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Line 6: | class = [[Fox (WarShip class)|Fox]] | class = [[Fox (WarShip class)|Fox]] | prevclass = | prevclass = − | servicesince = − | serviceuntil = }} }} − ==History== ==History== − Manufactured in the [[Port Sydney Naval Shipyards]] in the [[Alarion]] system, the ''[[Fox (WarShip class)|Fox]]''-class corvette '''''Arthur Steiner-Davion''''' was scheduled to enter the service as the LAS '''''Angela Franks'''''. The third of the ''Foxes'' to be manufactured by the [[Lyran Alliance]] from their shipyards at Alarion rather than inherited from the combined [[Federated Commonwealth]] fleet, the ''Angela Franks'' was undergoing shakedown trials in [[3062]], on the eve of the [[FedCom Civil War]].<ref name="FM:LAp25">''Field Manual: Lyran Alliance'', p. 25: "WarShips"</ref> At some point between trials on 6 December 3062<ref name="FM:LAp25"/> and her deployment to the [[Coventry]] system on the 25th of December the ''Angela Franks'' was renamed the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' by the order of [[Archon of the Lyran Commonwealth|Archon]] [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]].<ref>''Patriots and Tyrants'', p. 186</ref> The defending garrison on Coventry had been sorely reduced by the fratricidal conflict that saw the Loyalist [[First Coventry Jaegers]] destroy the [[Coventry CPM]] and the [[Coventry Military Academy]] training cadre before turning on and badly damaging the mercenary unit [[Kristen's Krushers]]. The Krushers had declared their contract void as a result of the attack and fought their way off-world; the deployment of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' was intended to ensure that the Coventry system remained firmly defended, given its strategic importance.<ref name="FCCWp38">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 38: "Coventry"</ref> + Manufactured in the [[Port Sydney Naval Shipyards]] in the [[Alarion]] system, the ''[[Fox (WarShip class)|Fox]]''-class corvette '''''Arthur Steiner-Davion''''' was scheduled to enter the service as the LAS '''''Angela Franks'''''. The third of the ''Foxes'' to be manufactured by the [[Lyran Alliance]] from their shipyards at Alarion rather than inherited from the combined [[Federated Commonwealth]] fleet, the ''Angela Franks'' was undergoing shakedown trials in [[3062]], on the eve of the [[FedCom Civil War]].<ref name="FM:LAp25">''Field Manual: Lyran Alliance'', p. 25, "WarShips"</ref> At some point between trials on the 6th of December 3062<ref name="FM:LAp25"/> and her deployment to the [[Coventry]] system on the 25th of December the ''Angela Franks'' was renamed the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' by the order of [[Archon]] [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]].<ref>''Patriots and Tyrants'', p. 186</ref> The defending garrison on Coventry had been sorely reduced by the fratricidal conflict that saw the Loyalist [[1st Coventry Jaegers]] destroy the [[Coventry CPM]] and the [[Coventry Military Academy]] training cadre before turning on and badly damaging the mercenary unit [[Kristen's Krushers]]. The Krushers had declared their contract void as a result of the attack and fought their way off-world; the deployment of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' was intended to ensure that the Coventry system remained firmly defended, given its strategic importance.<ref name="FCCWp38">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 38, "Coventry"</ref> − When Allied forces led by [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] arrived to secure Coventry on 17 October [[3063]],<ref name="FCCWp85">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 85: "Coventry"</ref> the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' should have been a nasty surprise for his forces; instead, the battle was fought with no sign of the corvette being detected.<ref name="FCCWp85A">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 85: "The Mystery Of The Arthur Davion"</ref> Even in the aftermath of the Civil War, the fate of the ''Arthur Steiner Davion'' remained unknown, with the ship listed as missing in action in [[3067]].<ref name="FM:Up165">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 165: "Ships of the Alliance"</ref> + When Allied forces led by [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] arrived to secure Coventry on the 17th of October [[3063]],<ref name="FCCWp85">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 85, "Coventry"</ref> the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' should have been a nasty surprise for his forces; instead, the battle was fought with no sign of the corvette being detected.<ref name="FCCWp85A">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 85, "The Mystery Of The Arthur Davion"</ref> Even in the aftermath of the Civil War, the fate of the ''Arthur Steiner Davion'' remained unknown, with the ship listed as missing in action in [[3067]].