Battletech An SI in the Concordat - GhostRider's Revenants (Battletech CYOA)Rev.2

Kioras

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Not sure on the Wolverines, they did not have the population to rebuild unless they took massive families as a cultural institution along with making full use of iron wombs.

If they did contact them, it might just be some that regressed and the MoC just looted.
 

Adventwolf

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Not sure on the Wolverines, they did not have the population to rebuild unless they took massive families as a cultural institution along with making full use of iron wombs.

If they did contact them, it might just be some that regressed and the MoC just looted.
It has been centuries. They were that small when they left. And it is highly unlikely they regressed because unlike the IS and Periphery they were killing off and destroying everything that made their tech possible. They don't have to be a huge population what gave you that idea?
 

Kioras

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It has been centuries. They were that small when they left. And it is highly unlikely they regressed because unlike the IS and Periphery they were killing off and destroying everything that made their tech possible. They don't have to be a huge population what gave you that idea?

Two centuries. The total Clan population around the time of the Wolverines fleeing was about 6,000,000 total.

As one Clan of twenty they likely had a total population of about 300,000. They did not get everyone out and would have had to flee across 3000 light years of travel, especially once they realized the Inner Sphere was not safe for them.

Going to the other end of the Sphere would be even more travel and had lost equipment to begin with.

It would be extremely risky with a depressed population, less equipment then the first Exodus and ships in dire need of service.
The people would be highly stressed after years in space looking for a new homeland.
 
Chapter 76

paulobrito

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On August 27, 3052, Thomas Calderon abdicated the throne of the Taurian Concordat and Edward Calderon took over. The official line was 'health reasons', but only a small group knew that Thomas had been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease, for which there was no cure, only palliative care.

The civil war in the FWL continued, with the rebels, i.e. the anti-Thomas Marik / WoB faction, even though they had no WarShips, confronting this “über” weapon with a high number of Aerospace Fighters, much more than they were supposed to have. Those who paid close attention could notice that many of these extra Fighters were models that could easily be found in the nations bordering the FWL, even if they were not the most advanced variants.

Even if it was at the costs of great loses, this threat and its efficiency were enough to cause sufficient damage to the Word of Blake Warships and to force them to be more cautious.

In September, 3052, news started to circulate that Thomas was not the real Thomas Marik, but a substitute, certainly inserted by a shadow organization, be it the Word of Blake or more probably the extinct Comstar.

Although few believed at first such a rumor,Thomas Marik’s supporters denied everything, calling that a desperate attempt to undermine his position. But the fact that no one was able to get access to the original tests of Joshua and Isis Marik, tests said to come from the Atreus Central Hospital and that no further test was made to deny the accusations, gave credits to it with more and more people starting to believe them



An unofficial / non factory produced version of Dragonfly MM-3, was created specifically for the Revenants. The Large Laser on the nose was replaced by an extended-range one and the armor by Ferro-Aluminum, making the MM-3R (Reach / Revenants) considerably more lethal than the already deadly MM-3. And also turning a very expensive Light Fighter into a even more expensive one.

In November 3052, Andrea Stirling (CO of Sterling Fusiliers) and Tony Rubensky (CEO of Cosara Weaponries in Northwind) visited Coromodir VI.
Both of them and the Elders of Northwind (which Andrea represented), were dissatisfied with the level of support the Federated Commonwealth provided to Northwind. On one hand, Cosara Weaponries wanted technical support to modernize the factories in Northwind, so that they would be able to produce the most advanced variants of Crab and King Crab and increase their production capacity without forgetting the creation of a HGN-732b production line that the company had bought the rights for and that the Northwind Highlanders regiments wanted in large quantities. On the other hand, both the Northwind Highlanders and the Elders wanted to build a dockyard in the system to support at the same time, the various JumpShips that the regiments had and the commercial ones that various companies in the system controlled.
In both cases, the FC had provided little more than vague promises. Knowing the good relations of Coromodir with the Wolf’s Dragoons and the solution that the St. Ives Compact had obtained from the Taurian Concordat for the modernization of their production lines, both planned to obtain similar conditions for Northwind.

