Aivars Terekhov

Captain Aivars Aleksovitch Terekhov is a character in the apologized to Terekhov for his mistreatment, and he remained in a Navy-run camp until a general prisoner exchange was agreed between the new Manticoran Government of Prime Minister Baron High Ridge and new the Havenite President Eloise Pritchart.

For his actions in Hyacinth, Terekhov was awarded the Manticore Cross (the Star Kingdom's second highest military award) and spent a few years in medical and psychatric treatment. When war broke out again with Haven, he was recalled to active duty and given command of HMS Hexapuma, a brand-new Edward Saganami-C class heavy cruiser, when her original captain was reassigned to command a battlecruiser.

Hexapuma was then assigned to the Manticoran naval force on station in the Talbott Cluster, an impoverished region of space at the other end of the most recently discovered link of the manticore Junction. It had jointly requested annexation by Manticore. it was thought a backwater assignment. In the Cluster, Terekhov and Hexapuma uncovered a plot by bureaucrats of the Solarian League's Office of Frontier Security and the corporate businessmen of the slaver planet Mesa to incite unrest and violence in the Cluster as a pretext for military intervention by the League, thus blocking the annexation by Manticore.

Terekhov organized an ad-hoc naval "Squadron" with Manticoran fleet units and proceeded independently of higher authortiy to the Monica system, where a fleet of warships was being prepared secretly for an attack against the Manticoran presence in the Cluster. Following a grueling naval battle, Terekhov and his Squadron succeeded in stoppig the threat and held the system until Manticoran reinforcements arrived. After temporary repairs, he and Hexapuma returned to Manticore, where Hexapuma was renederd highest honors by Home Fleet.

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