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The '''Tomb of Kerensky's Unknowns''' was a [[Terra|Terran]] memorial in Rome's Pantheon dedicated to the [[SLDF]] troopers of [[6th Army (Star League)|Sixth Army]] killed re-taking Rome who were never identified. When retaking Rome the SLDF bored several tunnels under the Tiber River for covert insertion of units into the Vatican without having to resort to Mechs and artillery in such a history-rich city. One of those tunnels began in the Pantheon, and that's where the memorial is located.

The memorial was sculpted by an SLDF trooper who elected to remain behind from [[Operation EXODUS]], and was dedicated 8 July, 2788. It was a marble sculpture of [[Aleksandr Kerensky|Aleksandr Kerensky's]] ''[[Orion|Orion's]]'' head situated in an uncommonly deep niche of the Pantheon.  At the back of the head where the egress to the cockpit would be the sculptor included sealing controls on a 3x4 grid numbered 0-12.  If 8-7-2-7-8-4 (8 July 2784, the date Kerensky gave the order for EXODUS) was entered the sculpture's cockpit hatch opened revealing a square-cut stairwell into the native rock down to the tunnels.<ref>''The Gauntlet'', The Crucible, Part 2, pp. 19-21</ref><ref>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 77</ref>

As there was no fighting noted in the vicinity of Rome during [[Operation ODYSSEUS]] , [[Operation SCOUR]], and only light fighting reported in the [[ilClan Trial]] this memorial is likely still standing unless it was destroyed by the [[Word of Blake]] while they occupied Terra.

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==Bibliography==
* ''[[The Gauntlet]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''

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