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| − | '''A merging of various sources including:'''
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| − | * '''Wonder Chicken's exquisitely well written ''' [http://forums.megatokyo.com/index.php?showtopic=1689246 '''timeline''']
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| − | * '''Area 51's handy''' [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/6528/timline.html|'''timeline''']
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| − | * '''Psych's finely detailed''' [http://tactics.solsector.net/communications.htm|Fleet Tactics - Communications]
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| − | BATTLE OF TERRA
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| − | With their fleets back up to full strength, bolstered by the first
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| − | fleet of Hakaga-class supercarriers, the Kilrathi strike deep into
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| − | Confederation space. Warsaw, Gilead, and Sirius Prime are
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| − | bombed with radiation warheads, even as the Kilrathi brush
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| − | aside Confederation's hastily assembled defenses and reach
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| − | Earth. Despite the suicidal bravery of Earth's defenders, the
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| − | Kilrathi are able to bombard crucial defense centers on the
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| − | planet - Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Miami, Quebec, Berlin,
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| − | Paris, Kiev, and others - before they are finally forced to
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| − | withdraw to friendly space as a result of daring Marines, who
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| − | land aboard several Kilrathi vessels, including the Kilrathi
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| − | (Novel Fleet Action) Aftermath of the Battle of Earth
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| − | Wonder Chicken's well written introduction to 2669:
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| − | == Introduction ==
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| − | 2669 AD, the last year of the Kilrathi War will became known as the Dark Times. Near the end of 2668, Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn's victory over Prince
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| − | Thrakhath in the Battle of Earth will forever be known as one of the greatest battles of all time. Hopelessly outnumbered, Admiral Tolwyn stopped a
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| − | Kilrathi nuclear attack on Earth itself and forced the Kilrathi fleet to retreat. Aided by Max Kruger's fleet from the Landerich, Tolwyn and the Confederation Third Battle Fleet destroyed half of Thrakhath's fleet, including three Kilrathi supercarriers, a standard fleet carrier and almost forty escort vessels. In addition, the other two supercarriers and host of other ships were crippled. This defeat was more then a military victory, it was a political one as it had almost put the other clans in total rebellion and political turmoil. The Kilrathi Emperor had barely thwarted two assassination attempts and was forced to keep the remainder of the Kilrathi military in the Kilrah System to guard himself and his grandson Thrakhath.
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| − | However, the Battle of Terra was a pyrrhic victory for the Confederation. The Joint Chiefs and other high-ranking military officials were killed in the pre-Battle of Terra assassination, and the top ranking Confed officer, Marine General Duke Grecko, was killed during the fighting. Including the systems that were directly in path of Thrakhath's armada, the inner homeworlds of Sirius, Warsaw, and Gilhead were radiation bombarded beyond any hope of salvation. 70% of the Confederation fighter pilots who fought were killed. The Fleet lost over four dozen cruisers, destroyers, and frigates, but the most hard-felt warship losses where its fleet carriers in which a total of twelve were destroyed in one way or the other. The TCS Moskva, Verdun, Ark Royal, Leyte Gulf, and Lexington were destroyed in combat, the TCS Wolfhound, Austerlitz, and Copenhagen were destroyed in drydock, and four Lexington-class carriers were destroyed undergoing construction in the Lunar Shipyards. Only two carriers that fought in Battle of Earth survived, the Confederation-class dreadnought TCS Concordia and the Concordia-class carrier TCS Saratoga.
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| − | == Political Changes ==
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| − | On the political end, President Harold Rodham had resigned in disgrace as a result of the False Peace ruse. To clear room for the new president, his entire cabinet resigned as well. Foreign Secretary Jamison, for whom Confed Intelligence had concrete evidence she was a Kilrathi traitor, was tried, convicted, and executed for treason and other crimes against the Confederation. To replace Rodham, Vice-President Dave Quinson was sworn in as President, and the two major political parties bonded together into a single coalition. Because of the political and civilian chaos that was occuring during this time of crisis, the Senate declared martial law over all Terran Confederation territory and replaced judiciary powers from the civilian Supreme Court to the military Admiralty Court headed by Admiral Elsa Harnett. Admiral Tolwyn was now appointed the temporary commander of all Confederation forces.
