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| Ospina | |
|---|---|
| Vessel Profile | |
| Type | WarShip |
| Class | League II |
The FWLS Ospina was a League II-class destroyer in service with the Free Worlds League Navy.
History[edit]
First Succession War[edit]
In February 2787, the Ospina was serving as a part of the FWLN Second Fleet and was one of the WarShips assigned to the invasion force assigned by Captain-General Kenyon Marik to carve a path ten parsecs wide through the Capellan and Sarna Commonalities of the Capellan Confederation.[1]
Assigned to the first wave of the invasion were ten assorted regiments of the Marik Militia and almost four times as many conventional and aerospace groups. The Ospina was assigned to the task force that targeted Second Chance. The first battle for Second Chance took place in space; the Free Worlds League Military task force arrived at the nadir jump point, with the ground forces—led by the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Thirty-eighth Marik Militia regiments—being escorted by a substantial naval group that included the Atreus-class battleship FWLS Sorunda and the League II-class destroyers FWLS Ospina and FWLS Otavalo, two squadrons of attack DropShips and three wings of aerospace fighters. In contrast with the other three systems hit in the opening wave, there was a substantial CCAF naval presence in the Second Chance system, as part of an ongoing patrol of the border. The Capellan naval presence was smaller than that of the FWLM task force, consisting of the Du Shi Wang-class battleship CCS Mica Liao and the Soyal-class heavy cruiser CCS Solstice, but both ships were at the zenith jump point when the FWLM task force arrived, and immediately began plotting an intercept jump.[1]
The two Capellan WarShips arrived just as the League task force was starting to burn for the planet, and announced their presence with a long-range mass driver shot from the Solstice that destroyed the Ospina in a single hit. The League forces came about and engaged, with the Otavalo and a squadron of attack DropShips targeting the Solstice as a priority, while the Mica Liao exchanged fire with the Sorunda. The Sorunda, more heavily armed than her opponent, raked the Mica Liao with fire from her forward batteries and then turned, adding a broadside to the damage already inflicted, while launching a squadron of nuclear-armed fighters. As the Mica Liao turned to try and present a fresh set of armor to the Sorunda, she exposed her weakened side to the Sorunda's fighters, who scored at least two hits against the damaged battleship, destroying her. Heavily outgunned, the Solstice launched her own nuclear missiles, destroying a pair of DropShips—an Intruder-class attack DropShip and a Vengeance-class fighter carrier—before being crippled and then exploding under the weight of fire from the Otavalo, attack DropShips and fighter screens.[1]