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	==History==		==History==
	===Age of War Era===		===Age of War Era===
−	When the [[Hegemony Armed Forces]] began to introduce the new ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class heavy cruiser to service the decision was made to place the bulk of the older ''[[Aegis (WarShip class)|Aegis]]''-class heavy cruisers in mothballs, orbiting the sun at a position somewhere between [[Terra]] and [[Terra|Mars]], with a small number staying in active service as training vessels. The ship which would later be known as the '''''Olympic''''' was one of the ''Aegis''-class ships to have survived her service to the [[Terran Hegemony]], and when [[First Lord]] [[Ian Cameron]] of the [[Star League]] chose to bring the ''Aegis'' fleet out of mothballs in [[2582]] two-thirds of the ''Aegis'' class went on to service in the newly-formed [[Star League Defense Force]]; the remaining third of the fleet<ref name="TRO:2750p132">''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 132: "Aegis"</ref>—of which the ''Olympic'' was one<ref name="FM:FWLp118">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 118: "FWLS ''Olympic''"</ref>—were sold to the various Star League member states, and the ''Olympic'' was purchased by the [[Free Worlds League]] along with a small number of sister ships.<ref name="TRO:2750p132"/>	+	When the [[Hegemony Armed Forces]] began to introduce the new ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class heavy cruiser to service the decision was made to place the bulk of the older ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruisers in mothballs, orbiting the sun at a position somewhere between [[Terra]] and [[Terra|Mars]], with a small number staying in active service as training vessels. The ship which would later be known as the '''''Olympic''''' was one of the ''Aegis''-class ships to have survived her service to the [[Terran Hegemony]], and when [[First Lord]] [[Ian Cameron]] of the [[Star League]] chose to bring the ''Aegis'' fleet out of mothballs in [[2582]] two-thirds of the ''Aegis'' class went on to service in the newly-formed [[Star League Defense Force]]; the remaining third of the fleet<ref name="TRO:2750p132">''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 132, "Aegis"</ref> - of which the ''Olympic'' was one<ref name="FM:FWLp118">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 118, "FWLS ''Olympic''"</ref> - were sold to the various Star League member states, and the ''Olympic'' was purchased by the [[Free Worlds League]] along with a small number of sister ships.<ref name="TRO:2750p132"/>
	===Star League Era ===		===Star League Era ===
−	The ''Olympic'' went on to serve as the flagship of the [[Free Worlds League Navy]] [[2nd Fleet (Free Worlds League)|Second Fleet]], and in [[2763]] was involved in a brief battle between the Second Fleet and the [[Star League Defense Force]] [[7th Fleet (Star League)|Seventh Fleet]] in the [[Calloway VI]] system. It was unclear whether the flotilla from the Seventh Fleet fired first or the Second fleet, but the venerable and renowned ''[[League (WarShip class)|League]]''-class destroyer [[Albert Marik (Individual League-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Albert Marik'']] was destroyed in the opening salvoes and both the ''Olympic'' and the [[Hartford (Individual WarShip)|SLS ''Hartford'']] required dry dock repairs before they could return to operational status.<ref name="FR2765:FWLMp20">''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 20: "Free Worlds League Navy"</ref>	+	The ''Olympic'' went on to serve as the flagship of the [[Free Worlds League Navy]] [[2nd Fleet (FWLN)|Second Fleet]], and in [[2763]] was involved in a brief battle between the Second Fleet and the [[Star League Defense Force]] [[7th Fleet (Star League)|Seventh Fleet]] in the [[Calloway VI]] system. It was unclear whether the flotilla from the Seventh Fleet fired first or the Second fleet, but the venerable and renowned ''[[League]]''-class destroyer [[Albert Marik (Individual League-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Albert Marik'']] was destroyed in the opening salvoes and both the ''Olympic'' and the [[Hartford (Individual WarShip)|SLS ''Hartford'']] required dry dock repairs before they could return to operational status.<ref name="FR2765:FWLMp20">''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 20, "Free Worlds League Navy"</ref>
	===Succession Wars Era===		===Succession Wars Era===
−	The ''Olympic'' went on to serve the Free Worlds League for two and a half centuries before being lost in action against a battle group from the [[Draconis Combine]] in [[2838]] during what was known as the [[ComStar War]]. The ''Olympic'' was left drifting in the outer reaches of the [[Tania Borealis]] system.{{cn}}	+	The ''Olympic'' went on to serve the Free Worlds League for two and a half centuries before being lost in action against a battle group from the [[Draconis Combine]] in [[2838]] during what was known as the [[ComStar War]]. The ''Olympic'' was left drifting in the outer reaches of the [[Tania Borealis]] system.