While several championed the idea to go directly to Taurus and Edward Calderon, to negotiate, other rightfully pointed that, while Northwind was a semi-independent world, it was not a fully independent one, with connections and obligations to the Federated Commonwealth. Having these kind of negotiations with a foreign power, even if it was one at the moment friendly with the Commonwealth would probably cast a shadow on the relationships with the Federated Commonwealth. On the other side, Jean-Luc Bassot was known to have made several deals with the Wolf’s Dragoons without repercussions while Outreach was a world with a status close to the one of Northwind, . And everybody knew that his companies had the necessary expertise. In the end, the council decided to go to Coromodir and negotiate with the Arano-Bassot family.


After several days of tough negotiations, an agreement was reached that benefited both sides.
Coromodir Heavy Industries was awarded the production rights of the Crab, King Crab and Highlander, and for the next ten years a Northwind Highlanders regiment would serve in the Reach, rotating home each year to be replaced by another. In return, CHI would provide technical support, training, the high-tech components needed to upgrade the Cosara production lines in Northwind as well as helping to build a dockyard in the system. None of the help from the Aurigan partners was financial.

On January 13, 3053, the first Pinto class Corvette was launched by the shipyard at Mechdur. After a few political maneuvers, it had been decided to name the ship TCS Keona Arano after the first High Lady of the Aurigan Coalition.
 

Adventwolf

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You are really making the FedCom too uninterested in supporting their worlds and allies to make it so the TC is the one that is doing all the stuff instead. When that was not the case. The FedCom spent a lot of time and money to support and build up its worlds. Just because they have a warship program going doesn't mean they would have left things alone. Especially since before they started the warships they would have been throwing their support to the NAIS to develop the technology and using that to improve their realms from civilian infrastructure to upgrading the military industrial complex as well. Plus if the Highlanders wanted to build a dockyard then the FedCom would jump at the chance as that is a major factor in supporting the jumpship fleet and later on the warships.
 

paulobrito

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In OTL / Lore, the FC doesn't care/support much, if any the Highlanders. In fact, that helped a lot when Sun-Tzu sent his men to mess with the world.
St.Ives only gets the Pillager in 3057, again with little if any FC help.
Outreach / Wolf Dragoons are mostly independent - ok, in this case by their decision.
These are the only ones that I used. Two semi-independent worlds and a small independent nation, not 'regular' FC worlds.
FC is busy building/rebuilding shipyards and dockyards in proper FC systems.
 

Adventwolf

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In OTL / Lore, the FC doesn't care/support much, if any the Highlanders. In fact, that helped a lot when Sun-Tzu sent his men to mess with the world.
St.Ives only gets the Pillager in 3057, again with little if any FC help.
Outreach / Wolf Dragoons are mostly independent - ok, in this case by their decision.
These are the only ones that I used. Two semi-independent worlds and a small independent nation, not 'regular' FC worlds.
FC is busy building/rebuilding shipyards and dockyards in proper FC systems.
Except that Outreach and the other are not independent at all. Wolf just likes to think he is because he has the. Clanner superiority complex thing but he is a vassal of Hanse. Hanse just gave them freedom to both of those worlds because he respected them. And you are missing one huge thing on your justification they never asked for help in canon. Wolf again because he was too proud and up his own ass and the Highlanders because they didn't think to ask.

As for St. Ives again that is by their own choices not the FedCom. The FedCom was supporting them with both protection and other support. But Candace refused to let the FedCom help too much because she didn't want to be seen as a puppet. Here you are using their own choices and are trying to play it as the FedCom just ignoring reasonable requests for aid that would have been properly considered and most likely approved.
 

paulobrito

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Ok, independent or semi-independent are not the right expressions - the better is they have a great level of autonomy.
But perception is also important.
Wolf do is shown business, not asking for authorization.
St.Ives prefer to deal with TC because don't want to depend too much on FC.
Northwind, in that case, FC is busy building its network of Shipyards and Dockyards, so no budget to add another one (for now).
Northwind interpreted that as a no, not as a no for now. Casara is a private company, so the FC gov is not forced to invest in them.
 
Chapter 77

paulobrito

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As soon as she heard of the deal between Northwind and the Arano-Bassot, Melissa Steiner-Davion always the consummate diplomat, made a “counter” proposal by which the FedCom would pay half the upgrade costs of the Cosara lines in exchange for a preferred status for 25% of its production and 50% of the dockyard against preferential rates for using it.






That proposal was very well accepted by the council of Elders in Northwind and by the administration of Cosara Weaponeries.


