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| − | ==Overview==
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| − | The '''''Titanic''''' is the name given to two separate ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruisers in service with [[Clan Diamond Shark]] at various points in the history of the Clan.
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| − | ==History==
| + | Two separate ''Potemkin''-class cruisers— |
| − | In [[3061]] the ''Potemkin''-class carrier CDS ''Titanic'' was a [[WarShip]] in service with the [[Clan Diamond Shark Touman|Clan Diamond Shark ''touman'']].<ref name="FM:WCp65">''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 65, "Naval Assets"</ref>
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| − | ===Destruction===
| + | * [[Titanic (Individual Potemkin-class WarShip)|''Titanic'' (Individual Potemkin-class WarShip)]], operated by Clan Diamond Shark during the Clan Invasion era |
| − | The first of two ''Potemkin''-class WarShips to bear this name in service to the Diamond Sharks, the first ''Titanic'' was destroyed during the [[Wars of Reaving]]. The ''Titanic'' and the ''[[Fredasa]]''-class corvette [[Swift Strike (Fredasa)|CDS ''Swift Strike'']] were used to transport several [[DropShip]]s full of supplies and matériel for [[Clan Blood Spirit]] from the Diamond Shark holding of [[Nyserta]] in the [[Inner Sphere]] to the Blood Spirit enclaves on [[York (Clan)|York]]. The goods transported by the ''Swift Strike'' and the ''Titanic'' represented one of the last bargained contracts between the Blood Spirits and the Diamond Sharks, and also included a gift from the Diamond Sharks: several [[Star]]s of ''[[Crimson Hawk]]'' [[BattleMech]]s, based upon a design taken from the Blood Spirits in a [[Trial of Possession]] by the Diamond Sharks, but modified and improved by the Diamond Sharks.<ref name="WORp137">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 137, "Titanic Voyage of the Swift Strike"</ref>
| + | * [[Tiburon ArcShip (Clan Sea Fox)]], the salvaged Clan Snow Raven ''Snowflake'', renamed ''Titanic'' by Clan Diamond Shark to honor the aforementioned vessel lost in the [[Wars of Reaving]], and later traded to Clan Sea Fox and modified to become an ArcShip |
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| − | When the ''Swift Strike'' and the ''Titanic'' arrived at York in August [[3073]], they found the system under a blockade imposed by [[Clan Star Adder]]; despite having been subject to a bombardment in [[3072]] that was sufficiently extensive to have altered the ecology of the world, York was still technically a Blood Spirit holding, and the Star Adders were blockading the system in the hope that they could intercept the remaining Blood Spirit warriors still at large. The Diamond Shark vessels requested passage to the planet, citing the arrangements which had been bargained out between the two Clans, but [[Star Admiral]] [[Fortunato Gena]] of the Star Adders refused to allow either Diamond Shark vessel to pass.<ref name="WORp137"/>
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| − | The decision by Admiral Gena forced the Diamond Sharks to try and run the blockade in order to make good on their agreement to deliver to the Blood Spirits; the Star Adders responded by engaging the ''Swift Strike'' and the ''Titanic'' with two of their own vessels, the ''[[Nightlord]]''-class battleship [[Absolute Truth|CSA ''Absolute Truth'']] and the ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Nygaard|CSA ''Nygaard'']]. The heavier Star Adder vessels first maneuvered to block the path of the Diamond Shark vessels to the planet, and then when the ''Titanic'' refused to deviate from its course, launched broadsides against the ''Titanic''. The two broadsides were enough to destroy the ''Titanic'', breaking the ''Potemkin'' along its jump core. The ''Titanic's'' DropShips scattered and attempted to make it past the Star Adder vessels, but only half of them actually made it down to the planetary surface.<ref name="WORp137"/> One of these, the [[Bruce]], had ten ''[[Crimson Hawk]]'' [[BattleMechs]] in salvageable condition, and became the focus of a battle between the Star Adders and the Blood Spirits.<ref name=MH>BattleCorps Scenario'' 'Mechs from Heaven'', p. 2</ref>
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| − | Despite long range fire from the ''Absolute Truth'' damaging the ''Swift Strike'', the small Diamond Shark ship managed to jump out of the York system to [[Albion (Clan)|Albion]], and then subsquently to a Diamond Shark holding in the [[Chainelane Isles]], although it would take until November [[3077]] for the ''Swift Strike'' to complete the journey.<ref name="WORp137"/>
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| − | The ship was renamed to ''Tiburon ArcShip'' at some time after the Jihad and assigned to the [[Tiburon Khanate (Clan Sea Fox)|Tiburon Khanate]].
