Protecteur
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| Vessel Profile | |
|---|---|
| Type | WarShip |
| Class | Lola III |
The Lola III-class SLS Protecteur was one of the WarShips accompanying the Potemkin-class troop cruiser SLS Ulithi as it carried the 295th BattleMech Division of the Star League Defense Force to Buffalo Meadows in the Draconian Drift region of the periphery.
The 295th had tried to follow Aleksandr Kerensky and his Operation Exodus, but was delayed by technical problems with their transport (implicitly, the Ulithi).[1] As of 8 July 2785 the 295th had arrived at the Buffalo Meadows zenith jump point. There, it was said that the Ulithi under Commodore Sarah Mbeki had made her last jump, and apparently could not travel any further. Although at least two destroyers (SLS Protecteur and SLS Cape Bon) and a handful of JumpShips which could carry at least a dozen DropShips between them were present, the 295th decided to set up a colony on Buffalo Meadows;[2] however, the colony failed and died out after some 80 years due to an insufficient birth rate.[1]
Context suggests that the decision to settle on Buffalo Meadows was made because the Ulithi alone had apparently carried some two thirds of the unit's entire DropShip contingent. The fate of the other ships including the Protecteur was not specified; they might have moved on. No mention was made of salvaged WarShips or JumpShips after the lost colony was rediscovered centuries later. (If the Buffalo Meadows colony had retained jump-capable vessels, they could have stayed in contact with other settlements; that they died out seems to indicate they did not retain them.)
Notes[edit]
- The Protecteur is simply described as a Lola-class destroyer, but when asked the author explicitly confirmed that it was in fact a Lola III-class vessel.