Editing Exodus Ranger

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==History==
As of [[3059]], the ''[[York (WarShip class)|York]]''-class destroyer '''''Exodus Ranger''''' was serving as the CSA ''Exodus Ranger'' within the [[Clan Star Adder Touman|Clan Star Adder ''touman'']]. One of five ''York''-class ships to be in service with the Star Adders at this time—the others being [[Exodus Avenger|CSA ''Exodus Avenger'']], [[Exodus Crusader|CSA ''Exodus Crusader'']], [[Exodus Sentinel|CSA ''Exodus Sentinel'']], and [[Star Fire|CSA ''Star Fire'']]—the ''Exodus Ranger'' was one of the five ships that made up 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 ''Exodus Ranger'' would continue to serve throughout the next decade<ref name="FM:Up50">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 50: "Naval Assets"</ref> and into the [[Wars of Reaving]].

===Wars of Reaving===
====3070====
By early [[3070]], the ''Exodus Ranger'' was one of two Star Adder WarShips stationed in the [[York (Clan System)|York]] system, serving alongside the ''[[Volga]]''-class transport [[Pompeii|CSA ''Pompeii'']] as a continuing albeit diminished naval presence in support of the single Star Adder enclave that continued to survive on the [[Clan Blood Spirit]] homeworld.<ref name="WORp54">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 54: "Fuel for the Blood Feud"</ref>

====3072====
By December [[3072]], the Star Adders had suffered a number of casualties amongst their WarShip fleet as a result of battles during the ongoing Wars of Reaving. With ships lost in combat against [[Clan Coyote]], [[Clan Snow Raven]] and most recently a resurgent [[Clan Burrock]] the Star Adder leadership decided to activate some of the eight WarShips that formed a part of the Clan's last naval reserve. The naval reserve had been given the designation MSKC-2 and was established in a planetless system; a salvage party was assembled, and arrived at MSKC-2 in late December. The ''Exodus Ranger'' was one of the WarShips assigned to the salvage party.<ref name="WORp112+">''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 112–113: "Constriction"</ref>

The Star Adder convoy discovered shortly after arriving that a group from the [[Dark Caste]] had already been working on activating ships from the mothballed fleet, and had already successfully activated a ''[[Kimagure]]''-class pursuit cruiser and a ''[[Riga (WarShip class)|Riga]]''-class frigate, both of which were missing from the cache;<ref name="WORp112+"/> with the [[Society]] providing WarShip assets to Clan Burrock, it was likely that these two ships were the ''Kimagure''-class [[Admiral Russell Nga|CBS ''Admiral Russell Nga'']] and ''Riga''-class [[Hetherington|CBS ''Hetherington'']] respectively.<ref name="WORp89">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 89: "Military Commands (3072)/WarShips"</ref>

As the Star Adders moved to engage the Dark Caste party, another supposedly mothballed ship from the cache, a ''[[Baron (WarShip class)|Baron]]''-class destroyer, powered up and moved to engage the Star Adder forces. Combined strikes from the ''Exodus Ranger'' and another Star Adder WarShip, the ''[[Lola III]]''-class destroyer [[Cameron's Flame|CSA ''Cameron's Flame'']], appeared to easily cripple the ''Baron'', but as the ''Cameron's Flame'' transited past the ''Baron'' the crew of the Dark Caste ship fired their main aft batteries and inflicted heavy damage on the ''Cameron's Flame''. The ''Cameron's Flame'' managed to maneuver slowly to try and finish off the ''Baron'' fired her thrusters and caused both ships to accidentally collide. The collision was the final straw for the ''Cameron's Flame'', which suffered a fatal loss of atmosphere, leaving most of the crew dead.<ref name="WORp112+"/>

The remaining Star Adder forces faced no other capital vessels in the system and easily destroyed the Dark Caste ships as they attempted to retreat away from the cache to the solitary [[JumpShip]] nearby; the Star Adders carefully picked off the smaller craft before destroying the JumpShip. The Star Adders then inspected the remaining cached ships before activating the [[Yorktown (Individual Samarkand-class WarShip)|CSA ''Yorktown'']], a ''[[Samarkand Block II (WarShip class)|Samarkand]]''-class carrier; based on the information available, [[Khan]] [[Stanislov N'Buta]] made the decision that the Star Adders didn't have the time or resources to reactivate the other WarShips and instead chose to destroy them. N'Buta also ordered the remains of the ''Cameron's Flame'' to be scuttled, denying the Dark Caste any more resources from the system.<ref name="WORp112+"/>

====3074====
In late [[3074]], the ''Exodus Ranger'' and two other Star Adder WarShips, the ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Stellar Serpent|CSA ''Stellar Serpent'']] and the ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Divine Conquest|CSA ''Divine Conquest'']], were assembled along with no less than seven [[Galaxy|Galaxies]] of Star Adder forces - [[Alpha Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Alpha]], [[Gamma Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Gamma]], [[Delta Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Delta]], [[Epsilon Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Epsilon]], [[Sigma Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Sigma]], [[Tau Provisional Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Tau]] and [[Xi Provisional Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Xi]] - into a task force under the personal command of Khan N'Buta for a strike at the [[Tanis]] system. The Star Adder Watch had identified that something was seriously wrong in the Tanite worlds, and N'Buta was determined to regain control of the system. Invoking a previous agreement with [[Clan Cloud Cobra]], the Star Adder [[saKhan]] persuaded [[saKhan]] [[Hannibal Banacek]] of the Cloud Cobras to join the task force, accompanied by another ''York''-class ship, the [[Brimstone|CCS ''Brimstone'']], and the ''[[Fredasa (WarShip class)|Fredasa]]''-class corvette [[Hell Fury|CCS ''Hell Fury'']].<ref name="WORp144">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 144: "Adder's Assault"</ref>

The task force arrived in the Tanis system on the 17th of December and the ''Stellar Serpent'', ''Divine Conquest'' and ''Hell Fury'' quickly attacked and defeated the two defending Burrock WarShips, the ''[[Mako]]''-class corvette [[Ingrid Bucharev|CBS ''Ingrid Bucharev'']] and the ''[[McKenna (WarShip class)|McKenna]]''-class battleship [[Second Coming|CBS ''Second Coming'']], securing lanes for the various Galaxies to begin making planetfall. The ''Exodus Ranger'' and the ''Brimstone'' were responsible for escorting Alpha, Sigma, Xi and Tau Galaxies to Alexandra, where the defending Tanite, Burrock and [[Society]] forces launched ferocious defensive surface-to-atmosphere fire that saw half of Xi Galaxy destroyed before it could make planetfall.<ref name="WORp144"/>

With the ground campaign on [[Stacha]] proceeding frustratingly slowly for the Star Adder forces thanks to the wily tactics of the Bandit leader known as [[Russou Howell|Jaguar]], who used the main industrial complex on Stacha as both a defensive position and a base for hit and run attacks, Khan N'Buta ordered the ''Exodus Ranger'' to destroy the complex by orbital bombardment. Unfortunately for the Star Adders, Jaguar and his forces avoided being destroyed, and the attack failed to flush the determined bandits out into the open.<ref name="WORp144"/>

===Destruction===
The ''Exodus Ranger'' is not listed as having survived the Wars of Reaving,<ref name="WORp168">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 168: "WarShips"</ref> and was therefore most likely destroyed during the [[Trial of Annihilation|Annihilation]] of [[Clan Steel Viper]] in [[3075]].

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


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