Editing Wars of Reaving (section)

== The Rise of the Bloody IlKhan ==
In 3067, the Clans began what they thought was going to be a normal IlKhan selection process, and placed Fire Mandrill's Khan, Garrett Sainze in charge. The reasoning was that while Sainze was honestly kind of an over-aggressive idiot, [[Clan Diamond Shark]] saw the writing on the wall as many of the major powers were suddenly being superceded on the Grand Council by the Snake Alliance's growing influence, and wanted to personally check them. Sainze was unfortunately just as much of a hothead in charge of the entire Clan society as he was when running Fire Mandrill, and touched the raw nerve that the Great Refusal had become; sparking a massive fight in the grand chambers, and ultimately his death by Trial of Refusal thanks to Clan Golaith Scorpion's Khan.

Because Sainze was dead, the election had to take place again...and this time Steel Viper's Khan; Brett Andrews, would succeed him. The Council believed that he was going to just re-start things and move on as intended, but Andrews didn't have ''any'' plans for that.

Andrews, a veteran of the Invasion and also the subsequent Wars of Refusal, believed that a contamination, a "taint" had befallen the Clans from contact with the Inner Sphere; as they had picked up such dishonorable tactics as bombardment and artillery strikes, and had brought them back to ''their'' homeworlds. To him, the Spheroids had begun to rot the clanner way of doing things from the inside out, and if they were ever going to invade the Inner Sphere again, they needed to purge these elements from their ranks entirely, and that meant the current Spheroid Clans, as well as any who dared question these orders; as the Diamond Shark Khan found out all too quickly in the middle of that room. He even made his point clear by completely disabling the comms grids that connected Clanspace and the Inner Sphere.

From there, the Wars of Reaving truly began.