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==History==
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The '''''Vandenberg''''' was a ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvette which served in the [[Taurian Concordat]] black water navy as the TCW ''Vandenberg'' prior to and during the [[Reunification War]].<ref name="FM:Pp52">''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 52, "WarShip and Conventional Fleet Support"</ref>
  
The TCW '''''Vandenberg''''' was a ''[[Vincent (WarShip class)|Vincent]]''-class corvette which served in the [[Taurian Concordat]] spaceborn navy prior to and during the [[Reunification War]].<ref name="FM:Pp52">''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 52: "WarShip and Conventional Fleet Support"</ref>
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When the [[Star League Defense Force]] launched its final assault on the [[Hyades Cluster]] in the closing stages of the Reunification War the TCW ''Vandenberg'' was missed,<ref name="FM:Pp52"/> having avoided or survived the destruction of the remainder of the Concordat [[WarShip]] fleet and the death of the commanding officer of the navy, [[Marshal]] [[David Santos (26th c.)|David Santos]], in the [[Montour]] system in [[2587]];<ref>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 88-89, "The Final Hurrah"</ref> the ''Vandenberg'' was hidden within the Hyades Nebula, and would remain there for almost five hundred years.<ref name="FM:Pp52"/>
 
 
==History==
 
When the [[Star League Defense Force]] launched its final assault on the [[Hyades Cluster]] in the closing stages of the Reunification War the TCW ''Vandenberg'' was missed,<ref name="FM:Pp52"/> having avoided or survived the destruction of the remainder of the Concordat [[WarShip]] fleet and the death of the commanding officer of the navy, [[Marshal (rank)|Marshal]] [[David Santos (26th c.)|David Santos]], in the [[Montour]] system in [[2587]];<ref>''Historical: Reunification War'', pp. 88–89: "The Final Hurrah"</ref> the ''Vandenberg'' was hidden within the Hyades Nebula, and would remain there for almost five hundred years.<ref name="FM:Pp52"/>
 
  
 
Rendered almost completely inoperable and in no way battleworthy, the ''Vandenberg'' remained potentially one of the greatest treasures of the [[Taurian Defense Force]] during the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], and in the mid-thirty-first century the creation of the [[Trinity Alliance]] between the [[Capellan Confederation]], the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] and the Taurian Concordat gave rise to the hope that the ''Vandenberg'' could be restored to working order.<ref name="FM:Pp52"/>
 
Rendered almost completely inoperable and in no way battleworthy, the ''Vandenberg'' remained potentially one of the greatest treasures of the [[Taurian Defense Force]] during the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], and in the mid-thirty-first century the creation of the [[Trinity Alliance]] between the [[Capellan Confederation]], the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] and the Taurian Concordat gave rise to the hope that the ''Vandenberg'' could be restored to working order.<ref name="FM:Pp52"/>
  
Engineers from the Confederation began making repairs to the ''Vandenberg'' during the time of the Trinity Alliance, and remained hopeful that she could be restored to working order; however, while as late as [[3064]] the Concordat was still devoting funding to the restoration of the ''Vandenberg'', she remained in a dire condition and the funds being spent represented a dire drain on the TDF budget. The work required was extensive; the ''Vandenberg'' needed to be completely rewired, her weapons needed to be upgraded, the drive needed to be overhauled and the armor—irradiated and brittle—needed to be replaced.<ref name="FM:Pp52"/>
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Engineers from the Confederation began making repairs to the ''Vandenberg'' during the time of the Trinity Alliance, and remained hopeful that she could be restored to working order; however, while as late as [[3064]] the Concordat was still devoting funding to the restoration of the ''Vandenberg'', she remained in a dire condition and the funds being spent represented a dire drain on the TDF budget. The work required was extensive; the ''Vandenberg'' needed to be completely rewired, her weapons needed to be upgraded, the drive needed to be overhauled and the armor - irradiated and brittle - needed to be replaced.<ref name="FM:Pp52"/>
  
Such was the extent of the work required that by 3064 many in the Concordat navy had begun referring to the Vandenberg as the TCW ''Albatross'',<ref name="FM:Pp52"/> and there was no indication that the ''Vandenberg'' had been restored to order by [[3079]].<ref>''Field Report: Periphery'', p. 12: "Taurian Concordat"</ref>
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Such was the extent of the work required that by 3064 many in the Concordat navy had begun referring to the Vandenberg as the TCW ''Albatross'',<ref name="FM:Pp52"/> and there was no indication that the ''Vandenberg'' had been restored to order by [[3079]].<ref>''Field Report: Periphery'', p. 12, "Taurian Concordat"</ref>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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* ''[[Field Report: Periphery]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report: Periphery]]''
 
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
 
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
 
 
[[Category: Individual WarShips]]
 
[[Category: Individual WarShips]]
 
[[Category: Individual Corvettes]]
 
[[Category: Individual Corvettes]]
 
[[Category: Individual Vincent-class WarShips]]
 
[[Category: Individual Vincent-class WarShips]]

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