Editing Constantineau (Individual Liberator-class WarShip)

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==History==
===Star League===
The ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class heavy cruiser '''''Constantineau''''' was a [[WarShip]] serving within the black water navy of the [[Star League Defense Force]] at the height of the [[Star League]] era. The ''Constantineau'' survived the chaos and destruction of the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the [[Hegemony Campaign]] and was one of the WarShips to follow [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation EXODUS|Exodus]] into the [[Deep Periphery]]. When General Kerensky's efforts to found a society for the [[Star League in Exile]] failed after his death and the [[Pentagon Worlds]] degenerated into internecine warfare the ''Constantineau'' was one of the vessels to accompany the forces loyal to [[Nicholas Kerensky]] on the withdrawal to [[Strana Mechty]]; after the founding of the [[Clans]] by Nicholas the ''Constantineau'' became a serving vessel within one of the nascent Clan ''[[touman]]s''.<ref name="H:OKp46">''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 46: "Dagda"</ref>

===Operation KLONDIKE===
The ''Constantineau'' was one of the vessels assigned to the [[Clan Burrock Touman|''touman'' of Clan Burrock]] ahead of [[Operation KLONDIKE]], the Clan campaign to conquer the Pentagon Worlds. Under the authority of [[Khan]] Polczyk, [[Qudi Hutchinson]] was given the temporary rank of [[Star Colonel]] and assigned the ''Constantineau'' as well group of [[JumpShip]]s and [[DropShip]]s and tasked with securing the zenith jump point of the [[Dagda (Clan System)|Dagda]] system when Operation KLONDIKE began.<ref name="H:OKp46"/>

Hutchinson secured the jump point by jumping her own vessels in a pattern that allowed them to surround the jump point before generating an [[ECM]] bubble that covered the jump point and launching DropShips. Most of the vessels at the jump point were taken easily, but three JumpShips attempted to spin their engines up and escape; each capitulated after the ''Constantineau'' fired on them, destroying their engines. A handful of warning shots from the ''Constantineau'' also put paid to attempts to flee by various DropShips, and with the jump point secure the ''Constantineau'' went on to intercept and secure a trio of DropShips a day out from making planetfall on Dagda by jumping in via a pirate point, preventing valuable supplies and information from reaching the [[McMillan Collective]] on the planet.<ref name="H:OKp46"/>

===The Clan Era===
All six ''Avatar''-class vessels to have accompanied General Kerensky on the Exodus survived the Pentagon Civil War and the establishment of the Clans, and some years after the Clan conquest of the Pentagon Worlds the ''Constantineau'' and the other five ''Avatar''-class cruisers were subject to an extensive refurbishment and upgrade program that saw them become a new class of cruiser named the ''[[Liberator (WarShip class)|Liberator]]''.<ref name="TRO:3057Rp152">''Technical Readout: 3057 Revised'', p. 152: "Liberator"</ref>

As of [[3059]], the ''Constantineau'' was serving as the CSA ''Constantineau'' within the [[Clan Star Adder]] [[Clan Star Adder Touman|''touman'']] and was serving with [[Delta Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Delta Galaxy]].<ref name="FM:CCp119">''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 119: "Naval Assets"</ref> The ''Constantineau'' remained an active part of the Star Adder ''touman'' for the next decade<ref name="FM:Up50">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 50: "Naval Assets"</ref> and into the [[Wars of Reaving]].

In 3068 [[Clan Snow Raven]] was involved in fighting in the [[York (Clan)|York]] system. During a [[Trial of Possession]] on [[Strana Mechty]] against [[Clan Blood Spirit]], the Snow Ravens lost the entire [[Zeta Galaxy (Clan Snow Raven)|Zeta Galaxy]] and a ''[[sibko]]'' of aerospace pilots to the smaller Clan; when a flotilla of Snow Raven WarShips led by the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser [[Snowflake|CSR ''Snowflake'']] arrived in the York system to deliver Zeta Galaxy and the ''sibko'' to the Blood Spirits, forces from the Star Adders challenged the Snow Ravens, attempting to interrupt the delivery.<ref name="WORp35">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 35: "Art of Distraction"</ref>

The Snow Ravens won the Star Adders' challenge, destroying the ''Constantineau'' in the process. The Blood Spirits put Zeta Galaxy to use immediately, capturing a facility on the surface of York, and the Snow Ravens earned the enmity of the Star Adders for what the Adders perceived as the Ravens interference in events on York.<ref name="WORp35"/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Historical: Operation Klondike]]''
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''

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