One of the first missions of the cadets was to scout the M4-21a System. The cadets, as 2nd Lieutenants of the Cadet Wing, were to complete their course of instruction while performing routine patrols and flight training.
To replace these heavy losses, the 201st Plebe class of the Hilthros Space Naval Academy arrived aboard the refurbished Claw in order to replace the regular flight crew under Commodore Geoffrey Tolwyn. The Claw returned to the Vega Sector and the Enyo System and played an important part during the Vega Campaign. With Taggart's guidance, the Claw obliterated one more Cruiser and a Destroyer, before jumping to Sol Sector and join the Concordia. During the attempt to deliver this vital information, Jeannette Devereaux almost killed herself while protecting the Claw from a skipper missile. This information helped the Concordia battle group to target the exact location where the Kilrathi force entered the Sol Sector. Furthermore, they discovered the Pegasus Navcom AI along with the Kilrathi coordinates through the Charybdis jump point. Confederation Marines with cover starfighter cover then managed to board the approaching Kilrathi ConCom and steal fuel cells. However, a single Kilrathi destroyer began to methodologically nuke every crater causing further damage. The Claw hid inside an asteroid crater and launched a decoy in a attempt to misguide the Kilrathi battle group. The battleship returned more torpedoes which severely damaged the Claw, but was soon destroyed along with the second destroyer by the pilots of the Baker Wing. Meanwhile, two Ralari-class Destroyers and one Sivar-class Battleship launched three dozen starfighters and torpedoes against the Claw which retaliated by destroying one of the destroyers.
A strike force was then formed to destroy the ConCom. While scouting the Pegasus debris, pilots revealed their presence to a Kilrathi ConCom. Taggart, using his Pilgrim talents, approached a class-2 pulsar and engaged a level-five jump-point interphase to the Ulysses corridor. Christopher Blair, who had already served on the destroyer TCS Formidable and the heavy cruiser, delivered the orders to Captain Sansky, that the Claw, with help from James Taggart, should go to the Charybdis and gather information about the Kilrathi strike force. Tolwyn, who was now an Admiral on the flagship TCS Concordia, sent orders to Captain Jason Sansky as the Claw was the only ship in the Vega Sector. Pilgrim Uprising įollowing the attack and subsequent destruction of the Pegasus Station, the Kilrathi gained a direct route to Earth. The Claw then stayed 6 months in spacedock being repaired and refitted. The crew were honored as heroes with medals and 2 Gold Stars. During the conflict the Claw lost 3/4 of its engines and half of its crew, but managed to limp back to Terran space. Having being surprised by unexpected Kilrathi warships, the Claw was sent from its station to the retreating Terran fleet's path and fought to delay the Kilrathi forces ( Custer's Carnival) and allow the lightly armored Terran transports time to reach Terran space. In 2649, the Confederation sent 60% of the Vega Sector Fleet to invade Kilrah. Shortly thereafter, the Claw was given permanent assignment in the Vega Sector. Along with clever tactics on the part of the command crew, and performanceĪbove and beyond the call of duty by the spacecrews, they routed the superior Kilrathiįorce. Spacecrew and an under-experienced command, but its unexpected presence surprised the Kilrathi. It was launched in 2644 and on its shakedown cruise, it found itself in the path of a surprise Kilrathi invasion force.
Originally laid down as the TCS Tiger Claw, and commissioned as Tiger's Claw, it's the latter that appeared on her hull while the former is frequently used even in documents written by the carrier's pilots and crew.
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