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[InnerSphereNews]

Sun. Sept 30, 3049: Group arrested on Capella after accusations against government of revisionist history for non-Liao Chancellors.

[Mattiator]

Sounds like business as usual in the Confederation.

[Monsoon]

Hah, no doubt the Capellan's want to revise this article too.

[HandofBane]

Such a shame, those in the group should have realized it was merely a correction to the lies spewed by the previous Chancellors not of the Liao lineage. Accusations of revisionism when one is uninformed of the truth of the matter only causes more problems for all involved. Have no fear, though, they shall receive a proper education on the matter in due time, Chancellor Romano is a benevolent and merciful ruler.

[Chunkymonkey]

Merciful? I am glad that my people succeded along with Duchess Allard-Liao

[Alistair Steiner]

Pretty big typo there. It says "arrested," when it should say "shot on the spot, along with half a dozen innocent bystanders." Unless that madwoman Romano wants to slowly torture them to death while she watches.

[Ezo12]

Huh... Ouch...

[SwordofLight]

The true irony is that the official Laio history is itself revisionist. They entirely leave out how House Kurita was the last and most loyal supporter of the Star League, that we were the warriors who fought against the Userper and was the loyal military units which would become the Draconis Combine that were responsible for Amaris' eventual downfall. Its remarkable that the Capellans have written themselves such a large part in the history of the Inner Sphere, but having seen textbooks from the other minor houses, their falsehoods are only a matter of degree.

When we've taken back the throne of the Star League, and put down the false claims of hegemony of the Inner Sphere, the record will be set straight, and no one will doubt the inherent greatness of House Kurita and the brave men and women of the Draconis Combine.

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Edited by SwordofLight, 30 September 2012 - 10:11 AM.

[Morang]

Cappies are so cappies. Snakes are close behind them though.

[Strum Wealh]

SwordofLight, on 30 September 2012 - 10:10 AM, said:

The true irony is that the official Laio history is itself revisionist. They entirely leave out how House Kurita was the last and most loyal supporter of the Star League, that we were the warriors who fought against the Userper and was the loyal military units which would become the Draconis Combine that were responsible for Amaris' eventual downfall. Its remarkable that the Capellans have written themselves such a large part in the history of the Inner Sphere, but having seen textbooks from the other minor houses, their falsehoods are only a matter of degree.

When we've taken back the throne of the Star League, and put down the false claims of hegemony of the Inner Sphere, the record will be set straight, and no one will doubt the inherent greatness of House Kurita and the brave men and women of the Draconis Combine.

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Oh, really?

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No one will ever know exactly how much [Minoru Kurita] actively aided Amaris during the seven years of his war against the Star League. What we do know is that Minoru turned down a request from Colonel Bradley, commander of the 3rd Regimental Combat Team (the Eridani Light Horse), to use Kurita worlds as bases of operation for their attacks against Amaris forces. Some evidence also indicates that it was a member of the ISF who tipped off Amaris to the plans of the 3rd RCT’s 19th Striker Regiment. Amaris used the information to ambush and destroy the 19th, one of the best units in the Regular Army.
It was more what the Combine did not do that angered the rest of the Inner Sphere. While the other states were allowing the Regular Army to pass through their realms and to use Star League bases, Minoru banned General Kerensky from entering the Draconis Combine. It reached the point that General Kerensky had to invade a portion of the Combine to get the use of several Star League facilities he needed to create a flanking front on Amaris. On Vega, lmbro, Styx, and Altair, Regular Army forces clashed with DCMS forces. To be fair, these confrontations were little more than token engagements in which the Combine forces retreated after only a few minutes of combat.

And then there's this little gem:

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My private audience with General Aleksandr Kerensky did not turn out exactly as I had hoped. He refused to stop his military maneuvers near Luthien. This displeases me much, and so I have ordered as many ISF agents as can be spared to infiltrate the Regular Army. We must have an earlier warning the next time General Kerensky decides to try to bully the Draconis Combine. Not only will he fail to get his way, but his military exercises might have to be postponed in favor of defending his very life.
Why so many people are so pleased to hear that he has been appointed Regent and Protector is mystery. He is a soldier. An excellent one, true, but a soldier nevertheless.
It is doubtful that he will stray too far from what Simon Cameron would have wished. If he were truly as good as everyone claims, he would take his power as Regent and rule as First Lord until the boy Richard comes of age.
Even now, it seems that the young Cameron lacks the inner authority to rule effectively-not ten years from now,not twenty, not thirty years from now. We will have no choice but to gut the Star League once and for all.
—From the personal diary of Takiro Kurita, entry dated June 2751

Both of the above are excerpts from ComStar's own report on the Draconis Combine, and it sounds like the rulers of the Combine at the time had little love for the Camerons and the Star League and did everything short of trying to assassinate Kerensky during the Amaris Coup.