<ref name="FM:Up165">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 165, "Ships of the Alliance"</ref> − A number of theories were espoused by various parties as to what had happened to the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion''. These theories included the defection of the ship to the Allied forces - considered unlikely, given no record of such a defection and the fanatical loyalty of the crew to Archon Katherine Steiner-Davion; that the crew had mutinied and fled the active war zones of the Civil War, intent on taking refuge somewhere in the [[Periphery]]; that the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' had been reassigned at the last moment to a covert mission, and would one day return to restore the deposed Archon to power; that the ship had misjumped, either in transit to Coventry or within the Coventry system (or another system) as it attempted to position itself for an attack; and that the ship had been destroyed, either by a catastrophic accident or as a result of an attack from another WarShip, despite no hostile WarShips being known to be active within 60 light years of Coventry at the time of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion's'' disappearance. Evidence of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' being destroyed was made tantalizingly more plausible by the detection of a previously-unknown object in an erratic orbit around one of the outer gas giants in the Coventry system, although said object was only detectable for a brief period before disappearing, presumably as a result of its orbit decaying.<ref name="FCCWp85A"/> + A number of theories were espoused by various parties as to what had happened to the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion''. These theories included the defection of the ship to the Allied forces - considered unlikely, given no record of such a defection and the fanatical loyalty of the crew to [[Archon]] [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]]; that the crew had mutinied and fled the active war zones of the Civil War, intent on taking refuge somewhere in the [[Periphery]]; that the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' had been reassigned at the last moment to a covert mission, and would one day return to restore the deposed Archon to power; that the ship had misjumped, either in transit to Coventry or within the Coventry system (or another system) as it attempted to position itself for an attack; and that the ship had been destroyed, either by a catastrophic accident or as a result of an attack from another WarShip, despite no hostile WarShips being known to be active within 60 light years of Coventry at the time of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion's'' disappearance. Evidence of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' being destroyed was made tantalizingly more plausible by the detection of a previously-unknown object in an erratic orbit around one of the outer gas giants in the Coventry system, although said object was only detectable for a brief period before disappearing, presumably as a result of its orbit decaying.<ref name="FCCWp85A"/> − The truth of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion's'' disappearance was perhaps stranger than any would expect, and was finally revealed in May [[3074]], when Coalition forces led by [[Galen Cox]] liberated the Coventry system from [[Word of Blake]] occupation. The coalition forces had located the ''[[Aegis (WarShip class)|Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Immortal Spirit|WoBS ''Immortal Spirit'']] in the Coventry system; having taken part in the Blakist invasion in support of the [[30th Division (Word of Blake)|Thirtieth Militia Division]], the ''Immortal Spirit'' had remained in-system and was defeated in battle by Coalition WarShips, with credit for the destruction of the ''Immortal Spirit'' going to a sister ship, the [[Clan Jade Falcon]] heavy cruiser [[Red Talon|CJF ''Red Talon'']]. Captured at the same time was the ''[[Newgrange]]'' class yardship<ref name="JS:TBDp24">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', pp. 24–25: "Coventry"</ref> [[Blake's Mercy|WoBS ''Blake's Mercy'']], which had been dispatched to repair the ''Immortal Spirit''. A team of [[Rabid Foxes]] had managed to secure the bridge of the ''Immortal Spirit'' and recover her logs; those logs revealed that the ''Immortal Spirit'' had deployed to the Coventry system during the Civil War using a [[Super-Jump Drive|super-jump]] to traverse the distance between [[Terra]] and Coventry in an instant, but burning out her [[KF drive]] in the process. The ''Immortal Spirit'' had destroyed the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' and then retreated into the system outer asteroid belt, remaining trapped in the system for no less than eleven years.