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	=== Second Succession War ===		=== Second Succession War ===
	The Second Succession War occurred shortly after the first when the [[Clan Wolverine\|Minnesota Tribe]] showed up in Draconis Combine space to raid for supplies and fresh civilians from prison camps before disappearing into the Periphery forever. Fearing the SLDF would show up at any minute with his back against the wall and egged on by ComStar planting information for his enemies to exploit (though not the Minnesota Tribe stuff. The last thing they wanted was Kerensky showing back up), Jinjiro Kurita kicked off the Second Succession War to distract his country’s civilians from agitating in favor of the SLDF’s apparent inevitable return.		The Second Succession War occurred shortly after the first when the [[Clan Wolverine#Minnesota Tribe\|Minnesota Tribe]] showed up in Draconis Combine space to raid for supplies and fresh civilians from prison camps before disappearing into the Periphery forever. Fearing the SLDF would show up at any minute with his back against the wall and egged on by ComStar planting information for his enemies to exploit (though not the Minnesota Tribe stuff. The last thing they wanted was Kerensky showing back up), Jinjiro Kurita kicked off the Second Succession War to distract his country’s civilians from agitating in favor of the SLDF’s apparent inevitable return.

	The Second Succession War's major fronts largely involved the Lyran Commonwealth, Draconis Combine, and Free Worlds League, all three getting into full-scale espionage wars thanks to ComStar's egging on, with largely the FWL managing to come out the victor...which inevitably dragged ComStar into the conflict when the League found out that ComStar was playing several different noble houses against each other in order to cripple the FWL. The League, not taking this lying down, decided to try and fight ComStar head on, which was just about the dumbest thing they could've done, as blackout after blackout of the HPG ended up doing the trick for ComStar.		The Second Succession War's major fronts largely involved the Lyran Commonwealth, Draconis Combine, and Free Worlds League, all three getting into full-scale espionage wars thanks to ComStar's egging on, with largely the FWL managing to come out the victor...which inevitably dragged ComStar into the conflict when the League found out that ComStar was playing several different noble houses against each other in order to cripple the FWL. The League, not taking this lying down, decided to try and fight ComStar head on, which was just about the dumbest thing they could've done, as blackout after blackout of the HPG ended up doing the trick for ComStar.

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2022-11-17T20:21:40Z

Preamble To War

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	=== Preamble To War ===		=== Preamble To War ===
	With the eradication of House Cameron by Stefan Amaris during the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the Rim Worlds Republic' [[Just as Planned\|secret long-term]] infiltration into the Star League's trust as a poster child Periphery State, there was no one left to take over as First Lord of the Star League. Additionally, the Terran Hegemony's bureaucracy was gutted by the Amaris and SLDF purges of collaborative officials with only Jerome Blake from the Ministry of Communication (later called ComStar) surviving. To make matters worse, each of the Great Houses distrusted Alexander Kerensky. Outside of appointing Jerome Blake as head of Comstar to keep the HPG network running, their last action as a unified body was to strip Kerensky of his title as head of the SLDF. While the SLDF was still the biggest military in human history, they were decimated from their [[Iron Warriors\|grinding attritional war]] while fighting back from the Periphery to Terra with a staggering 70% of their regiments and warships destroyed. That, alongside Kerensky's antipathy to politics, made him convinced the best way to save the Star League was to take it's entire fighting force into exile in hopes the threat of retaliation would make the Great Houses compromise. To say it didn't work is a ''massive'' understatement.		With the eradication of House Cameron by Stefan Amaris during the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the Rim Worlds Republic' [[Just as Planned\|secret long-term]] infiltration into the Star League's trust as a poster child Periphery State, there was no one left to take over as First Lord of the Star League. Additionally, the Terran Hegemony's bureaucracy was gutted by the Amaris and SLDF purges of collaborative officials with only Jerome Blake from the Ministry of Communication (later called ComStar) surviving. To make matters worse, each of the Great Houses distrusted Alexander Kerensky. Outside of appointing Jerome Blake as head of Comstar to keep the HPG network running, their last action as a unified body was to strip Kerensky of his title as head of the SLDF. While the SLDF was still the biggest military in human history, they were decimated from their [[Iron Warriors\|grinding attritional war]] while fighting back from the Periphery to Terra with over a staggering 75% of their regiments and warships destroyed. That, alongside Kerensky's antipathy to politics, made him convinced the best way to save the Star League was to take it's entire fighting force into exile in hopes the threat of retaliation would make the Great Houses compromise. To say it didn't work is a ''massive'' understatement.

