Melissa Steiner (Individual Fox-class WarShip)
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| Melissa Steiner | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Vessel Profile | |
| Type | WarShip |
| Class | Fox |
Contents
History[edit]
Launched at some point after 3062[1][2] and before 3067, the Melissa Steiner either survived the devastating FedCom Civil War or was constructed in the aftermath, and was one of four Fox-class corvettes in service with the Lyran Alliance in 3067. Serving alongside the Melissa Steiner were the LAS Katrina Steiner, LAS Robert Kelswa and LAS Robert Marsden while two additional Foxes, the LAS Ian McQuiston and LAS Katherine Steiner, were in construction and expected to enter service in 3068.[3]
The Melissa Steiner was destroyed in 3070 during Operation STEEL HAMMER, the Word of Blake campaign to capture important Lyran Alliance industrial worlds. Following a series of raids conducted from 3068 onwards by the Sixteenth and Twenty-second Divisions the Blakists launched a full invasion of Hesperus II in 3070. The invasion force consisted of the Thirty-eighth Division and the Fortieth Shadow Division, escorted by a reinforced Level II of Pocket WarShips and the Lola III-class destroyer WoBS End of Wisdom; the Blakist naval forces overwhelmed and destroyed the Melissa Steiner, effectively blockading the Hesperus system, before launching their full ground invasion of the planet.[4]
Notes[edit]
- Field Manual: Updates lists the LAS Katherine Steiner as being in service with the Lyran Alliance Armed Forces in 3067, and the LAS Katrina Steiner as still being under construction. This contradicts Field Manual: Lyran Alliance and the FedCom Civil War sourcebook which list the Katrina Steiner as the first Fox to be manufactured at the Port Sydney Naval Shipyards and as having fought during the Civil War. For this article, it has been assumed that Field Manual: Updates is in error.
References[edit]
- ↑ Field Manual: Federated Suns, p. 25, "AFFC WarShip Fleet" - Note Melissa Steiner not listed as an active ship
- ↑ Field Manual: Lyran Alliance, p. 25, "WarShips" - Note Melissa Steiner not listed as an active ship or under construction
- ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 165, "Ships of the Alliance"
- ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, pp. 103-104 - "40th Shadow Division".