Editing Streaking Mist (Individual Black Lion-class WarShip)

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==History==
===Clan Invasion===
The CSJ '''''Streaking Mist''''' was originally built for the [[SLDF]], eventually becoming part of [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky|Aleksandr Kerensky's]] [[Exodus Fleet]]. Later the ship became part of [[Clan Smoke Jaguar|Clan Smoke Jaguar's]] ''[[touman]]''. It became the Clan's flagship by the [[thirty-first century]]. In [[3058]], it was serving as a part of [[The Jaguar's Den]] [[Keshik]] alongside the ''[[Congress]]''-class frigate [[FireCrest|CSJ ''FireCrest'']] and two ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyers, [[The Iowa|CSJ ''The Iowa'']] and the [[Sabre Cat|CSJ ''Sabre Cat'']].<ref name="ICp70">''Invading Clans'', p. 70: "Command Trinary (The Jaguars' Den)"</ref>

===Death of Clan Smoke Jaguar===
The ''Streaking Mist'' served during the invasion of [[Huntress]] by the [[Second Star League]] as transport for [[Khan]] [[Lincoln Osis]] and his reserve forces from [[Strana Mechty]]. Ultimately, it was used by the severely wounded Khan for his withdrawal to Strana Mechty.<ref>''Twilight of the Clans'', p. 11</ref><ref>''Shadows of War'', p. ??{{cn}}</ref><ref>''Prince of Havoc'', p. ??{{cn}}</ref> Two Smoke Jaguar WarShips - the ''Streaking Mist'' and the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser [[Osis' Pride|CSJ ''Osis' Pride'']] - were unaccounted for following the final battles at Huntress.<ref name="FM:Up105">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 105: "The WarShips of a Dead Clan"</ref>

Somehow, after the [[Great Refusal]], The ''Streaking Mist'' become ''[[isorla]]'' for the Star League, which keep it in orbit around Huntress along with another Jaguar WarShip and civilian JumpShips.  Eventually, former Smoke Jaguar [[Trent (Clan Smoke Jaguar)|Trent]] and [[Paul Moon]], along with a large group of Jaguars of all castes, stole the ships, using them to make an exodus to [[Wayside V]], where they settled.<ref>''Forever Faithful'', p. 228</ref> After defeating a [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]] attack, Moon, to keep a promise to [[Russou Howell]], sent the ''Streaking Mist'' back to Huntress with the Scorpions who refused to join the Jaguars and those Jaguars who wouldn't fully accept the new way of the Clan. After returning to Huntress and releasing the Scorpions, the ship's crew made contact with Howell, evacuating him and the remnants of his Jaguar bandits from the planet.<ref>''Forever Faithful'', p. 273</ref>

The ''Streaking Mist'' became the only WarShip of Howell, and became later involved in all his raids against the Clans from [[3063]] onward.<ref name=WoR-192>''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 192: "Other Personalities of Note - 'The Jaguar' (Russou Howell)"</ref><ref name="WoRp89">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 89: "Military Commands (3072)"</ref>

===The Wars of Reaving===
====Atreus====
The ''Streaking Mist'' was involved in a damaging raid on the Clan world of [[Atreus (Clan System)|Atreus]] in early [[3072]]; arriving over the planet, the ''Streaking Mist'' launched two [[DropShip]]s containing a raiding party led by the Jaguar – Howell – and then proceeded to blockade the planet, destroying several merchant vessels in the following weeks. The Jaguar's forces began by landing near Firebase Gamma, a [[Clan Fire Mandrill]] holding, destroying the defending [[16th Assault (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Sixteenth Assault Cluster]] of [[Kindraa]] [[Kindraa Faraday-Tanaga (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Faraday-Tanaga]].<ref name="WORp138">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 138: "Death of a Kindraa"</ref>

Shortly after the Jaguar's forces had moved on from Firebase Gamma, a deadly plague began to spread across the world, one which would later be identified as primarily threatening those with the Hoskins, Tanaga and Quesnel genetic legacies. Despite the plague, the Jaguar continued to raid both Fire Mandrill and [[Clan Steel Viper|Steel Viper]] holdings across Atreus for several months, capturing slaves and resources before the Jaguar and the ''Streaking Mist'' departed.<ref name="WORp138"/>