<ref name=JSTBD-38>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 38: "Around the Sphere - The Lyran Alliance - Coventry Liberation Aftermath"</ref> + The truth of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion's'' disappearance was perhaps stranger than any would expect, and was finally revealed in May [[3074]], when Coalition forces led by [[Galen Cox]] liberated the Coventry system from [[Word of Blake]] occupation. The coalition forces had located the ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Immortal Spirit|WoBS ''Immortal Spirit'']] in the Coventry system; having taken part in the Blakist invasion in support of the [[30th Division (Word of Blake)|Thirtieth Militia Division]], the ''Immortal Spirit'' had remained in-system and was defeated in battle by Coalition WarShips, with credit for the destruction of the ''Immortal Spirit'' going to a sister ship, the [[Clan Jade Falcon]] heavy cruiser [[Red Talon|CJF ''Red Talon'']]. Captured at the same time was the ''[[Newgrange]]'' class yardship<ref name="JS:TBDp24">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 24-25, "Coventry"</ref> [[Blake's Mercy|WoBS ''Blake's Mercy'']], which had been dispatched to repair the ''Immortal Spirit''. A team of [[Rabid Foxes]] had managed to secure the bridge of the ''Immortal Spirit'' and recover her logs; those logs revealed that the ''Immortal Spirit'' had deployed to the Coventry system during the Civil War using a [[Super-Jump Drive|super-jump]] to traverse the distance between [[Terra]] and Coventry in an instant, but burning out her [[KF drive]] in the process. The ''Immortal Spirit'' had destroyed the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' and then retreated into the system outer asteroid belt, remaining trapped in the system for no less than eleven years.<ref name=JSTBD-38>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 38 "Around the Sphere - The Lyran Alliance - Coventry Liberation Aftermath"</ref> − ==Notes== + == Notes == The LAS ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' is also referred to as the LAS ''Arthur Davion'' more than once.<ref name="FCCWp38"/><ref name="FCCWp85A"/> The LAS ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' is also referred to as the LAS ''Arthur Davion'' more than once.<ref name="FCCWp38"/><ref name="FCCWp85A"/>
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| − | Manufactured in the [[Port Sydney Naval Shipyards]] in the [[Alarion]] system, the ''[[Fox (WarShip class)|Fox]]''-class corvette '''''Arthur Steiner-Davion''''' was scheduled to enter the service as the LAS '''''Angela Franks'''''. The third of the ''Foxes'' to be manufactured by the [[Lyran Alliance]] from their shipyards at Alarion rather than inherited from the combined [[Federated Commonwealth]] fleet, the ''Angela Franks'' was undergoing shakedown trials in [[3062]], on the eve of the [[FedCom Civil War]].<ref name="FM:LAp25">''Field Manual: Lyran Alliance'', p. 25 | + | Manufactured in the [[Port Sydney Naval Shipyards]] in the [[Alarion]] system, the ''[[Fox (WarShip class)|Fox]]''-class corvette '''''Arthur Steiner-Davion''''' was scheduled to enter the service as the LAS '''''Angela Franks'''''. The third of the ''Foxes'' to be manufactured by the [[Lyran Alliance]] from their shipyards at Alarion rather than inherited from the combined [[Federated Commonwealth]] fleet, the ''Angela Franks'' was undergoing shakedown trials in [[3062]], on the eve of the [[FedCom Civil War]].<ref name="FM:LAp25">''Field Manual: Lyran Alliance'', p. 25, "WarShips"</ref> At some point between trials on the 6th of December 3062<ref name="FM:LAp25"/> and her deployment to the [[Coventry]] system on the 25th of December the ''Angela Franks'' was renamed the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' by the order of [[Archon]] [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]].<ref>''Patriots and Tyrants'', p. 186</ref> The defending garrison on Coventry had been sorely reduced by the fratricidal conflict that saw the Loyalist [[1st Coventry Jaegers]] destroy the [[Coventry CPM]] and the [[Coventry Military Academy]] training cadre before turning on and badly damaging the mercenary unit [[Kristen's Krushers]]. The Krushers had declared their contract void as a result of the attack and fought their way off-world; the deployment of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' was intended to ensure that the Coventry system remained firmly defended, given its strategic importance.<ref name="FCCWp38">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 38, "Coventry"</ref> |
| − | When Allied forces led by [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] arrived to secure Coventry on | + | When Allied forces led by [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] arrived to secure Coventry on the 17th of October [[3063]],<ref name="FCCWp85">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 85, "Coventry"</ref> the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' should have been a nasty surprise for his forces; instead, the battle was fought with no sign of the corvette being detected.<ref name="FCCWp85A">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 85, "The Mystery Of The Arthur Davion"</ref> Even in the aftermath of the Civil War, the fate of the ''Arthur Steiner Davion'' remained unknown, with the ship listed as missing in action in [[3067]].<ref name="FM:Up165">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 165, "Ships of the Alliance"</ref> |
