Yukiko Pequeno
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Yukiko Pequeno | |
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| Affiliation | Star League Defense Force |
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| Profession | Admiral |
Yukiko Pequeno was an Admiral in the Star League Defense Force navy during the Reunification War.[1]
History[edit]
Admiral Yukiko Pequeno was the Commanding Officer of the Star League Defense Force Fourth Fleet in 2587. In late 2587 the Fourth Fleet was supporting SLDF operations in the New Ganymede system as part of the Star League war against the Taurian Concordat, dubbed Operation BULL RUN. When reports of an expedition out of the Hyades Cluster by the surviving elements of the Taurian Defense Force reached Admiral Pequeno, she set off in pursuit with two-thirds of the Fourth Fleet, sending messages via the political offices established on occupied worlds to the theater commander, General Amos Forlough, to update him on her plans. As the Taurian intelligence services weren't monitoring the SLDF political offices, her messages went undetected by the Taurians, and she gathered up additional SLDF patrol squadrons as she pursued Santos' forces.[1]
Under the overall command of Marshal David Santos, the commander of the Taurian navy and the architect of several notable victories, the Taurian navy was attempting to secure some much-needed victories for Protector Mitchell Calderon. Santos had gathered together his forces and the newly-formed Eighth Provisional Corps with the intention of striking at Montour and then a string of worlds occupied by the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns, in the hope of inflicting heavy casualties on the garrisons and encouraging popular revolts among the occupied population. The Taurian forces arrived at Montour in October, easily blowing through the small AFFS naval pickets located in the system, and proceeded to blockade the main world. As Santos was preparing to dispatch the Eighth Provisional Corps to capture the world, Pequeno appeared at a pirate point with her forces. Hot on the heels of Pequeno's SLDF naval forces, an AFFS naval task force under the command of Admiral Helden van der Geest arrived at the system zenith jump point, having encountered Pequeno's forces a week before and eagerly accepted her invitation to join the attempt to bring the Taurian navy to heel. Santos knew his forces were outclassed, and attempted to evade the SLDF and AFFS forces within the system while his ships recharged, in the hope that he could lead his forces out of the system. Despite Santos' best efforts, the forces led by Pequeno and van der Geest intercepted the retreating Taurians, and between the 11th and 16th of October, there was a flurry of battles around the fifth and seventh planets in the system, as well as around numerous moons, a rogue planetoid and a number of asteroids. Santos tried repeatedly to break contact with his pursuers but was unable to fend off the attackers for more than brief periods of time. Santos died along with his crew when the TCS Samantha Calderon, the Taurian flagship, was destroyed in battle; the Taurian naval forces were defeated comprehensively by their opponents, and the Eight Provisional Corps died in space without ever making planetfall.[1]