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Vandenberg White Wings
« on: July 26, 2015, 02:16:36 PM »
Any idea when this incident "happened"?
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Re: Vandenberg White Wings
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2015, 03:24:49 PM »
The Star League Sourcebook's version (squadrons of white aerospace fighters escorting 20 Star League transports near the Capellan Periphery) is listed between the appearance of Wolf's Dragoons and the Disappearing Battleship of Merope. This might suggest it occurred before 3005 but after the Merope incident, but none of the three events are dated there.

The ComStar Sourcebook combines the White Wings and the Disappearing Battleship into a single incident in 2979 (maybe 2980, depending on which month Primus Sims died in, how fast the next Primus was selected, and how fast the ComGuard deployed).

I don't know if the Jihad sourcebooks mention the incident at all.
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Re: Vandenberg White Wings
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2015, 04:12:48 PM »
Quote from: skiltao on July 26, 2015, 03:24:49 PM
The Star League Sourcebook's version (squadrons of white aerospace fighters escorting 20 Star League transports near the Capellan Periphery) is listed between the appearance of Wolf's Dragoons and the Disappearing Battleship of Merope. This might suggest it occurred before 3005 but after the Merope incident, but none of the three events are dated there.

But I couldn't find any indication that there were written in this book in chronological order.
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"In turn they tested each Clan namesake
in trial against the Ice Hellion's mettle.
Each chased the Ice Hellion, hunting it down.
All failed to match the predator's speed and grace.
Khan Cage smiled and said, "And that is how we shall be."

The Remembrance (Clan Ice Hellion) Passage 5, Verse 3, Lines 1 - 5

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Re: Vandenberg White Wings
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2015, 10:52:17 PM »
Right, me neither. The order might be significant in some other way, or not significant at all.
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Re: Vandenberg White Wings
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2015, 02:10:02 AM »
I was under the impression that the Brandenburg white wings were the co star fighters that destroyed the tripitz?
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Re: Vandenberg White Wings
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2015, 01:24:01 PM »
Quote from: wolfcannon on July 27, 2015, 02:10:02 AM
I was under the impression that the Brandenburg white wings were the co star fighters that destroyed the tripitz?

No or perhaps.
The White Wings escorted 20 Star League era transports that appeared and disappeared in the Capellan Confederation near the Periphery.
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"In turn they tested each Clan namesake
in trial against the Ice Hellion's mettle.
Each chased the Ice Hellion, hunting it down.
All failed to match the predator's speed and grace.
Khan Cage smiled and said, "And that is how we shall be."

The Remembrance (Clan Ice Hellion) Passage 5, Verse 3, Lines 1 - 5

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Re: Vandenberg White Wings
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2015, 03:49:07 PM »
Quote from: skiltao on July 26, 2015, 03:24:49 PM
The ComStar Sourcebook combines the White Wings and the Disappearing Battleship into a single incident in 2979 (maybe 2980, depending on which month Primus Sims died in, how fast the next Primus was selected, and how fast the ComGuard deployed).


The Comstar SB links the attack on the Tripitz as the possible inspiration for the Vandenberg White Wings.  It does explicitly state that while the TC released a statement "indicating that a mysterious group of while ships had appeared and attacked their forces in an uncharted star system" they did not mention the Black Lion BC. 
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Re: Vandenberg White Wings
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2015, 08:08:28 PM »
Yep, as always, ComStar could be lying. I find it interesting that the Explorer Primus died only ten days before the incident, and that while the Word of Blake's interjection confirms that ComStar deployed fighters, it doesn't confirm how or why they were deployed.
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Re: Vandenberg White Wings
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2015, 01:14:13 AM »
The White Wings were first mentioned escorting transports near the Capellan border.  When Comstar attacked the Tripitz in Taurian space, their craft were also painted white, which added fuel to the fire.

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Re: Vandenberg White Wings
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2015, 03:26:45 PM »
It is fuelling my imagination and since I am connecting all the dots, I feel like in Foucault's Pendulum.
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"In turn they tested each Clan namesake
in trial against the Ice Hellion's mettle.
Each chased the Ice Hellion, hunting it down.
All failed to match the predator's speed and grace.
Khan Cage smiled and said, "And that is how we shall be."

The Remembrance (Clan Ice Hellion) Passage 5, Verse 3, Lines 1 - 5
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