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'''''Shadows of Truth''''' was a program whose host was after the [[Jihad]] by [[Werner von Schattenberg]].<ref name=HLoM27093080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [27/09/3080]: "Hidden Legacies of Magellan!"''</ref>

==Overview==
The program was a platform to review several conspirator theories that run after the Jihad. Among these theories we have:
* [[Kacey Edwards]], president of the [[Nesbit Foundation]], explained that the Foundation had been working on a passage of [[Frank Nesbit]]'s prophecies speaking of a man of peace though formidable visage that would redeem the blue marble and usher in a new golden age. That person, followed by many companions, some fell, some fair, would vanquish a great devouring monster, sitting astride the hearthstone of the universe. The Foundation identifies this man as [[Devlin Stone]] and the monster as the [[Word of Blake]], and makes two bold claims:<ref name=TNPC11023080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [11/02/3080]: "The Nesbit Prophecies Confirmed?"''</ref>
:* That Devlin Stone is blood related to [[House Cameron]].
:* A new Star League would be reborn in one year.
* An interview with Professor [[Reginald Themso]] of the Paranormal Institute who defended that [[w:Grigori Rasputin|Grigori Rasputin]] did resurrect after his death and could be seen in historical events like the final photo of [[Richard Cameron]]. He also states that [[w:Count of St. Germain|Comte de Saint-Germain]] was recorded at the court of the Star League, demonstrating his Elixir of Life for [[Jocasta Cameron]], and that he was listed in the records of the Order of the New Dawn as the founding Grandmaster of the [[New Earth]] lodge in [[2185]]. He went also to say that the [[Word of Blake]] claimed Saint-Germain visited [[Jerome Blake]] and warned the ComStar founder of an Amaris plot, while providing him mystical spells with which to see the future.<ref name=IWGtIE05043080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [05/04/3080]: "Immortals Who Guide the Inner Sphere"''</ref>
* Comparative Mythology professor [[Frederick Rotbart]] links Devlin Stone to [[w:King Arthur|King Arthur]]'s mythology.<ref name=TOaFKDS12043080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [12/04/3080]: "The Once and Future King, Devlin Stone?"''</ref>
* Veteran paranormal investigators [[Harold Murray]] and [[Dan Hudson]] along the show's host travel to [[Epsilon Eridani]] and visit the site of the [[Harvard Company, Inc.]]'s aerospace components factory were [[AEAF]] butchered civilians that had tried to found shelter after the bombing of Madison city. Local legends were full of ghost stories originating from the ruins, so they spent 24 hours in the ancient ruins pursuing signs of ghost activity. They showed results allegedly showing the paranormal activity of the site.<ref name=EESLG19043080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [19/04/3080]: "Epsilon Eridani's Star League Ghosts!"''</ref>
* The program covers the subject on the several times there have been accounts of "ghost 'Mechs" or "phantom MechWarriors" with the fruits of uncovered lostech caches. The program explain of two of the last cases, one being the "Ghost Warrior of Tukayyid" (a [[Clan]] pilot said to have destroyed a dozen [[ComStar]] 'Mechs with a small laser, though actually it was the heavy dust buildup what interfered with sensors, and that the [[Mad Cat]] in question was brought down by conventional weapons) and the other being the "''[[Locust]]'' wraith" reported during the liberation of [[Epsilon Eridani]] (which in this case was an advanced BattleMech deployed as a stealth scout and raider and equipped with technologies that melded emissions controls developed by the [[Star League]] with the [[Chameleon Light Polarization Shield|Light Polarization technology]], and asks the audience if this could not have been the case for some of those past cases like the fight between [[Morgan Kell]] and [[Yorinaga Kurita]].<ref name=PMoPM26043080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [26/04/3080]: "Phantom 'Mech or Phony 'Mech?"''</ref>