After all, why should Melissa and Hanse be preoccupied by the Arano-Bassot deals? They had helped rebuild the Wolf Dragoons, improved the production for St. Ives – a client state at best – and now they were upgrading the factories in Northwind and providing tech support for the construction of a dockyard in a world that belongs to the Federated Commonwealth – at a time that the FedCom had its tech capability fully used on other projects. For the Steiner-Davion this sounded like a good deal.


At least that was the official version but who really knows what is going on behind the scenes?






After a long and tortuous investigation, TMI was reasonably sure that it had discovered who communicated the targets to the 'pirates'.
After providing them with an interesting target - a Leviathan carrying an extremely valuable cargo - the trap was set, and all we had to do was to wait for them to show up.
This time, everything went as TMI had predicted - the pirates, disguised as civilians in one of the DropShips carried by said JumpShip, tried to capture the JumpShip, but instead of a valuable cargo, they found a force of marines equipped with battle armor and PA(L)s. Once the signal was given, the suspected location in Taurus was also stormed by special forces. Said special forces also used in large quantity PA(L)s and some VTOL transported battle-armor that dropped through the roof at the same time. So fast and brutal was the operation that some 'pirates' were captured alive, but unfortunately, their unknown equipment was destroyed, even if some state-of-the-art code-breaking and listening tools from obvious Capellan origin was found. After a 'robust' interrogation (including narco-interrogation), nothing of interest was revealed, except for that it was a classic cell system well compartmentalized, that communicated with others only via coded transmissions, dead drops and other similar means, making it impossible to identify the final destination.
The 'pirates' captured on the JumpShip had with them another prize in their logs, the coordinates of destination, an uninhabited system near the border with the Capellan Confederation.
The coordinates were immediately sent to a task force that was waiting on standby, and that on February 12th, 3053 entered the system simultaneously at the nadir and zenith jump-points.
At the nadir jump point, the TCS Samantha Calderon a Congress class Frigate, carrying 2 Lee-CV arrived accompanied by 1 Mriya, while at the zenith jump-point, the TCS Cyrton, a Pinto class Corvette, carrying 1 Lee-CV arrived accompanied by 1 Mriya. In both locations, the TDF quickly took control of the JumpShips waiting there , while the DropShips were launched in the direction of the 'pirate' base location.


Unfortunately, a Scout JumpShip was near the base at a pirate point, and before the Taurian DropShips arrive, a DropShip departed from the pirate base and soon after a series of explosions destroyed it. That DropShip successfully docked the Scout JumpShip and departed the system under the impotent but furious Taurian sights.
Their only consolation was that the base had been put out of service. Analysis of the base debris didn’t give any usable information.
Only three JumpShips and five DropShips were recovered, the rest according to the surviving “pirates” having been sold or sent away.
 

Adventwolf

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There is the possibility that it is old ComStar or WoB operatives trying to get revenge on the Concordant as it isn't that hard to figure out that the Taurians played a major role in undercutting their old power and attempts to plunge the Inner Sphere into oblivion for their own selfish goals.
 
Chapter 78

paulobrito

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During 3052, the Marian Hegemony launched several raids on Lothian planets. With her defending forces losing power, Dame Lorelei Logan asked in January of 3053 the Taurian Concordat for help, fearing that a full invasion would be soon taking place as the Civil War in the FWL allowed the Marian Hegemony some liberty on that border.






Edward Calderon decided to help in two ways. First, the Taurian Concordat contracted several small mercenary units, company and lance size, in the name of the Lothian League. These were to delay the Marian forces long enough for the Taurian forces to arrive. Secondly, he sent an expeditionary force, composed of two ’Mechs battalions from the 3rd Taurian Guards Brigade, with their combined arms support, escorted by the TCS Zarantha Calderon, the first Concordat Frigate to go through the latest refit program. That the Zarantha Calderon could easily carry 2 Lee CV with 80 modern ASFs, and 2 Lee PW for this particular mission, to provide aerospace support was also taken into account. The TDF didn’t want to lose any WarShip like the WoB, because of a lack of support.


The equipment of the expeditionary force was obviously up-to-date with the latest Concordat.






With the expeditionary force went also one Leviathan JumpShip carrying 7 Starlifter DropShips, loaded with enough supplies, spares and ammo for an extended campaign, and one loaded with two-way HPG satellites, to create a direct link between the Concordat and the Lothian League. Said satellites, were a relatively recent product of the Concordat HPG research, to supplement the planet based HPG stations and to replace the older Comstar DRUM network in the Concordat area of interest.


