Battle of MacGregor

The Battle of MacGregor was the complete destruction of the People's Navy MacGregor System Defence through a surprise assault by three wings of Manticoran Alliance LACs as part of Operation Buttercup.
== Prelude ==
In order to elude detection, three LAC Wings, led by Commander Prescott Tremaine, were dropped off over a light-day away from MacGregor, and spent two days approaching the system at low speed, under stealth. ()
== Order of battle ==
=== Manticoran Alliance ===
LAC group of the CLAC Squadron 3252 Shrike-B-class and 72 Ferret-class:
* LAC Wing 16
* LAC Wing 17
* LAC Wing 19
=== People's Navy ===
MacGregor System Defence:
* wall of battle (cold impeller wedges):
** a battle squadronDN, including PNS Rene d'Aiguillon, Commodore Ryan's flagship
** a battleship squadron
* screen:
** a battlecruiser squadron (active impeller wedges)
** a destroyer flotillathree squadrons (active impeller wedges)
** some uncertain units with cold impeller wedges
== Course of battle ==
Having eluded three squadrons of picket destroyers, all Ferret-class LACs fired their entire load-out of ship-killers at the remaining ships sitting in orbit around MacGregor, sending a wave of over twenty-seven hundred missiles hurtling at the ships. Other than a squadron of battlecruisers, the majority of the ships were caught unawares with their impeller wedges down, so most missiles were targeted at the exposed and undefended tops and bottoms.
Three dreadnoughts, five battleships, and a dozen battlecruisers and cruisers were destroyed in the initial volley. The Ferrets then fell into formation behind the Shrike-Bs, which began launching their own salvos at the surviving ships, destroying more un-shielded ships. Captain Tremaine then ordered three squadrons of Shrike-Bs to attack the battlecruisers that had their wedges up, while the remaining LACs mopped up the remains of the dreadnoughts and battleships. Five LACs were destroyed during the assault on the battlecruisers.
Before her dreadnought was destroyed, Commodore Gianna Ryan ordered her destroyers to withdraw, in order to warn the People's Navy forces in other systems about the power of the Manticoran LACs. The rest of the PN forces were annihilated. ()
== Aftermath ==
== References ==
MacGregor, Battle of
MacGregor, Battle of