

This is because the Normandy has a turian design and their commanders prefer to look over their subordinates rather than be in the midst of them the engineers wanted to observe how well it functioned within the human command structure. Alliance ships usually place commanding officers in the middle of the room, to facilitate communication with subordinates, but the CO's station in the Normandy's CIC is at the back. The Combat Information Center (CIC) of the Normandy is unusual. The comm room also serves as a conference room for debriefing after missions, and allows Shepard to privately consult with the Citadel Council. This contains the bridge in the bow (where Shepard can talk with Joker), the airlock, the CIC containing the galaxy map (overseen by Navigator Pressly), and the comm room towards the stern. The Normandy is named after the Battle of Normandy in 1944, a pivotal battle of the Second World War.

Shortly thereafter, the Normandy was handed over to Commander Shepard when the Commander became the first human Spectre, and served as Shepard's main source of transportation and base of operations. After Zander came into conflict with turian chief engineer Octavio Tatum over the limits of the ship's drive core, Zander was removed and David Anderson placed in command.

She is optimized for solo reconnaissance missions deep within unstable regions, using state-of-the-art stealth technology powered by an experimental drive core.Ĭommissioned in 2183, the Normandy was initially commanded by an Alliance officer named Elli Zander.

She is a prototype "deep scout" frigate, first of the eponymous Normandy class, co-developed by the Alliance and the Turian Hierarchy with the sponsorship of the Citadel Council. The SSV Normandy SR-1 ( Systems Alliance Space Vehicle Normandy Stealth Reconnaissance -1) was a Systems Alliance starship.
