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====Amaris Civil War====
 
====Amaris Civil War====
Following the coup launched by [[Stefan Amaris]] the SLDF withdrew from combating the [[Periphery Uprising]] and assaulted the Rim Worlds Republic, as [[Commanding General of the Star League Defense Force|Commanding General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] knew that a secure base of operations to support and supply the SLDF would be sorely needed for any future campaign to liberate the [[Terran Hegemony]], and conquering the Republic also cut off supply lines into Hegemony space—rechristened the [[Amaris Empire]] by Amaris. A key part of the campaign was the need to secure military bases—both ground-based and naval—and in [[2768]] the naval facilities in the Star's End system and at Erin were targeted by the SLDF. The SLDF attacked and secured the facilities in the Star's End system first, capturing the facilities intact; whereas the Star's End facilities had been operated as an SLDF fleet base at one point, before being taken over as the center of operations for the [[RWA]] black water navy, the orbital facilities at Erin were a civilian operation.<ref name="H:LOTv1p107"/>
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Following the coup launched by [[Stefan Amaris]] the SLDF withdrew from combating the [[Periphery Uprising]] and assaulted the Rim Worlds Republic, as [[Commanding General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] knew that a secure base of operations to support and supply the SLDF would be sorely needed for any future campaign to liberate the [[Terran Hegemony]], and conquering the Republic also cut off supply lines into Hegemony space—rechristened the [[Amaris Empire]] by Amaris. A key part of the campaign was the need to secure military bases—both ground-based and naval—and in [[2768]] the naval facilities in the Star's End system and at Erin were targeted by the SLDF. The SLDF attacked and secured the facilities in the Star's End system first, capturing the facilities intact; whereas the Star's End facilities had been operated as an SLDF fleet base at one point, before being taken over as the center of operations for the [[RWA]] black water navy, the orbital facilities at Erin were a civilian operation.<ref name="H:LOTv1p107"/>
  
 
Whilst the port facilities at Erin were notionally less well defended that those at Star's End because of their civilian operation and use, the defenders had more time to prepare for the SLDF invasion, whereas the appearance of an SLDF naval flotilla in the Star's End system had caught the defenders there by surprise. When the SLDF attempted to secure the Erin facilities, they discovered that the shipyards had received enough advance warning to allow the defenders to rig them for demolition; the SLDF attempted to capture the facilities, but the defenders were able to destroy close to three-fifths of the port. The remaining portions of the shipyard began to fall out of orbit, as the defenders had sabotaged the station keeping drives; that would have been enough to destroy the shipyards, if it hadn't been for the crew of the [[Bamborough|SLS ''Bamborough'']], an ''[[Aegis (WarShip class)|Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser and some quick thinking on the part of the SLDF Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams. The ''Bamborough'' positioned itself so that its own engines could push the shipyard facilities into a higher orbit while the EOD teams worked; the maneuver was highly unorthodox, and both the ''Bamborough'' and the shipyards took significant damage in the process, but it was enough to prevent the shipyards being destroyed and earned the crew praise from General Kerensky.<ref name="H:LOTv1p107"/>
 
Whilst the port facilities at Erin were notionally less well defended that those at Star's End because of their civilian operation and use, the defenders had more time to prepare for the SLDF invasion, whereas the appearance of an SLDF naval flotilla in the Star's End system had caught the defenders there by surprise. When the SLDF attempted to secure the Erin facilities, they discovered that the shipyards had received enough advance warning to allow the defenders to rig them for demolition; the SLDF attempted to capture the facilities, but the defenders were able to destroy close to three-fifths of the port. The remaining portions of the shipyard began to fall out of orbit, as the defenders had sabotaged the station keeping drives; that would have been enough to destroy the shipyards, if it hadn't been for the crew of the [[Bamborough|SLS ''Bamborough'']], an ''[[Aegis (WarShip class)|Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser and some quick thinking on the part of the SLDF Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams. The ''Bamborough'' positioned itself so that its own engines could push the shipyard facilities into a higher orbit while the EOD teams worked; the maneuver was highly unorthodox, and both the ''Bamborough'' and the shipyards took significant damage in the process, but it was enough to prevent the shipyards being destroyed and earned the crew praise from General Kerensky.<ref name="H:LOTv1p107"/>

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