	=== First Succession War ===		=== First Succession War ===

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	=== Preamble To War ===		=== Preamble To War ===
	With the eradication of House Cameron by Stefan Amaris during the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the Rim Worlds Republic' [[Just as Planned\|secret long-term]] infiltration into the Star League's trust as a poster child Periphery State, there was no one left to take over as First Lord of the Star League. Additionally, the Terran Hegemony's bureaucracy was gutted by the Amaris and SLDF purges of collaborative officials with only Jerome Blake from the Ministry of Communication (later called ComStar) surviving. To make matters worse, each of the Great Houses distrusted Alexander Kerensky. Outside of appointing Jerome Blake as head of Comstar to keep the HPG network running, their last action as a unified body was to strip Kerensky of his title as head of the SLDF. While the SLDF was still the biggest military in human history, they were decimated from their [[Iron Warriors\|grinding attritional war]] while fighting back from the Periphery to Terra. That, alongside Kerensky's antipathy to politics, made him convinced the best way to save the Star League was to take it's entire fighting force into exile in hopes the threat of retaliation would make the Great Houses compromise. To say it didn't work is a ''massive'' understatement.		With the eradication of House Cameron by Stefan Amaris during the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the Rim Worlds Republic' [[Just as Planned\|secret long-term]] infiltration into the Star League's trust as a poster child Periphery State, there was no one left to take over as First Lord of the Star League. Additionally, the Terran Hegemony's bureaucracy was gutted by the Amaris and SLDF purges of collaborative officials with only Jerome Blake from the Ministry of Communication (later called ComStar) surviving. To make matters worse, each of the Great Houses distrusted Alexander Kerensky. Outside of appointing Jerome Blake as head of Comstar to keep the HPG network running, their last action as a unified body was to strip Kerensky of his title as head of the SLDF. While the SLDF was still the biggest military in human history, they were decimated from their [[Iron Warriors\|grinding attritional war]] while fighting back from the Periphery to Terra with a staggering 70% of their regiments and warships destroyed. That, alongside Kerensky's antipathy to politics, made him convinced the best way to save the Star League was to take it's entire fighting force into exile in hopes the threat of retaliation would make the Great Houses compromise. To say it didn't work is a ''massive'' understatement.

