When the SLDF admiralty commissioned the Cameron class battlecruiser, they expected to receive a craft to fill the gap between their cruisers and battleships--a swift and powerful WarShip, capable of outmaneuvering any vessel it could not defeat in a stand-up fight. The contract for the ship was awarded to Daussault-Shimmon Enterprises of New Earth, and eleven years later, the SLDF received its first Cameron. Unfortunately, the new WarShip's performance fell far below he SLDF's specifications.
         The new Cameron came in 50,000 tons over its design weight and proved unable to achieve even half of its projected acceleration rate. Despite these and other, less apparent shortcomings, the SLDF admiralty felt compelled to order 40 of the vessels. The SLDF was operating under a budget freeze at the time, and the admirals feared the public sentiment they might arouse by admitting their failure to adequately oversee the Cameron's development.
         Fortunately, the WarShip's weaponry and armor proved excellent. The Cameron's arsenal features Series-25 autocannons in the broadside bays, are supplemented by a number of naval lasers. Naval PPCs dominate the ship's fore and aft bays, providing considerable long-range firepower. The Cameron's anti-fighter defense is provided by a number of Maelstrom AR-10 missile launchers, which can fire missiles of any size.
         Six years after its launch, however, the weaknesses of the flawed design were illustrated dramatically when the SLS Saint Joan, a Cameron performing escort duty, came under attack from Periphery pirates in converted merchant vessels. The ramshackle vessels should not have posed a problem to the massive cruiser, but as the Saint Joan maneuvered to engage the pirates, its primary power system failed. When the Cameron's captain switched to auxiliary power, he discovered that the vessel's batteries could not power the ship's weapons and life-support systems simultaneously, and the pirates easily destroyed the Saint Joan. Several senior admirals resigned following the incident, and the Star League appropriated Daussault-Shimmon's shipyards. The existing Camerons were relegated to transport duties.
         The Clans use a modified version of the Cameron. Although the vessel is still slow, it has proved an excellent mobile command center. The Clans have corrected the defects in the Cameron's power-distribution system and added a lithium-fusion battery system as well. Ironically, even this improved version fails to meet the original performance specifications of the SLDF-commissioned Cameron.

Clan Vessels:
Cloud Cobra - Incense
Coyote - The Blood of the Coyote
Ghost Bears - Dieron's Run (Flagship)
Goliath Scorpion - Hephaestus
Hell's horses - Sleipnir (Flagship)
Jade Falcons - Turkina's Pride (Flagship)
Snow Ravens - Blizzard, Kerenskys Hope, Ice Storm
Steel Vipers - Zalman's Endeavor
Wolf - Bloody Fang
WiE - Ulric Kerensky (ex-Mother Jocasta)

Inner Sphere Vessels:
Comstar - Invisible Truth (exSLS Lady Shandra), StarSword (exSLS Electa, scraped as parts for Invisible Truth)

Old Star League Vessels:
Cameron
Saint Joan (lost Reunification War)
Lady Shandra (Comstar - Invisible Truth)
Electra (Comstar - Starsword)