The need to don’t cross the Capellan Confederation and Free Worlds League territory, added about ten weeks to the voyage, but even so, the Taurian force arrived on Lothario by the end of 3053, a few weeks before the Marion Hegemony started the invasion.





Meanwhile, in the FWL the Civil War had changed drastically, Oriente, until now a reluctant supporter of Thomas, changed sides in a spectacular way.


A fleet of several JumpShips suddenly appeared at a pirate point in the Gibson system, near the dockyard. Not wasting time, they launched several Assault DropShips, while many CV ones started to launch waves of ASFs.


The dockyard wasn’t left without protection, with several squadrons of ASFs and a lone WarShip, WoBS Blake’s Redemption, a Vincent Mk.39. The defenders did what they could, but the raiders were superior in number and had Assault DropShips supporting them. The Vincent, like most designs of SLDF origin, was not good at fighting Aerospace Fighters and the attackers were heavily loaded with Alamos. While the more agile fighters dealt with the defending ASFs the heavies attacked the lone WarShip. Hit by several nukes, the Vincent was quickly destroyed but it didn’t go alone having taken dozen of Heavy ASFs with him. Soon, Alamos started to rain on the dockyard, on the docked WarShips, and on the infrastructure that was being built to expand the dockyard to a full shipyard.


But, the ASFs, Pocket WarShips and Assault DropShips that were based on Gibson managed to intercept the waiting JumpShips before they could jump again, and they did so with a vengeance, letting the Oriente forces trapped in the system. Now, without a place to flee or refuel-and rearm they were easy targets and none escaped alive.






In exchange for seven JumpShips , 4 Star Lords and three Invaders, ten Vengeance DropShips and an unknown number of Assault DropShips and Pocket Warships and a bit over four hundred ASFs, four WarShips had been destroyed – Blake’s Redemption (Vincent), Deliverance (Essex), Divine Command (Naga) and Immortal Spirit (Aegis). The dockyard and all the infrastructure under construction to upgrade it to a full shipyard had been also destroyed. This blow executed by the full space force of the Fusiliers of Oriente had reduced the active Word of Blake Navy to only four WarShips. Without a home base, they were now dependent upon the few shipyards controlled by Thomas Marik, as the order has none left.
 

Adventwolf

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This should give the MoC the chance they need to move on the Marian Hegemony. While they are busy being bogged down by the TDF the MAF can come in from the other side. That way both powers can carve up the Marians holding, expand their holdings, their power, and more importantly for the public relations free the many enslaved and oppressed people in the Hegemony.
 

Shermpotter

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So, I just finished getting caught up. You do need a Beta reader versed in English, but that's certainly not a deal breaker. I was sincerely hoping that your SI would do a little more to cure the stupids in BT, especially with Jaime Wolf shirking his responsibility given him by his Khan, but it is still an interesting story and look forward to more.
 

Adventwolf

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So, I just finished getting caught up. You do need a Beta reader versed in English, but that's certainly not a deal breaker. I was sincerely hoping that your SI would do a little more to cure the stupids in BT, especially with Jaime Wolf shirking his responsibility given him by his Khan, but it is still an interesting story and look forward to more.
And how excatly would he have done that? What does Jean-Luc have left that could be used to force Jaime's hand? He already outed that they are aware the Dragoons are a vanguard of the Clans and that the clans are a thing. How is Jean-Luc supposed to "fix the stupid" as you say when other people still have agency. This isn't some power fantasy where the SI knows everything and everyone will follow them no matter what they say.
 
Chapter 79

paulobrito

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Lothian League


Lothario System


February 23, 3054


Zenith Jump-Point






Eight JumpShips suddenly emerged, transporting the I Legio of the Mario Hegemony. Caesar Sean O’Reilly believed in going for the jugular, so he had decided to start the invasion of the Lothian League by directly invading the capital world, thinking that after securing Lothario, conquering the rest of the League would be little more than mopping up.


After a year and half of constant raiding, he was confident that the enemy forces were exhausted, even if the number of mercenary units under Lothian colors had been superior to what was expected.


However, less than half an hour of the emergence, just as the DropShips had formed and started to move itowards the distant capital planet, the alarms sounded – an emergence jump-point was detected almost on top of his forces.


What emerged was a WarShip, one that immediately launched four big spheroid DropShips, easily bigger than the only Overlord of the I Legio, and a continuous number of ASFs.