	=== First Succession War ===		=== First Succession War ===

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	=== Preamble To War ===		=== Preamble To War ===
	With the eradication of House Cameron by Stefan Amaris during the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the Rim Worlds Republic' [[Just as Planned\|secret long-term]] infiltration into the Star League's trust as a poster child Periphery State, there was no one left to take over as First Lord of the Star League. Additionally, the Terran Hegemony's bureaucracy was gutted by the Amaris and SLDF purges of collaborative officials with only Jerome Blake from the Ministry of Communication (later called ComStar) surviving. To make matters worse, each of the Great Houses distrusted Alexander ~~Kerensy~~. Outside of appointing Jerome Blake as head of Comstar to keep the HPG network running, their last action as a unified body was to strip Kerensky of his title as head of the SLDF. While the SLDF was still the biggest military in human history, they were decimated from their [[Iron Warriors\|grinding attritional war]] while fighting back from the Periphery to Terra. That, alongside Kerensky's antipathy to politics, made him convinced the best way to save the Star League was to take it's entire fighting force into exile in hopes the threat of ~~retatiation~~ would make the Great Houses compromise. To say it didn't work is a ''massive'' understatement.		With the eradication of House Cameron by Stefan Amaris during the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the Rim Worlds Republic' [[Just as Planned\|secret long-term]] infiltration into the Star League's trust as a poster child Periphery State, there was no one left to take over as First Lord of the Star League. Additionally, the Terran Hegemony's bureaucracy was gutted by the Amaris and SLDF purges of collaborative officials with only Jerome Blake from the Ministry of Communication (later called ComStar) surviving. To make matters worse, each of the Great Houses distrusted Alexander Kerensky. Outside of appointing Jerome Blake as head of Comstar to keep the HPG network running, their last action as a unified body was to strip Kerensky of his title as head of the SLDF. While the SLDF was still the biggest military in human history, they were decimated from their [[Iron Warriors\|grinding attritional war]] while fighting back from the Periphery to Terra. That, alongside Kerensky's antipathy to politics, made him convinced the best way to save the Star League was to take it's entire fighting force into exile in hopes the threat of retaliation would make the Great Houses compromise. To say it didn't work is a ''massive'' understatement.

	=== First Succession War ===		=== First Succession War ===

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	By the end of the war, the Inner Sphere was in terrible shape: The capacity and the understanding required to build life-changing technologies had been completely lost to the Great Houses. HPGs and JumpDrives may as well have been magic, and Mechs had become so valuable that old and broken ones became valuable recyclables. Exhaustion and an increasing lack of resources had ultimately ended the war in a way that no winner could possibly be crowned.		By the end of the war, the Inner Sphere was in terrible shape: The capacity and the understanding required to build life-changing technologies had been completely lost to the Great Houses. HPGs and JumpDrives may as well have been magic, and Mechs had become so valuable that old and broken ones became valuable recyclables. Exhaustion and an increasing lack of resources had ultimately ended the war in a way that no winner could possibly be crowned.

	Also by the end of the war the Capellan Confederation was double fucked by both the FedSuns and the ~~Lyrans~~. Business as usual.		Also by the end of the war the Capellan Confederation was double fucked by both the FedSuns and the Free Worlds League. Business as usual.

	=== Third Succession War ===		=== Third Succession War ===

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2022-05-01T17:18:16Z

First Succession War

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	Almost from the minute Kerensky and the SLDF fucked off into the Deep Periphery, all the Successor States braced for what they knew was inevitable conflict. Knowing that becoming First Lord would inevitably mean they could run their opponents off the map forever, all five Successor States waited with baited breath at the opportunity to actively begin the violence, and wouldn't you know it, the [[Draconis Combine]] started the whole damn thing as Minoru Kurita decided to kick things off. Openly declaring the Draconis Coordinator to have claim to the seat of the First Lord, he also asserted that any refusal to recognize the claim would be met with total war.		Almost from the minute Kerensky and the SLDF fucked off into the Deep Periphery, all the Successor States braced for what they knew was inevitable conflict. Knowing that becoming First Lord would inevitably mean they could run their opponents off the map forever, all five Successor States waited with baited breath at the opportunity to actively begin the violence, and wouldn't you know it, the [[Draconis Combine]] started the whole damn thing as Minoru Kurita decided to kick things off. Openly declaring the Draconis Coordinator to have claim to the seat of the First Lord, he also asserted that any refusal to recognize the claim would be met with total war.

