Editing Clan Invasion (section)

== Aftermath  ==
ComStar's victory was absolute and as a result the Truce of Tukayyid was signed. Unsurprisingly, the conflict devastated both sides of the conflict. The Clans had lost tens of thousands of good soldiers at minimum, and some Clans had to replace their Khans. Bearing in mind that, as of 3062, there were around 115,000 Clan Warriors, these were catastrophic losses. Not only had they lost many veterans as a direct resuly of bidding the cream of the crop, but also a substantial chunk of their manpower overall.

Further, it more or less broke their entire society. Whether Wardens or Crusaders, their faith in the rightness of their ways was thoroughly shaken, simply by seeing just how willing the Inner Sphere was to protect themselves from their influence, and now that they were stuck. On top of their world view falling apart, they also had to deal with what would become years of guerrilla warfare from the conquered populaces and, after the Truce expired, the wrath of the Inner Sphere, who had by then been gifted [[OmniMech]] technology and detailed intel on Clanner strategy by ComStar. By this win, the Inner Sphere was allowed to fortify to the point that any Clan that had a hope of trying to invade again would be stymied almost immediately. Further, with their defeat, the Second Star League was founded under the Machiavellian eye of Sun-Tzu Liao, and they began a massive counteroffensive to punish the Clans. Smoke Jaguar in particular would be targeted for their treachery and brutality, ultimately wiping them out completely, snuffing out any hopes that the Clan Invasion could feasibly restart. This all culminated in the "Great Refusal" which ended the invasion for good. Such abrupt denial of the Clans’ Manifest Destiny to reclaim Terra for a new Star League (and petty jealousies and suspicion by purists at some other Clans adopting questionable Spheroid tactics) led to the [[Wars of Reaving]].

However, it was not without pain for the Inner Sphere. For one thing, the Clans were never told to piss off from the territory they had gained, ensuring that the Clans would always have a presence in the Inner Sphere from now on. The Free Rasalhague Republic, once a buffer state of significant size, was now a mere eight worlds large. The Combine and the Commonwealth had lost dozens of worlds to Clanner hands and, as the dust settled, it was clear that the rebirth of the Star League was an alliance of convenience rather than that of a genuine want to reform. Further, ComStar was terrified of their secret of having helped the Clans at all to have come out and thus attempted to secularize and purge elements that might've attempted to enforce the issue.

[[Word of Blake|The consequences of this were not fun for anybody.]]

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