| − | A number of theories were espoused by various parties as to what had happened to the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion''. These theories included the defection of the ship to the Allied forces - considered unlikely, given no record of such a defection and the fanatical loyalty of the crew to Archon Katherine Steiner-Davion; that the crew had mutinied and fled the active war zones of the Civil War, intent on taking refuge somewhere in the [[Periphery]]; that the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' had been reassigned at the last moment to a covert mission, and would one day return to restore the deposed Archon to power; that the ship had misjumped, either in transit to Coventry or within the Coventry system (or another system) as it attempted to position itself for an attack; and that the ship had been destroyed, either by a catastrophic accident or as a result of an attack from another WarShip, despite no hostile WarShips being known to be active within 60 light years of Coventry at the time of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion's'' disappearance. Evidence of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' being destroyed was made tantalizingly more plausible by the detection of a previously-unknown object in an erratic orbit around one of the outer gas giants in the Coventry system, although said object was only detectable for a brief period before disappearing, presumably as a result of its orbit decaying.<ref name="FCCWp85A"/> | + | A number of theories were espoused by various parties as to what had happened to the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion''. These theories included the defection of the ship to the Allied forces - considered unlikely, given no record of such a defection and the fanatical loyalty of the crew to [[Archon]] [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]]; that the crew had mutinied and fled the active war zones of the Civil War, intent on taking refuge somewhere in the [[Periphery]]; that the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' had been reassigned at the last moment to a covert mission, and would one day return to restore the deposed Archon to power; that the ship had misjumped, either in transit to Coventry or within the Coventry system (or another system) as it attempted to position itself for an attack; and that the ship had been destroyed, either by a catastrophic accident or as a result of an attack from another WarShip, despite no hostile WarShips being known to be active within 60 light years of Coventry at the time of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion's'' disappearance. Evidence of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' being destroyed was made tantalizingly more plausible by the detection of a previously-unknown object in an erratic orbit around one of the outer gas giants in the Coventry system, although said object was only detectable for a brief period before disappearing, presumably as a result of its orbit decaying.<ref name="FCCWp85A"/> |
| − | The truth of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion's'' disappearance was perhaps stranger than any would expect, and was finally revealed in May [[3074]], when Coalition forces led by [[Galen Cox]] liberated the Coventry system from [[Word of Blake]] occupation. The coalition forces had located the ''[[ | + | The truth of the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion's'' disappearance was perhaps stranger than any would expect, and was finally revealed in May [[3074]], when Coalition forces led by [[Galen Cox]] liberated the Coventry system from [[Word of Blake]] occupation. The coalition forces had located the ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Immortal Spirit|WoBS ''Immortal Spirit'']] in the Coventry system; having taken part in the Blakist invasion in support of the [[30th Division (Word of Blake)|Thirtieth Militia Division]], the ''Immortal Spirit'' had remained in-system and was defeated in battle by Coalition WarShips, with credit for the destruction of the ''Immortal Spirit'' going to a sister ship, the [[Clan Jade Falcon]] heavy cruiser [[Red Talon|CJF ''Red Talon'']]. Captured at the same time was the ''[[Newgrange]]'' class yardship<ref name="JS:TBDp24">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 24-25, "Coventry"</ref> [[Blake's Mercy|WoBS ''Blake's Mercy'']], which had been dispatched to repair the ''Immortal Spirit''. A team of [[Rabid Foxes]] had managed to secure the bridge of the ''Immortal Spirit'' and recover her logs; those logs revealed that the ''Immortal Spirit'' had deployed to the Coventry system during the Civil War using a [[Super-Jump Drive|super-jump]] to traverse the distance between [[Terra]] and Coventry in an instant, but burning out her [[KF drive]] in the process. The ''Immortal Spirit'' had destroyed the ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' and then retreated into the system outer asteroid belt, remaining trapped in the system for no less than eleven years.<ref name=JSTBD-38>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 38 "Around the Sphere - The Lyran Alliance - Coventry Liberation Aftermath"</ref> |
| − | ==Notes== | + | == Notes == |
The LAS ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' is also referred to as the LAS ''Arthur Davion'' more than once.<ref name="FCCWp38"/><ref name="FCCWp85A"/> | The LAS ''Arthur Steiner-Davion'' is also referred to as the LAS ''Arthur Davion'' more than once.<ref name="FCCWp38"/><ref name="FCCWp85A"/> | ||