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| − | == Reconstruction of the Fleet ==
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| − | Plans to rebuild the Navy and the Space Force had already started to began. During the False Peace in 2668 and before his death, Admiral Bainbridge knew that the Kilrathi peace pleas were a ruse. Unknown to the joint Chiefs of Staffs, President Rodham, and (especially) ex-Foreign Secretary Jamison, during the False Peace Bainbridge had covertly assigned BuShips and BuWeaps to develop the next generation fighters and capital ships. By the Battle of Terra's end research had been completed, allowing for almost immediate mass production.When he saw the plans for the new fighters and capital ships, Admiral Tolwyn considered it Bainbridge's last gift. Even though the main drydocks, shipyards, and naval base on the moon had been destroyed, Confed still had the Trojan IV naval construction yards around Jupiter intact, as well as the shipyards in the Tamayo System. Meanwhile, there were still fighter factories intact in the Tamayo, Luyten, Krueger, Alpha Centauri, and Proxima Centauri Systems.
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| − | For the next month, the Confed war machine began to churn out the next generation fighters and capital ships. Within a few months, Confed would replace all the fighters that they had lost. The capital ships took just a bit longer. The three remaining escort carriers in the Landerich Free Corps mission had been withdrawn and reincorporated into ConFleet service. Confed had also started to bring their other mothballed vessels online. The most important were the seven fleet carriers that were still mothballed due to the False Treaty: the Confederation-class dreadnought TCS Armageddon, and the Concordia-class carriers TCS Valiant, Winterrowd, Liberty, Hermes, Invincible, and Illustrious. They were quickly brought online in a matter of weeks. In addition, ConFleet was forced to refit their mothballed fleet of Ranger-class light carriers and send them into active duty ConFed service once again.
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| − | Reconstruction on the TCS Lexington, gutted from the Battle of Earth, had also started but it wasn’t going to be back in active service anytime soon. But because the Trojan IV shipyards at Jupiter were spared by the Kilrathi, seven new Lexington-class carriers and one Jutland-class attack carrier were nearing completion and had remained intact. By the beginning of March, the CVNs Quinson, Bradshaw, Kinney, Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Kennedy and the Lincoln, plus the CVA Coral Sea finished construction and entered ConFleet service. With eight new carriers joining the nine existing carriers, ConFleet now boasted a force of seventeen fleet carriers, but it would ultimately prove to be too little, too late.
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| − | == Reasons leading to Disaster ==
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| − | In addition to their fleet carriers, ConFleet had also brought their escort carriers and light carriers into service. Twelve fleet carriers were sent to the front lines to be the center of what was called the Confederation Forward Fleet. The Forward Fleet, combined with the other smaller carriers, would have definitely turned the tide against the Kilrathi had they not sued for peace in 2668, but the False Peace had enabled the Kilrathi to rebuild their fleet and logistical forces. Even with the losses at the Battle of Terra, Confed forces had one more chance to turn the tides in their favor by taking advantage of the political turmoil that plagued the Emperor and Prince Thrakhath. But the Confed civilian government took this opportunity and threw it away.
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| − | The politicians suckered by the truce were now back in the saddle again. The first thing they did was to relieve Admiral Tolwyn of his "temporary" duty as head of Terran Defense and selected a series of Admirals and Generals (lackeys under the politicians payroll no less) to be the new Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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| − | The government then refused Admiral Tolwyn's rightful promotion to a major fleet command, in which they had said he was too "valuable a commander" to be taken from the front lines. Besides this, bureaucrats and politicians were back bickering with the military and refusing to give extra funding and resources for the war machine. In addition, the Confed Senate endlessly debated and bickered on high priority targets to attack; this move kept the carrier fleet in a defensive rather then offensive postures along the front. Instead of attacking the necessary targets vital to the war, the Senate dictated ConFleet to spend their time attacking worthless targets. The end result was that the civilian government’s incompetence enabled the Kilrathi enough time to rebuild everything they lost at the Battle of Terra, and then more.
