Since the game has ended: The sum up of what would have come this turn:
For all planets with HPG that have seen clan-war:
“You can not prevent…”-Planetary HPG Compound
“Clan Star Adder has won the trail for the world. Set detonation charges to active, we have about 15 Minutes before they come. Lock down all doors, may Blake be with us!”
The timer ran down…
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00:00:03
00:00:02
00:00:01
A giant explosion hit the planet and everything within a 10 mile radius around the HPG compound turned to dust. A pillar of nuclear clouds rose into the skies and a EMP wave was rolling over the planets surface. Things turned, from bad to worse…
For all planets taken by Clans:
“ You can not discuss…”-Planetary BB Compound / Jade Network
“What do you mean I can not send a FTL-Message?”
“We are terrible sorry, but the planet is now under Clan Government, since Jade Enterprises has yet no Service contract with the faction, we can not allow FTL-communications until it is allowed and signed by the new ruler. I am sure you have heard of what happened to the FRN-workers when they proceeded with their normal tasks,…”
“I want to fucking order essential goods, even you must eat…!”
“We are terrible sorry, please refer your problems to your new lords, we are sure they did not take this planet without calculating this problem.”
For all planets taken by Star Adder:
“ You can not grow…”-Rasalhague FRN-HQ / Free Rasalhague Network
“ Shall we increase the size of the network on the recent taken worlds?”
“ We have report that Clan Star Adder has taken some of our workers hostage, until they release them and allow free communications, we would go against company policies by supporting this war for territory. Freedom of information and freedom of speech are not up for discussion.”
“ But if C* make it’s threat true… this will mean disastrous things for dozens of worlds. “
Little did they know that it already had happened…
“ I did not say that I appreciate the current situation.”
General Turn update:
„You can not proceed…“
With the first of September 3042 many things happened in the known galaxy that would shake the Clans Advances into the Inner Sphere:
After the Clans had taken once more numerous worlds, the once formerly controlled by the Capellan Confederation or the Free Worlds League were hit with disastrous explosions, ComStar made their threat true… and blew up all HPG-Compounds. They would not allow the clans to feed their troops with their network. While actually all governments had been warned, it hit them still with surprise, some planetary governor hadn’t believed that they would go this far,… they underestimated the current political situation. Furthermore, JADE Enterprises announced that they had no communication contract with the clan Star Adder and closed its facilities going as far to ship the satellites out with jumpships or simply blowing them up if no free passage was allowed.
On Herotitus, in Star Adder territory, the Conglomerate of Communication Providers (Free Rasalhague Network) announced that they will not increase their Network towards worlds taken by the Clan Star Adder until their workers from Herotitus are set free. Starting a three month strike (for now).
This left all the worlds the Clan had so direly fought for with a problem: They had neither a HPG-Compound used normally by the Clans or C* nor a BB-Network. Without a way for FTL-Communication panic grew and supportlines fell short immediately.
“Somehow” the ISCP (Inner-Sphere Carritative Program) had however been informed about the coming situation and started shipping goods to the worlds in need, yet it were hard cut packages for civillians only.
All Controlworlds and Regional Capital Worlds are reduced to Memberworld Status. Please Note that a MemberWorld can not hold more than 1 FP of troops, therefore all military forces must retreat (into friendly territory) or die of hunger, the emergency rations sent by ISCP are not enough to keep you alive and combatable! Please also read the supplemental rules for Interdiction and Communication Outage for further penalities which include: Research, production, ressources, and intelligience operations. Turning a wolrd back to its old status requires the resources for such a hex element + the costs for a FTL-service station!
In Snow Raven occupied territory, it was nearly the same, with one difference… there were no HPG-Explosions, as there were no HPG-stations that could blow up. Yet Clan Snow Raven found itself still in a simillar situation, they will either have to try to make a deal with Jade Enterprises or find enough resources to build up their HPG-Network. Either way, it will be hard to proceed in the way they originally planned as taking a planet suddenly had become quite expensive and the trials with the samurais hadn’t really thrown supplies at them.
New Samarkand, private chambers of the Coordinator
“Checkmate, your turn…” said Coordinator Theodore Kurita towards his son during a game of shogi. Once more Hohiro found himself in a bad lineup against his father, playing shogi became a daily routine for him as it trained “spirit and intellect” according to his father.
