Second Coming
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The McKenna-class battleship Second Coming was a Star League Defense Force WarShip that survived the Hegemony Campaign to liberate Terra from the forces of Stefan Amaris, and subsequently followed General Aleksandr Kerensky on the Exodus.[1]
When the Pentagon Civil War erupted, the Second Coming was one of the WarShips which followed Nicholas Kerensky to Strana Mechty. After Nicholas founded the Clans the Second Coming was deployed on Operation KLONDIKE, Nicholas' plan to conquer the Pentagon worlds.[1]
The Second Coming was one of the WarShips deployed by saKhan Rafe Kardaan of Clan Cloud Cobra, the officer commanding the naval operations in the Babylon system, to secure the naval cache in that system. Kardaan led the operation on the naval cache himself; the Cloud Cobra team already inserted into the cache began the action by managing to cut the power to a number of vessels, while also broadcasting jamming signals from two ships and cutting adrift a number of other, heavily populated vessels.[1]
Kardaan's naval forces jumped into two pirate points near the cache and intercepted a number of fleeing DropShips as they moved towards the cache itself. Ground troops from all four Clans involved in the operation deployed as zero-g marines to secure the various ships, but while the bulk of the troops secured their targets, the Clan Coyote forces were distracted by their desire for conquest and glory and ended up becoming mired in running firefights as they insisted on challenging every enemy spacefarer they met. As those aboard the cached ships were all seasoned spacefarers vastly more experienced at living and moving within a zero-g environment they stalled the Coyote forces on eight different ships and began bringing weapon turrets back online.[1]
Kaardan acted quickly when he saw the weapon systems beginning to come online, and had the Second Coming destroy the reactivated turrets with a number of accurate shots. He then led a boarding action personally, relying on the combination of his own experience with naval vessels and the threat of overwhelming firepower from the WarShips to carry the day... a combination that proved effective in securing the cache.[1]