* A theory that says that in [[2111]], a set of photos taken on [[Tau Ceti]] show neatly arrayed irrigation channels and what appear to be fields of Terran wheat and that also show megalithic pyramids. The theory continues saying that those things actually existed and were destroyed by [[Terran Alliance]] authorities.<ref name=POoT03053080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [03/05/3080]: "Photos Out of Time?"''</ref>
* After interviewing [[Stacy McCloud]], an [[IE]] hand, about the [[Green Ghosts]], the show goes to expose a complex theory that tries to explain the Ghosts' attacks to many religious sites. The theory is that the Ghost are following the trail of the [[Padraic Brotherhood]], who launched the last DropShip sailing outside [[Terra]] just minutes prior to the Amaris Coup was carried, with a passenger identified as A.C., given special passage through security checks as control gave the Brotherhood DropShip priority to depart, and asks if that passenger could be [[Amanda Cameron]] and if hence the Ghost are pursuing the Padraic Brotherhood to find out what happened to the heir of the Camerons.<ref name=GGotC10053080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [10/05/3080]: "Green Ghosts of the Camerons?"''</ref>
* A program dedicated to [[House McQuiston]] and their link to [[w:Banshee|Banshees]]. The program says that [[Ian McQuiston (23rd c.)|Ian McQuiston]]'s great-great-grandfather Perry married the last daughter of one of the sub-branches of the [[w:Clan Donald|Clan MacDonald of Skye]], hence granting him a funeral dirge by the Banshees. As McQuiston had no siblings on [[Terra]] so the clan authority traveled with him to his manor outside the Bannockburn Bogs on Skye. With him the Banshees came, and there were several observation on them during the years starting with the death of McQuiston's first wife, and including an appearance before [[Archon]] [[Robert Marsden]]'s coup, the [[Draconis Combine|Kurita]] invasion of [[2407]], and after the doomed marriage of [[Regina McQuiston]]. But even with the disappearance of House McQuiston, the Banshees have been sighted again when Skye comes under threat, most recently at the beginning of the Jihad.<ref name=BoSC17053080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [17/05/3080]: "Banshees on Skye?"''</ref>
* An interview with investigative reporter [[George Kerry]] that links [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]] to the ''Hellfire and Brimstone Society'' on the campus of the [[NAIS]], and to its alleged celebrations of a [[w:Black Mass|Black Mass]] and the worship of an idol called [[w:Baphomet|Baphomet]]. The program went to say that the idol was brought to [[New Avalon]] by the first Terran colonists and that every scion of the First Families of New Avalon was a member of the society. Satanism expert [[Johann Morgenstern]] said that for Katherine to join the society a buy-in would have been required, a sacrifice, and if it was from a dearer person and in a profane way, the better, linking this to the murder of his mother [[Melissa Steiner-Davion]].<ref name=TIFP31053080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [31/05/3080]: "The Infernal First Princess!"''</ref>
* Occult expert [[Christian Weishaupt]] explains that only the [[w:Rosicrucianism|Rosicrucian Order]] existed and survived at least until the fall of the [[Star League]]. The program goes to say that [[w:Francis Bacon|Francis Bacon]] demonstrated an immortality Elixir at the height of the Star League, and influenced [[Jerome Blake]], and ask the viewers who could tell how much power his Order wields behind the scenes after the Jihad.<ref name=AMotIS07063080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [07/06/3080]: "Alchemist Masters of the Inner Sphere!"''</ref>
* Based on comments from ethnologist [[Gavrilo Benes]], the program worked on a theory pointing to [[Marshik Marik]], a pretender to the Duchy of Marik in [[w:Bohemia|Bohemia]] with ties to [[w:Transylvania|Transylvania]], as being a [[w:Vampire|vampire]].

