Scorpion (Individual Zechetinu-class WarShip)

This article is about the WarShip. For other uses, see Scorpion.
Scorpion
Vessel Profile
TypeWarShip
ClassZechetinu II

History

The FWLS Scorpion was the first of the second block of Zechetinu-class corvettes to be launched by the Free Worlds League between 3059[1] and 3067.[2] More than half the fleet of Zechetinus in service to the League had been secretly infiltrated by personnel loyal to the Word of Blake and promptly defected to the Blakists during the Jihad, but the Scorpion remained under loyalist control.[3]

The Scorpion was involved in a pitched naval battle in the Atreus system on 25 October 3068, where loyalist and Blakist elements of the Free Worlds League navy turned on each other. The Blakists had suborned a significant number of WarShips within the Free Worlds League navy, and those Blakist-affiliated ships in the Atreus system at the time—the Aegis-class heavy cruiser FWLS Nueva Badajoz, the Thera-class carrier FWLS Corinth and one of her escorts, the Eagle-class frigate FWLS Mordred, the Black Lion-class battlecruiser FWLS Xanthos, the Agamemnon-class heavy cruiser FWLS Aeneas, and the Impavido-class FWLS Impavido—attacked the League loyalist WarShips present in the system at the time.[4]

The loyalist WarShips in the system were mainly lighter destroyers and corvettes, and which consisted of the Scorpion and a sister ship, the FWLS Acari, the Eagle-class FWLS Gawain, the Impavido-class FWLS Janos Marik, the Zechetinu-class corvette FWLS Sparta, and the Essex-class destroyer FWLS Raven. The naval battle was a victory for the Blakist forces; none of the Blakist WarShips were destroyed, although all of them had suffered damage, but of the loyalist forces, only the FWLS Acari and FWLS Raven escaped to seek refuge in the Duchy of Oriente.[4]

References

  1. Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 119: "Renovation/Construction"
  2. Field Manual: Updates, p. 90: "Naval Assets and Militia Divisions"
  3. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 128: "Original Word Of Blake Fleet"
  4. 4.0 4.1 Jihad Turning Points: Atreus BattleCorps Exclusive Track, p. 2: "True Colors Revealed"

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