Editing Centaur (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)

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The ''[[Vincent (WarShip class)|Vincent Mk. 42]]''-class corvette CSA '''''Centaur''''' was serving within the [[Clan Star Adder Touman|Clan Star Adder ''touman'']].

==History==
The ''Centaur'' was one of three ''Vincent Mk. 42''-class vessels serving within the Star Adder ''touman'' as of [[3059]]—the others being [[Pegasus (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|CSA ''Pegasus'']] and [[Vritra|CSA ''Vritra'']]—and the ''Centaur'' was serving alongside the ''Vritra'' in the [[Alpha Naval Reserve Star (Clan Star Adder)|Alpha Naval Reserve]].<ref name="FM:CCp119">''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 119: "Naval Assets"</ref> The ''Centaur'' remained an active part of the Star Adder ''touman'' for the next decade<ref name="FM:Up50">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 50: "Naval Assets"</ref> and into the [[Wars of Reaving]].

With Clan Coyote complicit in a number of attacks on holdings belonging to [[Clan Star Adder]], the Star Adders responded by sending the [[Clan Star Adder Touman#Naval Reserve|Gamma Naval Reserve Star]]—of which the ''Centaur'' was now a part—to the [[Tamaron]] system with the intent of claiming some Coyote holdings as retribution. The Star Adder forces arrived on 18 October [[3072]], but found themselves facing far more defenses than they had anticipated. In addition to the anticipated ''[[Texas]]''-class battleship [[Ancestral Home|CCS ''Ancestral Home'']], Tamaron was defended by a newly constructed ''[[Olympus]]''-class defense station, numerous Stars of [[aerospace fighter]]s launched from that station, a number of assault [[DropShip]]s, and the ''[[Lola III]]''-class destroyer [[Rage (Individual Lola III-class WarShip)|CCS ''Rage'']], last known to be in the control of [[Kindraa Mattila-Carrol]] of [[Clan Fire Mandrill]].<ref name="WoRp112">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 112: "Stalwart Defense"</ref>

[[Star Admiral]] [[Gavin Turgidson]] of the Star Adders issued a call for ''[[safcon]]'' to the surface of Tamaron, only for the Coyotes to immediately rebuff his request.  The ''Ancestral Home'' quickly closed on the Star Adder forces and drew first blood, destroying the ''[[Carrack]]''-class transport [[Black Adder|CSA ''Black Adder'']]. The ''Centaur'' the ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyer [[Eagle (Essex)|CSA ''Eagle'']] responded by firing on the ''Ancestral Home'', only to have their barrages apparently inflict little or no damage. The ''Rage'' took advantage of the confusion resulting from the failed Star Adder broadsides, crossing in front of the ''Eagle'' and crushing the nose of the smaller WarShip with weapons fire. The damage inflicted by the ''Rage'' merely destroyed a number of weapon bays, but the ''Eagle'' was then seen to begin tumbling out of control, only for several Stars of Coyote aerospace fighters to close on her and cripple her power plant and maneuvering drives. The ''Eagle'' was left tumbling; equally as mysterious as the apparent inability of the Star Adder WarShips to inflict damage on the ''Ancestral Home'' was the subsequent discovery from records of the battle that the ''Rage'' had beamed some form of localized [[HPG]] broadcast to the ''Eagle'' immediately before the ship appeared to go haywire.<ref name="WoRp112"/>

The ''Centaur'' was joined by the ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz (WarShip class)|Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Divine Conquest|CSA ''Divine Conquest'']] in launching another round of broadside fire at the ''Ancestral Home'', which was rapidly approaching the Adder forces; for a second time, the Star Adder weapons appeared to have little effect. As the Star Adders tried to deal with the ''Ancestral Home'', the ship executed a high-g turn and roll which stunned the Star Adder forces and left the ''Ancestral Home'' positioned to fire on the ''Divine Conquest''; the resulting full broadside gutted the Star Adder vessel from stem to stern, leaving the Star Adder forces broken. The ''Centaur'' gathered what few Star Adder DropShip and fighter forces remained and broadcast a request for ''[[hegira]]'', which the Coyotes accepted, allowing the Star Adders to leave the system.<ref name="WoRp112"/>

Both the ''Centaur'' and her sister ship ''Pegasus'' survived the Wars of Reaving, and as of [[3085]] were two of the thirteen WarShips still in service with the Star Adder ''touman''.<ref name="WORp168">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 168: "WarShips"</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''

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