https://battleint.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=StartreaderStartreader - Revision history2026-11-15T20:45:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.44.0https://battleint.net/index.php?title=Startreader&diff=105699&oldid=previmported>Csdavis715: updating infobox, lead, citation formatting2024-11-08T00:19:49Z<p>updating infobox, lead, citation formatting</p>
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| vesselname = Startreader<br />
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| type = [[DropShip]]<br />
| class = [[Leopard (DropShip class)|Leopard]]<br />
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| serviceuntil= 22 September [[3019]] (destroyed)<br />
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The '''''Startreader''''' was a ''[[Leopard (DropShip class)|Leopard]]''-class [[DropShip]] in service to ''[[Tai-sho (rank)|tai-sho]]'' [[Ivan Sorenson (30th c.)|Ivan Sorenson]].<ref name=N>''Heir to the Dragon'', ch. 12</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
On 20 September [[3019]], Sorenson used the vessel to pick up [[Coordinator]] [[Takashi Kurita]] at the zenith [[Recharge Station]] in the [[Rasalhague]] system, to expedite his travel to his son [[Theodore Kurita]]'s wedding.<ref>''Heir to the Dragon'', ch. 8</ref><br />
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However, Sorenson's trusted chief tech [[Beorn Karlborgen]] was actually a sleeper agent who had been activated to kill the Coordinator. Karlborgen had planted several bombs aboard the ''Startreader'' and committed suicide by means of a poison pill during approach to the planet. At the time, the ''Startreader'' was locked in autopilot on a course that would crash it into the military starport's command center, with communications replaced by faked regular messages and bombs set to detonate ten meters above the runway to maximize damage. When the ship's situation was discovered on 22 September 3019, Sorenson took Takashi Kurita into his ''[[Grasshopper]]'' [[BattleMech]] in the 'Mech bay, used its missiles to destroy the unresponsive bay doors, and jumped away from the stricken vessel just in time to facilitate a rough crash landing cushioned by the ''Grasshopper'''s [[jump jet]]s.<ref>''Heir to the Dragon'', chs. 9–10</ref> Though the DropShip and the 'Mech were destroyed, Sorenson and Kurita survived.<ref name=N/> Sorenson was subsequently promoted to Warlord of the [[Rasalhague Military District]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* ''[[Heir to the Dragon]]'' (novel)<br />
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