14th Line Squadron (SLDF)

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Fourteenth Pursuit Squadron
Nickname High Command's Squadron
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command First Fleet

The Fourteenth Pursuit Squadron was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Navy.[1]

History[edit]

In 2764, the flotilla was assigned to the First Fleet.[1]

Amaris Coup[edit]

During Stefan Amaris' coup on Terra in late December 2766 the Enterprise and its squadron were responsible for destroying the Rim Worlds Republic flagship, the RWS Stefan Amaris along with numerous other Republican WarShips, as well as covering the evacuation of the surviving SLDF High Command staff from Terra before being destroyed by surface to orbit fire from defenses on Terra under the control of the Republican forces.[2]

By the time the High Command decided to evacuate from the Citadel on Terra, it was already 1910 TST; the evacuation then ran late, with the emergency DropShips not launching from the Citadel until 2000 TST, by which point the Enterprise and her escort group had been reduced to just three vessels: the Black Lion-class battlecruiser SLS Theodor Logan, the Sovetskii Soyuz-class heavy cruiser SLS Kharkov, and the Enterprise itself, while the rest of the 14th Line Squadron fought in higher orbit. Only two DropShips survived to reach the rendezvous with the Kharkov, and as soon as the DropShips had docked with the Kharkov all three vessels made for the nearest Lagrange point at top speed.[2]

When the Kharkov had jumped out of the Terran system, the Enterprise and the Theodor Logan returned to the fight, rendezvousing with an ad hoc attack squadron at the Metz Station and then leading this squadron on attack against the main concentration of Rim Worlds Republic vessels, which were located over Eastern Europe at the time. The Republican forces on the ground had also seized three ground based space defense weapons, and as the SLDF engaged in a sixteen hour battle that saw every Republican ship in orbit destroyed, the ground defenses added their fire to that of the Republican navy. The Enterprise was destroyed during this battle, having taken significant damage from the ground-based defenses; the Theodor Logan, last of the Enterprise's group, was one of six SLDF vessels to survive the battle and withdraw back to the Metz for the final day of the struggle for control of Terra.[2]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 17th Pursuit Squadron
Vice Admiral Santiago Mroczkiewicz 2764[3]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

2764[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Field Manual: SLDF, p. 44
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 79: "Struggle For The Terran System"
  3. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 46: "Second Fleet"

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