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Built in 2095, the WF Wyeth was one of the first Weird-Field Ships to be built, and only the third on American soil. The shipyard was a state/private partnership that was riddled with corruption from the outset. After building its fourth WF ship the Atlanta shipyard went in to administration. A new yard was founded in Florida, and many of the personnel transferred over. Three of the four ships built in Atlanta remained the property of the US government, the other was sold off to pay creditors. 

The bidding for the WF Wyeth reached $7.2 billion, and was won - after a final round of sealed bids - by the Coca Cola Corporation, narrowly beating out a bid from Sony.

Once repainted in Coca Cola's famous livery, the Wyeth embarked on a world tour - essentially an incredibly expensive advertising hoarding for the soft drinks company. It was also used to woo investors, and the officials of several states where Coca Cola was hoping to expand.

Of course the Wyeth was also used to fly around the solar system taking part in extravagant advertisements. It was during one of these, while making a close fly-by of the geysers on Enceladus, that the Wyeth was destroyed. Nobody knows exactly what happened. It was humanity's first lesson in the destructive power of a malfunctioning WF Drive, the explosion created a crater on the surface of Enceladus almost 8km deep, and altered its orbital period by over two seconds.

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Anonymous

Great little backstory

Anonymous

Oh man that looks so rad!

Anonymous

Enceladus 1, Coke Zero

thisnorthernboy

The 8km deep (and 55km wide) crater is a pretty permanent reminder of the power of a WF Drive. Scientists suggest it'll take thousands of years before ice from Enceladus's geysers obscures it completely. A bigger impact was felt on Earth. People started looking very warily at the WF ships that had been built so far, and a decidedly NIMBYish attitude gained strength as people living near to the new shipyards worried about the possibility of a similar accident on Earth.

Anonymous

Explosion in the traditional sense, with debris going everywhere? Got to thinking about something like a warp bubble where the ship and everything within a certain radius were seen to explode, but were in fact displaced to another location. Basically what happened to the SDF-1 in Macross.