Editing Osis' Pride

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==History==
The ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser '''''Osis' Pride''''' was a [[Star League Defense Force]] [[WarShip]] that survived the [[Hegemony Campaign]] to liberate [[Terra]] from the forces of [[Stefan Amaris]], and subsequently followed [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]] and fell under the control of [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]], at which point it was clearly renamed.

It was one of the [[WarShip]]s in the [[Clan Smoke Jaguar Touman|Clan Smoke Jaguar ''touman'']] to survive the [[Trial of Annihilation|Annihilation]] of the Smoke Jaguars during [[Operation Bulldog]]. As of [[3067]] it was rumored that the ''Osis' Pride'' was roaming the [[Periphery]], acting as a mobile citadel for the surviving Smoke Jaguar warriors to venture out of as they raided Periphery worlds.<ref name="FM:Up105">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 105 "The WarShips of a Dead Clan"</ref>

In July [[3072]] the ''Osis' Pride'' jumped into an unmarked system close to the [[Clan Diamond Shark]] trade route between the [[Clan Homeworlds]] and the [[Inner Sphere]] only to discover another ''Potemkin''-class WarShip in the system. The other WarShip was the [[Clan Ice Hellion]] WarShip [[Coterie|CIH ''Coterie'']], stranded as a result of a KF-Drive failure following a jump away from an ambush by forces from [[Zeta Galaxy (Clan Burrock)|Zeta Galaxy]] of [[Clan Burrock]] in April that year. The ''Coterie'' was carrying the last survivors of the [[Clan Ice Hellion Touman|Ice Hellion ''touman'']] following [[Operation ICE STORM]], the failed Ice Hellion invasion of the [[Clan Jade Falcon]] Occupation Zone in the Inner Sphere.<ref name="WoRp98+">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 98-99, "Dark Periphery"</ref>

The ''Osis' Pride'' was unable to make contact with the ''Coterie'' because the communications systems on the ''Pride'' were in a state of disrepair; however, newly-promoted [[Khan]] [[Connor Rood]], elevated in rank after the death of Khan [[Raina Montose]], took a small craft across to the ''Osis' Pride'', and while the chain of events aboard the ''Osis' Pride'' are undocumented, he reached an accomodation with the surviving crew aboard the ship.<ref name="WoRp98+"/>

The ''Coterie'' and the ''Osis' Pride'' docked together, and as much by way of cargo, matériel, men and salvage as possible from the ''Coterie'' was moved onto the ''Osis' Pride''. The transfer and repairs took a month, during which JumpShips twice appeared in the system and were promptly engaged by the single remaining Star of aerospace fighters left functioning aboard the ''Osis' Pride''; one JumpShip was destroyed, and the second, an Inner Sphere pattern ''[[Tramp]]''-class vessel, jumped out after the first fighter pass.<ref name="WoRp98+"/>

When the transfers were complete the ''Osis' Pride'' was fully manned and at least partially repaired; the ''Coterie'' was nudged into a decaying orbit around the local star, and the ''Osis' Pride'' set out for the Homeworlds, now in service as the CIH ''Osis' Pride'', the last functioning WarShip in the Ice Hellion ''touman''.<ref name="WoRp98+"/>

When the ''Osis' Pride'' returned to the Homeworlds at the end of December 3072, the single WarShip and the three [[Trinary|Trinaries]] of the [[200th Attack (Clan Ice Hellion)|200th Attack Cluster]] represented a significant boost for the heavily depleted Clan, whose enclaves outside Hector had been stripped away through predation by the other Clans, [[Bandit Caste]] forces and the [[Society]] while the HPG network across the Homeworlds was inactive.<ref name="WoRp98+HF">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 98-99, "The Hellion Fades"</ref>

In [[3073]], Rood negotiated with the Khan of [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]] with a view to having the surviving Ice Hellion elements merge with Clan Goliath Scorpion, his preferred alternative to seeing the Ice Hellions vanish completely. The offer was initially rejected - the Goliath Scorpions resenting any implication that they might be in a weak enough state to need to merge with another - with Rood being honest and open about the perilous state the Hellions were in, the Goliath Scorpions offered to [[Trial of Absorption|Absorb]] the Hellions in a fashion that limited the number of losses.<ref name="WORp127">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 127, "Scorpion Gambit"</ref>

The proposal was agreed by both [[Clan Council]]s, and following a ferocious but brief battle between a Star of forces from each Clan in March [[3074]], the remaining Ice Hellion holdings and ''touman'' joined the Goliath Scorpions, with Connor Rood being elected to the post of saKhan in place of [[Kelton Myers]], who had been killed during the Trial. With the Absorption complete, the ''Osis' Pride'' became the CGS ''Osis' Pride''.<ref name="WORp127">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 127, "Scorpion Gambit"</ref>

The ''Osis' Pride'' was scrapped and stripped for spare parts in [[3077]] to allow the Scorpions to make repairs on the other WarShips in their ''touman'' in the wake of the [[Wars of Reaving]].<ref name="WORp160">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 160, "Escorpión Imperio (Periphery Nation)"</ref>

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