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==History==
===Star League===
The ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class heavy cruiser '''''Korat''''' was a [[WarShip]] serving within the black water navy of the [[Star League Defense Force]] at the height of the [[Star League]] era. The ''Korat'' survived the chaos and destruction of the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the [[Hegemony Campaign]] and was one of the WarShips to follow [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation EXODUS|Exodus]] into the [[Deep Periphery]]. When General Kerensky's efforts to found a society for the [[Star League in Exile]] failed after his death and the [[Pentagon Worlds]] degenerated into internecine warfare the ''Korat'' was one of the vessels to accompany the forces loyal to [[Nicholas Kerensky]] on the withdrawal to [[Strana Mechty]]; after the founding of the [[Clans]] by Nicholas the ''Korat'' became a serving vessel within one of the nascent Clan ''[[touman]]s''.<ref name="H:OKp44">''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 44, "Circe Outposts"</ref>

===Operation KLONDIKE===
The ''Korat'' was one of the vessels assigned to the naval group commanded by the [[Khan]] of [[Clan Snow Raven]], the former [[SLDF]] [[Admiral]] [[Stephen McKenna]], for the pacification of the spacefarer communities and their naval forces in the [[Circe]] system during [[Operation KLONDIKE]]. Alongside the ''[[Black Lion]]''-class battlecruiser [[Severen Leroux (Individual Black Lion-class WarShip)|''Thunderbolt'']] the ''Korat'' was deployed against the spacefarer community known as [[Outpost One]], a conglomeration of [[JumpShip]]s, [[DropShip]]s and [[WarShip]]s built around what had been the nadir [[recharge station]] of the Circe system, which the spacefarers had established eighteen years previously and relocated far afield from its original location, and which now contained tens of thousands of spacefarers.<ref name="H:OKp44"/>

Initially, the visible defenders of Outpost One consisted of a pair of WarShips, a ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser and a ''[[McKenna (WarShip class)|McKenna]]''-class battlecruiser. The ''Korat'' and the ''Thunderbolt'' initially jumped in close enough to Outpost One that the WarShips were already in engagement range, and both the ''Sovetskii Soyuz'' and ''McKenna'' moved to intercept the Clan ships; while the ''Korat'' and the ''Thunderbolt'' had well-trained crews and theoretically were superior to the spacefarer WarShips, none of the crews had any experience of actual naval combat. As a result, the combat between the four ships was far more even than it might have appeared; the ''Korat'' and the ''Thunderbolt'' destroyed both opposing WarShips, but the length of the engagement gave the spacefarers time to jump away a trio of JumpShips in an attempt to evacuate Outpost One. More critically, the battle and evacuation revealed the existence of a ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser which had been docked with Outpost One and which escaped with the lion's share of the population of the colony. Despite this the Clans still captured dozens of assorted JumpShips and DropShips as well as thousands of spacefarers.<ref name="H:OKp44"/>

===The Clan Era===
All six ''Avatar''-class vessels to have accompanied General Kerensky on the Exodus survived the Pentagon Civil War and the establishment of the Clans, and some years after the Clan conquest of the Pentagon Worlds the ''Korat'' and the other five ''Avatar''-class cruisers were subject to an extensive refurbishment and upgrade program that saw them become a new class of cruiser named the ''[[Liberator (WarShip class)|Liberator]]'' class.<ref name="TRO:3057Rp152">''Technical Readout: 3057 Revised'', p. 152, "Liberator"</ref>

===Destruction===
The ''Korat'' was serving as the CSJ ''Korat'' within the [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] [[Clan Smoke Jaguar Touman|''touman'']] under the command of [[Star Commodore]] [[Clarinda Stiles]] when it was destroyed in the [[Huntress]] system by naval assets from [[Task Force Serpent]] in [[3060]].<ref>''Shadows of War (novel)'', p. 76</ref> Prior to her destruction the ''Korat'' had been serving as the flagship of the Smoke Jaguar's [[Delta Galaxy (Clan Smoke Jaguar)|Delta Galaxy]], also known as the Cloud Rangers.<ref>''Shadows of War (novel)'', p. 37-38</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:Clan Warships MW5 1.jpeg|The ''Korat'' (top), alongside the ''Storm Cat'' and ''Simas Osis'', from [[MechWarrior 5: Clans]]
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Historical: Operation Klondike]]''
* ''[[Shadows of War]]'' (novel)
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3057 Revised]]''
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