	What happened next is that the Inner Sphere basically warcrime'd itself for 34 uninterrupted years. Biological, Nuclear, and Chemical warfare were rampant, and billions of lives were lost in senseless battles to claim long disputed systems and further territory over what was ultimately petty grudges; to the point that worlds that could produce clean drinking water were as valuable as they were when they were first discovered. It got so bad at one point that the [[Mercenaries (Battletech)\|Mercs]], who were already a huge part of everybody's battleplans, basically had to start reigning in the violence themselves by forcefully refusing any contract that involved a breaking of "[[Ares ~~Conventions~~\|The Conventions]]" that was offered to them, usually by doing just as much damage for the other side the old fashioned way as they might've for the offer. By the end of the war, grand full-scale invasions and geneva convention-violating battlefields gave way to simple skirmishes and raids to stop each other from producing more Mechs and other vital military equipment.		What happened next is that the Inner Sphere basically warcrime'd itself for 34 uninterrupted years. Biological, Nuclear, and Chemical warfare were rampant, and billions of lives were lost in senseless battles to claim long disputed systems and further territory over what was ultimately petty grudges; to the point that worlds that could produce clean drinking water were as valuable as they were when they were first discovered. It got so bad at one point that the [[Mercenaries (Battletech)\|Mercs]], who were already a huge part of everybody's battleplans, basically had to start reigning in the violence themselves by forcefully refusing any contract that involved a breaking of "[[Ares Convention\|The Conventions]]" that was offered to them, usually by doing just as much damage for the other side the old fashioned way as they might've for the offer. By the end of the war, grand full-scale invasions and geneva convention-violating battlefields gave way to simple skirmishes and raids to stop each other from producing more Mechs and other vital military equipment.

	This is also where the Kentares Massacre happened; wherein Minoru Kurita got his brain ventilated by a sniper, and his deeply unstable child Jinjiro basically decided that everyone on that planet had to die as quickly and painfully as possible as penance for this action. To make matters worse, any Draconis Combine soldier who protested was killed alongside the civilians themselves; often with a katana as Jinjiro figured it would waste less ammo. The local ComStar representatives, deeply concerned by Jinjiro's openly genocidal nature, broadcast the whole thing to the entire Inner Sphere. They got killed by Jinjiro too, but made sure that even if everybody was picking a fight with everyone else, they definitely had an undisputed "bad guy" now. After a series of FedSun counterattacks to liberate worlds picked up early on by the Combine, pretty much everybody was exhausted and now very resource-poor, and eventually most fronts just ceased being fronts at all, with everybody deciding to call it quits and come back when they were ready for next time.		This is also where the Kentares Massacre happened; wherein Minoru Kurita got his brain ventilated by a sniper, and his deeply unstable child Jinjiro basically decided that everyone on that planet had to die as quickly and painfully as possible as penance for this action. To make matters worse, any Draconis Combine soldier who protested was killed alongside the civilians themselves; often with a katana as Jinjiro figured it would waste less ammo. The local ComStar representatives, deeply concerned by Jinjiro's openly genocidal nature, broadcast the whole thing to the entire Inner Sphere. They got killed by Jinjiro too, but made sure that even if everybody was picking a fight with everyone else, they definitely had an undisputed "bad guy" now. After a series of FedSun counterattacks to liberate worlds picked up early on by the Combine, pretty much everybody was exhausted and now very resource-poor, and eventually most fronts just ceased being fronts at all, with everybody deciding to call it quits and come back when they were ready for next time.

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Fourth Succession War

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	The Fourth Succession War was one of the largest and most desperate conflicts of the entire saga; as both Commonwealth and Federated Sun borders did not actively touch, and they knew that in order to fully consummate this relationship, they would have to bridge the gap between the two states, which bordered the other three empires. Done on the wedding day of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner, both sides had found critical weaknesses in their foes and had begun piledriving their way into connecting both states on the galactic map. As the reception began to wrap up, Hanse Davion said one of the most quoted lines in the Inner sphere: "to you my bride, I give you...the Capellan Confederation."		The Fourth Succession War was one of the largest and most desperate conflicts of the entire saga; as both Commonwealth and Federated Sun borders did not actively touch, and they knew that in order to fully consummate this relationship, they would have to bridge the gap between the two states, which bordered the other three empires. Done on the wedding day of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner, both sides had found critical weaknesses in their foes and had begun piledriving their way into connecting both states on the galactic map. As the reception began to wrap up, Hanse Davion said one of the most quoted lines in the Inner sphere: "to you my bride, I give you...the Capellan Confederation."

