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Re the Carracks we know they were building them in the Kerensky cluster in both the armed and not so armed versions.

In an unusual move, the Nova Cats, in 2990, traded three merchant ships with their bays full of supplies to the Star Adders in exchange for three Lola III-class destroyers.

Just blowing the dust of Battlespace which states on page 28 that the Exodus Civil War destroyed approximately 100 warships like the Michael Norman (Black Lion class Battlecruiser) as well as the Noble House and Long March (both Congress class Frigates). That fight is described in detail on page 31 of Battlespace.

Perhaps the best news for the Clans was that the naval caches had remained relatively unplundered. Only a handful of WarShips were still active in any way across the Pentagon systems; most were undermanned and barely functioning, parked in orbits around their home worlds, meant to look defensive when in reality they did little more than provide communications and reconnaissance support. The WarShip caches, however, did not remain entirely hidden (save for one). The spacefarers discovered most of them and took up residence in them, reactivating enough systems on the ships to power the grav decks and gardens—and almost certainly some of the weapons systems.

Khan Absalom Truscott left nothing to chance when it came to the Arcadian naval cache. Four Clan WarShips and sixteen combat DropShips converged on the cache, landing boarding parties and immediately targeting the bridges and engines of any ship that either fired up its active sensors or attempted to maneuver out of the cache. The battle for the Arcadian cache lasted eleven minutes, during which time five cache ships were disabled while one managed to fire a naval autocannon barrage—missing with all but one shell. It took two more days to completely secure the entirety of the cache, but the primary threat was neutralized within the first fifteen minutes.

At H plus six hours, two of the WarShips assigned to neutralize the cache, as well as the two WarShips tasked to the jump point, all jumped into pirate points in orbit over Arcadia to address the two rebel WarShips assumed to be defending the world. The rebel ships remained in orbit as two Clan WarShips approached each. Though both signaled warning challenges to the inbound Clan ships, the Texas-class Perth surrendered as soon as the Clan gunnery crews fired bracketed warning salvos. (Clan technicians that later boarded the ship reported that only a few of the ship’s weapons remained functional.) That left the Riga-class destroyer Admiral Schone, which initially signaled its surrender, but destroyed the DropShip assigned to deliver the boarding party, breaking orbit in the process and maneuvering for shots on the Clan WarShips. The Admiral Schone landed several hits on the Clan ships, but could never close enough or maneuver to bring its naval autocannon to bear; the two Clan WarShips made quick work of the Schone, whose crew refused to surrender; the ship’s burning and decompressing hulk fell into Arcadia’s atmosphere, the pieces of which that survived reentry falling in a twelve hundred kilometer wide region of the planet’s southern oceans. Even two centuries later, the occasional remnant of the Schone turns up along a shoreline or in a fisherman’s net

Babylon posed perhaps the greatest naval threat to the invading Clans. Not only was this system home to the largest naval cache established by the SLDF two decades earlier, it also possessed the largest and most active contingent of spacefarers of any of the Pentagon systems. Babylon VI (known colloquially as Sinclair to the natives of the system), with its seven moons, was the focus of a relatively sophisticated resource extraction operation. The world was rich with ice, which the spacefarers needed both for water as well as to convert to oxygen and hydrogen. They had also taken over several grounded mining and industrial DropShips, using them to extract and process ores, most of which they traded away for the food and other resources they needed.

Cloud Cobra saKhan Rafe Kardaan took charge of naval operations in the Babylon system, commanding a combined task force of ships hailing from his own Clan as well as Clans Ice Hellion and Sea Fox (Clan Coyote contributed only support in the form of a few Stars of infantrymen). Sea Fox Star Commander Hintre Solomon and Ice Hellion Star Commander Broda Montose each led squadrons tasked with pacifying the spacefarer enclaves at the two jump points. As with the actions in the Arcadia system, the sudden appearance of the squadrons, coupled with a few well-placed shots, cowed the majority of ships. Only a handful of JumpShips executed emergency jumps—all but three to jump points in the Pentagon already controlled by Clan ships.

The naval reserve secured Babylon VI, and sent their own damage control teams to the Inquisitor; their efforts saved the ship (though it would be decades before the Clans would be able to repair the ship and return it to service), but not the more than two hundred crewmembers that were killed in the attack.

A Congress and a Quixote stood post at Circe’s zenith point, though the Quixote had remained docked with the recharging station during the entirety of the SABLE SUN surveillance. Still, the two ships represented a challenge, one met by McKenna in the form of his namesake (the McKenna-class James McKenna) and the Cameron-Class Admiral Gerda Cameron, plus a squadron of combat DropShips. Both Clan WarShips jumped in to pointblank range of the Congress. Despite the Clans’ strong showing, the Congress attempted to put up a fight—or, as it actually turned out, to delay the Clan ships enough for the residents of the enclave to escape. Despite sustaining multiple crippling hits to its engineering and command decks, the Congress fought as best as it could, destroying seven DropShips and even scoring a few hits on the Clan WarShips before succumbing to the fire leveled at it. At the same time, dozens of spacefarer DropShips, and a number of JumpShips, all went active at the same time, each setting out in different directions. That gave the Quixote the cover it needed to cut loose from the recharge station and jump away (eventually, the Quixote would become a central figure in the “Battle of the Pentagon Run”). With the Congress destroyed and the Quixote escaped, it was only a matter of time before the rest of the spacefarers’ ships were captured. A number of JumpShips jumped away—all but three were captured upon jumping to other Clan-held jump points—but the rest of the ships were taken

Defending Outpost One were a McKenna and a Sovetskii Soyuz, and as the Clan squadron soon discovered, a docked Potemkin fully loaded with DropShips.

