ComStar (sourcebook)

ComStar
Product information
Type	Sourcebook
Author	Blaine Pardoe
Development	Mike Nystul Donna Ippolito (Senior Editor) Sharon Turner Mulvihill (Assistant Editor) Diane Piron (Editorial Assistant)
Pages	112
Cover Artwork	Tony Szczudlo (Cover art) Dana Knutson (Back cover art)
Interior Artwork	Jeff Laubenstein Scott Rosema Nick Smith Takehiko Itoh Take Kasakura
Illustrations	Allen Nunis Mike Jackson Earl Geier Dana Knutson Rick Harris
Publication information
Publisher	FASA
Product code	1655
First published	1992
ISBN-10	1555601030
ISBN-13	978-1555601034
MSRP	15.00 US $
Content
Era	Succession Wars era Clan Invasion era
Agency	ComStar (with Word of Blake annotations)
Universe Date	26 May 3055

Description

Purporting to be an internal ComStar document with Word of Blake comments later inserted in the text, this sourcebook provides the history of ComStar through 3055, some of the technologies it preserved (and how) and the reason for the schism that led to the creation of the Word of Blake.

The military information from this book was updated in Field Manual: ComStar.

From the back cover

“

As the Star League was dying on the eve of the Succession Wars, the House Lords agreed on one final action. At the suggestion of General Kerensky they appointed Jerome Blake as Minister of Communications and charged him with repairing the damaged HPG network. This would prove a momentous decision. Within a few short years after Kerensky's Exodus, Blake and his followers had seized control of Terra and declared themselves neutral in the coming conflicts. The newly-named ComStar evolved into a pseudo-religious organization, with Blake as its divine founder, that positioned itself as the keeper of technology and the preserver of humanity's future. For nearly 300 years, ComStar watched as the Succession Wars ripped apart the Inner Sphere and technology was lost, waiting for the day when they would step in to save humanity from a new dark age. But the 31st century changed all of that. This sourcebook presents the history and inner workings of ComStar, including the devastating schism that struck the sect in the days following their victory over the Clans at Tukayyid.

”

Contents

• The ComStar Order
  • Introduction

• History of ComStar
  • The Rise of Blake
    • Linking the Stars
    • The Amaris Coup
    • Long Road to Terra
    • Liberation of Terra
    • Hilton Head Complex
    • Collapse of the Star League
    • Reconstruction
  • Birth of ComStar
    • Operation Exodus
    • The First Circuit
    • Operation Silver Shield
  • The Foundation Years
    • Prosperity and Principles
    • Expansion Years
    • Mercenary Review Board
    • Public Image
    • Creation of ROM
  • A New Order
    • Death of Blake
    • A Brotherhood Divided
    • The Purification
    • The Word of Blake
  • The ComStar War
    • Puppet of the Primus
    • Dance of Death
    • Dark Hours, Dark Deeds
    • Marik Gives In
  • The Consolidation Years
    • Karpov Ascendant
    • ComStar Strikes
    • The Veddar Affair
  • War Renewed
    • Slow Change
  • Civil War
    • Kurstin the Mad
  • Age of Enlightenment
  • Calm Before the Storm
    • The Explorer Primus
    • The Tripitz Affair
    • The Jolly Roger Affair
    • The Mysterious Dragoons
  • The Tiepolo Years
    • Old Business
      • House of Cards
      • New Avalon Institute of Science
    • Circles Within Circles
    • Fourth Succession War
  • The Waterly Era
    • Covert Operations
      • Rosebud
      • Flush
    • Spread of the Com Guards
    • War of 3039
      • Aftermath
    • The Clan War
      • Year of Peace
      • Conflict Renewed
      • Counterattack
      • Battle of Tukayyid
      • Operation Scorpion

• New Orders
  • New ComStar
    • Organization
      • Rank Structure
      • The First Circuit
      • Reformation-Era ROM
      • Com Guards in the Reformation
    • Com Guards - Deployment As of 3055
    • The Sol System
    • Relations with the Inner Sphere
    • ComStar Personalities
      • Primus Sharilar Mori
      • Precentor Marital Anastasius Focht
      • Precentor ROM Victoria Parrdeau
  • Word of Blake
    • The Renegades
    • The Marik Alliance
    • Monkey Warfar
    • Organization
    • Current Doctrine
    • Politics
    • Word of Blake Personalities
      • Precentor Blane of Gibson
      • Precentor Marital Trent Arian
      • Precentor Demona Aziz
      • Precentor ROM Alexander Kernoff

• New BattleMechs
  • ComStar Nexus
  • ComStar Raijin
  • Word of Blake Grand Crusader

• Game Supplement
  • ComStar Archetypes

Notes

• The book features frequent interjections from the Word of Blake supposedly to correct the heretics' "lies", but later sources and timelines (both in- and-out-of-character) confirm that ComStar's version of events, while likely omitting details, is closer to what actually happened than the Blakist version.
• The named authors of the ComStar report are Adepts Nonda Toolippi, Norash Murrilvellthiun and Adien M'Ripon, anagrams for Donna Ippolito, Sharon Turner-Mulvihill, and Diane Piron.