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The '''''Antelope''''' was a ''[[Gazelle]]''-class [[DropShip]] serving with the [[Gray Death Legion]] since [[3051]].<ref>The final battle at Hammarr spaceport on Sudeten, where the Gray Death Legion boarded their DropShips under fire, is dated 3 October 3051 in ''Day of Heroes'', p. 47, and it is noted that the Jade Falcon fighters hounded the retreating DropShips all the way to the jump point on p. 8</ref>

==History==
===Sudeten===
Originally a [[Draconis Combine]] vessel stationed along the [[Free Rasalhague Republic]] border, the ''Antelope'' had been damaged in combat in the [[Clan Invasion]] and barely escaped by docking with a merchant [[JumpShip]] that brought them to [[Sudeten]], where the ''Antelope'' eventually crash-landed, killing the captain and leaving the stricken ship at the mercy of the [[Federated Commonwealth]] and the [[mercenary unit]] garrisoning Sudeten—the Gray Death Legion.

The late Captain's son, [[John Drake]], assumed command and was offered a chance to repair the ship in exchange for helping the Legion, who were being overrun by [[Clan Jade Falcon]], to evacuate from Sudeten. Thankful that the Legion had not simply commandeered the ship, Drake and his ship threw their lot in with the Legion then and remained with them.<ref>''Blood of Heroes'', pp. 88–89</ref>

===Second Skye Rebellion===
After undocking from the [[JumpShip]] ''[[Gray Skull]]'' on 1 April [[3056]] at the [[Glengarry]] system's nadir [[jump point]] it initially traveled towards the planet, but then witnessed the arrival of a fleet of unidentified JumpShips (the ''[[Star Lord (JumpShip class)|Star Lord]]''-class ''[[Götterdämmerung (Individual Star Lord-class JumpShip)|Götterdämmerung]]'' and six ''[[Invader]]''-class vessels). When the ''Götterdämmerung'' launched a ''[[Leopard CV]]''-class vessel (the ''[[Mizar]]'') towards the nearby ''Gray Skull'', the ''Antelope''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew understood that the intruders were hostile and that they had nowhere to return to without the ''Gray Skull''. Consequently, Lieutenant Drake decided on a suicidal attack run against the ''Merkur'' to buy the ''Gray Skull'' time to gather additional sensor data, possibly receive orders from the planet, and generally prepare their jump to escape. The ''Merkur'' and its six ''[[Lucifer]]'' [[aerospace fighter]]s made short work of the ''Antelope'', though the ship's sacrifice did in fact buy the ''Gray Skull'' critical time to make good its escape.<ref>''Blood of Heroes'', pp. 84–101</ref>

In the last radio message from the ''Antelope'', Drake reported loss of power and (at least) four dead, before suffering multiple additional hits from the ''Merkur''.<ref>''Blood of Heroes'', p. 101</ref> Although this seems to suggest that the ''Antelope'', which was listed as the Gray Death Legion's only ''Gazelle''-class vessel as per their [[3055]] roster,<ref>''Mercenary's Handbook: 3055'', p. 57</ref> was destroyed, the unit's [[3059]] roster does list an (unnamed) ''Gazelle'' again<ref>''Field Manual: Mercenaries'', p. 56</ref> which may or may not be the recovered ''Antelope''.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Blood of Heroes]]''
* ''[[Day of Heroes]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Mercenaries]]''
* ''[[Mercenary's Handbook: 3055]]''

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[[Category: Individual Gazelle-class DropShips]]

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