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| − | == Kilrathi Reconstruction ==
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| − | Because the False Peace had enabled the Kilrathi to rebuild their construction and logistical resources, they had the edge over the Terrans in shipbuilding and fighter production. They had too also brought their next generation fighters online to counter the latest Arrows, Hellcats, Thunderbolts, and Longbows the Confederation Space Force wielded. They had also started increased productions on their new corvettes, destroyers, and cruisers. But more importantly, they started to mass-produce the new Bhantkara-class carrier design to counter the Terran's newest Lexington-class CVNs. They had also started the construction of massive space-colony sized dreadnoughts to act as flagships. Kilrathi carriers eventually outnumbered the Confed carriers by 2 to 1.
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| − | Meanwhile, the Kilrathi had took their aging force of Snakier II, Fralthra, Ralatha, and Kamekh warships and put them to rear-echelon units.
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| − | == At the start of 2669: == (Psych's Fleet Tactic's comms-based timeline)
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| − | Admiral Price Hancock in charge of 19th Fleet
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| − | General Taggart at SOCOM has come up with a new type of logistics for carriers that includes advanced recycling systems, mining apparatus, and manufacturing and industrial capability. This has the the ability to make a warship totally self-sustaining.
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| − | Admiral Tom Jarvis has compiled a report on the status of remaining carriers after BOA:
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| − | *At Sol system, Sol sector:
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| − | ** Lexington class - 4 carriers under construction destroyed at Luna
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| − | ** TCS Wolfhound - Destroyed at Luna
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| − | ** TCS Austerlitz - Destroyed at Luna
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| − | ** TCS Copenhagen - Destroyed at Luna
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| − | ** Lexington class - 1 carrier at Luna: internal facilities gutted out; Paulson recommends scrapping; requested by Hancock on 2669.003 for refitting with new logistics.
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| − | ** TCS Lexington - Gutted out; - Sol - hull still orbiting Earth
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| − | ** TCS Concordia - Severe damage - Sol - Est. 2 yrs on dry dock.
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| − | ** TCS Saratoga - Good condition, - at Sol - minor repairs needed.
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| − | ** Jutland-class - 1 Hull intact at Jupiter's yards. Est. completion: 2669.90
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| − | ** Lexington class - 7 Hulls intact at Jupiter's yards. Est. completion: 2669.90
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| − | *At Tamayo shipyards, Tamayo, Vega sector (Day Quadrant):
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| − | ** TCS Armageddon - Ligth damage - Est repairs to complete by 2669.25
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| − | ** TCS Winterrowd - Ligth damage - Est repairs to complete by 2669.25
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| − | ** TCS Liberty - Ligth damage - Est repairs to complete by 2669.25
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| − | ** TCS Valiant - Ligth damage - Est repairs to complete by 2669.25
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| − | *At Caernaven Station, Pembroke system, Enigma sector (Grills Quadrant):
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| − | ** TCS Hermes - Ligth damage - Est repairs to complete by 2669.25
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| − | ** TCS Invincible - Ligth damage - Est repairs to complete by 2669.25
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| − | ** TCS Illustrious - Ligth damage - Est repairs to complete by 2669.25
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| − | *Destroyed construction yards:
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| − | ** All at Earth and Luna
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| − | *Intact ship construction yards at:
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| − | ** Jupiter
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| − | ** Pembroke
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| − | ** Tamayo
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| − | ** Luyten
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| − | ** Krueger
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| − | ** Alpha Centauri
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| − | ** Proxima Centauri.
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| − | == TIMELINE ==
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| − | 2669.005 Admiral Tom Jarvis repots completion of improved fighter prototypes:
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| − | * F-96 Arrow
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| − | * F-86 Hellcat V
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| − | * F-66 Thunderbolt VII
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| − | * F/A-76 Longbow
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| − | (NOTE: Thanks to Bainbridge's secret order authorizing testing during false peace.)
