Night Wing
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| Night Wing | |
|---|---|
| Vessel Profile | |
| Type | DropShip |
| Class | Carrier |
History
The Night Wing was a Carrier-class DropShip in service with Clan Snow Raven in the late thirty-first century. The CSR Night Wing was one of many vessels that had gathered in the Dante system in the Outworlds Alliance for a Clan Council following the Grand Council meeting held in March 3071 after the removal of ilKhan Garrett Sainze of Clan Fire Mandrill from office. The Clan Council meeting had been called in the knowledge that the Homeworld Clans were becoming increasingly vitriolic and hostile towards the Snow Ravens and the other clans with a presence in the Inner Sphere.[1]
The Clan Council had barely begun, with only a minority of the Snow Raven Bloodnamed in attendence, when the assembled Snow Raven ships came under attack. The first blow was a JumpShip which deliberately jumped on top of the Nightwing-class battleship CSR Snow Raven, fatally interpenetrating the two ships, with few surviving on the Snow Raven to be recovered later. Before the other Snow Raven ships could begin responding, a second hostile JumpShip arrived and disgorged a trio of Pocket WarShips which proceeded to attack the Snow Raven vessels, destroying the Night Wing and her sister ship CSR Ebony Claw before being destroyed themselves in turn.[1]
The Snow Raven response didn't end there - the Snow Raven ships lashed out with extreme prejudice, destroying fourteen merchant JumpShips and more than a score of nearby DropShips. The heavy-handed reaction prompted outrage from the Outworlds Alliance Senate, whose outraged members called for the Snow Ravens to be removed outright from Alliance space. It took a year of effort from President Mitchell Avellar to restrain the Senate and bring the two groups back to the negotiating table, and the Snow Ravens' invidious position in the Clan Homeworlds left them with little choice but to agree to many of the new concessions levied on them during their negotiations with the Alliance.[1]