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As of [[3059]], the ''[[Carrack]]''-class transport '''''Black Adder''''' was serving as the CSA ''Black Adder'' within the [[Clan Star Adder]] [[Clan Star Adder Touman|''touman'']]. The ''Black Adder'' formed a part of the five-ship [[Beta Naval Reserve Star (Clan Star Adder)|Beta Naval Reserve]].<ref name="FM:CCp119">''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 119: "Naval Assets"</ref> The ''Black Adder'' remained on active duty throughout the next decade<ref name="FM:Up50">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 50: "Naval Assets"</ref> and into the [[Wars of Reaving]].
 
As of [[3059]], the ''[[Carrack]]''-class transport '''''Black Adder''''' was serving as the CSA ''Black Adder'' within the [[Clan Star Adder]] [[Clan Star Adder Touman|''touman'']]. The ''Black Adder'' formed a part of the five-ship [[Beta Naval Reserve Star (Clan Star Adder)|Beta Naval Reserve]].<ref name="FM:CCp119">''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 119: "Naval Assets"</ref> The ''Black Adder'' remained on active duty throughout the next decade<ref name="FM:Up50">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 50: "Naval Assets"</ref> and into the [[Wars of Reaving]].
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
With Clan Coyote complicit in a number of attacks on holdings belonging to [[Clan Star Adder]], the Star Adders responded by sending the [[Clan Star Adder Touman#Naval Reserve|Gamma Naval Reserve Star]]—of which the ''Black Adder'' was a part—to the [[Tamaron]] system with the intent of claiming some Coyote holdings as retribution. The Star Adder forces arrived on 18 October [[3072]], but found themselves facing far more by way of defenses than they had anticipated. In addition to the anticipated ''[[Texas]]''-class battleship [[Ancestral Home|CCS ''Ancestral Home'']], Tamaron was defended by a newly-constructed ''[[Olympus]]''-class defense station, numerous stars of [[aerospace fighter]]s launched from that station, a number of assault [[DropShip]]s, and the ''[[Lola III]]''-class Transport [[Rage (Individual Lola III-class WarShip)|CCS ''Rage'']], last known to be in the control of [[Kindraa Mattila-Carrol]] of [[Clan Fire Mandrill]].<ref name="WoRp112">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 112: "Stalwart Defense"</ref>
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With Clan Coyote complicit in a number of attacks on holdings belonging to [[Clan Star Adder]], the Star Adders responded by sending the [[Clan Star Adder Touman#Naval Reserve|Gamma Naval Reserve Star]]—of which the ''Black Adder'' was a part—to the [[Tamaron]] system with the intent of claiming some Coyote holdings as retribution. The Star Adder forces arrived on 18 October [[3072]], but found themselves facing far more by way of defenses than they had anticipated. In addition to the anticipated ''[[Texas]]''-class battleship [[Ancestral Home|CCS ''Ancestral Home'']], Tamaron was defended by a newly-constructed ''[[Olympus]]''-class defense station, numerous stars of [[aerospace fighter]]s launched from that station, a number of assault [[DropShip]]s, and the ''[[Lola III]]''-class Transport [[Rage|CCS ''Rage'']], last known to be in the control of [[Kindraa Mattila-Carrol]] of [[Clan Fire Mandrill]].<ref name="WoRp112">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 112: "Stalwart Defense"</ref>
  
 
[[Star Admiral]] [[Gavin Turgidson]] of the Star Adders issued a call for ''[[safcon]]'' to the surface of Tamaron, only for the Coyotes to immediately rebuff his request.  The ''Ancestral Home'' quickly closed on the Star Adder forces and drew first blood, destroying the ''Black Adder''. Two Star Adder WarShips, the ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyer [[Eagle (Individual Essex-class WarShip)|CSA ''Eagle'']] and the ''[[Vincent (WarShip class)|Vincent Mk. 42]]''-class [[Centaur (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|CSA ''Centaur'']], responded by firing on the ''Ancestral Home'', only to have their barrages apparently inflict little or no damage. The ''Rage'' took advantage of the confusion resulting from the failed Star Adder broadsides, crossing in front of the ''Eagle'' and crushing the nose of the Star Adder WarShip with weapons fire. The damage inflicted by the ''Rage'' merely destroyed a number of weapon bays, but the ''Eagle'' was then seen to begin tumbling out of control, only for several Stars of Coyote aerospace fighters to close on the vessel and cripple her power plant and maneuvering drives. The ''Eagle'' was left tumbling; equally as mysterious as the apparent inability of the Star Adder WarShips to inflict damage on the ''Ancestral Home'' was the subsequent discovery from records of the battle that the ''Rage'' had beamed some form of localized [[HPG]] broadcast to the ''Eagle'' immediately before the ship appeared to go haywire.<ref name="WoRp112"/>
 
[[Star Admiral]] [[Gavin Turgidson]] of the Star Adders issued a call for ''[[safcon]]'' to the surface of Tamaron, only for the Coyotes to immediately rebuff his request.  The ''Ancestral Home'' quickly closed on the Star Adder forces and drew first blood, destroying the ''Black Adder''. Two Star Adder WarShips, the ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyer [[Eagle (Individual Essex-class WarShip)|CSA ''Eagle'']] and the ''[[Vincent (WarShip class)|Vincent Mk. 42]]''-class [[Centaur (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|CSA ''Centaur'']], responded by firing on the ''Ancestral Home'', only to have their barrages apparently inflict little or no damage. The ''Rage'' took advantage of the confusion resulting from the failed Star Adder broadsides, crossing in front of the ''Eagle'' and crushing the nose of the Star Adder WarShip with weapons fire. The damage inflicted by the ''Rage'' merely destroyed a number of weapon bays, but the ''Eagle'' was then seen to begin tumbling out of control, only for several Stars of Coyote aerospace fighters to close on the vessel and cripple her power plant and maneuvering drives. The ''Eagle'' was left tumbling; equally as mysterious as the apparent inability of the Star Adder WarShips to inflict damage on the ''Ancestral Home'' was the subsequent discovery from records of the battle that the ''Rage'' had beamed some form of localized [[HPG]] broadcast to the ''Eagle'' immediately before the ship appeared to go haywire.<ref name="WoRp112"/>
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* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
 
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''
 
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''
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