Tenacity

Tenacity
Vessel Profile
TypeWarShip
ClassVolga
In service until3070

History[edit]

As of 3061 the Volga-class transport Tenacity was a WarShip within the Clan Snow Raven touman and was serving as the CSR Tenacity, one of five WarShips that made up the Circe Battle Star. Like the other ships of the Circe Battle Star the Tenacity was tasked with transporting personnel and matériel belonging to Clan Nova Cat from the Clan Homeworlds to the Inner Sphere at this point in time.[1]

In 3067 the Tenacity was still serving in the Circe Battle Star, operating alongside the Potemkin-class cruisers CSR Rook and CSR Treachery and the Fredasa-class corvette CSR Black Beard.[2]

On the 20th of September 3070 Clan Steel Viper introduced the Clans in the Homeworlds to their new flagship, the Leviathan Prime-class battleship CSV Perigard Zalman. The Steel Vipers did so by striking at Clan Diamond Shark's Black Diamond Naval Star above Strana Mechty; the Perigard Zalman quickly destroyed the Carrack-class transport CDS Bloodletter and the Lola III-class destroyer CDS Predator in the first pass alone, and as the Diamond Shark civilian vessels frantically jumped out of the Strana Mechty system the Perigard Zalman continued its attack, destroying two more Diamond Shark WarShips before the last Diamond Shark WarShip, the Fredasa-class CDS Swift Strike, managed to jump out of the system.[3]

Warned by the Diamond Sharks about the existence of the Perigard Zalman, the Snow Ravens gathered the bulk of their remaining Homeworld naval assets at Lum, where they were gathering a huge convoy of vessels together, destined for the Snow Raven holdings in the Outworlds Alliance. The Snow Ravens gathered together the remains of both the Brim Naval Assault Star and the Circe Battle Star, stripping the convoy of its escort vessels.[4]

The Steel Vipers gathered together the remainder of their Naval Reserve and struck at Lum within days of their assault on the Diamond Sharks; when saKhan Hoskins of the Steel Vipers declared his batchall for the entire system, the Ravens declared all they had to defend. The resulting battle pitched three naval stars on each side against each other, making the naval engagement far larger than that at Lum in 3069. While the Snow Raven fleet was by far the more experienced, their level of skill was counterbalanced by the sheer firepower brought to the battle by the Perigard Zalman and her escorts. The battle lasted for seven hours before the last four surviving Snow Raven WarShips - the Fredasa-class CSR Black Beard, the Aegis-class heavy cruisers CSR Black Justice and CSR Lord Death and the Carrack-class CSR Venture Star - forfeited the Trial by jumping out of the system, leaving Lum a Steel Viper holding.[4] The Snow Ravens lost six WarShips in the engagement - the Tenacity, the Aegis-class CSR Blue Lancer, the Essex-class destroyer CSR Eternity, the Lola III-class CSR Vision of Terra, the Potemkin-class CSR Rook and CSR Snowflake.[5]

Notes[edit]

The destruction of the Tenacity and four other Snow Raven WarShips unaccounted for specifically by name in sourcebooks was confirmed by the BattleTech Developer Øystein Tvedten via the Catalyst Game Labs Ask The Writers Forum:

*Opens Ye Olde Tome of Warshippe*

Avalanche - Lum 3068
Morning Violence - Lum 3068
Eternity - Lum 3070
Blue Lancer - Lum 3070
Tenacity - Lum 3070

With regards,
Øystein

  — Øystein Tvedten, 01 November 2013

References[edit]

  1. Field Manual: Warden Clans, p. 133, "Circe Battle Star"
  2. Field Manual: Updates, p. 63-64, "Naval Assets"
  3. The Wars of Reaving, p. 51, "Closing the Net"
  4. 4.0 4.1 The Wars of Reaving, p. 52-53, "Closing the Net"
  5. BattleTech Developer confirms the destruction of the Eternity, Blue Lancer and Tenacity at Lum

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