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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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| − | flagship, and destroy them with thermonuclear mines.
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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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| − | 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
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| − | Confederation Third Battle Fleet destroyed half of Thrakhath's fleet, including three Kilrathi supercarriers, a standard fleet carrier and almost forty
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| − | 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
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| − | political one as it had almost put the other clans in total rebellion and political turmoil. The Kilrathi Emperor had barely thwarted two assassination
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| − | 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
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| − | pre-Battle of Terra assassination, and the top ranking Confed officer, Marine General Duke Grecko, was killed during the fighting. Including the systems
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| − | that were directly in path of Thrakhath's armada, the inner homeworlds of Sirius, Warsaw, and Gilhead were radiation bombarded beyond any hope of
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| − | salvation. 70% of the Confederation fighter pilots who fought were killed. The Fleet lost over four dozen cruisers, destroyers, and frigates, but the most
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| − | 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,
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| − | Leyte Gulf, and Lexington were destroyed in combat, the TCS Wolfhound, Austerlitz, and Copenhagen were destroyed in drydock, and four Lexington-class
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| − | carriers were destroyed undergoing construction in the Lunar Shipyards. Only two carriers that fought in Battle of Earth survived, the Confederation-class
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| − | 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
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| − | cabinet resigned as well. Foreign Secretary Jamison, for whom Confed Intelligence had concrete evidence she was a Kilrathi traitor, was tried, convicted,
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| − | 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
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| − | major political parties bonded together into a single coalition. Because of the political and civilian chaos that was occuring during this time of crisis,
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| − | the Senate declared martial law over all Terran Confederation territory and replaced judiciary powers from the civilian Supreme Court to the military
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| − | 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
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| − | that the Kilrathi peace pleas were a ruse. Unknown to the joint Chiefs of Staffs, President Rodham, and (especially) ex-Foreign Secretary Jamison, during
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | IV naval construction yards around Jupiter intact, as well as the shipyards in the Tamayo System. Meanwhile, there were still fighter factories intact in
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | withdrawn and reincorporated into ConFleet service. Confed had also started to bring their other mothballed vessels online. The most important were the
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| − | seven fleet carriers that were still mothballed due to the False Treaty: the Confederation-class dreadnought TCS Armageddon, and the Concordia-class
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| − | carriers TCS Valiant, Winterrowd, Liberty, Hermes, Invincible, and Illustrious. They were quickly brought online in a matter of weeks. In addition,
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| − | 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
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| − | because the Trojan IV shipyards at Jupiter were spared by the Kilrathi, seven new Lexington-class carriers and one Jutland-class attack carrier were
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| − | nearing completion and had remained intact. By the beginning of March, the CVNs Quinson, Bradshaw, Kinney, Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Kennedy and the Lincoln,
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| − | plus the CVA Coral Sea finished construction and entered ConFleet service. With eight new carriers joining the nine existing carriers, ConFleet now boasted
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | advantage of the political turmoil that plagued the Emperor and Prince Thrakhath. But the Confed civilian government took this opportunity and threw it
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | taken from the front lines. Besides this, bureaucrats and politicians were back bickering with the military and refusing to give extra funding and
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| − | 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
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| − | fleet in a defensive rather then offensive postures along the front. Instead of attacking the necessary targets vital to the war, the Senate dictated
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| − | ConFleet to spend their time attacking worthless targets. The end result was that the civilian government’s incompetence enabled the Kilrathi enough time
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| − | 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
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| − | and fighter production. They had too also brought their next generation fighters online to counter the latest Arrows, Hellcats, Thunderbolts, and Longbows
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| − | the Confederation Space Force wielded. They had also started increased productions on their new corvettes, destroyers, and cruisers. But more importantly,
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| − | 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
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| − | 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 *
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| − | 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
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| − | 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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| − | 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
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| − | radiation poisoning, head trauma, several small fractures, and several severe fractures on his arms and legs. His situation is however stabilized, and I
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| − | 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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| − | to HQ.
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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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| − | 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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| − | 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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| − | Wonder Chicken:
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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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| − | period lasting from March to June:
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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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| − | Privateer
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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
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| − | 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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| − | 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
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| − | 2669.109 Admiral Vance Richards reports new Kat stealth fighter:
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| − | * Strakha-class: more maneuverable and well-armed; one stalked and shot down 4 Hellcats from the Roosevelt
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| − | 2669.112 Admiral Vance Richards reports new Kat 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
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| − | 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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| − | 2669.124 (Earliest possible end of Privateer part 1)
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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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| − | 2669.128 (We can have Hancock agree to Terrel's request for a couple of CVE's. In fact, say he sends five of them, with the idea of making incursions into
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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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| − | (Okay, was it Vespus III or Vespus IV?)
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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
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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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| − | 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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| − | Wing Commander III, KS Calendar
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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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| − | Wing Commander III, KS Calendar
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| − | 2669.262 Confederation's tests of the Temblor Bomb are successful.
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| − | Wing Commander III, KS Calendar
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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
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| − | 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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| − | Wing Commander III, KS Calendar
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| − | The Terran-Kilrathi Armistice is signed.
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