Sabretooth
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| Sabretooth | |
|---|---|
| Vessel Profile | |
| Type | WarShip |
| Class | Aegis |
| In service until | 2790[1] |
History[edit]
When the Hegemony Armed Forces began to introduce the new 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 Mars, with a small number staying in active service as training vessels.[2] The ship which would later be known as the Sabretooth 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[2] - some 30[3][4] to 36[2] vessels in all - were sold to the various Star League member states,[2] and the Sabretooth was most likely purchased by the Federated Suns, along with a small number of sister ships, at this point in time,[5] but may have been salvaged at some point during the Amaris Civil War.
The Sabretooth was in service with the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns during the First Succession War as the FSS Sabretooth. Having survived the initial waves of the massive Draconis Combine invasion of the Federated Suns launched at the outset of the War, the Sabretooth subsequently saw action against the ships of the Draconis Combine Admiralty. In 2790 the AFFS mounted a massive naval action against the DCA fleet; the campaign was a desperate attempt to halt the invasion in its tracks before New Avalon could fall to the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery, whose forces were rapidly closing on the Federated Suns capital.[1]
Assembling the bulk of the surviving AFFS WarShip fleet plus escorts, Admiral Kenneth Jones and Vice Admiral Marjorie Stone divided the fleet into two large groups, with the first group - led by Jones - due to strike at the Imbrial III, Kestrel, Saltural, Saunemin, Acoma and New Valencia systems, while Stone's fleet struck at Evansville, Bogard, DeWitt, Blandinsville and Corydon, before the two fleets converged at Cholame in anticipation of further strikes into the remains of the Draconis March. The fleets only lingered in each system for a week, concentrating on DCA naval assets as targets before jumping out, in an effort to destroy the Combine's ability to support further attacks into Federated Suns by eroding their local aerospace superiority.[1]
Prior to arriving at Cholame, the AFFS task forces managed to destroy six DCA WarShips, twenty-two JumpShips and twenty-five DropShips, while capturing one WarShip and four JumpShips. In exchange, the DCA ships had managed to destroy a small but notable number of AFFS assets: four WarShips, four JumpShips and eight DropShips. The Sabretooth was one of the four WarShips the AFFS lost during this stage of the campaign.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 First Succession War, pp. 41–42: "Cholame"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Technical Readout: 2750, pp. 132–133: "Aegis"
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3057, pp. 144–145: "Aegis (Heavy Cruiser)"
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3057 Revised, pp. 142–143: "Aegis (Heavy Cruiser"
- ↑ Field Report 2765: AFFS, p. 6: "Naval Defense Doctrine"