comfortable access point for the docked snubcraft for both moving personnel between planetary shuttles or recovering pilots from crippled ships.

There are no plans regarding INS Dahlonega as the vessel performs its tasks reliably and there are no known technologies to expand its potential even further at this moment.