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==History==
The DCS '''''Bladewind''''' was a ''[[Narukami (WarShip class)|Narukami]]''-class destroyer in service with the [[Draconis Combine Admiralty]] during the [[First Succession War]]. The ''Bladewind'' was a part of the invasion force commanded by ''[[Tai-sho (rank)|Tai-sho]]'' [[Hiroshi Pederson]] responsible for the invasion of the key [[Lyran Commonwealth]] industrial system of [[Skondia]] in February [[2787]].<ref name="FSWp46">''First Succession War'', p. 46-47, "Skondia"</ref>

Pederson's invasion force consisted of forty-five WarShips including the ''Bladewind'' and a substantial number of supporting ships and anticipated an easy conquest, but instead encountered a major naval force of almost three hundred ships - including fifty WarShips - commanded by [[Admiral]] [[Seamus van Hatten]], assembled just days before as a result of the devastating [[Free Worlds League]] attack on the [[Bolson Shipyards]] at [[New Kyoto]]. The resulting four-week battle was one of the largest naval engagements to be fought between the Lyran Commonwealth and the [[Draconis Combine]] during the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]].<ref name="FSWp46"/>

The battle saw the Lyran forces reduced to a third of their original numbers, whilst half the Combine ships were lost; during the battle the ''Bladewind'' and a sister ship, the [[Star Spirit|DCS ''Star Spirit'']], were responsible for crippling Admiral van Hatten's flagship, the ''[[Tharkad (WarShip class)|Tharkad]]''-class battlecruiser [[Impregnable|LCS ''Impregnable'']].<ref name="FSWp46"/>

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

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