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The ''[[Eagle (WarShip class)|Eagle]]''-class frigate '''''Galahad''''' and her sister ship [[Lancelot (Individual Eagle-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Lancelot'']] were both under construction in [[3059]] and were intended to be escort vessels for the first-of-class carrier of the ''[[Thera]]''-class of carriers being built by the [[Free Worlds League]], the [[Santorini|FWLS ''Santorini'']]. The ''Santorini'' was due to enter service in [[3060]] and would form the center of a battle group, alongside the ''Galahad'' and ''Lancelot''.<ref name="FM:FWLp119">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 119: "Renovation/Construction"</ref>
 
The ''[[Eagle (WarShip class)|Eagle]]''-class frigate '''''Galahad''''' and her sister ship [[Lancelot (Individual Eagle-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Lancelot'']] were both under construction in [[3059]] and were intended to be escort vessels for the first-of-class carrier of the ''[[Thera]]''-class of carriers being built by the [[Free Worlds League]], the [[Santorini|FWLS ''Santorini'']]. The ''Santorini'' was due to enter service in [[3060]] and would form the center of a battle group, alongside the ''Galahad'' and ''Lancelot''.<ref name="FM:FWLp119">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 119: "Renovation/Construction"</ref>
  
All three ships were serving together in [[3067]]<ref name="FM:Up144">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 144: "Ships Of The FWL"</ref> and following the outbreak of the [[Jihad]] the ''Galahad'' and ''Lancelot'' worked together with the ''[[Agamemnon]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Menelaus|FWLS ''Menelaus'']] to ambush and destroy two [[Word of Blake]] WarShips in the [[Shiloh]] system in August [[3070]]. The two vessels destroyed—the ''[[Black Lion]]''-class battlecruiser [[Xanthos (Individual Black Lion-class WarShip)|WoBS ''Xanthos'']] and the ''[[Aegis (WarShip class)|Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Impetuous|WoBS ''Impetuous'']]—had both been ships in the secret fleet salvaged by the Free Worlds League prior to the Jihad with aid from the Blakists, and both were among a substantial number of League WarShips suborned by the Blakists following the outbreak of hostilities.<ref>''Jihad Hot Spots: 3070'', pp. 108–109; ''Blake Ascending'', pp. 268–269: "Fleet Advisory: Shiloh"</ref><ref>''Jihad Hot Spots: 3072'', p. 25: "Timeline of the Jihad"</ref><ref name="J:FRp128">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 128: "Word of Blake Naval Assets"</ref>
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All three ships were serving together in [[3067]]<ref name="FM:Up144">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 144: "Ships Of The FWL"</ref> and following the outbreak of the [[Jihad]] the ''Galahad'' and ''Lancelot'' worked together with the ''[[Agamemnon]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Menelaus|FWLS ''Menelaus'']] to ambush and destroy two [[Word of Blake]] WarShips in the [[Shiloh]] system in August [[3070]]. The two vessels destroyed—the ''[[Black Lion]]''-class battlecruiser [[xanthos (Black Lion)|WoBS ''Xanthos'']] and the ''[[Aegis (WarShip class)|Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Impetuous|WoBS ''Impetuous'']]—had both been ships in the secret fleet salvaged by the Free Worlds League prior to the Jihad with aid from the Blakists, and both were among a substantial number of League WarShips suborned by the Blakists following the outbreak of hostilities.<ref>''Jihad Hot Spots: 3070'', pp. 108–109; ''Blake Ascending'', pp. 268–269: "Fleet Advisory: Shiloh"</ref><ref>''Jihad Hot Spots: 3072'', p. 25: "Timeline of the Jihad"</ref><ref name="J:FRp128">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 128: "Word of Blake Naval Assets"</ref>
  
 
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