CyclonerM, on 23 February 2014 - 04:14 AM, said:
First, the Trial of Annihilation was illegal. It was a Trial of Refusal. The envious Falcons even tried to absorb the Wolves but you know how long have the Jade Wolves lived.
Their whole "victory", a pyrrhic victory as Gyrok pointed out, was illegal. You claim to be the most honorable Clan. You even claim to be true followers of the Clan way.. But Khan Chistu must not be a Jade Falcon then: he ambushed Ulric Kerensky after a honorable duel had been proclaimed, designating his and his honor guard 'Mechs for hidden LRM Stars instead of facing him in single combat. I say he was a coward!
The events tell us the Crusader Khans were blinded by their presumed superiority. They ignored the IlKhan's advices, each one eager bid low to not allow the Wolves to join the battle in time and share the glory of the victory, and later claimed Ulric Kerensky was plotting against them, while during the invasion, until Tukayyid and even later, the Crusaders did their best to plot against him, envious of the Wolves' success.
False accusations led to the Refusal War eventually.
Back to Chistu's treacherous murder.. Shall i remind you of what happened to Clan Widowmaker when a similar action happened and resulted with the death of Nicholas Kerensky?
Now i go so far as saying that your accusations of weakness and cowardly are false, just as false as the accusations made by the Crusader Khans
LOL (My memory is being stretched now, I may have to leave the thread to re read the books soon :
Again I say to you this is no war of words, I merely relate the facts as they are known so that all may be wiser and choose correctly their allegiances.
It was trial of Refusal yes, but when it became clear how low the leadership of Clan Wolf had sunk it quite rightly turned into a Trial of Abjuration. This is the Clan way. The Wolves could have contested it but they already had committed their touman to the battle so the Trials ran concurrently, this is the Clan way. Clan Wolf lost and proved in their defeat their Warden views were weak. To the victor goes the spoils. This is the Clan way.
The Falcons quite rightly claimed the spoils of battle, in their generosity they allowed the remenants of the Wolf Clan some identity by labelling them Jade Wolves, and Vlad Ward reclaimed the Clan Wolf and it remenants through trial, none can dispute this, this is the way of Clans. Next time perhaps the Falcon will not be so generous and will instead destroy utterly those who fall before them.
There was nothing pyrric in Falcons victory, they had strength enough to defeat the Inner Sphere forces on the way to Coventry less than 12 months after the refusal war, strength enough to defeat the Innersphere forces defending Coventry, they blooded their warriors and returned to their holdings. Granted they were only Inner Sphere barbarians but I suspect the Smoke Janguars think more highly of the barbarians now, as well do Clan Wolf who could only manage a draw in the Great Refusal.
You harp on about this supposed treachery against Ulric. There was no treachery. Months earlier Ulric himself pledged the Wolf Touman in support of his claim, and the Falcons pledged theirs. There was no mystery second touman on the grassy knoll. If Ulric allowed himself to be overcome by his declared opponent it only reinforces how weak he was. Ulric was always good at words and not actions so yes perhaps he thought with his traitorous tounge he could talk his way out of combat but he was mistaken.
And now you have perhaps highlighted the greatest weakness of Clan Wolf. It is true that the Clans bid for the honour of defeating Comstar in Clan Style. They did so in the belief that their Il Khan had bid well in their favour. Clearly he had not but worse. Ulric allowed the other Clans to weaken the enemy such that when Wolf finally arrived to the field they could do naught else but win. Comstar all but broken by the might of the Invaders even hindered as they were by Ulrics treachery. And so to the Wolf Clan goes a great victory in there Clan history, bought and paid for by the warriors of the Invaders.
This is why the traitor was called before the Grand Council, while the charges may have been otherwise, in spirit Ulric manipulated the Grand Councils will to suit his own agenda. This is the truth of the Warden Wolves. Let others such as your mercenary father or the armies of the Lyran Commonwealth fight and die, then swoop in and claim the glory. Politicians and manilpulators I call them out as. Led by a Freebirth, need I say more?
The acqusations brought before the Grand Council were found to be truth, and the Trial demanded by the Warden Wolves settled the matter in the field of combat, the charges were proven.
That you question the ability and integrity of the Grand Council does not surprise me, you have that luxury of "talk' now that you have abandoned the Clans. But you are not of the Clans, a fact proven by your rout from the field, and your abjuration. Even Vlad Ward when he claimed the Jade Wolves as his Irsola abandoned you.
(Really running out of material now )