Piper Anderson

Piper Anderson
Character Profile
Affiliation Lyran Commonwealth
Profession Novelist


Piper Anderson is the author of I Want to Believe, a book detailing numerous conspiracy theories including that survivors of Clan Wolverine infiltrated ComStar to foment hostilities between their two great foes - the Great Houses of the Inner Sphere and the Clans - in the hopes both sides would destroy the other.[1]

Overview[edit]

First published June 3056, in I Want to Believe Ms. Anderson addressed the supposed psychic visions of ComStar Primus Adrienne Sims that included amazingly specific references to the Clans - eighty years prior to the Clan Invasion. Though not discounting this was evidence of the unlikely possibility that Sims actually did possess such "higher powers of the mind", a skeptical Ms. Anderson discussed other theories for how Sims could learn of the existence of the Clans prior to the Invasion, such as covert contact between the Inner Sphere and the Clan Homeworlds similar to the more modern known mission of Wolf's Dragoons.[1]

Piper Anderson focused on the colorful theory that elements of Clan Wolverine indeed survived their Trial of Annihilation and reached the Inner Sphere as the mysterious "Minnesota Tribe", later infiltrating ComStar to trigger conflict between the Great Houses and the Clans in the hopes that both sides would destroy the other. Ms. Anderson discussed the possibility that Sims was either an outright Wolverine descendant or non-Wolverine manipulated by them to spread word of her "visions" as a calculated move to foment hostilities while masking how knowledge of the Clans reached the Inner Sphere.[1]

In 3074 during the Jihad, as part of an investigation of supposedly secret documents that Clan Wolverine descendants known as "The Blood" were pulling the strings of the Word of Blake, Chandrasekhar Kurita and his aide Peter Abdulsattah[2] would both openly credit Ms. Anderson with being the first person to suggest this theory, though in the same breath Uncle Chandy would accuse her of being a nut-job who made a wild accusation that turned out to be partially right (if the so-called "Blake Docuements" were real) rather than being based on any actual evidence.[3]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Explorer Corps, p. 7 "Overview"
  2. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 119 "The Not Named - Notes"
  3. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 130 "The Not Named - The Book of Vengeance"

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