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[InnerSphereNews]

Fri. March 29th, 3050: Despite a year of envoys on Outreach, famed Gray Death Legion appear in no hurry to leave FedCom service.

[Kiiyor]

Ha, was just reading one of these novels!

[Nikoliy]

If they go to Outreach the authorities will take away all the unseen Marauders they have been using...

[Skylarr]

Why would the Grey Death Legion leave? Victor Steiner-Davion gifted them the planet Glengarry.

[Viper69]

Bout time the news started flowing again.

[Nathan Foxbane]

Even for a merc one does not leave behind a consistant paycheck and good employer relations easily.

[CutterWolf]

Again, "Where are the reports from the war going on in 3 major houses??" You mean to tell us that not one person from the millions and millions effected by the on going Clan invasion have said anything to anyone? There is no ship traffic going on in those star systems at all? No com traffic? Nothing? Really? It's not a secret war, its not happening out somewhere in unknown space.

Edited by CutterWolf, 29 March 2013 - 02:21 PM.

[Damocles]

^Comstar controls communications. They want the Clans to win, why would they want info getting out?

[CutterWolf]

Damocles, on 29 March 2013 - 02:36 PM, said:

^Comstar controls communications. They want the Clans to win, why would they want info getting out?

You can't stop WORD OF MOUTH. They can try to black out coms but they can't stop ship traffic and that ship traffic would be how the word gets out during a coms black out. Plus, we "are" the military and some of the player base is in the houses under attack yet they don't have any idea either. So again, "Where is the news?"

Plus, show me where in Battletech history where it states the Comstar blacked out all coms from those 3 major houses?

Edited by CutterWolf, 29 March 2013 - 02:45 PM.

[Damocles]

We're lone wolves regardless of what we label ourselves as. General population mech owners.

[CutterWolf]

Damocles, on 29 March 2013 - 02:53 PM, said:

We're lone wolves regardless of what we label ourselves as. General population mech owners.

Ah, so magic forces are fighting the Clans right now I see. You mite want to tell that to the almost 60 worlds now under Clan rule at this time......

Edited by CutterWolf, 29 March 2013 - 02:57 PM.

[Skylarr]

CutterWolf, on 29 March 2013 - 02:41 PM, said:

You can't stop WORD OF MOUTH. They can try to black out coms but they can't stop ship traffic and that ship traffic would be how the word gets out during a coms black out. Plus, we "are" the military and some of the player base is in the houses under attack yet they don't have any idea either. So again, "Where is the news?"

Plus, show me where in Battletech history where it states the Comstar blacked out all coms from those 3 major houses?

The Clan Warship, DropShips and Aerospace compliments siezed all inbound Jumpships. The Jumpships that did make it out only were able to jump one planet away. These planets were either part of the 1st Wave (March-April 3050) or were hit as part of the 2nd Wave (May-June 3050) or 3rd Wave (June 3050). It takes a Jumpship and average of 7-Days to recharge. By the late in the 2nd Wave as word of an invasion was spreading along the front Jumpships recharged and jumped further away fro the front.

As stated above ComStar was working with the Clans. So it is believed that they stopped sending transmissions. So either they closed their doors and claimed to be impartial or they just did not send out the messages that they were suppose to transmit or maybe they just delayed them.

[Lord Ikka]

Word of mouth takes months in the BT universe, unless you use a Command Circuit of Jumpships, which is extremely expensive and only really used for House leaders, regimental quick-strikes, and courier communiques.

[Skylarr]

Lord Ikka, on 29 March 2013 - 03:54 PM, said:

Word of mouth takes months in the BT universe, unless you use a Command Circuit of Jumpships, which is extremely expensive and only really used for House leaders, regimental quick-strikes, and courier communiques.

He is correct. Also, non of the planet hit in the first wave would have a Command-Circuit set up.

Edited by Skylarr, 29 March 2013 - 04:16 PM.

[DragonsFire24SS]

just an idea, when they do release clan invasion into the game. Before hand they should have leaked footage giving sneak peeks to the mechs in game.

[CutterWolf]

Skylarr, on 29 March 2013 - 03:44 PM, said:

The Clan Warship, DropShips and Aerospace compliments siezed all inbound Jumpships. The Jumpships that did make it out only were able to jump one planet away. These planets were either part of the 1st Wave (March-April 3050) or were hit as part of the 2nd Wave (May-June 3050) or 3rd Wave (June 3050). It takes a Jumpship and average of 7-Days to recharge. By the late in the 2nd Wave as word of an invasion was spreading along the front Jumpships recharged and jumped further away fro the front.

As stated above ComStar was working with the Clans. So it is believed that they stopped sending transmissions. So either they closed their doors and claimed to be impartial or they just did not send out the messages that they were suppose to transmit or maybe they just delayed them.

That's all fine and all but there was still no way for the Clans to stop every jumpship and those ready to jump during in coming attach would of jumped away and then in another seven days jumped again. ComStar took up a neutral position to set up its self up to be the com providers of what they saw as the "new leadership of the IS" taking place.

However you can not assume that they stopped transmissions as that would have been saw as an act of war by ComStar. Also reinforcements were sent by those houses under attack which clearly slow that com's were indeed up and running. This fact can be proven by just reading the Battletech "Shattered Sphere" 1712 source book.

ComStar did not negotiate with the Clans until "after" the initial invasion. Primus Myndo Waterly's plan was to appear to remain neutral and help the Clan in administration of the conquered worlds in secret. Then once the Clan invasion was done she planned to step in as humanity's savior, thus gaining power over all of human-occupied space. But once she found out that the Clan's wanted to conquer Terra she abruptly changed her plan and sent the Com Guards to fight the Clan's.

Edited by CutterWolf, 29 March 2013 - 06:42 PM.

[Steinar Bergstol]

No offense to the Legion, which has a well-deserved reputation for acquitting itself honorably and professionally since its creation in the early 3020's, but They might as well effectively be a FedCom, or more accurately a Lyran house unit (and the Lyran military would be better for having them). Grayson Carlyle has never made a secret of the fact that he is a Lyran and that he favors the Lyran state over all others as a result. He will never work for the Combine given his multiple clashes with our forces, and particularly those of Duke Hassid Ricol, not to mention the Coordinator's "death to mercenaries" edict is still in effect after all these decades. I'd say the Free Worlds League is also out of the question given the events on Helm. The Capellan Confederation is ruled by an unstable madwoman and Rasalhague has a well known distaste for and bias against mercenaries. That leaves the small paychecks from minor states like Canopus or the Taurians, or a steady job with the FedCom. Not a hard choice for a born and bred Lyran like colonel Carlyle I imagine.