	Naturally, all not-FedComm sides began to panic big time, and each had their own front to deal with; the Capellans were ruled by yet another nutcase of a Liao, and Hanse Davion anticipated a major structural weakness in their defense strategy in that it was ready for third succession war style conflict, and not massive invasions, something he used to great effect to ultimately cripple Capellan industry for decades. The Combine was getting hit on both sides, both by Lyran Assault Mechs and also by their hated rivals, Wolf's Dragoons, who only needed a modest excuse of cash to go fight Kurita forces. With specific regards to the Wolf’s Dragoons, their commander held a grudge for the DCMS attempting to forcibly conscript and integrate the Dragoons into their military. To add more salt to the wound, he was forced to kill his friend who was their liaison and commander of a Combine unit they were training. The grudge was bad enough that Commander Wolf publicly berated Coordinator Takeshi Kurita and enraged him in the war to the point the coordinator enacted his infamous “Death to all [[Mercenaries (Battletech)\|Merc’s]]” edict to [[Rip and Tear\|slaughter]] [[grimdark\|all]] hired guns in sight. The Dragoons served as a provocative lighting rod on the Davion-Kuritan border and were bloodied but enabled FedCom units to avoid the worst of the meat-grinder there. The Free Worlds League was simply in the way, and currently dealing with the after effects of facing ComStar, and found themselves having to deal with a massive rebellion in the form of the Tikhonov Free Republic. Finally, there was ComStar.		Naturally, all not-FedComm sides began to panic big time, and each had their own front to deal with; the Capellans were ruled by yet another nutcase of a Liao, and Hanse Davion anticipated a major structural weakness in their defense strategy in that it was ready for third succession war style conflict, and not massive invasions, something he used to great effect to ultimately cripple Capellan industry for decades. The Combine was getting hit on both sides, both by Lyran Assault Mechs and also by their hated rivals, Wolf's Dragoons, who only needed a modest excuse of cash to go fight Kurita forces. With specific regards to the Wolf’s Dragoons, their commander held a grudge for the DCMS attempting to forcibly conscript and integrate the Dragoons into their military. To add more salt to the wound, he was forced to kill his Kuritan friend who was their liaison and commander of a Combine unit they were training. The grudge was bad enough that Commander Wolf publicly berated Coordinator Takeshi Kurita for squandering such honorable soldiers and enraged him in the war to the point the coordinator enacted his infamous “Death to all [[Mercenaries (Battletech)\|Merc’s]]” edict to [[Rip and Tear\|slaughter]] [[grimdark\|all]] hired guns in sight. The Dragoons served as a provocative lighting rod on the Davion-Kuritan border and were bloodied but enabled FedCom units to avoid the worst of the meat-grinder there. The Free Worlds League was simply in the way, and currently dealing with the after effects of facing ComStar, and found themselves having to deal with a massive rebellion in the form of the Tikhonov Free Republic. Finally, there was ComStar.