	===Clan Invasion Era===		===Clan Invasion Era===
−	The drifting hulk was rediscovered in [[3057]] by the League. The decision was made to recover the ''Olympic'' as a part of the League's WarShip rearmament program as she was considered to be repairable, and several months later the repaired and refurbished FWLS ''Olympic'' joined the Free Worlds League's nascent WarShip fleet.<ref name="FM:FWLp118">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 118: "FWLS ''Olympic''"</ref>	+	The drifting hulk was rediscovered in [[3057]] by the League. The decision was made to recover the ''Olympic'' as a part of the League's WarShip rearmament program as she was considered to be repairable, and several months later the repaired and refurbished FWLS ''Olympic'' joined the Free Worlds League's nascent WarShip fleet.<ref name="FM:FWLp118">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 118, "FWLS ''Olympic''"</ref>
−	The existence of the ''Olympic'' was kept a secret, and by early [[3059]] the ''Olympic'' was one of six vessels within the League's "secret" fleet, serving alongside a pair of recovered ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyers, the [[Raven (Individual Essex-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Raven'']] (formerly the SLS ''Oslo'') and the [[Schrack (Individual Essex-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Schrack'']], the ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvette [[Liberty (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Liberty'']] (formerly the SLS ''Richmond'') and the ''[[Zechetinu]]''-class corvettes [[Attica|FWLS ''Attica'']] and [[Karelia|FWLS ''Karelia'']].<ref name="FM:FWLp117">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 117: "WarShips of the FWL Fleet"</ref>	+	The existence of the ''Olympic'' was kept a secret, and by early [[3059]] the ''Olympic'' was one of six vessels within the League's "secret" fleet, serving alongside a pair of recovered ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyers, the [[Raven (Individual Essex-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Raven'']] (formerly the SLS ''Oslo'') and the [[Schrack (Individual Essex-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Schrack'']], the ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvette [[Liberty (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Liberty'']] (formerly the SLS ''Richmond'') and the ''[[Zechetinu]]''-class corvettes [[Attica|FWLS ''Attica'']] and [[Karelia|FWLS ''Karelia'']].<ref name="FM:FWLp117">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 117, "WarShips of the FWL Fleet"</ref>
−	Another recovered ''Aegis''-class heavy cruiser was undergoing refurbishment at the same time, the former [[Impetuous|SLS ''Impetuous'']], and was due to enter service at some point after [[3060]]; due to be renamed the FWLS ''Nueva Badajoz''<ref name="FM:FWLp119">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 119: "Renovation/Construction"</ref> the ''Impetuous'' was intended to serve as a sister ship to the ''Olympic'', although as all of the ''Aegis'' class ships to be retained by the Star League underwent extensive refurbishment and upgrades via the [[Di Tron Heavy Industries]] shipyards in the [[Terran Hegemony]] before entering service with the SLDF the ''Impetuous'' was likely the more advanced than the ''Aegis II''-class vessel.<ref name="TRO:2750p132"/>	+	Another recovered ''Aegis''-class heavy cruiser was undergoing refurbishment at the same time, the former [[Impetuous|SLS ''Impetuous'']], and was due to enter service at some point after [[3060]]; due to be renamed the FWLS ''Nueva Badajoz''<ref name="FM:FWLp119">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 119, "Renovation/Construction"</ref> the ''Impetuous'' was intended to serve as a sister ship to the ''Olympic'', although as all of the ''Aegis'' class ships to be retained by the Star League underwent extensive refurbishment and upgrades via the [[Di Tron Heavy Industries]] shipyards in the [[Terran Hegemony]] before entering service with the [[SLDF]] the ''Impetuous'' was likely the more advanced than the ''Aegis II''-class vessel.<ref name="TRO:2750p132"/>
	===Civil War Era===		===Civil War Era===
−	By [[3067]], the ''Olympic'' had been in service for a decade and was a part of what was publicly considered to be the largest black water navy in the [[Inner Sphere]].<ref name="FM:Up144">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 144: "Ships Of The FWL"</ref>	+
