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As of [[3061]], the ''[[Cameron (WarShip class)|Cameron]]''-class battlecruiser '''''Hephaestus''''' was a [[WarShip]] within the [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]] [[Clan Goliath Scorpion Touman|''touman'']] and was the lead ship of the four-ship [[Fire Wheel Battlegroup (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Fire Wheel Battlegroup]] and escort vessel for [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Beta Galaxy]].<ref name="FM:WCp108">''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 108: "Naval Assets"</ref>

==History==
In November [[3073]], [[Khan]] [[Ariel Suvorov]] led the ''Hephaestus'' in an attempt to contact the remnants of [[Clan Fire Mandrill]] on their homeworld, [[Shadow]]; when the ''Hephaestus'' arrived, there was no sign of the Fire Mandrills. Shadow had a large fleet from [[Clan Coyote]] orbiting the planet, including a full [[Star]] of WarShips; Khan Suvorov made repeated attempts to communicate with the Coyote forces but received no reply, and rather than try and force the issue with just a single ship at his command, instead decided to jump to [[Dagda (Clan System)|Dagda]].<ref name="WORp127+">''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 127–129: "Scorpion Gambit"</ref>

When the ''Hephaestus'' arrived at Dagda, it found that the planet was in decline following what appeared to be extensive orbital bombardment. The volcano known as Mount Hades on Satan's Table had erupted, and a number of the undersea domes had been shattered; the combination of events had rendered the planetary ecosystem unstable, and very few of the Clan enclaves on the planet were still capable of functioning. The only contact that the ''Hephaestus'' could make was with [[Star Colonel]] [[Hampton Schroeder]], a warrior from the Fire Mandrills based near Folke. Khan Suvorov had the few survivors from the Fire Mandrills loaded aboard the ''Hephaestus'' and her [[DropShip]]s, cramming the survivors into every available space. Those who had survived were mainly warriors, scientists or technicians, and Khan Suvorov extended an offer to Star Colonel Schroeder absorb the Fire Mandrill survivors in a fashion akin to a [[Trial of Absorption]]. Schroeder agreed, and after the Star Colonel had been knocked unconscious by Khan Suvorov several rounds into a boxing match, the Fire Mandrills became Goliath Scorpions.<ref name="WORp127+"/>

Following the Trial, the Goliath Scorpions sent three more convoys to Dagda, attempting to remove as many of the civilians as possible; the first two convoys were successful, but the third convoy consisting of four [[JumpShip]]s was destroyed in late January [[3074]] by a [[Bandit Caste]] force, with ten thousand civilians dying as a result.<ref name="WORp127+"/>

The [[Trial of Abjuration|Abjuration]] of the Goliath Scorpions resulted in the destruction of the ''Hephaestus''; with half the ''touman'' relocated to recently-conquered holdings in [[Nueva Castile]], the ''Hephaestus'' was amongst the last Goliath Scorpion military forces to remain in the [[Clan Homeworlds]]. When [[Clan Cloud Cobra]] launched their final attack on [[Roche]]<ref name="WORp160"/> in January [[3081]]<ref name="WORp158">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 158: "Leaders (3085)"</ref> the ''Hephaestus'' engaged the Cloud Cobra WarShips, destroying the ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Inquisitor (Individual Aegis-class WarShip)|CCS ''Inquisitor'']] and the ''[[Fredasa (WarShip class)|Fredasa]]''-class corvette [[Hell Fury|CCS ''Hell Fury'']] before finally being destroyed in turn.<ref name="WORp160">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 160: "WarShips"</ref>

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

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