CMS Spanner

CMS Spanner (CLG-52) was a Shearwater-class guided weapons cruiser, built for the Caspian Navy. She had been newly built, and had just completed her star trials in 8 ABY when the Imperial War of Aggression began. Trials were conducted under the command of a Captain Sodehl, a Casohavi Sarian, and while the ship was probably going to be handed off to another captain for deployment, he took command of Spanner when hostilities erupted.

There are several discordant accounts of what exactly transpired in the first six hours of the Battle over Caspar, but what could be agreed upon was that the losses of Ward and Provost were unavoidable, due to their close proximity to the Imperial warships and the surprising nature of the attack.



Spanner was named for the prominent city of the Casohavi on Mergansar.

Immediately after being christened, she had been dubbed The Wrench by nearly every Caspian, Krit, and Rautheran, making light of the name's obvious definition. Naval personnel, in keeping with giving starships female personas, started calling it The Wench.