HMS Defiant was a Redoubtable-class battlecruiser of the Royal Manticoran Navy. In 1904 PD, the Defiant would arrive a few days after the HMS Nike at the Hancock Station. The Defiant served as Commodore Jack Prentis' flagship in Battlecruiser Division 53. In 1905 PD, the Defiant was heavily damaged and finally destroyed by PNS New Boston in the First Battle of Hancock, with barely one sixth of her personnel escaping. (HH3)