====Priori====
In late [[3073]], [[Clan Star Adder]] found themselves in increasing need of both the orbital facilities and resources available from the world of [[Priori]], particularly the abundant foodstuffs. Khan [[Stanislov N'Buta]] dispatched a force consisting of [[Gamma Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Gamma]], [[Mu Provisional Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Mu]] and [[Sigma Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Sigma Galaxies]] under the overall command of Star Adder [[Loremaster]] [[Fletcher Daniels]] to capture the system. N'Buta also dispatched several WarShips as escorts, including the ''[[Vincent (WarShip class)|Vincent Mk. 42]]''-class corvette [[Pegasus (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|CSA ''Pegasus'']], the ''[[Fredasa (WarShip class)|Fredasa]]''-class corvette [[Arcadian Asp|CSA ''Arcadian Asp'']], and the recently reactivated ''[[Samarkand Block II (WarShip class)|Samarkand]]''-class carrier [[Yorktown (Individual Samarkand-class WarShip)|CSA ''Yorktown'']].<ref name="WORp131">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 131: "Punishing Priori"</ref>

When the Adder task force arrived in the Priori system in late November it discovered a sizeable defensive force assembled in the system ready to oppose them; in addition to three vessels missing from the Star Adder naval reserve and now flying under [[Clan Burrock]] colors, the ''Streaking Mist'' was in the system as well. The Burrock forces waited for the Star Adders to approach before engaging them near Priori's second moon, Opal. The senior Star Adder naval officer was [[Star Admiral]] [[Lilith Paik]], and opposing her was Burrock Star Admiral [[Kirc Van Houten]]; Van Houten began by using Opal to anchor his position and maneuver his smaller fleet into a superior position, targeting the combined firepower of the ships under his command at the ''Pegasus'' while throwing his aerospace fighters forward to attack the Star Adder DropShips. Paik responded to this opening by launching three Stars of fighters tasked with attacking the ''Streaking Mist'', forcing the battlecruiser to begin withdrawing; the ''Streaking Mist'' attempted to use the ''Arcadian Asp'' as cover, the ''Arcadian Asp'' having been crippled by damage, but Paik was determined to try and capture the ''Streaking Mist'' and dispatched the ''Yorktown'' in hot pursuit. The ''Yorktown'' launched a number of small craft with marine boarding parties aboard in an attempt to board the ''Streaking Mist'', but the ship managed to reach a safe jump point and promptly jumped, the hyperspace wake leaving a number of the ''Yorktown''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s small craft floating as twisted and mangled debris behind the ''Streaking Mist''.<ref name="WORp131"/>

With the ''Streaking Mist'' gone, the remaining Burrock ships attempted to retreat; Van Houten's gamble with the fighters had inflicted damage on the Star Adder DropShips, with half of Mu Galaxy destroyed along with their transport vessels, but the gamble had left the fighters out of position to cover the Burrock WarShips, which were hard pressed by the Adders until they reached the protective umbrella offered by the orbital shipyard's defenses and the small [[SDS]] network based on Priori. While the Adder craft pulled back to long range and sniped at the various batteries, the Burrocks continued to retreat until they reached a pirate point and jumped, leaving Priori to its fate. The resulting war on the ground took almost a year to resolve, with the Star Adders finally gaining complete control of the world in October [[3074]].<ref name="WORp131"/>

====Waypoint 531====
In April [[3074]], a [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]] task force operating under the overall command of [[saKhan]] [[Connor Rood]] and consisting of [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Beta Galaxy]] and the ''[[Congress]]''-class frigate [[Bernlad (Individual Congress-class WarShip)|CGS ''Bernlad'']], the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser [[Karttikeya|CGS ''Karttikeya'']] and the Goliath Scorpion flagship, the [[McKenna (WarShip class)|''McKenna'']]-class battleship [[Lei Kung|CGS ''Lei Kung'']]. The task force was charged with investigating the various systems that made up the state known as [[Nueva Castile]] in the [[Deep Periphery]], and by June had traveled as far as [[Waypoint 531]], where a [[Binary]] from the [[3rd Scorpion Seekers (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Third Seekers]] had been left behind.<ref name="WORp129+">''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 129–130: "Scorpion Deception"</ref>