On all frequencies the same message was heard – ‘This is Space Master Adam Ostergaard of the Taurian Navy. The Lothian League is under our protection. Surrender (pause) or be destroyed.’





TCS Zarantha Calderon Bridge


‘Don’t be stupid, power down…’


‘You said something Ensign?’


‘No Sir. Sir, they are accelerating in our direction!’


‘So, you chose Death. So be it. All ships, open fire.’


The first ship hit was the Overlord Maximus, flagship of the Marion Hegemony Expeditionary Force. Stricken by 3 Naval Lasers 55, it lost power immediately, venting atmosphere from several places. It was quickly followed by two Unions, hit by several NAC/30 shells, while two Triumphs and another Union were hit by several Killer Whale, fired by the two Lee PW.






During this time, the 32 ASFs from the I Legio were targeted by 52 Heavy ASFs, a mix of Hell Duck, Vulcan 6N and Thunderbird D36b, all loaded with AAM. Even before they got in range, the Marian Fighters were all killed, each hit by two or more Arrow IV missiles, while the lighter ASFs, Sabre 27b and Dragonfly MM-3 stayed behind guarding the Taurian Fleet.





‘This is not a battle, it is a massacre.’


‘You are right, Ensign, but it was their choice, I asked then to surrender. They decided to attack.’


‘Sir, the radio. They are asking to surrender.’


‘Put me on.’


...


‘Reduce the relative speed to zero and shutdown your engines. Prepare to be boarded. Any resistance will be dealt with deadly force.’


‘Well, I see that our ground-ponders friends are going to be disappointed.’


‘Navy Rules, Sir.’


‘Navy Rules, indeed.’
 
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paulobrito

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To be honest is the most one-sided space battle I can write. I tried to show the difference between a modern, well equipped level2 force against a weak level 1.
This can happen in OTL in the first days of the Clan invasion. ITTL? not so much right now.
 

Adventwolf

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Well never say that the leaders of Pirate Nations are smart when faced with overwhelming force. With this the Lothian and Canopians can now invade the Marian Hegemony and expand their own power base. The Lothians would also likely get more support from Taurians to make them a better place to live so they become a greater ally for both the TC and MoC.
 
Chapter 80

paulobrito

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Note.: This chapter is chronologically before chapter 79, this is what happens during the time the Taurian task-force is moving into the Lothian League.

In August 3053, a high-level Canopian delegation arrived in Taurus for negotiations following the evolution of the situation in the Free Worlds League, the Marian Hegemony with the aim of dealing with these peculiar situation and with the territory between both nations.
The fact that the Magistracy and the Concordat had an excellent relationship since before the beginning of Emma Centrella's reign, and had complementary objectives and very few conflicts of interest, eased the negotiations considerably.

By the end of September they had agreed on the following, the systems West of a line Liu's Memory - Fronc (including both) would fall under the sphere of influence of the Magistracy, while those East of said line would be for the Taurian Concordat.
Regarding the Marian Hegemony, it was decided that as soon as the Marian Armed Forces invaded the Lothian League (something that both nations took for granted), the MAF would invade the systems of Islington, Algenib, Mariu's Tears, Horatius and Ballalaba, while the remaining systems - Bacallieu, Pompey, Suetonius, Stafford, Alphard (the capital), Addhara and New Venice would be occupied by the TDF. As soon as the MAF had available forces, it would also clean Astrokaszy from the pirates present there.

The goal of the Concordat was to either add ”its” worlds to the Lothian League while at the same time turning it into a client state or to create a Concordat enclave if negotiations with Lothian League were not to its liking, while all the Magistracy wanted was to eliminate a troublesome neighbor (and win several systems), taking advantage of the fact that the Free Worlds League was busy with a nasty civil war and couldn’t do anything.

