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The Ninth was due a change of commanding officer around the time the Uprising began; [[Admiral]] [[Francisca Nieminen]] was due to retire, with [[Vice Admiral]] [[Dmitrios Rummolo]] under posting orders to replace Admiral Nieminen as commander of the Ninth, but the Uprising and subsequent [[Amaris Civil War]] prevented this from happening. Instead, Nieminen would continue to command the Ninth well into her nineties; Nieminen was almost eighty years old when the Uprising began, and would serve until her flagship, the SLS ''Infanta'', was destroyed above [[Terra]] in [[2779]] during [[Operation LIBERATION]].<ref name="H:LoTv1p47"/>
 
The Ninth was due a change of commanding officer around the time the Uprising began; [[Admiral]] [[Francisca Nieminen]] was due to retire, with [[Vice Admiral]] [[Dmitrios Rummolo]] under posting orders to replace Admiral Nieminen as commander of the Ninth, but the Uprising and subsequent [[Amaris Civil War]] prevented this from happening. Instead, Nieminen would continue to command the Ninth well into her nineties; Nieminen was almost eighty years old when the Uprising began, and would serve until her flagship, the SLS ''Infanta'', was destroyed above [[Terra]] in [[2779]] during [[Operation LIBERATION]].<ref name="H:LoTv1p47"/>
  
The [[18th Fleet (Star League)|Eighteenth Fleet]] took substantial losses to sabotage during the opening stages of the Uprising, having been dispersed widely across the Magistracy of Canopus and the [[Free Worlds League]] immediately prior to the Uprising; once the extent of the [[Secret Army]] built by [[Stefan Amaris]] became known, Admiral [[Rackham Jones]] of the Eighteenth and Admiral Nieminen linked their two Fleets together to continue combat operations.<ref name="H:LoTv1p48">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 48, "Eighteenth Fleet"</ref>
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The [[18th Fleet (SLDF)|Eighteenth Fleet]] took substantial losses to sabotage during the opening stages of the Uprising, having been dispersed widely across the Magistracy of Canopus and the [[Free Worlds League]] immediately prior to the Uprising; once the extent of the [[Secret Army]] built by [[Stefan Amaris]] became known, Admiral [[Rackham Jones]] of the Eighteenth and Admiral Nieminen linked their two Fleets together to continue combat operations.<ref name="H:LoTv1p48">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 48, "Eighteenth Fleet"</ref>
  
 
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