The LSS Revelation is the lead ship of the Revelation-class and McKenzie's first shot at designing a vessel capable of dealing with the looming threat he encountered during the Archigos Experiment.
The design was met mostly with bafflement by the League Admiralty, and despite a strong showing from the Revelation, her captain, and her crew, the class was almost immediately consigned to the backwaters of League space. Unlike her sister ships, the LSS Shadrach and the LSS Abednego, which both were often tasked with undertaking diplomatic missions into allied space, the Revelation was kept deep in the shadows. McKenzie wanted the fact that she and her two Archigos-class destroyers were original spec kept as quiet as possible.
This suited McKenzie just fine, as it meant that most military strategists would write off the entire class, and when the shit hit the fan, McKenzie would have a shockingly powerful reserve. So the Revelation headed out to the border worlds and operated in relative obscurity until the entire class was ordered in for a refit.
After 15 years of continuous service on the frontier, the entire class was scheduled for a full refit. For a brief, four month period, all four sister ships were in dry docks adjacent to each other. It was the last time all four would be in the same place in their operational life times.
The refit was a disaster from the drop. To ensure that the Revelation herself was only refit to McKenzie and her captain's preferred specs, McKenzie had to call in several favors and her captain was forced to finally accept promotion to Admiral with a promise to hand command over to a successor of their choosing by the end of the full class refit. As the Abednego is still officially listed as missing on her shakedown voyage and the Meshach's system failure is still being investigated, the time frame of this command handover has ceased being relevant. With the Fall and McKenzie's rise to the Presidency, this handover requirement was rescinded.
The Revelation was initially a pitch for the Rekonin that Matt fell in love with and refused to consign to idea Scrap Yard. After a year of off and on tinkering, the ship design was solidified into what it is now.