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| − | 2669.007 Doctor Frederick Whitmore reports on Blair:
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| − | * "I am replying to your inquiry about Colonel Christopher Blair, TCSF. Colonel Blair has severe internal bleeding, oxygen deprivation sickness, moderate radiation poisoning, head trauma, several small fractures, and several severe fractures on his arms and legs. His situation is however stabilized, and I estimate that he has about 6 months for full recovery."
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| − | == Confed's Opening Gambit ==
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| − | Wonder Chicken:
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| − | During the first few months, the first Terran attacks were by raider units.
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| − | One of the four Lexington-class carriers destroyed in the Battle of Terra
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| − | was deemed salvageable and had been modified into a self-sustaining raider.
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| − | This ship, christened the Lexington, and the Confederation's majority of their
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| − | escort carriers were pooled together to act as the vanguard for the next
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| − | Confederation war strategy. Familiar with the success of the escort carrier
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| − | a few years past, ConFed High Command finally pooled the CVE raider units in
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| − | their own major command, the 19th Battle Fleet. Under the command of Admiral
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| − | Price Hancock, these raider ships were delegated into Recon-in-Force guerilla
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| − | units and were sent independently of the front line to attack rear-echelon
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| − | facilities and other secondary logistical resources. But unlike a few years
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| − | past, these behind-the-lines strike missions were stopped cold. The Kilrathi
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| − | were waiting for the CVEs with their reserve Snakier II-class carriers and
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| − | their new class of Dubav-class light carriers. These Kilrathi forces well
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| − | outnumbered the CVE forces, and many Recon-In-Force units never reported back
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| − | 2669.011 Hancock reports Lexington class carrier refitting complete for self-sustaining operation.
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| − | * Rechristened "TCS Lexington" (10th ship to carry the name)
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| − | * Enroute to Goddard, from where it will jump through an uncharted jump-point (discovered by Adm. Vance Richards), presumably into the rear of Kilrah...
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| − | 2669.011
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| − | Following the attack on Earth, the Terran Intelligence Agency deploys a top-secret,
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| − | tactical search party through a previously uncharted Kilrathi jump point. A heavy
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| − | carrier named TCS Lexington is equipped with self-sustaining recycling systems,
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| − | mining apparatus, and a 62-person Special Operations team. This unit leaves Goddard
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| − | Transfer Station and passes through a newly discovered jump point. Its mission:
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| − | - to search out and destroy Kilrathi forces, sector by sector. The mission fails
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| − | when the Lexington starts an ambush on an equally equipped Kilrathi carrier, which
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| − | results in the destruction of both carriers.
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| − | WC Armada, KS Manual== The Kilrathi Counter-Attack ==
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| − | (Where did they get the story of the encounter with a Kat carrier? Can't find any
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| − | other references to it :P ...)
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| − | COVERT INFILTRATION
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| − | A new secret carrier, the TCS Lexington departs from the
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| − | Goddard Transfer Station. Its mission: destroy the enemy
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| − | system by system. A self-sustaining, powerful vessel, carrying
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| − | among its crew a special unit of 62 Covert Operatives, the
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| − | carrier passes through a secret jump point into Kilrathi space.
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| − | The Lexington is not heard from thereafter, and is presumed
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| − | lost with all hands.
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| − | (Wing Commander: Armada)
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| − | 2669.018
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| − | The Lexington class carrier TCS Lexington was secret ship designed to be completely
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| − | self-sufficient. Equipped with oxygen planetariums, water-producing modules and
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| − | greenhouse gardens the ship supported a crew of 62 and sported a complement of 18
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| − | fighters. The Lexington was sent on a mission to locate and destroy Kilrah ...
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| − | via uncharted jump points, but failed and didn't return from the mission.
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| − | WC Encyclopedia - Combat Information Center
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| − | 2669.019 (Tentative start of Privateer Part 1)
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| − | 2669.024 Jarvis reports carrier repairs completion. Ready for deployment are:
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| − | * TCS Armageddon
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| − | * TCS Winterrowd
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| − | * TCS Liberty
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| − | * TCS Valiant
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| − | * TCS Hermes
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| − | * TCS Invincible
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| − | * TCS Illustrious
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| − | 2669.024 President Dave Quinson declines Tolwyn's requests.
