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- This article is about the WarShip. For the planetary system, see New Ivaarsen.
| New Ivaarsen | |
|---|---|
| Vessel Profile | |
| Type | WarShip |
| Class | Robinson |
The FSS New Ivaarsen was a Robinson-class transport in service with the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns.
History[edit]
In May 2787, the Draconis Combine launched a massive invasion of the Federated Suns. The invasion was so swift and targeted communications and JumpShips so effectively that many border systems didn't have a chance to transmit warnings or alerts, leading to widespread confusion on the part of the AFFS. Three days after the initial attacks another large wave of attacks was launched by the DCMS, based around two salients; one, under the overall command of Coordinator Minoru Kurita, struck into the Clovis Combat Region, beginning with invasions of Cartago, Clovis, and Olancha.[1]
Field Marshal Grover Simons, the Commanding Officer of the Clovis Combat Region, was in residence on Clovis when a substantial DCMS invasion force led by Coordinator Minoru Kurita arrived in the Clovis system. The naval flotilla from the Draconis Combine Admiralty Third Fleet escorting the ground forces battled the small AFFS naval picket in the system, destroying the New Syrtis-class carrier FSS Midale and the Davion-class destroyer FSS Reynard Davion, with the only surviving ship from the picket being a second Davion, the FSS Samuel Davion.[1]
Despite being heavily outnumbered, the AFFS WarShips managed to tie up the Hagiwawa's flotilla for six hours close to Clovis' lunar orbit but the loss of the Midale and the Reynard Davion effectively ended AFFS resistance in orbit. Simons' forces on the ground put up a fierce resistance for two weeks, during which the DCMS ground forces fought without calling on the Hagiwawa or any of the other WarShips for naval support. By the end of the first week, the attackers had seized only a small foothold in Gorst City Valley. The DCMS refrained from using orbital bombardment to destroy the defenders, but Simons' calls for reinforcements went largely unanswered because of the chaos engulfing the local region; those AFFS units not already destroyed were all either in retreat or desperately fighting for survival. The only forces able to respond were from Xhosa VII, hastily loaded onto four DropShips and transported to the Clovis system by the New Ivaarsen. The troops brought by the New Ivaarsen were nowhere near enough to turn the tide, but the New Ivaarsen arrived in the system five days into the second week of the invasion and was burning towards Clovis from the zenith jump point, preparing for a brutal encounter with the remaining Combine WarShips (the Narukami-class DCS Firewind having been crippled by the defending WarShips, and the Samarkand-class flagship Hagiwawa having taken heavy damage) when Simons' position began crumbling on two flanks.[1]
Simons ordered a retreat from the planet for his surviving forces, which fell back to those surviving DropShips at the Gorst City Spaceport, but Simons died when his Leopard-class DropShip, the last to leave Clovis, was intercepted by Combine aerospace fighters ten kilometers above Clovis and attempted to fight its way clear, rather than surrendering; the combination of the fall of Clovis and the death of Simons led to a collapse in the AFFS defensive line in the region and swift, inexorable gains for the Combine.[1]