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 Terran 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 performance above and beyond the call of duty by the spacecrews, they routed the superior Kilrathi force. As a fresh ship, it carried a minimal spacecrew and an underexperienced 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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