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| − | * 2 carriers must remain at Sol
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| − | * The other 7 may join 7th Fleet and take defensive positions while awaiting target list drafted by Congress
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| − | 2669.030 President Dave Quinson declines Tolwyn's request to be in charge of 7th Fleet.
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| − | * Vice Admiral Jack Rumley to take command of the Seventh Fleet's five carriers.
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| − | * Tolwyn removed from Terran Defense, replaced by Vice Admiral Rush Fletcher
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| − | * Tolwyn assigned to 14th Fleet, Enigma sector, to be joined by Concordia and Invincible
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| − | 2669.040 Richards reports new Kat fighters encountered:
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| − | * Darket
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| − | * Dralthi IV
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| − | * Vaktoth
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| − | Destroying a majority of the attacking CVE forces, the Kilrathi military started to gain
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| − | a momentum that would rear its ugly head in their massive counter-offensive that started
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| − | near the beginning of March. Approximately twenty Kilrathi carrier groups attacked from
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| − | all points along the front and steamrolled over the defending Confed forces.
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| − | The Confederation Forward Fleet lost six of its twelve carriers in an utterly disasterous
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| − | 2669.052 Vice Admiral Jack Rumley, Aloysius system, Vega sector (Roberts quadrant) reports:
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| − | * TCS Illustrous destroyed by new Kat bomber, 5000 dead
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| − | * Retreating to Port Hedland
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| − | The TCS Illustrious was destroyed in the Aloysius System by the famed Kilrathi ace "Bloodmist".
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| − | Wonder Chicken
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| − | 2669.059 Richards reports on new Kat bomber:
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| − | * Paktahn -- half-dozen torpedoes, dozen defensive missile hardpoints and a half-dozen heavy energy weapons
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| − | 2669.060 Light carrier TCS Wellington lost in Gemini
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| − | The 6th Confederation fleet is lost around Midgard.
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| − | (Could this be a reference to the TCS Wellington? Gemini's fleet is officially the 15th Fleet.)
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| − | 2669.061 Jarvis reports completion of new fleet carriers. Ready for deployment:
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| − | *Lexington-class:
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| − | ** TCS Quinson - assigned to Jackson (Jack Rumley, 7th Fleet?)
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| − | ** TCS Bradshaw - assigned to Jackson (Jack Rumley, 7th Fleet?)
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| − | ** TCS Kinney - assigned to Jackson (Jack Rumley, 7th Fleet?)
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| − | ** TCS Eisenhower - assigned to Fletcher, Terran defense
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| − | ** TCS Roosevelt - assigned to Jackson (Jack Rumley, 7th Fleet?)
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| − | ** TCS Kennedy - assigned to Fletcher, Terran defense#* TCS Lincoln - assigned to Fletcher, Terran defense
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| − | *Jutland-class:
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| − | ** TCS Coral Sea, will be ready for commissioning in a week, assigned to Tolwyn, Enigma, 14th Fleet
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| − | 2669.067 Rear Admiral Richard David Terrell requests 2 fleet carriers for reinforcement:
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| − | * loss of light carrier TCS Wellington
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| − | * Kilrathi moving older Snakier II class carriers near Gemini
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| − | * Retro insurgency picking up.
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| − | * Pirates and crime syndicates on the rise
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| − | * Current forces: "rat-pack of militia fighters, a squadron of destroyers, and several shitbox light carriers"
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| − | 2669.068 Vice Admiral Jack Rumley sends TCS Winterrowd and TCS Valiant to Terrel in Gemini.
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| − | 2669.076
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| − | * Rear Admiral Ludmilla Petranova, current commander of TCS Armageddon, accused by Fletcher of disobeying orders by leaving Proxima Centauri for Hell's Kitchen in Vega sector to stop a Kat raid.
