Editing Absolute Truth

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As of [[3059]], the ''[[Nightlord]]''-class battleship '''''Absolute Truth''''' was serving as the CSA ''Absolute Truth'' within the [[Clan Star Adder]] [[Clan Star Adder Touman|''touman'']]. The ''Absolute Truth'' was serving as one of the five vessels that constituted the [[Alpha Naval Reserve Star (Clan Star Adder)|Alpha Naval Reserve]].<ref name="FM:CCp119">''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 119: "Naval Assets"</ref> The ''Absolute Truth'' remained an active part of the Star Adder ''touman'' for through the next decade and into the [[Wars of Reaving]].<ref name="FM:Up50">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 50: "Lessons In Humility"</ref>

==History==
===Wars of Reaving===
====Nouveaux Paris====
In early July [[3072]], the ''Absolute Truth'' and the ''[[Lola III]]''-class destroyer [[Warlock (Individual Lola III-class WarShip)|CSA ''Warlock'']] arrived in the [[Nouveaux Paris]] system, a system which had been a [[Clan Hell's Horses]] supply station in the [[Deep Periphery]], but which had subsequently been captured by forces from the [[Society]] and the resurgent [[Clan Burrock]]. The Hell's Horses had sent two ships, the ''Lola III''-class [[Black Knight (Individual Lola III-class WarShip)|CHH ''Black Knight'']] and the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser [[Blood Horse|CHH ''Blood Horse'']] to investigate the myserious silence from Nouveaux Paris, the two WarShips transporting the Hell's Horses [[Eta Galaxy (Clan Hell's Horses)|Eta Galaxy]] to conduct any ground operations needed. The Hell's Horses forces had encounted a suborned Burrock WarShip, the ''[[Cameron (WarShip class)|Cameron]]''-class battlecruiser [[Tremor|CBS ''Tremor'']]; the ''Tremor'' had shadowed the Hell's Horses approach to Nouveaux Paris, the ''Tremor's'' AeroSpace forces had attacked shortly after the Hell's Horses WarShips had launched their [[DropShip]]s. Eta Galaxy had been routed on the ground and were retreating back to the ''Black Knight'' when the ''Warlock'' and the ''Absolute Truth'' arrived; commanded personally by [[Khan]] [[Stanislov N'Buta]], the two WarShips were escorting the Star Adder [[Alpha Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Alpha]] and [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Beta Galaxies]] and N'Buta promptly issued a terse message ordering the Hell's Horses to get out of the way or get run over.<ref name="WORp119+">''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 119–122: "Spreading Contagion"</ref>

The resulting conflict on the ground between the Burrock, [[Bandit Caste]] and Society forces saw both sides take losses, with Khan N'Buta suffering a number of serious injuries following an ambush; the Burrocks ultimately forced the Adders to retreat by attacking the Star Adder landing zone and threatening to detonate a nuclear device at the site, leaving the Adders potentially stranded on a world with little ability to support them. N'Buta was forced to withdraw, leaving the Burrocks in possession of DropShips laden with war matériel, but two members of the Star Adder Watch managed to insinuate themselves into the Burrock forces and onto the Burrock ships as they withdrew from Nouveaux Paris to meet up with the ''Tremor'', allowing the Star Adders to potentially track the Burrocks.<ref name="WORp119+"/>

One of the positive outcomes of the engagement in the Nouveaux Paris system was an agreement between Khan N'Buta and [[Galaxy Commander]] [[Unther Cooper]] of Clan Hell's Horses - on behalf of the Horses' Khan - to allow some of their combined forces to track and crush the Burrock forces together, and an agreement that in the event of an invasion of the [[Inner Sphere]], the Star Adders wouldn't attack through the Hell's Horses Occupation Zone.<ref name="WORp121">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 121: "Trial of Convenience"</ref>

====York====
The ''Absolute Truth'' and the ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz (WarShip class)|Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Nygaard|CSA ''Nygaard'']] were blockading the [[York (Clan System)|York]] system in August [[3073]] when two [[Clan Diamond Shark]] WarShips, the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser [[Titanic (Individual Potemkin-class WarShip)|CDS ''Titanic'']] and  the ''[[Fredasa (WarShip class)|Fredasa]]''-class corvette [[Swift Strike (Individual Fredasa-class WarShip)|CDS ''Swift Strike'']] attempted to run the blockade.<ref name="WORp137">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 137: "Titanic Voyage of the Swift Strike"</ref>

The ''Titanic'' and the ''Swift Strike'' were being 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 [[Star]]s of ''[[Crimson Hawk]]'' [[BattleMech]]s.<ref name="WORp137"/>

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.<ref name="WORp137"/>

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''. 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 ship along her 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.<ref name="WORp137"/>

Despite long range fire from the ''Absolute Truth'' damaging the ''Swift Strike'' managed to jump out of the York system to [[Albion (Clan System)|Albion]], and then subsquently to a Diamond Shark holding in the [[Chainelane Isles]], although it would take until November [[3077]] for the ''Swift Strike'' to complete the journey.<ref name="WORp137"/>

====Strana Mechty====
The ''Truth'' was on [[Strana Mechty]] the 5 April [[3076]], when the ''[[McKenna's Pride]]'' was stolen by a group of Elementals from [[Clan Wolf]], led by [[Garmen Kerensky]]. The [[Grand Council]] diverted the ''Truth'' to hunt them. They were near their target when the [[DropShip]] [[McKenna's Honor]], crewed by three crewmembers, charginng against the ''Truth'' at 2,5G. The WarShip's fire managed to blow off the DropShip, but most of their fragments rammed their target. The WarShip lost 17 crewmembers, and nineteen were injured. It lost several weapons and suffered structural damage. That prevented it to continue the persecution, though it still participated on it, relaying messages to Strana Mechty.<ref>''Icons of War'', chs. 38–39</ref>

====Colleen====
The ''Absolute Truth'' and the [[McKenna (WarShip class)|''McKenna'']]-class battleship [[Sovereign Right|CSA ''Sovereign Right'']] were both assigned to the destruction of the Blood Spirits in the [[Colleen]] system in October [[3084]]. Leading a task force consisting of [[Gamma Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Gamma]], [[Epsilon Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Epsilon]] and [[Xi Provisional Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Xi Galaxies]], the two battleships proceeded to the planet [[Haven]] and summarily crushed the two surviving Blood Spirit WarShips, the ''[[York (WarShip class)|York]]''-class destroyer [[Stooping Kite|CBS ''Stooping Kite'']] and the ''[[Carrack]]''-class transport [[Karianna Schmitt (Vessel)|CBS ''Karianna Schmitt'']].<ref name="WORp156">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 156: "Clan Blood Spirit"</ref>

After the Star Adder ground forces had crushed all of the opposition on Haven and looted as much ''[[isorla]]'' as could be transported off the planet, the ''Absolute Truth''  began a two-to-three week campaign of orbital bombardment that targeted every holding and enclave on the world and on the other inhabited world in the system, [[Honor (planet)|Honor]]. The ''Absolute Truth'' then left the ''Sovereign Right'' in the system for several months to continue destroying any Blood Spirit survivors discovered.<ref name="WORp156"/>

The ''Absolute Truth'' was still an active part of the Star Adder ''touman'' as of [[3085]].<ref name="WORp168">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 168: "WarShips"</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Icons of War]]'' (novella)
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''

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