ComStar (sourcebook)

Description

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 information is updated in Field Manual: ComStar.

From the back cover

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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.

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Contents

• Introduction

• History
  • The Rise of Blake
  • Birth of ComStar
  • The Foundation Years
  • A New Order
  • The ComStar War
  • The Consolidation Years
  • War Renewed
  • Civil War
  • Age of Enlightenment
  • Calm Before the Storm
  • The Tiepolo Years
  • The Waterly Era

• New Orders
  • New ComStar
    • Organization
    • Com Guards Deployment
    • Personalities
      • Sharilar Mori
      • Anastasius Focht
      • Victoria Parrdeau
  • Word of Blake
    • Organization
    • Personalities
      • William Blane
      • Trent Arian
      • Demona Aziz
      • Alexander Kernoff

• New BattleMechs
  • Nexus
  • Raijin
  • Grand Crusader

• Game Supplement
  • ComStar Archetypes

Notes

• The authors of the ComStar report are Adepts Nonda Toolippi, Norash Murrilvellthiun and Adien M'Ripon.