Titanic (Individual Potemkin-class WarShip)
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- This article is about the first of two Potemkin-class WarShips to bear the name "Titanic" in service to the Diamond Sharks. For the other, see Tiburon ArcShip (Clan Sea Fox).
| Titanic | |
|---|---|
| Vessel Profile | |
| Type | WarShip |
| Class | Potemkin |
| In service until | 3073[1] |
By 3061, the Potemkin-class carrier CDS Titanic was a WarShip in service with the Clan Diamond Shark touman.[2] It would be destroyed during the Wars of Reaving.[1]
History[edit]
The Titanic and the Fredasa-class corvette CDS Swift Strike were used to transport several DropShips full of supplies and matériel for Clan Blood Spirit from the Diamond Shark holding of Nyserta in the Inner Sphere to the Blood Spirit enclaves on York. The goods transported by the Swift Strike and the Titanic represented one of the last bargained contracts between the Blood Spirits and the Diamond Sharks, and also included a gift from the Diamond Sharks: several Stars of Crimson Hawk BattleMechs, based upon a design taken from the Blood Spirits in a Trial of Possession by the Diamond Sharks, but modified and improved by the Diamond Sharks.[1]
When the Swift Strike and the Titanic arrived at York in August 3073, they found the system under a blockade imposed by Clan Star Adder; despite having been subject to a bombardment in 3072 that was sufficiently extensive to have altered the ecology of the world, York was still technically a Blood Spirit holding, and the Star Adders were blockading the system in the hope that they could intercept the remaining Blood Spirit warriors still at large. The Diamond Shark vessels requested passage to the planet, citing the arrangements which had been bargained out between the two Clans, but Star Admiral Fortunato Gena of the Star Adders refused to allow either Diamond Shark vessel to pass.[1]
The decision by Admiral Gena forced the Diamond Sharks to try and run the blockade in order to make good on their agreement to deliver to the Blood Spirits; the Star Adders responded by engaging the Swift Strike and the Titanic with two of their own vessels, the Nightlord-class battleship CSA Absolute Truth and the Sovetskii Soyuz-class heavy cruiser CSA Nygaard. The heavier Star Adder vessels first maneuvered to block the path of the Diamond Shark vessels to the planet, and then when the Titanic refused to deviate from its course, launched broadsides against the Titanic. The two broadsides were enough to destroy the Titanic, breaking the Potemkin along its jump core. The Titanic's DropShips scattered and attempted to make it past the Star Adder vessels, but only half of them actually made it down to the planetary surface.[1] One of these, the Bruce, had ten Crimson Hawk BattleMechs in salvageable condition, and became the focus of a battle between the Star Adders and the Blood Spirits.[3]
Despite long-range fire from the Absolute Truth damaging the Swift Strike, the small Diamond Shark ship managed to jump out of the York system to Albion, and then subsequently to a Diamond Shark holding in the Chainelane Isles, although it would take until November 3077 for the Swift Strike to complete the journey.[1]