The room was filled with teak and marble.
Ancient furniture handcrafted centuries ago.
The representatives of the various houses had joined the room and sat down, waiting for the meeting to begin.
When the Primus entered the room she was accompanied by a tall grown man with an eye patch. They assumed position at their desk and she smiled into the circle speaking:
"I welcome you, representatives of the great Houses of the Inner Sphere.
It is a great honor to welcome you on sacret Terra, here in old Europe. I hope you jenoy your stay in Prague.
But let us start!
The Order is empolying several programs besides the maintianance of the HPG network, always dutiful trying to benefit humanity.
One of those programs is the so called 'Explorer Corps' which was founded to search for lost worlds, new, habitable planets, maintain contact with nations in the deeper periphery and also search for the remains of the SLDF who left with General Aleksandr Kerensky, as you sure all know.
And this is also the reason for why I called you here:
We have found the SLDF in Exile!"
she gave this a moment to sink in
"Roughly a year ago the magellan jumpship 'Outbound Light'" she pushed a button and a holo came to life showing the somehow strange looking ship
"A
Magellan class jumpship equipped with a HPG array jumped into a system near the
Gum Neblua the designation of the system was HT-34#45/3.
The mission of the JumpShip was to search for habitable planets near the three nebulas in the region.
The exact coordinates from terra are: 31.17:1,754.07 light years.
The system they encountered hosted seven planets, one of them in the 'blue belt' of a solar system that was able to host life and, much to the surprise of the crew onboard the 'Outbound Light' a space station at Nadir jump point.
They quickly got hailed. We got the message transmitted to us, let me bring it up:
"This is StarCaptain Eric Folkner of the Ebon Guard. Unknown ship. You have entered Strana Mechty. You are on holy ground. State your clan, designation and issue a trial or prepare to be boarded. You have understood, quiaff?"
The sensors of our ship picked up heavy traffic in the system and a lot of radio traffic coming from the 4th planet in the system.
They were able to send several packages of informations befor getting boarded and finally subtued."
she looked sidewards
"Ladies and Gentlemen. May I present Precentor Martial, Anastasius Focht who will let us in on the details."
he rose, something was odd about this man, he seemed familliar, still so vastly different...
"Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Anastasius Focht. I am commander of the ComGuards. But about that we will talk later. Now about our find:
It is brought down to several key informations:
We have found the remainders of the SLDF and they now call themselves 'The clans'. From the various designations we picked up there have to be several of them. They seem to be organized by animal names. We got
Ebon Keshik
Jade Falcon
Wolf
Ice Hellion
Nova Cat
Hells Horses
Star Adder
and
Cloud Cobra.
So it seems they fractured quite a bit.
We also were able to gather some informations about their ships. Several Warships, mostly old SLDF designs like the Texas, Potemkin and also Vincent were present but also a new design that was docked to a massive yard array over the 4th planet.
You all heard the radio message. The man was talking about a 'Trial' and used a completely unfamiliar rank designation.. 'StarCaptain'."
he put his hands on the table
"We do know little more, but we must asume that most of the SLDF in Exile Survived in this region of Space.
Comstar has long thought about theese facts and we came to a conclusion: Now that we know that the SLDF in Exile is out there. And now that they are there, Comstar has put a great effort into trying to blend in with then and learn about them.
What we gathered so far is that there are roughly fifteen clans. They are strictly organized by a caste system with the warriors building the top of the system.
The forces are organized in clusters, roughly a reinforced batallion of soldiers and those again are united in Galaxies, so basically speaking a reinforced regiment, maybe two.
Most clans seem to be pretty small, though with five to a maximum of ten galaxies in size overall.
They seem to have some kind of warship support, but no heavy it seems. The average seems to be somewhere between five and ten warships again.
Now where does this lead us?
The question is: Should we leave them alone? Will they even want to come back?
I say: We must strike! Taking the war to them is better than letting them wage war in our beloved Inner Sphere!
I would suggest a three step plan:
Step one: Reunite the Periphery powers into the Inner sphere to concentrate our powers
Step two: As most of you are already sporting some hidden warships or have warship programs running yourself, comstar will equip you with the techniques to kickstart your own programs or, change into third gear, so to say
Step three: ReForm the StarLeague, unite most of our armies and deep-strike the clan homeworld directly.
Therefor I would ask for at least fifty percent of every states army plus maybe another ten to twenty five percent, just to make sure we can overwhelm them with massive numers.
Comstar itself would provide the full extent of the Comguards, roughly ten regiments of forces risen from Terra and the cached and remaining warships that were in mothball since the days of the StarLeague to the mission.
I would call it
'Case White'We would assemble, just as the SLDF did it, in the region near the Outworlds Alliance, DC, Suns border and move from there.
You'll now ask where this world is... Well let me show you!
any questions?"
OOC: Yes it is a clan invasion era IS map - I did not get an older deep periphery map - sorry!