		+	By [[3067]] the ''Olympic'' had been in service for a decade and was a part of what was publicly considered to be the largest black water navy in the [[Inner Sphere]].<ref name="FM:Up144">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 144, "Ships Of The FWL"</ref>
	===Jihad Era===		===Jihad Era===
−	The ''Olympic'' was suborned by the [[Word of Blake]] during the [[Jihad]]; the Blakists deployed the ''Olympic'' alongside at least two other former Free Worlds League vessels they had seized control of—the ''[[Agamemnon]]''-class heavy cruisers [[Aineas|FWLS ''Aineas'']] and [[Troy (Individual Agamemnon-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Troy'']]—in an attack on [[Arc-Royal]] in [[3072]]. Both the ''Olympic'' and the ''Troy'' were destroyed during the attack<ref name="mm85">''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 85</ref><ref name="J:FRp128">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 128: "Word of Blake Naval Assets"</ref> although the battle also saw the destruction of two defending [[Clan Wolf-in-Exile]] WarShips, the Aegis-class [[Jade Wolf (Individual Aegis-class WarShip)|CWS ''Jade Wolf'']] and the ''[[Vincent (WarShip class)|Vincent Mk. 42]]''-class corvette [[Valiant (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|CWS ''Valiant'']].<ref name="FR:Cp22">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 22: "Fleet Assets"</ref>	+	The ''Olympic'' was suborned by the [[Word of Blake]] during the [[Jihad]]; the Blakists deployed the ''Olympic'' alongside at least two other former Free Worlds League vessels they had seized control of - the ''[[Agamemnon]]''-class heavy cruisers [[Aineas|FWLS ''Aineas'']] and [[Troy (Individual Agamemnon-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Troy'']] - in an attack on [[Arc-Royal]] in [[3072]]. Both the ''Olympic'' and the ''Troy'' were destroyed during the attack<ref name="mm85">''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 85</ref><ref name="J:FRp128">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 128, "Word of Blake Naval Assets"</ref> although the battle also saw the destruction of two defending [[Clan Wolf-in-Exile]] WarShips, the Aegis-class [[Jade Wolf (Individual Aegis-class WarShip)|CWS ''Jade Wolf'']] and the ''[[Vincent|Vincent Mk. 42]]''-class corvette [[Valiant (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|CWS ''Valiant'']].<ref name="FR:Cp22">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 22, "Fleet Assets"</ref>
	==References==		==References==
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	* ''[[Technical Readout: 2750]]''		* ''[[Technical Readout: 2750]]''
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{{infoBoxIndividualVessel | image = | vesselname = Olympic | prevname = | type = [[WarShip]] | class = [[Aegis]] | prevclass = }} ==History== ===Age of War Era=== When the [[Hegemony Armed Forces]] began to introduce the new ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class heavy cruiser to service the decision was made to place the bulk of the older ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruisers in mothballs, orbiting the sun at a position somewhere between [[Terra]] and [[Terra|Mars]], with a small number staying in active service as training vessels. The ship which would later be known as the '''''Olympic''''' was one of the ''Aegis''-class ships to have survived her service to the [[Terran Hegemony]], and when [[First Lord]] [[Ian Cameron]] of the [[Star League]] chose to bring the ''Aegis'' fleet out of mothballs in [[2582]] two-thirds of the ''Aegis'' class went on to service in the newly-formed [[Star League Defense Force]]; the remaining third of the fleet<ref name="TRO:2750p132">''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 132, "Aegis"</ref> - of which the ''Olympic'' was one<ref name="FM:FWLp118">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 118, "FWLS ''Olympic''"</ref> - were sold to the various Star League member states, and the ''Olympic'' was purchased by the [[Free Worlds League]] along with a small number of sister ships.<ref name="TRO:2750p132"/> ===Star League Era === The ''Olympic'' went on to serve as the flagship of the [[Free Worlds League Navy]] [[2nd Fleet (FWLN)|Second Fleet]], and in [[2763]] was involved in a brief battle between the Second Fleet and the [[Star League Defense Force]] [[7th Fleet (Star League)|Seventh Fleet]] in the [[Calloway VI]] system. It was unclear whether the flotilla from the Seventh Fleet fired first or the Second fleet, but the venerable and renowned ''[[League]]''-class destroyer [[Albert Marik (Individual League-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Albert Marik'']] was destroyed in the opening salvoes and both the ''Olympic'' and the [[Hartford (Individual WarShip)|SLS ''Hartford'']] required dry dock repairs before they could return to operational status.