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| − | * Rear Admiral Johnny Murasaki, current commander of TCS Eisenhower, threatened by Fletcher with court martial for suggesting moving carriers to the front.
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| − | 2669.084 Admiral Vance Richards reports loss of carrier
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| − | * TCS Quinson battlegroup wiped out by new Kat Dreadnaught, H’varkann-class, even without the benefit of escorts
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| − | * Far larger than the Hakaga-class carriers that ambushed Earth: 22 km in length, over forty heavy energy batteries
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| − | The TCS Quinson battle group encountered one of the new Kilrathi dreadnoughts and the entire group was wiped out.
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| − | Wonder Chicken
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| − | 2669.086 TCS Winterrowd arrives in Perry
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| − | '''Note''' that it takes the Winterrowd 086 - 068 = 18 days to travel from 7th Fleet territory to Perry.
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| − | We can guess a starting location for the Winterrowd by looking at where other 7th fleet events are
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| − | reported from. 7th fleet does NOT include the Armageddon, as she's stationed at Proxima Centauri;
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| − | nor The TCS Eisenhower or Kennedy as these are probably at Sol; nor the Concordia or the Coral Sea,
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| − | which are part of the 14th Fleet at Enigma. And the Valiant is sent together with the Winterrowd.
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| − | This leaves the Quinson, Bradshaw, Kinney, Roosvelt, Liberty, Hermes, Invincible and Illustrious.
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| − | Wonder Chicken says:
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| − | ''Paranoid by Kilrathi raids and fearing another attack on the inner homeworlds, the civilian government''
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| − | ''refused to deploy the Third Fleet’s five major carriers to the front. The TCS Armageddon, Saratoga,''
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| − | ''Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Lincoln stayed behind to defend Earth under direct Presidential order''
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| − | ''as the core to the newly christened "Terran Defense Fleet".''
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| − | So, it seems we haven't missed any. But we only hear again of:
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| − | * TCS Illustrous destroyed by new Kat bomber at Aloysius
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| − | * TCS Roosvelt - shot down at Munro
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| − | * TCS Invincible - victory in Morpheus
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| − | But! Notice that Ludmilla Petranova leaves Proxima for Hell's Kitchen 8 days after the Winterrowd
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| − | and Valiant depart for Gemini. Was the kat raid there due to the vacuum left by either ship? It
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| − | would seem so: Hell's Kitchen is about half way between Munro and Morpheus. We later hear about
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| − | losing ground at Port Hedland, Chang-Du, and Gimle. Hell's Kitchen is pretty much in the middle,
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| − | so I'll measure distance to Perry by counting jumps from Hell's Kitchen. So we go, Enyo, Krieger,
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| − | Luyten, Weslyn, Mastif, Oxford, Saxtogue, New Detroit, Perry. Nine jumps in 18 days. Now, too bad,
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| − | we don't know the class of the Winterrowd nor Valiant, but if we assume a speed of 125 as typical
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| − | for carriers, a Centurion's cruising speed is 4 times that, so, '''for the purposes of estimating
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| − | Privateer plotline dates, we'll use a rule of thumb: 2 jumps per standard day'''. And we will work
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| − | backwards, since the first part of the game is devoted to trading and upgrading the ship. For the
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| − | second part, Righteous Fire, we'll work forwards, since the game can be completed without additional
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| − | 2669.094 Admiral Vance Richards reports new Kat fleet carrier:
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| − | * Bhantkara-class: 900 meters in length, 100,000 tons
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| − | * Counters Lexington-class heavy carriers; worthy opponent to Concordia-class fleet carriers
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| − | 2669.098 Rear Admiral Richard David Terrell reports loss of carrier:
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| − | * "clouds of battle debris along the border that is traceable to the Valiant and her escorts"
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| − | The TCS Valiant battle group simply dissapeared along the border while enroute to the Gemini Sector.
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| − | 2669.098 TCN military analyst Guthrig Andropolos, son of Commander Jedora Andropolos, who died in the Iason incident of 2629, updates the History of the War database. KS Manual
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| − | 2669.109 Admiral Vance Richards reports new Kat stealth fighter:
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| − | * Bloodfang II: Prince Thrakhath piloting one, made his wingman stay on the sidelines while he wiped out the entire Confed unit on a space superiority flight off the TCS Coral Sea.
