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'''Seamus van Hatten''' was the commander of the LCS ''[[LCS Impregnable|Impregnable]]'' and a senior [[Lyran Commonwealth]] naval officer by [[2787]].<ref name=FSWp46/>

==History==
In February 2787, the [[Draconis Combine]] launched a major invasion of the world of [[Skondia]] anticipating relatively weak resistance. Instead, [[Admiral]] van Hatten and three hundred combat vessels met forty-five Combine [[WarShips]] and their attending [[JumpShip]] and [[DropShip]] assets in the system's orbit. Due to the Lyran's presence, the Combine commander feared that their entire strategy was known to the Commonwealth and hesitated while word of the potential security breach was fed up the chain of command. In reality, van Hatten's armada was in-system as a result of the hostilities raging between the Commonwealth and [[Free Worlds League]] and were meant to defend against League predations. Regardless, the Combine fleet brushed aside those Lyran vessels defending the local [[Recharge station]]s and formed its vessels into a wedge with which it hoped to punch through the naval blockade long enough to deliver its ground troops.<ref name=FSWp46/>

Admiral van Hatten responded by ordering a third of his ships to focus solely on downing DropShips ferrying troops to Skondia's surface, although this only succeeded in destroying a small fraction of the troops slated to invade Skondia. The weak link in van Hatten's defense was the presence of so many aerospace carriers among the Combine forces, with the Commonwealth ships being designed for capital-grade combat instead of anti-aerospace point defense. Bogged down trying to eliminate the threat these aerospace fighters presented, van Hatten's fleet soon had to contend with those WarShips and assault craft that had finished escorting landing operations and doubled back to contribute to the orbital battle. By the end of the four week naval battle, van Hatten's flagship had been crippled and a third of his fleet had been rendered nonoperational.<ref name=FSWp46/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''

[[Category:Lyran Commonwealth Characters|van Hatten, Seamus]]