Khan McKenna dispatched the Black Lion-class Thunderbolt and the Avatar-class Korat to cow Outpost One.

That gave the spacefarers the time to begin evacuating the settlement; the Potemkin and three JumpShips pulled away from the colony and jumped away as the McKenna and Sovetskii Soyuz were making their final death blows. The Clans captured the settlement and dozens of DropShips and JumpShips, along with thousands of spacefarers; the majority got away, however, on the Potemkin.
In the hands of the Clans, Outpost One became their primary spaceport within the Pentagon; both personnel and materiel moved through this station before moving on to their destinations within the Pentagon and back out to Strana Mechty. Throughout the years, the Clans expanded Outpost One, which still serves as their largest and busiest spaceport within their homeworlds.

Aleksandr Kerensky’s SLDF chose the Dagda system as the home port of its fleet. Though ships and squadrons were assigned to (or mothballed in) different systems, Dagda—rich with ores and other natural resources—became home to the one naval shipyard constructed by the SLDF-in-exile. When the Clans returned, however, that shipyard and its associated naval cache were nothing but a vast cloud of broken ships and scattered debris. All had been victims of a massive naval engagement that had consumed scores of WarShips and DropShips

Unlike naval operations in the first three Pentagon systems, the four Clans assigned to the Dagda operation bid for the honor—or, more appropriate to the general consensus among the Clans, for the chore—of securing the system. Clans Burrock and Widowmaker won the rights to capture the spacefarers

Burrock Khans Polczyk assigned Qudi Hutchinson, promoted temporarily to the rank of Star Colonel, the task of securing the zenith point, as well as all enroute shipping to the north of the system primary. With a large group of JumpShips and DropShips clustered around the zenith point, Hutchinson jumped her own JumpShips and one WarShip in surrounding the zenith point, immediately dropping an ECM bubble over the point and launching DropShips to discourage resistance. Only three JumpShips attempted to break away from the pack and spin up their K-F Drives; all three capitulated when Hutchinson’s flagship, the Avatar-class Constantineau, destroyed their engines. Likewise, a handful of DropShips tried to break through the blockade, surrendering after only a few warning shots from the Constantineau’s guns.

The Lola III class Black Venom (Widowmaker vessel)

Eden represented a veritable cake walk for the Clan crews assigned to secure the Pentagon systems. Operation SABLE SUN had shown that the Eden SLDF Naval Cache had apparently remained undiscovered by the spacefarers, hidden as it was within a massive series of caverns within one of Eden II’s smallest moons (really little more than a large asteroid that Eden II had captured in an erratic orbit).

In the three or so years that the Clans surreptitiously utilized the cache as a listening post, they lost one JumpShip and one WarShip, as well as the K-F Drives on two other ships, to miscalculated jumps to these points. Of course, the contents of the cache contained far more than was lost; even still, the Eden II pirate points were closed (ordered off-limits) until the start of Operation KLONDIKE.

In September of 2821, Kardaan’s fleet made its greatest breakthrough; after combing through the remains of a Riga destroyer they’d crippled

A spacefarer counterattack, in a system 110 LY from Circe, brought them only defeat against a Clan foe superior in numbers and firepower. It was wholly one-sided—five Clan cruisers and battleships, and three dozen DropShips ripped into three spacefarer destroyers and cruisers. Moreover, it signaled the beginning of the end for the rebels.

That finally happened in a system the Clans designate EC821-387D. Eleven spacefarer JumpShips, plus five more WarShips (including the mostly unarmed Potemkin and Quixote that escaped the Circe system) faced nine Clan WarShips and their supporting vessels. The resulting battle saw the spacefarer fleet broken; two of their WarShips, plus one more Clan WarShip, were destroyed in
the fighting, as were nine total DropShips. The JumpShips were captured, but both the Potemkin and the Quixote managed to jump away; it was two weeks before the Clans tracked down the
Potemkin and captured it (and the twenty thousand people it and its DropShips were transporting). The Quixote was never seen again, however.

The run was over, as was the spacefarer way of life. The people were transported back to Strana Mechty for “integration” into the Clan society (many of these individuals would be later used to open up the naval caches and renovate the ships contained within),

As Aleksandr's eldest son, Major-General Nicholas Kerensky, commander of the 146th Royal BattleMech Division, was his designated heir to take command of the exiled SLDF. Though he had the loyalty of his own unit and most of the navy, the rest of the army rejected him due to his lack of combat experience and made their own attempts to assume command. Realizing that civil war was inevitable, Nicholas decided to take those loyal to him on a Second Exodus to Strana Mechty, one of the newly-founded colonies in the Kerensky Cluster. Over the next several months Nicholas' forces were able to evacuate nearly a quarter of the civilian population - roughly a million people - with the last transports leaving by the end of January 2802. While the majority of the navy had sided with Nicholas, only the 146th and 149th BattleMech Division left in full with him.