Editing Mountbatten

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==History==
===Star League Era===
Following the coup launched by [[Stefan Amaris]] and the decision by [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] to oppose Amaris' usurpation of the [[Terran Hegemony]] the ''[[Texas]]''-class battleship SLS '''''Mountbatten''''' (often misspelled as ''Mountbatt'''o'''n''; see Notes below) was soon involved in fighting against forces loyal to Amaris and the [[Rim Worlds Republic]]. Having pulled out of the campaign resulting from the [[Periphery Uprising]] Kerensky launched a campaign to conquer the Rim Worlds Republic, and by [[2767]] the SLDF was in urgent need of naval dry docks capable of supporting and repairing the ships within the SLDF black water navy. As a result in early [[2768]] the ''Mountbatten'' led a flotilla to capture the shipyards in the [[Star's End]] system. Despite the lack of a Republican naval force in the system and the defenders being caught unawares, the fight for the shipyards was very challenging for the SLDF forces; a number of facilities within the shipyards were destroyed, either sabotaged by the Republicans or, in the case of helium storage facility, through a crippled SLDF [[aerospace fighter]] crashing. The battle lasted for fourteen hours before the CAG of the ''Mountbatten's'' fighter forces, [[Stephen McKenna]], reported that the complex was finally secure.<ref name="H:LOTv1p108">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 108, "High and Low"</ref>

The ''Mountbatten'' was one of the [[Star League Defense Force]] naval [[WarShip]]s that survived the [[Hegemony Campaign]] to liberate [[Terra]] from the forces of [[Stefan Amaris]] and subsequently followed [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]]. The ''Mountbatten'' was eventually commanded by Stephen McKenna, the SLDF officer who would become the founder of [[Clan Snow Raven]].<ref name="FM:WCp129">''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 129, "Storm Crow Naval Pursuit Star"</ref>

===Clan Era===
As of [[3061]] the ''Mountbatten'' had been subsumed into the [[Clan Snow Raven Touman|Snow Raven ''touman'']] and was serving as the CSR ''Mountbatten'', one of five WarShips that made up the [[Storm Crow Naval Pursuit Star (Clan Snow Raven)|Storm Crow Naval Pursuit Star]] and one of the few Clan WarShips to have retained her SLDF name.<ref name="FM:WCp129"/> The ''Mountbatten'' continued to serve in the Storm Crow Naval Pursuit Star throughout the 3060s alongside the [[Cameron (WarShip class)|''Cameron'']]-class battlecruiser [[Kerensky's Hope|CSR ''Kerensky's Hope'']], the ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class  heavy cruiser [[Storm Crow|CSR ''Storm Crow'']], the ''[[Conqueror]]''-class carrier [[Ark Royal (Individual Conqueror-class WarShip)|CSR ''Ark Royal'']] and the ''[[Carrack]]''-class transport [[Nestling|CSR ''Nestling'']].<ref name="FM:Up64">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 64-65, "Naval Assets"</ref>

=== The Jihad ===
The Storm Crow Naval Pursuit Star was responsible for the scourging of [[Galedon V]], in which every major city on the planet was bombarded from orbit by Snow Raven WarShips a week after the population was given notice to flee;<ref name="WoRp43">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 43, "Scourging the Plague"</ref> this massively destructive act was retaliation for the perceived involvement of the [[Draconis Combine]] in the destruction of the [[Swift Wing Naval Assault Star (Clan Snow Raven)|Swift Wing Naval Assault Star]] at [[Ramora]] on the 5th of January [[3069]],<ref name="BAp210">''Blake Ascending'', p. 210, "Early 3069: The Fog of War"</ref> although later investigation subsequently placed the blame for the action on the hands of terrorists backed by the [[Word of Blake]].<ref name="J:FRp46">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 46, "The Jihad In Review"</ref><ref name="WoRp45">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 45, "Retribution"</ref>

''Mountbatten'' was one of three vessels that took fleeing civilians from Galedon as ''[[isorla]]'' only to subsequently discover that the civilians had brought the [[Curse of Galedon]] with them - an [[Age of War]] bioweapon later identified as [[XCON-73]] that had been unleashed accidentally during an earlier conflict on the planet. Not only were the civilians infected, but XCON-73 was also being carried through the ventilation systems on all three ships. The three infected ships - the ''Mountbatten'', ''Nestling'' and ''Storm Crow'' - were declared as targets of a [[Trial of Annihilation]] by [[Star Admiral]] [[Troy McKenna]], the senior officer amongst the uninfected vessels. The ''Nesting'' immediately vented her holds into space, killing all the civilians aboard, but McKenna's forces pressed the attack; the Captains of all three infected ships fought back, but McKenna's forces prevailed, disabling or destroying all three ships.<ref name="WoRp43"/>

==Notes==
* The name of this WarShip is spelled differently in different canonical sources. While ''Wars of Reaving'', ''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'' and ''Jihad: Final Reckoning'' spell it as ''Mountbatt'''e'''n'', ''Field Manual: Warden Clans'' and ''Field Manual: Updates'' spell it as ''Mountbatt'''o'''n''. Since the former name is a notable nonfictional noble house in the real world while the latter spelling only ever seems to appear as a misspelling of that noble houses's name, it is assumed that ''Mountbatten'' is the ship's correct name.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Blake Ascending]]''
* ''[[Field Manual:  Updates]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''


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