Difference between revisions of "Raven (Individual Essex-class WarShip)"
Sarna News
- HEXTECH Review - Wave 3 Brings More Urban Options To Your Battlefield
- Your BattleTech News Round-Up For March, 2024
- Crashing 'Mechs With Jennifer Brozek, Author Of The Rogue Academy Trilogy
- Getting The Word Out With Rem Alternis, Catalyst Community & Marketing Director
- Bad 'Mechs - Yeoman
- Read more →
(FWL WarShip) |
m (cat) |
||
| Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
[[Category: Individual WarShips]] | [[Category: Individual WarShips]] | ||
[[Category: Individual Destroyers]] | [[Category: Individual Destroyers]] | ||
| − | [[Category: Individual Essex-class | + | [[Category: Individual Essex-class WarShips]] |
Revision as of 10:19, 30 September 2013
- This article is about the Essex-class destroyer. For the BattleMech, see Raven.
| Raven | |
|---|---|
| Vessel Profile | |
| Previous names | Oslo |
| Type | WarShip |
| Class | Essex |
History
The Oslo was an Essex-class destroyer that served in the Star League Defense Force as the SLS Oslo during the Star League era. Abandoned or scuttled during or after the Amaris Civil War, the Oslo was subsequently located in a debris system at the edge of the Elgin system by ComStar but was left where it had been found due to the amount of work that required to return it to active service.[1] The Free Worlds League became aware of the location of the Oslo thanks to information provided by the Word of Blake, who had relocated to the League after the schism within ComStar and who had decided to assist the League in its WarShip rearmament programme. The Blakists helped the League locate twenty-two assorted derelict WarShips, of which the Oslo was one;[2] this led to a daring operation in 3055 in which a League salvage crew took their JumpShip into the Elgin system and spent several months working on the Oslo while avoiding the attention of the Federated Commonwealth's Fifth Republican, who were stationed in the system at the time.[1]
The salvage team were able to conduct enough repairs to the Oslo to enable her to jump into League space; from there the Oslo travelled to one of the League's clandestine shipyards capable of conducting repair and renovation work on WarShips and after several months of work the Oslo was considered ready for line service again. The existence of the Oslo was kept a secret; the ship was redesignated the FWLS Raven, and under the command of Commodore Thomas Mazure the Raven went on to provide security for the LCCC command centre located on Marik.[1]
The Raven was one of three Essex-class vessels to be located, retrieved and repaired by the League's rearmament programme during the late 3050s; when her sister ship the FWLS Schrack entered service and was also assigned to providing security to the LCCC command centre in the Marik system Commodore Mazure was given authority over both vessels.[1][3] The third Essex-class ship to be restored to line service was gifted to the Word of Blake as thanks for their contributions to the programme, and would enter service as the WoBS Deliverance.[2]
By early 3059 the Raven was one of six vessels within the League's "secret" fleet, serving alongside the Schrack, the Vincent-class corvette FWLS Liberty, the Zechetinu-class corvettes FWLS Attica and FWLS Karelia and an Aegis-class heavy cruiser, the FWLS Olympic.[4]
By 3067 the Raven had been in service for almost a decade and was a part of what was publicly considered to be the largest black water navy in the Inner Sphere.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 118, "FWLS Raven"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 116, "Aid From The Word of Blake"
- ↑ Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 118, "FWLS Schrack"
- ↑ Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 117, "WarShips of the FWL Fleet"
- ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 144, "Ships Of The FWL"