To allow for this decisive strike,, the Magistracy had to authorize the movement of a considerable number of Concordat forces through its territory, in order for them to arrive on time. This was taken into account in the new military alliance between both nations, which considerably expanded the treaty in force since the end of Andurien Crisis / Periphery Wars of the 3030s.
Among the forces sent by the Concordat were the 1st Battalion of the Revenants and the Reach Guards (the former Aurigan Royal Guards) as well as 3 other battalions of ‘’Mechs, all with combined arms support. Sending so many of the core Arano-Bassot forces was a move from they political enemies, hoping that they would suffer grave losses, and at same time let Coromodir with weak protection. That was swiftly counter-balanced by Kamea, contracting the St. Cyr Heavy Assault Group, that had just ended its contract with the Federated Commonwealth. An expensive move, no doubt, but in the end the defense of Coromodir was even increased.
Part of the agreements included the Concordat providing equipment and training to Magistracy technicians to develop, implement, and maintain a native HPG network.
The biggest surprise, however, was the Magistracy informing the Concordat that it had acquired two WarShips, the MCS Coranna and the MCS Kossandra. While the first was a Whirlwind class Destroyer the second was a Texas class Battleship. The problem was that although the MAF was able, at the limit, to maintain the MCS Coranna, the repair of the MCS Kossandra because of serious problems to the keel was far beyond the capabilities of Magistracy. Due to these problems, the Magistracy proposed to exchange the ship for two Concordat class Frigates and two Pinto class Corvettes as well as training personnel to maintain and crew them.
After deliberations ,the TDF Navy, always eager to get its hands on a bigger WarShip, agreed on the idea but only after a close inspection by Taurian technicians to know if they could do something out of it.
Of course, the Concordat was also very curious to know how the Magistracy managed to get its hands on such WarShips or the advanced ’Mechs they had recently deployed.


The answer was a fascinating story, that the Magistracy didn’t share right now but the truth emerged years later. Some years ago, an exploration ship in Deep Periphery South of Magistracy, had found a system with a dead colony. In orbit, there were several JumpShips and two WarShips, while on the ground, nothing indicated that there had been a conflict. Taking the maximal protection (use of advanced Hazmat suits for everyone stepping on the planet), the exploration ship found out after investigation that all these were the remains of a ghost colony, clearly in the middle of expansion phase by the look of the infrastructure. Only after a hospital had been found, they were able to get a picture of what had happened. According to the records that were found, a native virus spread in the colony 5 years after they had landed. By the time they noticed the problem, it was already widespread and people were dying at a very high rate. The records ended with no indication of a cure or of any survivors.
As for the origin of the colonists, they seemed to be the survivors of a Second Exodus, calling themselves SLDF in Exile / Wolverines. The WarShips in orbit were the SLS Yukon (destroyer), now the MCS Coranna and the SLS Bismark (battleship), now the MCS Kossandra.
Due to the care needed to prevent the people involved in the removing of the hardware, to catch the lethal virus that had killed the colony, it took years to transfer the equipment and ships back to the Magistracy, something that at this moment, mid 3053, was in the final phase. Not only did they have about a regiment of advanced ’Mechs, including several models never seen before (among them the Bull Shark), but also a fully automated ’Mech factory, that had been transferred to the Magistracy and was currently working at full capacity.



What the Magistracy got from the dead Wolverine colony apart the hardware, was a treasure trove of information. The stories of the Exodus, the Pentagon Civil War, Operation Klondike, the creation of the Clans, the Trial of Annihilation of Clan Wolverine, and their Second Exodus to the doomed colony near the Magistracy, where the last ones had died. Also several technical datacores with information on iron wombs, advanced weapons like the Enhanced ER PPC and ER Medium Laser that until now were only produced by the Concordat and several advanced designs like the already mentioned Bull Shark, or the Pulverizer, Stag I and II, Mercury II and Wolverine II. But the most important information was the location of the Clans Homeworlds and the full maps of the Exodus Road, the original one and the reverse one taken by the Wolverines during they return to the Inner Sphere and beyond. That information was shared with the Concordat, in exchange for support in several projects, including terraforming and help in building/upgrading strategic (civil and military) industrial complexes. It was decided between both nations that this information would not to be shared with other, at least not for the time being.

Jean-Luc also wanted access to that information and to more designs. While thanks to being part of the Concordat elite, he was granted access to much of it, he couldn’t get access to others as the Canopian protected their advanced automated factory, that apparently was even more advanced than the late SL ones that the VMI and CHI had. Even after negotiating with Emma Centrella and in exchange for sending technicians to help creating a battle-amour factory in Canopus and providing production rights of the Dragonfly MM-3 and 3R, Jean-Luc only got the blueprints and production rights for the Mercury II, but no data on the automated advanced factory . On the plus side, the Canopians also shared the full specs of the Nighthawk Mk.XXII (not the XXI or XXX, the ones with stealth armor, if they had access to it, these were MIM only) in exchange for helping building a factory to produce them.
 

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