	ComStar was happy that little banana republics were popping up all over the Inner Sphere at the time, but were not happy that now there was a serious chance that there could be a Star League replacement all through the Inner Sphere's idea of politics, and quickly set about attempting to face the Davions and Steiners in the use of Communications inderdiction, but quickly found themselves in a much more dangerous game than they'd previously faced; Hanse Davion wasn't some prissy noble. He was smart, and more over he was more than aware that ComStar was behind what was quickly becoming a somewhat poorly organized military. His solution to the major "blackouts" that were happening across the HPG network were something he called "Black Boxes", which were like fax machines but could do HPG level communications, just extremely slowly. Finally, they found that the best idea to try and halt the FedSun advance was to try and dress up as the Capellan Death Commandos and try to raid the New Avalon Institute of Science, which ended quite harshly at the hands of Hanse himself, taking the field in his personal ''BattleMaster''. Further, use of his spy network in MIIO had revealed that the Death Commandos were nowhere near his own space at the time, revealing ComStar's deception. While they were able to negotiate the HPG network back online, ComStar was now very wary of the FedComm, and ultimately found itself in a years long shadow war against them.		ComStar was happy that little banana republics were popping up all over the Inner Sphere at the time, but were not happy that now there was a serious chance that there could be a Star League replacement all through the Inner Sphere's idea of politics, and quickly set about attempting to face the Davions and Steiners in the use of Communications inderdiction, but quickly found themselves in a much more dangerous game than they'd previously faced; Hanse Davion wasn't some prissy noble. He was smart, and more over he was more than aware that ComStar was behind what was quickly becoming a somewhat poorly organized military. His solution to the major "blackouts" that were happening across the HPG network were something he called "Black Boxes", which were like fax machines but could do HPG level communications, just extremely slowly. Finally, they found that the best idea to try and halt the FedSun advance was to try and dress up as the Capellan Death Commandos and try to raid the New Avalon Institute of Science, which ended quite harshly at the hands of Hanse himself, taking the field in his personal ''BattleMaster''. Further, use of his spy network in MIIO had revealed that the Death Commandos were nowhere near his own space at the time, revealing ComStar's deception. While they were able to negotiate the HPG network back online, ComStar was now very wary of the FedComm, and ultimately found itself in a years long shadow war against them.

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Fourth Succession War

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	The Fourth Succession War was one of the largest and most desperate conflicts of the entire saga; as both Commonwealth and Federated Sun borders did not actively touch, and they knew that in order to fully consummate this relationship, they would have to bridge the gap between the two states, which bordered the other three empires. Done on the wedding day of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner, both sides had found critical weaknesses in their foes and had begun piledriving their way into connecting both states on the galactic map. As the reception began to wrap up, Hanse Davion said one of the most quoted lines in the Inner sphere: "to you my bride, I give you...the Capellan Confederation."		The Fourth Succession War was one of the largest and most desperate conflicts of the entire saga; as both Commonwealth and Federated Sun borders did not actively touch, and they knew that in order to fully consummate this relationship, they would have to bridge the gap between the two states, which bordered the other three empires. Done on the wedding day of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner, both sides had found critical weaknesses in their foes and had begun piledriving their way into connecting both states on the galactic map. As the reception began to wrap up, Hanse Davion said one of the most quoted lines in the Inner sphere: "to you my bride, I give you...the Capellan Confederation."

