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Contents
Battles
- Word of Blake attacks Marian Hegemony.
- February 14th-28th: The Draconis Combine cleanes Galedon V by nuclear strike.
- June: Elements of the Solaris Home Defense League on Solaris VII successfully raid several Word of Blake supply caches and recover valuable war materiel.
- June 7th-14th: Clan Jade Falcon attack Zanderij.
- July 11th: The Ghost Bear forces arrive at Tukayyid and destroy the Word of Blake ships.
- August 22th: Rebel WarShips in the Shiloh system destroy two Word of Blake WarShips.
- September 13th-15th: Word of Blake attacks St. Ives and Sian.
- November 14th-28th: Clan Hell's Horses returns to the Inner Sphere and invades Clan Wolf Occupation Zone, the Hell's Horses capture Nyserta and Oberon VI.
- November 25th: The DropShip Irregulars are destroyed on Bethel by a Blakist orbital nuclear strike.
- December 1st-14th: The Hell’s Horses take Paulus Prime from Clan Wolf.
- December 28th: Word of Blake destroys Clan Wolf's headquarters on Tamar with a nuclear weapon.
- Word of Blake's 14th Division strikes worlds of McAlister, Jeanette and Matamoras in Draconis Combine.
- Late 3070: elements of the Blakist 9th Division and the Black Angus Boys unsuccessfully attempt to raid Beid.
Events
- January 7th: Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao of the Capellan Confederation pledges an immediate cease-fire with the Capellan March so that the CCAF can redeploy to meet the Word of Blake invasion.
- Operation: Thunderstrike ends.
- Operation: Sovereign Justice officially ends.
- February 6th: Word of Blake captures Hesperus II and Donegal as part of Operation: Steel Hammer.
- March 14th: War between Taurian Concordat and Calderon Protectorate.
- October 13th: Sun-Tzu Liao marries Naomi Centrella.
- November 1st: Free Capella disbands, with the Blackwind Lancers returning to the CCAF.
- Clan Ghost Bear pushes the Word of Blake out of the Free Rasalhague Republic, most notably on Tukayyid and Orestes.
- Clan Ghost Bear takes first steps towards merging with Free Rasalhague Republic.
Characters
- January 5th: Theodore Kurita dies of a stroke. His son Hohiro succeeds him.
- March 19th: Duke George Hasek II is assassinated.
- October 30th: Mandrinn Treyhang Liao, the head of Free Capella, is assassinated.
- December 9th: President Allison Carver of Herotitus is assassinated.
- Harrison Davion born.
- Jade Falcon Scientist Peri (Watson) missing and presumed dead.
Technology
- Lyran Alliance develop Battle Armor Mechanical Jump Boosters.
- Word of Blake introduce the Void Signature System.
- The Clan Snow Raven Scientist caste develop the Ferro-Lamellor Armor.
- The Federated Suns introduces Hauberk battle armor.
- First upgraded Feng Huang Cruiser is spotted.
- ER Flamer is developed by the Federated Suns.
- Actuator Enhancement System is developed by the Kell Hounds in conjunction with Wolf Dragoons.
- The Free Worlds League and Word of Blake start their research in Variable Speed Lasers technology.
- The Guillotine IIC 2, UrbanMech IIC 2, and Pack Hunter 4 variants are introduced.
- The Djinn is introduced by Gibson Federated BattleMechs.