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| − | ===Restoration===
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| − | Despite the ejection of the Diamond Sharks from the Clan Homeworld systems, the Sharks inserted a Watch team back into homeworlds space in [[3075]]; the Watch contingent consisted of two small [[JumpShip]]s, a dozen ''[[solahma]]'' warriors, two salvage teams, technicians and merchants. The mission undertaken was twofold; to infiltrate the remaining Clans still in homeowrlds space and to visit the only remaining Diamond Shark naval cache, located in the [[Babylon]] system, and restore any ships they could to operational status. The naval cache contained just two WarShips, of which only one would prove to be in good enough condition that the small party could restore it - the ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyer ''[[Marseilles]]''.<ref name="WORp172">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 172-173, "Clan Diamond Shark"</ref>
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| − | Having restored the ''Marseilles'' and staffed it with a skeleton crew, the bulk of the Watch contingent then traveled to the edge of the [[Lum]] system and began searching for the remains of the ''Potemkin''-class [[Snowflake|CSR ''Snowflake'']] using information provided by [[Clan Snow Raven]]. The party found the ''Snowflake'' and confirmed that the K-F jump drive was in working order despite the ''Snowflake'' having lost large portions of its hull during the battle in the system. After emergency repairs, the ''Snowflake'' managed to execute a successful emergency test jump; this led the Diamond Sharks to rename the ''Snowflake'' to ''Titanic'', in honor of the ship destroyed at York. The Sharks also renamed the ''Marseilles'' to the [[Architeuthis|CDS ''Architeuthis'']] and proceeded to make a cautious journey back to the Inner Sphere, both salvage and work teams continuing to conduct what repairs they could en route.<ref name="WORp172"/>
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| − | Both the newly-renamed ''Titanic'' and the ''Architeuthis'' journeyed back to [[Ramora]] in the [[Outworlds Alliance]], arriving in [[3076]] and promptly taking advantage of the Snow Raven repair bays there, which the Diamond sharks had recently secured rights to use. Each ship underwent repairs at Ramora, although neither stayed any longer than was necessary, and both ships traveled to [[Twycross]] in [[3080]].<ref name="WORp172"/>
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| − | ==Notes==
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| − | * It was confirmed via a question in the "Ask The Writers" forum of the official [[Catalyst Game Labs]] forum that the ''Tracy'' had been renamed the ''Marshal Ney'':
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| − | {{quote|The Diamond Shark fleet (what survived from the Jihad) was turned into ArcShips or traded to the Snow Ravens for vessels to turn into ArcShips. | |
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| − | Terror of the Deep --> traded to CSR (Lynn McKenna)<br>
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| − | Nagasawa --> Talismantia (Spina Beta)<br>
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| − | Space Hunter --> Caleuche (Tiburon Gamma)<br>
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| − | Tracy --> traded to CSR (Marshal Ney)<br>
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| − | Architeuthis --> traded to CSR (Mulhacén)<br>
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| − | Swift Strike --> traded to CSR (Kutkh)<br>
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| − | Devourer --> severely damaged and scuttled over Twycross circa 3085<br>
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| − | Kraken --> Fox ArcShip<br>
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| − | Poseidon --> Spina ArcShip<br>
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| − | '''Titanic''' --> '''Tiburon ArcShip'''<br>
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| − | Tsunami --> ilKhanate ArcShip|[http://bg.battletech.com/forums/ask-the-writers/diamond-sharksea-fox-fleet-post-3085/msg979617/#msg979617 Roosterboy, Catalyst Game Labs "Ask The Writer" Forum, 26 Oct 2014]}}
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| − | ==References==
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| − | ==Bibliography==
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| − | * ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]''
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| − | * ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''
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| − | [[Category: Individual WarShips]]
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| − | [[Category: Individual Cruisers]]
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| − | [[Category: Individual Potemkin-class WarShips]]
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