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{{InfoBoxIndividualSpacecraft
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| vesselname = White Cloud
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| type = [[WarShip]]
| class = [[Sovetskii Soyuz]]
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| servicesince =
| serviceuntil = [[3067]]
}}

==History==
===Star League Service===
The ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser<ref name="FM:WCp128"/> SLS '''''White Cloud''''' was the winner of the Best WarShip category of the [[2736]] [[Martial Olympiad]].<ref name=""TSLp135">''The Star League'', p. 135, "Martial Olympiad Champions 2640-2736"</ref>

Surviving the [[Caspar]] drone assault during [[Operation LIBERATION]], the ''White Cloud'' was among the SLDF WarShips assigned to suppress the [[Amaris Empire Armed Forces]] fighters and [[Terra]]n based [[SDS]] ground bases during the SLDF landings on 30 January [[2777]]. One of the ''White Cloud''’s [[aerospace fighter]] [[squadron]]s would attract notoriety during the offensive for performing a continuous stream of fourteen sorties in forty-eight hours thanks to a combination of determination and combat stims. The squadron was finally rotated off the battle line on 2 February after an exhausted ''[[Gotha]]'' pilot misguided his landing approach, wrecking his plane and crippling the ''White Cloud''s Bay 3 arrestor assembly for over an hour.<ref name=HLoTV2-68>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 68 "The Landings"</ref>

The ''White Cloud'' survived the [[Hegemony Campaign]] to liberate [[Terra]] from the forces of [[Stefan Amaris]], and subsequently followed [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]].<ref name="FM:WCp128">''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 128, "Swift Wing Naval Assault Star"</ref>

===Service with Clan Snow Raven===
As of [[3061]], the ''White Cloud'' had been subsumed into the [[Clan Snow Raven]] [[Clan Snow Raven Touman|''touman'']] and was serving as the CSR ''White Cloud'', one of five WarShips that made up the Snow Raven [[Swift Wing Naval Assault Star (Clan Snow Raven)|Swift Wing Naval Assault Star]].<ref name="FM:WCp128"/> The ''White Cloud'' continued to serve in the Swift Wing Naval Assault Star throughout the 3060s alongside the [[McKenna (WarShip class)|''McKenna'']]-class battleship [[James McKenna (Individual McKenna-class WarShip)|CSR ''James McKenna'']], the ''[[Cameron (WarShip class)|Cameron]]''-class battlecruiser [[Blizzard (Individual Cameron-class WarShip)|CSR ''Blizzard'']], the ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[White Terror|CSR ''White Terror'']] and the ''[[Lola III]]''-class destroyer [[Spur|CSR ''Spur'']].<ref name="FM:Up64">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 64-65, "Naval Assets"</ref>

It served around [[Homer]] during the [[Wars of Possession]].<ref>''MechWarrior's Guide to the Clans'', p. 44: "Clan Naval Pilot"</ref>

The ''White Cloud'' was lost in the [[Kazanka]] system in early [[3067]] after the [[Draconis Combine]] scuttled the recharge station it was docked to, the ''White Cloud'' having claimed a recharge from the Kazanka nadir recharge station as ''[[isorla]]'' in one of the clashes in the system.<ref>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 65, "Alpha Galaxy (Swift Wing Galaxy)"</ref> The destruction of the ''White Cloud'' using what the Snow Ravens considered to be dishonorable or ''[[dezgra]]'' tactics was a major factor in the Snow Raven's decision to begin moving towards a partnership between the Clan and the [[Outworlds Alliance]] periphery state.<ref name="WoRp35">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 35, "The Art of Distraction"</ref>

The destruction of the ''White Cloud'' also led to the Swift Wing Naval Assault Star launching retaliatory raids against the undefended Draconis Combine worlds of [[Enif]], [[Galedon V]] and [[Tabayama]] between the 10th and 14th of July [[3068]].<ref name="J:FRp45">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 45, "The Jihad In Review"</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''

[[Category: Individual WarShips]]
[[Category: Individual Heavy Cruisers]]
[[Category: Individual Sovetskii Soyuz-class WarShips]]

White Cloud - Revision history

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