PNS Saladin

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PNS Saladin was a Sultan-class battlecruiser of the People's Navy.

In its final year of service, the Saladin was transferred to the Masadan Navy and renamed MNS Thunder of God.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Code: Bounty 1.2 Second Battle of Yeltsin's Star 1.2.1 First Engagement 1.2.2 Second Engagement 1.2.3 Third Engagement 2 Known Crewmembers 2.1 Naval Officers (Havenite) 2.2 Naval Officers (Masadan) 2.3 Naval Enlisted (Havenite) 2.4 Marine Officers (Havenite) 2.5 Marine Enlisted (Havenite) 3 References

[edit] History

In 1903 PD, Saladin^[1] was under the command of Captain Alfredo Yu.

Both Saladin and the Bastogne-class destroyer PNS Breslau were transferred to the Navy of Masada as gifts, and placed under the command of Sword of the Faithful Matthew Simonds. A third of the Saladin's crew were kept as advisers, including Captain Yu.

During the First Battle of Yeltsin's Star, Thunder of God was away from the battle, leading and monitoring the Masadan fleetm and jamming the Grayson-Manticoran Combined Fleet's sensors. After the battle, both Thunder of God and Principality towed LACs to the edge of Yeltsin's Star System. The towing took a heavy toll on the ship's tractor beams, but they only lost one LAC in the process.

During the Battle of Blackbird, Thunder of God was in the Endicott System and forty hours overdue from arriving at Uriel. At the time, tractor five was damaged and needed to be repaired, which took 25 hours, with an additional 1,5 days of delay caused by Sword Simonds Commander Thomas Theisman of Principality sent MNS Virtue to warn Thunder of God about the incoming Grayson-Manticoran fleet. In the aftermath of the battle, the Thunder of God was the only Masadan Navy vessel left, being loaded with men and supplies to go and reinforce the asteroid bases of Endicott.

[edit] Code: Bounty

The Thunder of God was assigned by Sword Simonds to ferry Masadan marines to Masada's asteroid bases. The number of Marines taxed the life support system of the Thunder of God.

Upon receiving Code: Bounty from Commander George Manning, Captain Yu and his Havenite officers attempted at first to retake the Thunder of God, but after an attempt to disable the vessel's engines failed, Yu ordered a Code: Bounty Four-One, and led the surviving Havenite officers and crew members to the boat bay, where they used the pinnaces to escape the vessel.

[edit] Second Battle of Yeltsin's Star

[edit] First Engagement

After the Masadan mutiny, the ship headed directly at the planet Grayson by command of Sword Simonds, and was engaged by HMS Fearless. The Masadan crew were very green, and relied on the ship's computers. After the first engagement, the crew was able to start being more self-reliant. The Thunder of God was damaged at Missile Two, Missile Twenty-One, and Graser One.

[edit] Second Engagement

In the second phase of the battle, the Thunder of God focused the attack on the HMS Troubadour while throwing some missiles in the direction of the Fearless. The Thunder of God was hit by multiple missiles with damages to more lasers, a radar array, two more tractor beams, and another missile tube. The Fearless fired nine more missiles at the Thunder of God using the ECM drones from the Thunder of God as beacons. One of the missiles was equipped with a nuclear warhead, which was able to get through and heavily damage the Thunder of God. The badly mangled Thunder of God retreated.

[edit] Third Engagement

In the aftermath of the second engagement, there was over twelve hundred dead, including no Vacuum suited soldiers, the port broadside was reduced to six lasers and five missile tubes; which half of them were on local control, the vessel's maximum acceleration was reduced to twenty-one percent, half of the gravitic sensors and the other half of the sensor suite were gone, including everything on the port side, the sidewall generator on the same side was nearly destroyed, but everything on the starboard was untouched. Sword Simonds ordered an immediate course for Grayson.

After both ships seriously damaged each other, Honor Harrington headed directly at Thunder of God in order to intercept and ram her, destroying both ships and saving the planet.

Just before the two ships collided, missiles launched from Admiral White Haven's task force destroyed Thunder of God. (HH2)

[edit] Known Crewmembers

[edit] Naval Officers (Havenite)

• Captain Alfredo Yu – Commanding Officer
• Commander George Manning – Executive Officer
• Commander James Valentine – Chief Engineering Officer
• Lieutenant Commander Samuel DeGeorge – Purser
• Lieutenant Joseph Mount - Engineer
• Hara – Engineering Officer
• Lindeman – Engineering Officer

[edit] Naval Officers (Masadan)

• Sword of the Faithful Matthew Simonds – Masadan Flag Officer
• Lieutenant Ash – Tactical Officer
• Lieutenant Hart – Communications Officer
• Lieutenant Workman - Engineer

[edit] Naval Enlisted (Havenite)

• Petty Officer Evans
• Petty Officer Sherman – Helmsman
• Crewman Granger
• Crewman Marks

[edit] Marine Officers (Havenite)

• Major Joseph Bryan
• Captain Young

[edit] Marine Enlisted (Havenite)

• Sergeant Towers
• Corporal Marlin
• Private Hadley

[edit] References