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| − | * Tougher, faster, more agile, more firepower
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| − | 2669.121 Rear Admiral Richard David Terrell reports suspected "Kilrathi superweapon":
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| − | * Winterrowd and 2 light carriers holding the Kilrathi at bay near Blockade Point Tango and Blockage Point Alpha
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| − | * Kilrathi superweapon running around the sector; not near the border
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| − | * "systematically tearing up anything it sees: pirates, Retros, civilians, our picket ships, even Kilrathi for some reason"
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| − | * Pulling TCS Winterrowd from the front to take care of "this nuisance"
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| − | 2669.122 TCS Winterrowd destroyed
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| − | The TCS Winterrowd, also reassigned to the Gemini Sector, was destroyed by what Intelligence has determined to be a Kilrathi superweapon.
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| − | TCS Winterrowd is destroyed by a Steltek drone.
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| − | 2669.127 Rear Admiral Richard David Terrell pleads for reinforcements again
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| − | * TCS Winterrowd lost to "Kilrathi superweapon" (Steltek drone)
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| − | Vice Admiral Rush Fletcher replies to Terrel: "go ask Hancock. I am sure he has some CVEs to send you."
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| − | 2669.130 (Earliest possible start of Privateer Righteous Fire, if we change "A year later" to "A week later")
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| − | 2669.131 Brigadier General Thomas "Shorty" Larson reports cloning of Kat stealth device is complete
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| − | * Suggests that a new fighter be "designed around it"
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| − | As per Tolwyn's suggestions, next day he agrees that this new fighter,
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| − | * must be able to outfly and outfight any Kilrathi fighter in service, including the Bloodfang
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| − | * must have the most devastating weaponry ever seen in a Confed fighter
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| − | * integrated addition of a jump drive and a cloaking device
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| − | * codenamed Excalibur
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| − | * will coordinate with General Taggart at Covert Ops, get his input also
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| − | 2669.137 President Dave Quinson informs:
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| − | * Rear Admiral Nicholai Ubarov, Confederation Weapons Division, was found dead in his office, apparent suicide
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| − | * Tolwyn reassigned to take over Confederation Weapons Division
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| − | * Rear Admiral Pierre Cloureau will relieve Tolwyn as commander of the 14th Fleet.
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| − | * Tolwyn to reassess worthiness of 10 yr old, black-funded project Behemoth
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| − | * Permission granted to proceed with Excalibur production
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| − | 2669.145 Rear Admiral David Whittaker arrives at Torgo III, wants to play chess with Tolwyn and chat
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| − | 2669.157 Vice Admiral Jack Rumley reports on Task Force 56 in the Munro System:
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| − | * TCS Roosvelt, under Brigadier General DuVall, engaged by 2 Kat heavy carriers, disabled and on fire
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| − | * ordering her crew and all forces to withdraw from the system
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| − | * will torpedo what's left of the Roosvelt to prevent her being taken over
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| − | The TCS Roosevelt went down during the failed Confed offensive in the Munro System.
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| − | 2669.166 Colonel Devereaux's team on Kilrah sends coded message:
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| − | * "The tripwire is set waiting for the horses to cross at the foxhole"
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| − | * Her team is then captured by the Kilrathi
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| − | 2669.169 General James Taggart urges Tolwyn not to tell Blair about Angel's execution.
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| − | 2669.174 Captain Henry Henderson reports loss of the the Concordia:
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| − | * Hit by a single torpedo that disabled her engines and forced her crash in Vespus III, off the Mistral Coast.
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| − | * Admiral Cloureau and the majority of the Concordia's crew lost.
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| − | * A few survivors picked up, includig Captain Kevin Tolwyn (Geoff's nephew), who ejected from his Hellcat.
