Langschwert

Langschwert
Vessel Profile
TypeDropShip
ClassLeopard

The Langschwert ("Longsword") under Captain Braun[1] was one of two Leopard-class DropShips (along with the Lion-class William Wallace) that carried elements of the First company, Third battalion of the Royal Black Watch, from Engadin to Icar for extended training maneuvers in January 2598; the other Leopard was the Stolz der Schotten.[2]

Tensions between the Royal Black Watch and local militia units erupted into open fighting on 9 February 2598. Grounded outside a militia base, the Langschwert and Stolz der Schotten, being aerodyne DropShips, could not take off because their runways were blocked,[3] and were subsequently captured.[4] (The William Wallace, being a spheroid design with vertical liftoff capability, escaped.)

Canonicity[edit]

Being mentioned only in an apocryphal source (the German-only novel Wahnsinn und Methode), the Langschwert must consequentially be considered apocryphal as well.

Notes[edit]

  • The Langschwert and the Stolz der Schotten are repeatedly mentioned as a pair of Leopards. However, one news item from a highly unreliable broadcasting company explicitly described the three Star League vessels as a Lion, a Leopard and a Leopard CV.[5] This may have been a misreporting, or the Leopard CV was yet another ship; but there is also the off chance that either the Langschwert or the Stolz der Schotten were in fact a Leopard CV-class DropShip.

References[edit]

  1. Wahnsinn und Methode, p. 143
  2. Wahnsinn und Methode, pp. 42, 50, 142, 143, 153, 221
  3. Wahnsinn und Methode, pp. 142–143
  4. Wahnsinn und Methode, p. 221
  5. Wahnsinn und Methode, p. 61

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