McKenna's Pride
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| McKenna's Pride | |
|---|---|
| Vessel Profile | |
| Type | Battleship / WarShip |
| Class | McKenna |
Equipped as a specialized command ship, the SLS McKenna's Pride led the SLDF Commanding General's squadron, one of three line squadrons within the SLDF First Fleet during the Star League era, and was the only one of the six such specialized vessels to survive the Amaris Civil War.[1] It was the flagship of Aleksandr Kerensky,[2][3] and the lead ship in Operation EXODUS.[4]
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History
Star League Era
The McKenna's Pride was present at Kerensky's final assault on Terra.[5] After the Amaris Civil War ended, medics aboard the McKenna's Pride treated Jerome Blake. Aleksandr Kerensky met Blake at this time and they became friendly.[6] The ship also housed the remains of Stefan Amaris before his body was donated to a medical school.[7]
Exodus and Founding of the Clans
During the Prinz Eugen Rebellion, the McKenna's Pride led the task force that ran down the rebel ships. During Operation KLONDIKE the ship served as Nicholas Kerensky's flagship.[8]
Following the founding of the Clans, the vessel was kept in orbit around Strana Mechty and maintained by all of the Clans, serving as Aleksandr Kerensky's tomb.[9] Every year it would do a flyby of Strana Mechty's capital city on Founding Day (August 24).[8]
In 2823, the McKenna was the place of a meeting between the Wolverine Khan Sarah McEvedy and Nicholas Kerensky, in which the first attempted to prevent his Clan imminent's Absorption, without success.[10] The same year, during the Trial of Annihilation against Clan Wolverine, saKhan Franklin Hallis commandeered the McKenna's Pride and performed an orbital bombardment on opposing Clan forces, freeing trapped Wolverine forces from their enclave. He then proceeded to bombard the Clan halls of Widowmaker, Smoke Jaguar, Ghost Bear, Snow Raven, and Jade Falcon, as well as the Grand Council hall itself. After the Wolverine forces were safely offworld, Hallis abandoned the McKenna's Pride and returned to the SLS Michigan.[11]
Wars of Reaving
In the early months of 3075, due to the heavy damage suffered by the Hall of Khans, the Grand Council moved to the McKenna's Pride while the building was rebuilt. It was onboard the McKenna than the Bloody Ilkhan Brett Andrews was killed. And right after, the warship was reactivated in 3075 during the Wars of Reaving, partaking in a multi-Clan action to annihilate Clan Steel Viper at the head of the fleet attacking New Kent in December. On 22 December its batteries opened up on the city of New Kent City from orbit, eradicating the last Clan Steel Viper holding and concluding that Clan's annihilation. The ship had barely returned to Strana Mechty when was attacked. A secret Clan Wolf unit, lead by the Elemental Garmen Kerensky boarded it. They were a unit infiltrated five years later to board and stole the Great Father's body, Operation Spatha part of the bigger Clan Wolf Operation DAMOCLES, but the destruction of their DropShip on the ground had delayed them.[12] With assistance of members of the Dark Caste they have been preparing their next assault, Spatha II, for years. The boarders managed to easily take the key points of the ship, but their original plan of steal Aleksandr Kerensky's coffin and escape was compromised when they were discovered.[13] Garmen was forced to change the plan, and steal the Pride too. After a long persecution of other WarShips, aerospace fighters and DropShips, they managed to jump out of the system.[14] In June of 3077, the Pride reunited with Clan Wolf Khan Vlad Ward on a system in the Periphery. After thanking the Spatha II's surviving members, he took personally the Pride and his deceased passenger to the Dark Nebula, where he hid it around a giant gas moon in a backwater system.[15] There, he lay undiscovered, until the 19 July of 3147, when Clan Wolf SaKhan Garner Kerensky lead an expedition to recover it. The ship was intact, except for Strana Mechty's battle damage. The Wolves repaired and crewed it before taking it to Wolf Empire's territory, to lead the assault final of his Clan on Terra.[16]
References
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 46, "First Fleet"
- ↑ ComStar, p. 8
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 23, 59
- ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 8
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 67
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 24
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, pp. 109, 115
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky, p. 50
- ↑ Betrayal of Ideals, "Book II: Treachery's Stage"
- ↑ Betrayal of Ideals, p. 117
- ↑ Betrayal of Ideals, "Book III: The Switchback Directive"
- ↑ Icons of War p.33
- ↑ Icons of War p.115
- ↑ Icons of War p.171
- ↑ Icons of War p.184
- ↑ Icons of War p.186
Bibliography
- Betrayal of Ideals (novel)
- Children of Kerensky]] (novel)
- The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky
- ComStar (sourcebook)
- Fall from Glory (novel)
- Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1
- Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2
- Icons of War (novel)
- The Wars of Reaving
- Wolf Clan Sourcebook