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| − | But the most staggering loss occured when the TCS Concordia, the pride of the Confed Fleet,
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| − | fell prey to a Kilrathi ambush in the rear-echelon Vespus system. The Concordia was mopping
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| − | up raiders when a lucky torpedo hit crippled her engines and forced her to crash into the
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| − | Mistral Coast off Vespus IV. There were no survivors on board.
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| − | 2669.177 Doctor Frederick Whitmore declares Blair fully recovered; certified for active duty
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| − | 2669.179 Captain Kevin Tolwyn promoted to Major by Rumley; transferred to staff position at Torgo III
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| − | 2669.180 Rear Admiral Duke Leonard, Commander of TCS Invincible, reports victory:
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| − | * "Morpheus is ours"
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| − | * destroyed one heavy carrier, one light cruiser, three destroyers, and two corvettes
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| − | * one heavy cruiser and two remaining destroyers fled the system
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| − | * landed onto the Kilrathi outpost; overran Kilrathi resistance
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| − | 2669.181 Admiral Vance Richards warns:
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| − | * tactic of using escort carriers to harrass the Kilrathi rear-echelon sectors no longer works, now that Snakier II carriers are being pulled back by the Kilrathi
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| − | * Most of the Recon-In-Force groups Admiral Hancock sent to penetrate the Empire have not reported back --a good percentage of CVE forces
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| − | * had to withdraw from failed assault in Munro with the loss of the Roosevelt
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| − | * losing ground in Port Hedland, Chang-Du, and Gimle
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| − | * with the loss of the Illustrious, Quinson, Valiant, Winterrowd, Roosevelt, and Concordia, down to 6 fleet carriers on the front, from 17
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| − | * Most CVEs either gone or severely damaged like the Tarawa
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| − | * Kilrathi beating Confed two-to-one in cruiser and destroyer production, plus an edge in fighter production
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| − | * commissioning more fleet carriers online in their Navy, mostly Bhantkara-class
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| − | * Intell reports also show the presence of two more H'varkann-class dreadnoughts
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| − | * Confed only building the new Eagle-class light carriers
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| − | 2669.183 Blair requests transfer to the TCS Bradshaw
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| − | Cloaking requires the use of a crystal that has a limited life. The first Confed Stealth Fighter prototype was unveiled in the Selyan Sector at the 2669 GCM competition. It featured an integral MX-27BC guided-proton warhead. Stealth gear was used on the Light Smuggler (Bannockburn) is intended to be used for short periods of time. It is a huge drain on the ship's energy and sending a narrow band translight pulse required dropping out of stealth. The Kilrathi seemed not to be able to detect the Bannockburn.
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| − | In 2669 a Confederation solar shadow ring station in the Trafalgar System observed a jump point formation inside the Tanhauser nebula. Due to the potential strategic value of such a discovery, the CID classified all information gathered on the occurrence.
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| − | 2669.217 Platolum is a laser and durasteel shard proof alloy discovered on Ghorah Khar during excavations of the old Kilrathi base. Bryce Alloys found it when they found argonized platinum containers storing Xanius Moloride. The Xanius Molaride emitted above-infrared rays that contacted nickel-cadmium generators. The rays plus nickel made a new alloy. We're not sure if the platinum containers were involved, but the name seems to imply it. In the month of 2669.217, the alloys made an appearance on the UNXhange market.
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| − | 2669.221 Massacre aboard La Belle Dame Sans Merci. KS Calendar
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| − | 2669.233 Biochemical destruction of Trafalgar, Locanda and Delius by Kilrathi forces.
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| − | 2669.242 The Confederation liberates the Cabrea system.
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| − | 2669.247 The Confederation field-tests Behemoth.
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| − | 2669.262 Confederation's tests of the Temblor Bomb are successful.
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| − | 2669.267 The Kilrathi home planet Kilrah is destroyed in an attack consisting of four Excalibur fighters, equiped with Confed's newest Stealth technology and the Temblor bomb. As a result the Kilrathi spokesman Melek surrenders to Colonel Christopher Blair who led the attack on Kilrah.
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| − | The Terran-Kilrathi Armistice is signed.
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