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{{otheruses|the Block I carrier|other uses|Benjamin (disambiguation)}}
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| class        = [[Samarkand Block I (WarShip class)|Sarmarkand I]]
 
| class        = [[Samarkand Block I (WarShip class)|Sarmarkand I]]
 
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| servicesince = [[2579]][[2581]]<ref name="TRO:3075p216"/>
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| servicesince = [[2579]]-[[2581]]<ref name="TRO:3075p216"/>
 
| serviceuntil = [[2790]]<ref name="FSWp41A"/>
 
| serviceuntil = [[2790]]<ref name="FSWp41A"/>
 
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==History==
 
==History==
The DCS '''''Benjamin''''' was the second-of-class [[WarShip]] of the ''[[Samarkand Block I (WarShip class)|Samarkand]]''-class carrier, launched between [[2579]] and [[2581]]; in 2581 the ''Benjamin'' joined her sister ship and first-of-class vessel the [[Samarkand (Individual Samarkand-class WarShip)|DCS ''Samarkand'']] on deployment against the [[Outworlds Alliance]] military during the [[Reunification War]].<ref name="TRO:3075p216">''Technical Readout: 3075'', p. 216: "Samarkand (Carrier)"</ref>
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The '''DCS ''Benjamin''''' was the second-of-class [[WarShip]] of the ''[[Samarkand Block I (WarShip class)|Samarkand]]''-class carrier, launched between [[2579]] and [[2581]]; in 2581 the ''Benjamin'' joined her sister ship and first-of-class vessel the [[Samarkand (Individual Samarkand-class WarShip)|DCS ''Samarkand'']] on deployment against the [[Outworlds Alliance]] military during the [[Reunification War]].<ref name="TRO:3075p216">''Technical Readout: 3075'', p. 216, "Samarkand (Carrier)"</ref>
  
 
Two more carriers later joined the ''Benjamin'' and the ''Samarkand'' in service in [[2585]], the [[Alshain (Individual Samarkand-class WarShip)|DCS ''Alshain'']] and the [[Dieron (Individual Samarkand-class WarShip)|DCS ''Dieron'']], and all four ships served throughout the Reunification War, although one had been lost in service by the end of the conflict. The remaining three ships assisted in colonization efforts launched by the [[Draconis Combine]] after the war, but would remain the only ships built in the first block of ''Samarkand'' production; when [[Coordinator]] [[Urizen Kurita (27th c.)|Urizen Kurita II]] authorized production of the ''Samarkand'' to recommence in [[2668]], it was at a new [[Samarkand Block II (WarShip class)|build standard]].<ref name="TRO:3075p216"/>
 
Two more carriers later joined the ''Benjamin'' and the ''Samarkand'' in service in [[2585]], the [[Alshain (Individual Samarkand-class WarShip)|DCS ''Alshain'']] and the [[Dieron (Individual Samarkand-class WarShip)|DCS ''Dieron'']], and all four ships served throughout the Reunification War, although one had been lost in service by the end of the conflict. The remaining three ships assisted in colonization efforts launched by the [[Draconis Combine]] after the war, but would remain the only ships built in the first block of ''Samarkand'' production; when [[Coordinator]] [[Urizen Kurita (27th c.)|Urizen Kurita II]] authorized production of the ''Samarkand'' to recommence in [[2668]], it was at a new [[Samarkand Block II (WarShip class)|build standard]].<ref name="TRO:3075p216"/>
  
===First Succession War===
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=== First Succession War ===
The ''Benjamin'' was a casualty of the [[First Succession War]]. One of the WarShips deployed as a part of the massive invasion of the [[Federated Suns]] that began in May [[2787]], the ''Benjamin'' was operating in the [[Bogard]] system in early [[2790]] when a battle group composed of roughly fifty [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns]] WarShips and numerous [[DropShip]]s and [[aerospace fighter]] [[wing]]s arrived. The naval group was under the command of [[Vice Admiral]] [[Marjorie Stone]], and was one of two battle groups moving through a series of occupied systems, deliberately targeting [[Draconis Combine Admiralty]] ships in an effort to slow down or stop the invasion and remove the relative aerospace superiority the Combine was generating for each planetary assault. The AFFS WarShips destroyed both the ''Benjamin'' and two transport [[JumpShip]]s located in the Bogard system before jumping out a week later to strike at the [[DeWitt]] system.<ref name="FSWp41A">''First Succession War'', pp. 41–42: "Cholame"</ref>
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The ''Benjamin'' was a casualty of the [[First Succession War]]. One of the WarShips deployed as a part of the massive invasion of the [[Federated Suns]] that began in May [[2787]], the ''Benjamin'' was operating in the [[Bogard]] system in early [[2790]] when a battle group composed of roughly fifty [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns]] WarShips and numerous [[DropShip]]s and [[aerospace fighter]] [[wing]]s arrived. The naval group was under the command of [[Vice Admiral]] [[Marjorie Stone]], and was one of two battle groups moving through a series of occupied systems, deliberately targeting [[Draconis Combine Admiralty]] ships in an effort to slow down or stop the invasion and remove the relative aerospace superiority the Combine was generating for each planetary assault. The AFFS WarShips destroyed both the ''Benjamin'' and two transport [[JumpShip]]s located in the Bogard system before jumping out a week later to strike at the [[DeWitt]] system.<ref name="FSWp41A">''First Succession War'', p. 41-42, "Cholame"</ref>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
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* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]''
 
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3075]]''
 
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3075]]''
  

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