Editing Clan Invasion (section)

=== Wave Five: ComStar's wakeup call ===
After what became known as the "Year of Peace" and with a new ilKhan lead them, the Clans showed up bright and early in October of 3052 ahead of schedule. Clan Wolf was on a mission to finish this before anyone else got the chance to tell them off. Ghost Bear moved at a ponderous pace, but still picked up some valuable worlds out of the deal. Jade Falcon got into a spat with [[Clan Steel Viper]] over their shared invasion corridor, which ultimately neither side benefited from, to the point that both performed terribly in this particular wave. Meanwhile, Smoke Jaguar and Nova Cat had decided that, after getting humiliated as badly as both had been, they were going to put any of their bullshit aside and just try and catch up with Clan Wolf, starting by pounding the Combine as hard as they could until they opened a path to the Draconis capital world of Lucien. The Combine didn't take that lying down and threw everything, including the kitchen sink, at Smoke Jaguar and Nova Cat until they were finally beaten away, leaving both Clans furious and desperate for better results. But these were small victories, which wasn't really what the Inner Sphere needed.

They needed territory back.

See, for all the back and forth battles they were now having (as opposed to the earlier waves where they mostly got curbstomped), they were still not gaining any ground and ultimately losing more of it than they were defending and the prospect of gaining ground back seemed like a pipe dream. Nobody had an easy answer, but an incredible stroke of luck happened to fall in their favor as ComStar's Primus, Myndo Waterly, had decided to go see what Ulrich Kerensky's ultimate goal was now that they had all this territory. She was given the very rudest wakeup call imaginable: the Clans were in a race to go after Terra, the cradle of human civilization and also current home of ComStar. Frankly, ComStar should probably have seen this coming, or figured it out much earlier. Nevertheless, they were naturally horrified by this realization. Primus Waterly and Precentor-Martial Anastasius Focht - formerly one Frederick Steiner, a phenomenally gifted military mind by any measure (who somehow sprung out of the Lyran Commonwealth of all places) and supreme commander of ComGuard -  immediately went to the First Circuit, who came to the realization they would have to figure this out quickly or risk putting ComStar in jeopardy.

Waterly, now having to deal with the consequences of her actions and more than likely realizing that if this kept up their involvement in the Invasion would cause the Inner Sphere to tear them limb from limb, for once decided to listen to advice from Focht (who had studied Clans' culture and military carefully) and have him try a daring plan; he would use the Clan's own societal norms against them.

He would begin a Trial of Possession with the Clans on the planet of Tukayyid.