"House Kurita was the last and most loyal supporter of the Star League"? 'Twas hardly the case.

Takiro Kurita and his son Minoru did naught to be helpful during the Amaris Coup.
The latter started the First Succession War by attacking the Lyrans in some misguided attempt at "Bujitsu", and his son Jinjiro massacred Kentares IV after they had the audacity - the sheer nerve - to not supplicate themselves before such a sullied House.

[Serevn]

The fact is everyone hates us so they will do everything they can to put us in a bad light so they can label us the bad guys, when their no better.

Edited by Serevn, 30 September 2012 - 09:49 PM.

[Capp]

So much Kool-Aid, so little time.

I'll count my Cbills instead.

[SwordofLight]

Strum Wealh, on 30 September 2012 - 10:51 AM, said:

Both of the above are excerpts from ComStar's own report on the Draconis Combine, and it sounds like the rulers of the Combine at the time had little love for the Camerons and the Star League and did everything short of trying to assassinate Kerensky during the Amaris Coup.

"House Kurita was the last and most loyal supporter of the Star League"? 'Twas hardly the case.

Takiro Kurita and his son Minoru did naught to be helpful during the Amaris Coup.
The latter started the First Succession War by attacking the Lyrans in some misguided attempt at "Bujitsu", and his son Jinjiro massacred Kentares IV after they had the audacity - the sheer nerve - to not supplicate themselves before such a sullied House.

Ah, yes, ComStar, the House that isnt a House. The Inner Sphere power fighting for control of the Inner Sphere by pretending it isnt. Yes, I'm sure their report on how they should be the new Star League and we shouldnt is entirely objective and fair. Whenever anyone tries to point out how evil we Dragons are (I do believe I heard the word 'snake' somewhere?) they always bring up the dreaded Kentares Massacre. As if somehow the mere mention of that battle somehow dismisses all other arguments for House Kurita. The real story is that the Federated Suns, knowing how poorly they fared in honorable combat, armed their civilians with suicide devices and other dishonorable tactics of asymetric warfare, and ordered the assassination of the noble Minoru Kurita who was overseeing the liberation of the world. The Davs knew if he were allowed to live, he'd easily win over the population, and so they ruthlessly murdered him. When Coordinator Jinjiru learend of Davion's declaraition of total war, he understood that the Feds would use any and all means to stop their people from gaining their freedom, and gave the order to treat all Kentarese citizens as lawful combatants. I've heard other people use numbers like 52 million and 90%, but these are gross exagerations, and do not accuratly reflect the casualties suffered by the DCMS rooting out insurgents. The order to use melee weapons was given, but it was to prevent the wholesale destruction of the planet's infrastructure during the urban campaigns.

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[Balls of Steele]

InnerSphereNews, on 30 September 2012 - 02:00 AM, said:

Sun. Sept 30, 3049: Group Happy children arrested given lollipops and candy on Capella after accusations applauding against the government of revisionist history for accurate and well written textbooks on non-Liao Chancellors.

FTFY

-friendly neighbourhood Maskirovka

[Wintersbite]

So the Texas Textbook Board became House Liao.

[Wintersbite]

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[Jmb]

Liao family doing revisionist history? Wish I had one of those pictures that says "YOU DON'T SAY!"

[Allyssa Marix]

In referance to the Capellan "arrests" is anyone really suprised. Romano Liao is only half as nuts as her insane father. Sun Tsu maybe the only sane member to come out of that house. Always made me wonder about his lineage.
For the Combine supporters on here, talk about revisionist history. The SLDF did most of the fighting to remove the Amaris ***** from the Star League while all the great houses manuevered to take advantage of the position to become the First Lord of the Star League.
As much as I think General Alexander Kerensky was a coward for abandonning the Star League I do not give any credit to any of the Great Houses either who all eagerly participated in the succession wars, the first being the most destructive.
Also the only reasonable leaders to come out of the Combine started with Theodore Kurita. The rest were as fanatical or worse than Takashi Kurita. During the Succession Wars the only difference between House Kurita and House Liao was that the Combine occupied more space to repress it's people in.