Editing Yamato (Individual Yamato-class WarShip)

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==History==
The ''Yamato''-class battleship was an attempt by the [[Draconis Combine]] to reproduce a [[Clan]] [[WarShip]]. Under construction in the late 3050s in the shipyards above [[New Samarkand]], the construction of this first-of-class vessel was rife with problems up to and including interference from the [[Internal Security Force]], and wasn't predicted to be in a state where it could move under its own power until early [[3060]], at which point large elements of the construction program would still need to be completed.<ref name="FM:DCp15">''Field Manual: Draconis Combine'', p. 15: "Aerospace Assets"</ref>

By [[3067]], intelligence agencies had lost track of the work being undertaken on the single ''Yamato''-class prototype, and the hull wasn't reported as an active asset in the [[Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery]] navy;<ref name="FM:Up105">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 105, "Draconis Combine Naval Assets"</ref> it was reported by some sources that the ''Yamato'' construction yards had been dismantled in [[3061]].<ref name="FR:DCMSp5+">''Field Report: DCMS'', pp. 5–6: "Safeguarding the Wounded Heart"</ref>

Rather than being dismantled as some were led to believe, the ''Yamato'' hull was instead shipped to the [[Dover]] system, along with the allegedly dismantled shipyards, which were rebuilt near the fifth planet in the system. During the [[Jihad]] the Draconis Combine refitted both the hull of the ''Yamato'' and the hull of another prototype WarShip, the ''[[Kaga]]''-class carrier [[Ryū|DCS ''Mount Niitaka'']]. With assistance purchased from [[Clan Diamond Shark]] the ''Yamato'' was turned into a massive mobile factory ship, which would continue to produce vital materiel for the Combine throughout the closing years of the Jihad and beyond.<ref name="FR:DCMSp5+"/>

===Second Combine-Dominion War===
The ''Yamato'' was a casualty of the [[Second Combine-Dominion War]]. Preparing for an inevitable escalation in the conflict, [[Khan]] [[Aletha Kabrinski]] responded to an intelligence windfall that identified the location of the ''[[Inazuma]]''-class corvette [[Amber Lotus|DCS ''Amber Lotus'']] as well as both the ''Yamato'' and the DCS ''Ryū'' - the renamed ''Mount Niitaka''. Kabrinski launched a preemptive strike against the three WarShips, which were located in the uninhabited [[Bikini Atoll]] system; Kabrinski dispatched the ''[[Leviathan II|Leviathan]]''-class ''[[Rasalhague (Individual Leviathan-class WarShip)|Rasalhague]]'' and six [[Star]]s of [[Pocket WarShip]]s and fighter carriers transported by a small flotilla of [[JumpShip]]s to hunt down and destroy the three Combine WarShips.<ref name="H:WotREp32">''Historical: Wars of the Republic Era'', pp. 32–33: "Bikini Atoll"</ref>

Although the location of the Bikini Atoll system was a closely guarded secret, the Combine didn't realize that the system was known to the [[Clan Ghost Bear|Ghost Bears]] from [[Star League]]-era records relating to mass driver testing in the system from [[2720]] onward. The ''Rasalhague's'' task force arrived in the system on the 18th of December [[3099]]; the Combine forces split up and attempted to flee, with the ''Ryū'' heading in one direction and the ''Amber Lotus'' and ''Yamato'' in another. The Dominion ships split up and chased down all three WarShips, destroying them, as well as the three ''[[Okinawa (DropShip class)|Okinawa]]''-class DropShips attached to the ''Amber Lotus'' (the [[Comforting Silence|DCS ''Comforting Silence'']], [[Heated Sword|DCS ''Heated Sword'']], and [[Iijima's Pride|DCS ''Iijima's Pride'']]) and their aerospace fighters. The Dominion forces went so far as to destroy all of the escape pods that launched, and the discovery of the wreckage in the system by the ''[[Kyushu]]''-class frigate [[Draconis Rift (Individual Kyushu-class WarShip)|DCS ''Draconis Rift'']] led to a dramatic escalation in the war. Whilst the wreckage of the ''Amber Lotus'' had been left in-system, the Dominion forces had deliberately accelerated the hulks of the ''Ryū'' and the ''Yamato'' into the corona of the local star, destroying them both utterly.<ref name="H:WotREp32"/>

==Notes==
The name ''Yamato'' chosen for the prototype battleship class is possibly a reference to the [[w:Japanese battleship Yamato|''Yamato'']], lead battleship of a class of the same name serving in the Imperial Japanese navy during World War II.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: Draconis Combine]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Field Report: DCMS]]''
* ''[[Historical: Wars of the Republic Era]]''

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