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==History==
The ''[[Carrack]]''-class transport CCS '''''Solar Blaze''''' was a part of the [[Clan Coyote Touman|Clan Coyote ''touman'']] in [[3061]] and was allocated to the [[Clan Coyote Touman#Naval Reserve|Beta Naval Reserve]].<ref name="FM:WCp48">''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 48, "Naval Assets"</ref>

In the wake of the call to Reave all of the [[Bloodname]]s associated with the Invader clans issued by [[ilKhan]] [[Brett Andrews]] in December [[3071]], the site of various [[Blood Chapel]]s on [[Strana Mechty]] - including the Kerensky Blood Chapel - became the site of a sprawling fratricidal conflict between all of the [[Clan]]s. The fighting in and around the Blood Chapels ranged into the city of Katyusha as various Clans fought each other, with the conflict escalating steadily after the destruction of the Kerensky and Winson Blood Chapels. The peak of the conflict came when forces from [[Clan Fire Mandrill]] fared badly when attempting to seize the McKenna and Clearwater Blood Chapels, resulting in [[Star Colonel]] [[Abraxas Mick]] of the Fire Mandrills ordering the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser [[Jungle Heat|CFM ''Jungle Heat'']] to destroy the Chapels by orbital bombardment.<ref name="WoRp81+">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 80-81, "The Wolf At The Door"</ref>

The resulting orbital bombardment razed both Blood Chapels as well as the Ben-Shimon Blood Chapel, and as a side effect destroyed a [[Binary]] of [[Clan Star Adder]] forces and set several fires  burning in Katyusha. The Star Adders and [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]] were outraged by the Fire Mandrill's actions, but it was the ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Sanra Mercer (Individual Sovetskii Soyuz-class WarShip)|CSV ''Sanra Mercer'']] and the ''Solar Blaze'' that Reaved the ''Jungle Heat'', destroying it completely.<ref name="WoRp81+"/>

During the subsequent [[Wars of Reaving]] the ''Solar Blaze'' was involved in the defense of [[Tamaron]] from [[Clan Steel Viper]] in late [[3074]]. The Steel Viper force attacking Tamaron consisted of most of the [[Clan Steel Viper Touman|Steel Viper ''touman'']], spearheaded by the ''[[Leviathan Prime]]''-class battleship [[Perigard Zalman (Individual Leviathan-class WarShip)|CSV ''Perigard Zalman'']], which arrived with the Steel Viper flotilla in the Tamaron system on the 7th of December 3074 and immediately began to fight its way towards the planet in what became the largest naval battle in the Pentagon Worlds since [[Operation KLONDIKE]]. Although the ''Perigard Zalman'' was ultimately defeated, the Steel Viper forces were able to reach the planet, and the ''Solar Blaze'' was one of only two Coyote vessels to escape from the system.<ref name="WoRp142+">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 142-143, "Viper's Venom"</ref>

By [[3085]] the ''Solar Blaze'' was one of only three functioning WarShips left in the Coyote ''touman''.<ref name="WoRp165">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 165, "WarShips"</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]''
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''
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