:Saying that [[House Marik]] had won their titles through a combination of warfare and marriage, and one dynastic link they forged led back to the infamous [[w:Vlad the Impaler|Vlad Tepes]], the program also said that there was an uncanny resemblance between extant portraits of Vlad Tepes and [[Charles Marik]].

:With rumors on newspaper accounts of a triple murder in Dormuth in [[2207]] following typical vampire actions. Globally, the program said similar complaints and similar unsolved murders had cropped up over the entire [[Marik Commonwealth]] for centuries, displaying the spread and reach of the [[w:Nosferatu|Nosferatu]].<ref name=VoM14063080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [14/06/3080]: "Vampires of Marik?"''</ref>
* A complex theory supported by BlakeWatch veteran [[Elissa Chen]] of the [[w:Holy Lance|Spear of Destiny]] being recovered by [[Jerome Blake]] from the [[Greenhaven Gestapo]], then handled to [[Conrad Toyama]] and then ending in the hands of [[the Master]]. Finally he tries to tight it to the mysterious disappearance of [[Devlin Stone]] with two [[ComStar]] armies in May and June of [[3079]] prior to the decisive Invasion of Terra and asks if he tried to recover the Spear.<ref name=TToSoD21063080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [21/06/3080]: "Tortured Trail of the Spear of Destiny!"''</ref>
* An interview with Taoist Priest [[Qiu Erzhi]] explaining that the ''Xin Sheng'' movement clean the past sins of the state and opened a new age of success after the disaster of the [[Fourth Succession War]], and that selection of all new names and designs built were working in a positive way for the state. Qiu ends his interview though by warning the [[Chancellor]] [[Sun-Tzu Liao]] of his hostility towards [[Devlin Stone]] and the risk of the sin of hubris unbalance the country again.<ref name=XSoFS26073080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [26/07/3080]: "Xin Sheng or Feng Shui?"''</ref>
* Based on captured Blakist soldiers speak of their surprise at the outcome of the [[Whitting Conference]], and that they were expecting a Third Transfer and a heavy focus on the [[Clan]]s. After this, Werner goes to link these events with rare celestial conjunctions present in the skies of [[Apollo (system)]] seen only three times since the system settlement and linking them to the Third Transfer and a resurgence of House Amaris. The dates on the rare events are:<ref name=RoRW02083080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [02/08/3080]: "Revenge of the Rim Worlds?"''</ref>
::* In [[2463]], the year [[House Amaris]] ascended to rule the [[Rim Worlds Republic]].
::* In [[2765]], on the eve of the [[Amaris Coup]].
::* And in April [[3067]], nearly prior to the Whitting Conference.
* One theory said that [[Kalvin Liao]] was an occult follower who owned a copy of an alleged book called "The Bloody-Handed Duke", with insights on the book given by somebody called Nyla Rustah.<ref name=TBHD09083080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [09/08/3080]: "The Bloody-Handed Duke!"''</ref>
* The killing of a Jihad veteran from [[Tharkad]], [[Franz Wei]], by what a person described as a bulky, very hairy gentleman which they claim to be a [[w:Werewolf|werewolf]].<ref name=WoT16083080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [16/08/3080]: "Werewolves of Tharkad!"''</ref>
* A theory that said that some among the [[Belters]] had been living for hundreds of years supported by an unknown source.<ref name=IAtB23083080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [23/08/3080]: "Immortals Among the Belters?"''</ref>
* News on "phantom" black navy ships like the [[Augustus (Individual JumpShip)‎‎|Augustus]], the [[Century Hawk‎]] and the [[Celestine Maria‎]].<ref name=GSotP30083080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [30/08/3080]: "Ghost Ships of the Periphery!"''</ref>
* Alleged killings of [[Word of Blake]] [[Manei Domini]] by WoB [[ROM]].<ref name=MN13093080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [13/09/3080]: "The Mysterious Nephilim!"''</ref>
* Werner was approached by a recent visitor to [[Columbia (system)|Columbia]] with alleged news to other Belter communities with links to Columbia. He said to have met somebody from [[Churchill]], the real British colony, implying [[New London]] had been a faint. He also claimed to know of a colony called [[Veracruz]].

: As a final touch, he said that Columbia had launched its own [[Slowboat Colonization|slowboat]] missions and that they had dozens of hidden settlements in uninhabited systems.

: These rumors though were never confirmed.<ref name=HLoM27093080/>
* A theory that involved [[David Lear]] to the [[w:Rosicrucianism|Rosicrucians]] and alleged rituals involved to make [[Devlin Stone]] succeed.<ref name=HPotC04103080>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [04/10/3080]: "Hidden Puppeteer of the Coalition?"''</ref>

==References==
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* ''[[List of ScandalVids articles#Revenge of the Rim Worlds.3F|BattleCorps ScandalVids, 02/08/3080: "Revenge of the Rim Worlds?"]]''
* ''[[List of ScandalVids articles#The Bloody-Handed Duke.21|BattleCorps ScandalVids, 09/08/3080: "The Bloody-Handed Duke!"]]''
* ''[[List of ScandalVids articles#Werewolves of Tharkad.21|BattleCorps ScandalVids, 16/08/3080: "Werewolves of Tharkad!"]]''
* ''[[List of ScandalVids articles#Immortals Among the Belters.3F|BattleCorps ScandalVids, 23/08/3080: "Immortals Among the Belters?"]]''
* ''[[List of ScandalVids articles#Ghost Ships of the Periphery.21|BattleCorps ScandalVids, 30/08/3080: "Ghost Ships of the Periphery!"]]''
* ''[[List of ScandalVids articles#The Mysterious Nephilim.21|BattleCorps ScandalVids, 13/09/3080: "The Mysterious Nephilim!"]]'
* ''[[List of ScandalVids articles#Hidden Legacies of Magellan.21|BattleCorps ScandalVids, 27/09/3080: "Hidden Legacies of Magellan!"]]''
* ''[[List of ScandalVids articles#Hidden Puppeteer of the Coalition.3F|BattleCorps ScandalVids, 04/10/3080: "Hidden Puppeteer of the Coalition?"]]''

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