What the task force did find at Waypoint 531 was a battered ''[[Black Lion]]''-class battlecruiser – the ''Streaking Mist''. The crew of the ''Streaking Mist'' were moving supplies from the cache at the waypoint onto the ''Streaking Mist'' when the Scorpion task force arrived, and after some initial hesitation Rood ordered [[Star Admiral]] Towie to engage. Even with 75% of its armament missing, the ''Streaking Mist'' was a considerable threat; as the Scorpion forces moved to intercept, the ''Streaking Mist'' evaded the attempt to box her in and struck at the ''Bernlad'', inflicting substantial damage to her rear, including her engine decks. The ''Streaking Mist'' jumped when it reached the nearby jump point, taking half of the contents of the Scorpion cache with it.<ref name="WORp129+"/>

====Ghent====
In [[3079]], Clan Star Adder was in pursuit of a number of surviving Dark Caste forces, including those led by the Jaguar. Tracing equipment used by the Jaguar back to a cache on [[Huntress]], the Star Adders put the cache under observation, and [[Star Commander]] [[Wyndham Earle]] and a contingent from the Star Adders' [[471st Adder Sentinels (Clan Star Adder)|471st Sentinels]] later captured a group of bandits observed moving equipment out of the cache. Repairing the bandit DropShip, a ''[[Lion]]'' damaged by the 471st in the initial attack, Earle's forces were able to bluff their way aboard the bandit [[JumpShip]] in the system and captured both the ship and its navigational data.<ref name="WORp166">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 166: "Leaders (3085)"</ref>

Earle transmitted the navigational data to [[Loremaster]] [[Fletcher Daniels]], who had been running a specialist [[Watch]] operation in conjunction with Merchant Factor Ulysses, intent on hunting down Dark Caste groups; Earle then jumped out of the Huntress system in pursuit of the Jaguar, while Daniels assigned the bulk of three Star Adder Galaxies – [[Kappa Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Kappa]], [[Sigma Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Sigma]] and [[Tau Provisional Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Tau]] – to the search for the Jaguar.<ref name="WORp166"/>

Star Colonel Earle was the first to track down the Jaguar; Earle's forces jumped into the [[Ghent]] system, which was an abandoned wasteland after the withdrawal of [[Clan Diamond Shark]] from the [[Clan Homeworlds]]. Earle's forces arrived to find the ''Streaking Mist'' in the system, undergoing repairs – the bandits were gathering scrap and debris already in the system and using it to conduct patchwork repairs as best they could. Earle used subterfuge to convince the crew of the ''Streaking Mist'' that his suborned bandit JumpShip was laden with quality technical salvage from the cache on Huntress, and was able to persuade the crew of the ''Streaking Mist'' to allow his ''Lion''-class DropShip to dock. Once docked, Earle's forces and the Watch initiated a three-hour battle that raged throughout those areas of the ''Streaking Mist'' that were still pressurized.<ref name="WORp166"/>

Earle died during the battle but his replacement – [[Star Colonel]] [[Portia Lahiri]] – learned that the Jaguar was on Ghent. Lahiri ordered the suborned JumpShip to return to Star Adder space and inform Loremaster Daniels and the Star Adder leadership of the information. Kappa Galaxy was swiftly dispatched to Ghent, arriving some three weeks after the battle to seize the ''Streaking Mist''; Galaxy Commander [[Jenica Turgidson]] found no sign of the ''Streaking Mist'' in the system other than a communications buoy left by Colonel Lahiri, with a message stating that Lahiri was going to jump the ''Streaking Mist'' out of the Ghent system to prevent the Jaguar attempting to leave.<ref name="WORp166"/>

To all intents and purposes, the ''Streaking Mist'' vanished at that point. The post-operational report from the capture of the ''Streaking Mist'' indicated that it was in extremely poor condition and it was concluded that she would most likely have been unable to survive a jump. No sign of the ''Streaking Mist'' had been found by [[3085]] other than some inconclusive rumors that she had been seen near [[Nouveaux Paris]].<ref name="WORp166"/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Forever Faithful]]''
* ''[[Invading Clans]]''
* ''[[Prince of Havoc]]'' (novel)
* ''[[Shadows of War]]'' (novel)
* ''[[Twilight of the Clans]]''
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''


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