Editing FireStalion

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The '''''FireStalion''''' [''sic''] (see Notes} was an aerodyne [[DropShip]] in service to the [[Oberon Confederation]] (it is repeatedly referred to as "pirate DropShip") as of [[3049]] under captain Karen Yorta.<ref>DropShip captain's name given as Karen Yorta in the news section following mission #31: ''Freedom Flight'', where she chastises the player that there is no time to check the news channel.</ref> While no specific class is given, context and its depiction in the ''MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries'' game including its dimensions relative to the [[BattleMech]]s strongly suggest it is meant to be a ''[[Leopard]]''-class vessel.

==History==
When [[Clan Wolf]] forces overran [[Sigurd]] in November of 3049, the ''FireStalion'' was the last Oberon Confederation vessel to leave the planet. On or around 6 December 3049<ref>''MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries'' - The prison breakout (Sigurd Campaign, Mission #31: ''Freedom Flight'' and #32: ''Exodus'') takes place on day 26 as a Clan prisoner according to the player's log; in the previous mission that saw the player captured (Sigurd Campaign, Mission #30: ''Warning Shot''), planetfall was made on 10 November.</ref> captain Karen Yorta returned to the surface from high orbit despite the ship being badly damaged, to pick up some stragglers who had broken out of a prison camp.<ref>''MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries'' (Sigurd Campaign, debriefing for Mission #31: ''Freedom Flight'', and briefing for Mission #32: ''Exodus'')</ref> These stragglers included (and were led by) the commanding officer and sole remaining member of the [[Team Venom]] [[mercenary unit]] (tentatively identified as [[Grady Kiefer]]). The mercenaries had been on a pirate hunting mission on Sigurd when they encountered, and were captured by, Clan Wolf forces.

The ''FireStalion'' escaped on an Oberon Confederation [[JumpShip]] that carried it to the [[Free Rasalhague Republic]], where the JumpShip was boarded and the crew arrested and then executed for piracy. (The Oberon Confederation had reportedly murdered the inhabitants of Last Hope on [[New Caledonia]] more than a year ago, earning the ire of the Free Rasalhague Republic.) The DropShip ''FireStalion'' was not mentioned in the news covering this, and its fate is uncertain.

==Canonicity==
Featuring only in the narrative of the ''[[MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries]]'' computer game, the ''FireStalion'' is [[apocryphal]].

==Notes==
*In the only instance where its name is stated,<ref>''MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries'' - The prison breakout (Sigurd Campaign, Mission #32: ''Exodus'')</ref> the DropShip is named "''FireStalion''" (spelled with only one "l"), an apparent misspelling that may or may not be its actual name.
*This ship appears in the context of a pirate hunting mission to Sigurd that coincided with the Clan Invasion of the Oberon Confederation. However, neither the planetary features nor the units involved seem to match the canonical world of Sigurd, which is described as an icy wasteland otherwise, or the circumstances of its invasion by Clan Wolf. From the data available, a case could be made for the events taking place on [[Oberon VI]] instead of Sigurd; see [[MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries#Sigurd Campaign]].

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*''[[MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries]]''

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