Manaslu
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| Manaslu | |
|---|---|
| Vessel Profile | |
| Type | WarShip |
| Class | Aegis |
History
When the Hegemony Armed Forces began to introduce the new Avatar-class heavy cruiser to service the decision was made to place the bulk of the older Aegis-class heavy cruisers in mothballs, orbiting the sun at a position somewhere between Terra and Mars, with a small number staying in active service as training vessels.[1] The ship which would later be known as the Manaslu was one of the Aegis-class ships to have survived her service to the Terran Hegemony, and when First Lord Ian Cameron of the Star League chose to bring the Aegis fleet out of mothballs in 2582 two-thirds of the Aegis class went on to service in the newly-formed Star League Defense Force; the remaining third of the fleet[1] - some 30[2][3] to 36[1] vessels in all - were sold to the various Star League member states.[1] The Manaslu was either purchased by the Free Worlds League at this point, or obtained subsequently, and was still in service with the Free Worlds League navy in 2785.[4]
In March 2785 the Manaslu was one of four Free Worlds League WarShips assigned to the defense of Bolan, serving alongside three League-class destroyers, the FWLS Talwar, FWLS Turk and FWLS Tyberium under the overall command of Colonel Salam Tutt of the Sixth Bolan Defenders. It was in early March that the Lyran Commonwealth launched an invasion of Bolan, deploying at least three regiments of BattleMechs escorted by eight Mako-class corvettes and four Commonwealth-class cruisers. The Lyrans split their forces, with one half arriving at the zenith jump point and the other half arriving three days out from Bolan via a LaGrange point.[4]
The first WarShip engagement of the invasion came when the three Leagues engaged the first Lyran task group, damaging two Makos and forcing them to retreat, as well as nearly destroying a third Mako before the heavier Commonwealths were able to force the three destroyers to withdraw back to orbit. The first Lyran group managed to successfully land its ground forces and then engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with the four Free worlds League WarShips until the second Lyran group arrived above Bolan, having burned into orbit from the zenith jump point. The Free Worlds League WarShips engaged the Lyran WarShips again, destroying two Makos and forcing a Commonwealth to retreat, but during the engagement both the Manaslu and the Tyberium were crippled.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Technical Readout: 2750, p. 132-133, "Aegis" Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "TRO:2750p132" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Technical Readout: 3057, p. 144-145, "Aegis (Heavy Cruiser)"
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3057 Revised, p. 142-143, "Aegis (Heavy Cruiser"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Interstellar Operations, p. 226-229, "Falling Into Fire"