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The ''[[Invader]]''-class [[JumpShip]] '''''Invidious''''' served with the [[Gray Death Legion]] since between [[3055]] and September [[3056]]<ref>Only the ''Merchant''-class ''Invidious'' is listed on the Gray Death Legion's TO&E in ''Mercenary's Handbook 3055'', p. 57, but both it (under Katrina Tor) and another, ''Invader''-class ''Invidious'' serve with the Legion during the [[Second Skye Rebellion]] in April 3056</ref> until its destruction in the [[Hesperus]] system in [[3065]]. It should not be confused with [[Renfred Tor]]'s original ''[[Merchant]]''-class [[Invidious (Merchant)|vessel of the same name]] that was famously cooperated with [[Grayson Carlyle]] since [[3024]] and throughout the [[Mercenary's Star (novel)|Verthandi campaign]].
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The '''''Ellyohippus''''' was an ''[[Invader]]''-class [[JumpShip]],<ref=BT34>''The Black Thorns'' sourcebook, p. 34</ref> modified to feature a [[Lithium-Fusion Battery]]. Notably, it apparently retained at least two of the design's original three [[docking hardpoint]]s despite the modification.
  
Free trader Renfred Tor had passed away by April 3056, leaving his daughter Katrina to inherit the family business and the old ''Merchant''-class ''Invidious''.<ref>''Blood of Heroes'', p. 71</ref> Katrina Tor briefly continued to serve the Legion until at least April 3056,<ref>''Blood of Heroes'', pp. 71-72</ref> but "a year or two" before December [[3058]] the ''Invidious'' parted ways with the Gray Death Legion.<ref>''Operation Excalibur'', p. 278</ref> Between 3055 and April 3056 the Legion obtained a new, bigger ''Invidious'' which brought Major [[Hassan Ali Khaled]]'s battalion from their posting at [[Borghese]] back to [[Glengarry]] to relieve the besieged Legion on 26 September 3056.<ref>''Day of Heroes'', p. 87</ref> It is possible that Katrina Tor parted ways with the Legion at Borghese, and that the other ''Invidious'' was hired there as a replacement.
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In [[3057]], the ''Ellyohippus'' was used by the [[Draconis Combine]] to run the [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] blockade of the [[Wolcott]] system, by jumping to a [[pirate jump point]] and quickly jumping back out by means of the LF battery system, without deploying its [[jump sail]]. When the [[Black Thorns]]' [[DropShip]] ''[[Bristol]]'' was brought to Wolcott by the ''Ellyohippus'' in this fashion, two other DropShips were bound for the pre-arranted pirate jump point.<ref>''D.R.T.'', pp. 66-72</ref> This strongly implies they were both supposed to be moved out on the ''Ellyohippus'' and thereby that the ''Ellyohippus'' featured at least two functional hardpoints. However, it is theoretically also possible that there was a second unmentioned JumpShip operating alongside the ''Ellyohippus''.
 
 
It was this ''Invader''-class ship that was destroyed in the Hesperus system in 3065, and not the original ''Merchant''-class vessel.<ref name="TDTp102">''The Dying Time'', p. 102, "Chapter 13"</ref>
 
  
 
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==Bibliography==
 
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*''[[Blood of Heroes]]''
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*''[[Operation Excalibur]]''
 
*''[[The Dying Time]]''
 
  
 
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Revision as of 04:41, 6 July 2014

Vessel Profile
TypeJumpShip
ClassInvader (modified)

The Ellyohippus was an Invader-class JumpShip,<ref=BT34>The Black Thorns sourcebook, p. 34</ref> modified to feature a Lithium-Fusion Battery. Notably, it apparently retained at least two of the design's original three docking hardpoints despite the modification.

In 3057, the Ellyohippus was used by the Draconis Combine to run the Clan Smoke Jaguar blockade of the Wolcott system, by jumping to a pirate jump point and quickly jumping back out by means of the LF battery system, without deploying its jump sail. When the Black Thorns' DropShip Bristol was brought to Wolcott by the Ellyohippus in this fashion, two other DropShips were bound for the pre-arranted pirate jump point.[1] This strongly implies they were both supposed to be moved out on the Ellyohippus and thereby that the Ellyohippus featured at least two functional hardpoints. However, it is theoretically also possible that there was a second unmentioned JumpShip operating alongside the Ellyohippus.

References

  1. D.R.T., pp. 66-72

Bibliography