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> Clearing up the debris of the Battle of Two Suns, a Vulture unit came across
> the main computer of the Allamu, a Kinunir class frontier cruiser.
> ...
> The Allamu then began taking control of the Vultures that were working
> the old battleground. Using their Naval Architecture programming, it began
> rebuilding the cruiser from salvage in the battlefield including parts from
> the Ninkur Sagga, another Kinunir class cruiser. But the robots had a
> problem:
There wasn't much left of either ship. From "Adventure 1: The Kinunir":
Allamu (BC-9516) was caught in the van at the Battle of Two Suns, 1084, and
withstood over four hours of steady attack before suffering screen failure.
Lost with all hands.
Ninkur Sagga (BC-9521) suffered either a spontaneous missile detonation or a
freak globe screen failure (accounts differ) while engaged on the port dorsal
flank at the Battle of Two Suns, 1084. Lost with all hands.
It's worth noting that General Products, the producers of the Vulture, got the
contract for four Kinunir class cruisers. One (Kinunir) disappeared without
trace in 1088, and hasn't been found since unless you've played Adventure 1 or
made up your own scenario. One (Ninkur Sagga) was destroyed by malfunction,
as described above. One (Gaesh) barely passed trials, and was gutted and
converted to a prison ship without drives or weapons. One (Adda Dubsar) was
scrapped before it was even completed. GP does not have a good record with the
Kinunir class!
Incidentally, can someone explain how two battle fleets came to meet midway
between two separate star systems (Yres and Menorb)?
> Recently, the Allamu has been searching for the wreck of the Bard
> Enterprise an Azhanti High Lightning class cruiser lost during the Fourth
> Frontier War.
This must have come as a surprise to the Imperial Navy, who converted it to
a Frontier Cruiser by rearming it with a meson gun and altering some of the
secondary weaponry. This conversion commenced in 1083, and was completed in
1085. The conversion was delayed by the Fourth Frontier War, during which
conversion was suspended while the ship stood guard over the shipyard. Bard
Enterprise was in service, in the Solomani Sphere, up to at least 1107 (the
date of the source of the above information, "Supplement 5 - Lightning Class
Cruisers", which came free with the board game "Azhanti High Lightning").
>From the same source, the following ships were lost during the Fourth Frontier
War:
Haunting Thunder
Threatening Vengeance
Bard Warlord
And the following were lost in operations postwar (1085-1105):
Loathesome Reverie
Luriani High Lightning
Echo Intruder
Guardian Rainbow
Infrequent Hazard
Arrival Scourge
Exhausted Venture
Cause Rampant
I couldn't find any information on the exact fates of any of the above ships,
with the exception of the Haunting Thunder. That ship was engaged in commerce
raiding during the beginning of the Fourth Frontier War, and was caught at
Querion. It was jumped by SDB's as it attempted to refuel at the secondary
gas giant, and just kept going into the gas giant. One of the scenarios in
"Azhanti High Lightning" is based on this ship. The other names are open for
speculation.
>
> Scott Kellogg
>
>
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