Tonnant
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The Tonnant was a DropShip belonging to the mercenary unit Grandin's Crusaders notable for its role in assisting in the escape of Internal Security Force Director Ninyu Kerai-Indrahar from Dieron following the Word of Blake invasion in 3058. Grandin's Crusaders were in the employment of Interstellar Expeditions at the time, and IE loaned the mercenaries to the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery to aid in the rescue of the head of the ISF, who had been badly injured. The Crusaders dropped into the Scales of the Dragonet Mountains to meet up with the convoy transporting Kerai-Indrahar to a secure DropPort via a secret route. The Crusaders arrived to discover that the apparently secret route wasn't as secret as it had been described to be, and elements of the Eighth Militia Divison were in pursuit of the convoy. The Crusaders' 'Mech forces fought a series of small actions to delay the Eighth while the Crusders' infantry elements prepared a position at a narrow choke point on the route; bolstered by a squad of Kage battle armor, the infantry was able to throw out enough firepower to dissuade the Eighth's forces from trying the pass, buying Kerai-Indrahar's convoy time to escape.[1]
Grandin's Crusaders fell back in an orderly fashion as the convoy closed on the DropPort, skirmishing with the Blakist forces until Kerai-Indrahar boarded a waiting Condor-class DropShip. The Blakists attempted to intercept Kerai-Indrahar's ship off-world, leading to Grandin engaging the Blakist forces with the Tonnant untli the Blakist fighters had been driven off; the DCMS subsequently rewarded the Crusaders for "volunteering" to engage the Blakists a second time - albeit at the urging of their IE liaison - by supplying them with a range of military equipment.[1]