<ref name="FR2765:FWLMp20">''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 20, "Free Worlds League Navy"</ref> ===Succession Wars Era=== The ''Olympic'' went on to serve the Free Worlds League for two and a half centuries before being lost in action against a battle group from the [[Draconis Combine]] in [[2838]] during what was known as the [[ComStar War]]. The ''Olympic'' was left drifting in the outer reaches of the [[Tania Borealis]] system. ===Clan Invasion Era=== The drifting hulk was rediscovered in [[3057]] by the League. The decision was made to recover the ''Olympic'' as a part of the League's WarShip rearmament program as she was considered to be repairable, and several months later the repaired and refurbished FWLS ''Olympic'' joined the Free Worlds League's nascent WarShip fleet.<ref name="FM:FWLp118">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 118, "FWLS ''Olympic''"</ref> The existence of the ''Olympic'' was kept a secret, and by early [[3059]] the ''Olympic'' was one of six vessels within the League's "secret" fleet, serving alongside a pair of recovered ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyers, the [[Raven (Individual Essex-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Raven'']] (formerly the SLS ''Oslo'') and the [[Schrack (Individual Essex-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Schrack'']], the ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvette [[Liberty (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Liberty'']] (formerly the SLS ''Richmond'') and the ''[[Zechetinu]]''-class corvettes [[Attica|FWLS ''Attica'']] and [[Karelia|FWLS ''Karelia'']].<ref name="FM:FWLp117">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 117, "WarShips of the FWL Fleet"</ref> Another recovered ''Aegis''-class heavy cruiser was undergoing refurbishment at the same time, the former [[Impetuous|SLS ''Impetuous'']], and was due to enter service at some point after [[3060]]; due to be renamed the FWLS ''Nueva Badajoz''<ref name="FM:FWLp119">''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 119, "Renovation/Construction"</ref> the ''Impetuous'' was intended to serve as a sister ship to the ''Olympic'', although as all of the ''Aegis'' class ships to be retained by the Star League underwent extensive refurbishment and upgrades via the [[Di Tron Heavy Industries]] shipyards in the [[Terran Hegemony]] before entering service with the [[SLDF]] the ''Impetuous'' was likely the more advanced than the ''Aegis II''-class vessel.<ref name="TRO:2750p132"/> ===Civil War Era=== By [[3067]] the ''Olympic'' had been in service for a decade and was a part of what was publicly considered to be the largest black water navy in the [[Inner Sphere]].<ref name="FM:Up144">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 144, "Ships Of The FWL"</ref> ===Jihad Era=== The ''Olympic'' was suborned by the [[Word of Blake]] during the [[Jihad]]; the Blakists deployed the ''Olympic'' alongside at least two other former Free Worlds League vessels they had seized control of - the ''[[Agamemnon]]''-class heavy cruisers [[Aineas|FWLS ''Aineas'']] and [[Troy (Individual Agamemnon-class WarShip)|FWLS ''Troy'']] - in an attack on [[Arc-Royal]] in [[3072]]. Both the ''Olympic'' and the ''Troy'' were destroyed during the attack<ref name="mm85">''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 85</ref><ref name="J:FRp128">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 128, "Word of Blake Naval Assets"</ref> although the battle also saw the destruction of two defending [[Clan Wolf-in-Exile]] WarShips, the Aegis-class [[Jade Wolf (Individual Aegis-class WarShip)|CWS ''Jade Wolf'']] and the ''[[Vincent|Vincent Mk. 42]]''-class corvette [[Valiant (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|CWS ''Valiant'']].<ref name="FR:Cp22">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 22, "Fleet Assets"</ref> ==References== <references /> ==Bibliography== * ''[[Field Manual: Free Worlds League]]'' * ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]'' * ''[[Field Report: Clans]]'' * ''[[Field Report 2765: FWLM]]'' * ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]'' * ''[[Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers]]'' * ''[[Technical Readout: 2750]]'' [[Category: Individual WarShips]] [[Category: Individual Heavy Cruisers]] [[Category: Individual Aegis-class WarShips]]

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