	Naturally, all not-FedComm sides began to panic big time, and each had their own front to deal with; the Capellans were ruled by yet another nutcase of a Liao, and Hanse Davion anticipated a major structural weakness in their defense strategy in that it was ready for third succession war style conflict, and not massive invasions, something he used to great effect to ultimately cripple Capellan industry for decades. The Combine was getting hit on both sides, both by Lyran Assault Mechs and also by their hated rivals, Wolf's Dragoons, who only needed a modest excuse of cash to go fight Kurita forces. With specific regards to the Wolf’s Dragoons, their commander held a grudge for the DCMS attempting to forcibly conscript and integrate the Dragoons into their military. To add more salt to the wound, he was forced to kill his friend who was their liaison and commander of a Combine unit they were training. The grudge was bad enough that Commander Wolf publicly berated Coordinator Takeshi Kurita and enraged him in the war to the point the coordinator enacted his infamous “Death to [[Mercenaries (Battletech)\|Merc’s]] edict to [[Rip and Tear\|slaughter]] [[grimdark\|all]] hired guns in sight. The Dragoons served as a provocative lighting rod on the Davion-Kuritan border and were bloodied but enabled FedCom units to avoid the worst of the meat-grinder there. The Free Worlds League was simply in the way, and currently dealing with the after effects of facing ComStar, and found themselves having to deal with a massive rebellion in the form of the Tikhonov Free Republic. Finally, there was ComStar.		Naturally, all not-FedComm sides began to panic big time, and each had their own front to deal with; the Capellans were ruled by yet another nutcase of a Liao, and Hanse Davion anticipated a major structural weakness in their defense strategy in that it was ready for third succession war style conflict, and not massive invasions, something he used to great effect to ultimately cripple Capellan industry for decades. The Combine was getting hit on both sides, both by Lyran Assault Mechs and also by their hated rivals, Wolf's Dragoons, who only needed a modest excuse of cash to go fight Kurita forces. With specific regards to the Wolf’s Dragoons, their commander held a grudge for the DCMS attempting to forcibly conscript and integrate the Dragoons into their military. To add more salt to the wound, he was forced to kill his friend who was their liaison and commander of a Combine unit they were training. The grudge was bad enough that Commander Wolf publicly berated Coordinator Takeshi Kurita and enraged him in the war to the point the coordinator enacted his infamous “Death to all [[Mercenaries (Battletech)\|Merc’s]]” edict to [[Rip and Tear\|slaughter]] [[grimdark\|all]] hired guns in sight. The Dragoons served as a provocative lighting rod on the Davion-Kuritan border and were bloodied but enabled FedCom units to avoid the worst of the meat-grinder there. The Free Worlds League was simply in the way, and currently dealing with the after effects of facing ComStar, and found themselves having to deal with a massive rebellion in the form of the Tikhonov Free Republic. Finally, there was ComStar.

	ComStar was happy that little banana republics were popping up all over the Inner Sphere at the time, but were not happy that now there was a serious chance that there could be a Star League replacement all through the Inner Sphere's idea of politics, and quickly set about attempting to face the Davions and Steiners in the use of Communications inderdiction, but quickly found themselves in a much more dangerous game than they'd previously faced; Hanse Davion wasn't some prissy noble. He was smart, and more over he was more than aware that ComStar was behind what was quickly becoming a somewhat poorly organized military. His solution to the major "blackouts" that were happening across the HPG network were something he called "Black Boxes", which were like fax machines but could do HPG level communications, just extremely slowly. Finally, they found that the best idea to try and halt the FedSun advance was to try and dress up as the Capellan Death Commandos and try to raid the New Avalon Institute of Science, which ended quite harshly at the hands of Hanse himself, taking the field in his personal ''BattleMaster''. Further, use of his spy network in MIIO had revealed that the Death Commandos were nowhere near his own space at the time, revealing ComStar's deception. While they were able to negotiate the HPG network back online, ComStar was now very wary of the FedComm, and ultimately found itself in a years long shadow war against them.		ComStar was happy that little banana republics were popping up all over the Inner Sphere at the time, but were not happy that now there was a serious chance that there could be a Star League replacement all through the Inner Sphere's idea of politics, and quickly set about attempting to face the Davions and Steiners in the use of Communications inderdiction, but quickly found themselves in a much more dangerous game than they'd previously faced; Hanse Davion wasn't some prissy noble. He was smart, and more over he was more than aware that ComStar was behind what was quickly becoming a somewhat poorly organized military. His solution to the major "blackouts" that were happening across the HPG network were something he called "Black Boxes", which were like fax machines but could do HPG level communications, just extremely slowly. Finally, they found that the best idea to try and halt the FedSun advance was to try and dress up as the Capellan Death Commandos and try to raid the New Avalon Institute of Science, which ended quite harshly at the hands of Hanse himself, taking the field in his personal ''BattleMaster''. Further, use of his spy network in MIIO had revealed that the Death Commandos were nowhere near his own space at the time, revealing ComStar's deception. While they were able to negotiate the HPG network back online, ComStar was now very wary of the FedComm, and ultimately found itself in a years long shadow war against them.