Seabear, on 15 March 2012 - 08:08 AM, said:
Davion and Liao in a death struggle, hum. Yeah, let's you and him fight! While you two struggle for existence, we will rearrange our borders with the CC and protect a few (or many) of their planets from your eventual "liberation". You Federats weren't too bad until you got mixed up with the Lyrans.
If you check the history, Comstar put an interdiction on house Davion for an alleged attack on a HPG station just before the 4th SW. They had to rely on the "secret" black boxes for comunication for years.
So,
about that interdiction...
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ComStar also took an interest in the course of the war. The supposedly neutral power desired smaller, more fragmented nation that would be easier to manipulate, but the 4th War seemed to promise a mighty Federated Commonwealth. ComStar decided to slow the AFFS' progress by imposing a communications interdiction. They faked an AFFS attack on the HPG on Sarna and used the "incident" as the excuse they needed. Unbeknownst to ComStar, Hanse Davion had changed the units he used to assault Sarna at the last minute, alerting him to ComStar's duplicity. Despite that, Hanse could not afford to openly challenge ComStar, so he made no public statement about it.
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ComStar showed their perfidy once more towards the end of the war. In order to set back the technological progress of the Successor States, ComStar executed a raid on the New Avalon Institute of Science. They disguised themselves as the Death Commandos, the elite commandos of the Capellan Confederation and personal bodyguards of Chancellor Liao. During the battle, Prince Hanse Davion took to the field himself in his BattleMaster. The attack did only superficial damage to the university, but did great damage to ComStar in Hanse Davion's eyes. His spies in the Capellan Confederation later reported to him that the Death Commandos were on the planet Kathil during the time of the raid, so there was no way they could have pulled it off. Coupled with the knowledge of the supposed HPG destruction on Sarna, Hanse came to the only logical conclusion.
The Fox already knows that ComStar's neutrality is a sham, and he even knew that the Capellans were not involved with regard to the attack on the NAIS.
As for the League "protecting" Capellan worlds... it seems like there is little faith placed in the capabilities of the League's Capellan allies?
Moreover, from what I understand, "Janos Marik was quite satisfied watching the other successor states to 'let the fools knock themselves dizzy while we sit back, rest, and enjoy'. However, his allies convinced him to attack the Lyran Commonwealth's 'weakly' defended border to the Free Worlds League."
The League leadership just couldn't (and perhaps still can't?) leave well-enough alone, could they?
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