Editing James McKenna (Individual McKenna-class WarShip)

{{otheruses|the ''[[McKenna (WarShip class)|McKenna]]''-class [[WarShip]]|the [[Director-General]] of the [[Terran Hegemony]]|James McKenna}}
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==History==
The ''[[McKenna (WarShip class)|McKenna]]''-class battleship<ref name="H:OKp44"/> '''''James McKenna''''' was a [[Star League Defense Force]] [[WarShip]] during the Star League era. The ''James McKenna'' was known to have been in service prior to [[2728]], as in that year she entered drydock to undergo an extensive refit that took approximately three years, during which her K-F drive underwent a refit as did the [[Lithium-Fusion battery]] system.<ref name="ER:2750p28">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 28: "Breakdown"</ref> The ''James McKenna'' survived the [[Hegemony Campaign]] to liberate [[Terra]] from the forces of [[Stefan Amaris]], and subsequently followed [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]].<ref name="H:OKp44">''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 44: "Circe Outposts"</ref>

When the [[Pentagon Civil War]] erupted, the ''James McKenna'' was one of the WarShips which followed [[Nicholas Kerensky]] to [[Strana Mechty]]. After Nicholas founded the [[Clan]]s the ''James McKenna'' was deployed on [[Operation KLONDIKE]], Nicholas' plan to conquer the Pentagon worlds.<ref name="H:OKp44"/>

The ''James McKenna'' was the personal flagship of [[Clan Snow Raven]] [[Khan]] [[Stephen McKenna]] during the campaign to secure the [[Circe]] system. A former [[Admiral]] in the [[SLDF]], McKenna had been charged with tackling the spacefarer enclaves in the Circe system, which were larger, more prosperous, better organized and better defended than most of the spacefarer communities within the Pentagon systems. The two major enclaves were located at the zenith jump point and deep in the outer system; the ''James McKenna'' and the [[Cameron (WarShip class)|''Cameron'']]-class battlecruiser ''[[Admiral Gerda Cameron]]'' were deployed against the zenith enclave.<ref name="H:OKp44"/>

In securing the zenith spacefarer enclave the ''James McKenna'' and the ''Admiral Gerda Cameron'' went up against two spacefarer frigates, one ''[[Congress]]''-class and one ''[[Quixote]]''-class. Despite being outweighed and outclassed, the two spacefarer WarShips both fought to buy time for the spacefarers to try and evacuate the complex. Accompanied by a squadron of combat [[DropShip]]s, the ''James McKenna'' and the ''Admiral Gerda Cameron'' both closed on the ''Congress'', engaging at point-blank range; the ''Congress'' suffered multiple critical hits to the command and engineering decks, but still managed to score several hits on the two Clan WarShips as well as destroying seven DropShips before being taken out of the combat. The ''Congress'' managed to buy time for the ''Quixote''-class vessel; dozens of spacefarer DropShips and a number of [[JumpShip]]s had gone active, jumping out of the system while the ''Quixote'' cut loose from the [[recharge station]] and jumped as well.<ref name="H:OKp44"/>

Of those vessels that escaped the ''James McKenna'' at Circe, all bar three JumpShips jumped to points in the other Pentagon systems already controlled by the Clans; the ''Quixote'' became a central ship in the extended hunt for spacefarer ships trying to escape the Pentagon worlds, eventually playing a prominent role in the [[Battle of the Pentagon Run]], while the other ships that remained at the zenith point were all forcibly captured.<ref name="H:OKp44"/>

===Destruction===
The ''James McKenna'' would serve as a WarShip within the [[Clan Snow Raven Touman|Clan Snow Raven ''touman'']]. In [[3061]] the ''James McKenna'' was one of five WarShips that made up the Snow Raven [[Swift Wing Naval Assault Star (Clan Snow Raven)|Swift Wing Naval Assault Star]].<ref name="FM:WCp128">''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 128: "Swift Wing Naval Assault Star"</ref>The ''James McKenna'' continued to serve in the Swift Wing Naval Assault Star throughout the 3060s alongside the [[Cameron (WarShip class)|''Cameron'']]-class battlecruiser [[Blizzard (Individual Cameron-class WarShip)|CSR ''Blizzard'']], the ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser [[White Cloud|CSR ''White Cloud'']], the ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[White Terror|CSR ''White Terror'']] and the ''[[Lola III]]''-class destroyer [[Spur|CSR ''Spur'']].<ref name="FM:Up64">''Field Manual: Updates'', pp. 64–65: "Naval Assets"</ref>

The ''James McKenna'' continued to serve in the Swift Wing Naval Assault Star until 5th of January [[3069]]; it was on this date that the ''James McKenna'' and the three other vessels remaining in the Star after the destruction of the ''White Cloud'' were destroyed in the [[Ramora]] system of the [[Outworlds Alliance]]. The ''James McKenna'' took heavy damage when a terrorist DropShip, the ''[[Oswald]]'', detonated in a massive explosion inside her cargo bay. A last, garbled message from the ''James McKenna'' reported the explosion and the nearby ''White Terror'' also reported a massive heat spike originating from the ''James McKenna'' along with EMP waves and heavy radiation. Local Snow Raven [[aerospace fighter]] forces reported that the spine of the ''James McKenna'' had been broken.<ref name="BAp210">''Blake Ascending'', p. 210: "Early 3069: The Fog of War"</ref><ref name="J:FRp46"/>

The terrorists who destroyed the Swift Wing Naval Assault Star were either from or backed by the [[Word of Blake]], but used Draconis Combine vessels and tactics when they destroyed the Snow Raven [[WarShip]]s.<ref name="J:FRp46">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 46: "The Jihad in Review"</ref>

==Image Gallery==
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Circe Cache assault OpKlondike.jpg|The CSR ''James McKenna'' leads the assault on the Circe naval cache during [[Operation SABLE SUN]]
Navalcamocsn.png|The CSR ''James McKenna''
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Blake Ascending]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]''
* ''[[Historical: Operation Klondike]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''


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