Editing Succession Wars (section)

==== Gray Death Legion saves the entire Inner Sphere ====
All while this was going on, the technological levels of the Inner Sphere were still dropping preciptiously, and probably would've done so into perpetuity if the Free Worlds League hadn't offered a contract to a specific Mercenary company: The Gray Death Legion.

The GDL had been started by some Owen Wilson-looking ass merc named Grayson Death Carlyle; a military genius who had built his company through revolutionary use of Light Mech tactics and strong strategy. They were given a tough mission by the FWL to just consistently harass House Liao, and they did so admirably, culminating in the spirited capture of the planet Sirius V. This capture got them rewarded with the planet Helm, an otherwise unnotable temperate planet that'd been kinda going downhill since the Star League's collapse. What they didn't know was that Helm was a one in a million planet; a place where the Star League had stored a priceless information cache; a memory core, deep within the planet. Thousands of things that'd become [[LosTech]] sat in a single vault somewhere in the extensive cave systems underneath the planet. A precentor of ComStar had found this out, and began blaming the Death Legion for atrocities of the highest order, convincing the Free Worlds League to attack Helm at full-bore. While defending their holdings, they and a Combine noble by the name of Hassid Nicol came to the conclusion of the Memory Core's existence, and struck an easy alliance to quickly find the Core. It was a fierce fight, but ultimately Nicol and the Grey Death Legion were able to get a copy of the Memory Core and some of the goodies left therein before House Marik and ComStar blew the place sky high, killing the mad Precentor in the process. After they were cleared of all charges laid against them, the Legion spread the information in the core like wildfire, knowing now that ComStar would do anything to keep it from being spread further. 

In essence, Gray Death Legion saved the Inner Sphere from not only ComStar, but itself.