FedCom Civil War

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This article is about the fictional event. For the sourcebook on it, see FedCom Civil War (sourcebook).

The Federated Commonwealth Civil War (otherwise known as the FedCom Civil War, or simply FCCW for short) was one the most devastating wars to take place in the Inner Sphere. It lasted from 3062 until 3067 and destroyed hundreds of regiments from the former Federated Commonwealth states; the Federated Suns and Lyran Alliance. In addition, many mercenary units took part in the conflict, and even the Draconis Combine and Free Worlds League were dragged into it. Others factions such as the Capellan Confederation and Clan Jade Falcon took advantage of the situation to gain territory at the expense of the two warring states..

The very nature and scope of this conflict make it very difficult to properly cover the war. This was not a traditional war with waves and fronts. Instead, fighting tended to break out between units posted on the same world, often resulting producing no clear winner. In some cases, reinforcements were sent to help capture important worlds (as was the case with Tikonov, Kathil, and Dalkeith), only to find that the other side had done the same, creating "meat grinders" as neither side was able to secure an advantage for any length of time. In a few cases, military leaders like Victor Steiner-Davion, Maria Esteban and Tancred Sandoval were able to assemble task forces, but these were usually employed to take a single objective, rather than create a military front. Even in areas where there were no line units, fighting still took place between militia units, though those events often went undocumented.


Combatants

The main combatants were units who were loyal to either Victor Steiner-Davion or Katherine Steiner-Davion. Besides causing rifts in front line and militia units, the intelligence agencies of both states also underwent schisms.

In addition, there were units and planets that supported neither faction, but used the fighting as an excuse to further their own goals, like the rebellion in the Isle of Skye. Furthermore, some units declared their neutrality in the conflict, but since this involved disobeying orders given by Katherine Steiner-Davion, they were often attacked by pro-Katherine units who viewed them as traitors. This group included the entire Capellan March.

Reasons for the War

Genesis

The genesis of the war lies in the peace proposal Archon Katrina Steiner circulated to her fellow House lords in the mid-3020s. Only Prince Hanse Davion showed any interest, resulting in the Federated Commonwealth Alliance. That document came with a secret provision that betrothed Hanse to Archon-designate Melissa Steiner, a union that would eventually produce a united nation in the person of their child. That child, Victor Steiner-Davion, was born in 3030. The two nations informally merged after Katrina's abdication in 3039, and their armed forces became more unified after the aborted War of 3039.

Victor stood poised to take over both nations from his parents after their deaths, but his eldest sibling, Katherine, schemed to take control. She had their mother Melissa assassinated in 3055, three years after their father's death, making Victor Archon-Prince of the Federated Commonwealth. She further manipulated events by playing up her Lyran nationalism, often leaving the "Davion" off of her surname, and began to refer to herself as "Katrina," after her maternal grandmother. This paid off for her after the Second Skye Revolt, when Victor permanently moved his court to New Avalon and left Katherine as his regent on Tharkad. Katherine took advantage of the Liao-Marik Invasion of 3057 that sought to punish Victor for replacing Captain-General Marik's son with a double by invoking Emergency War Powers and seceding the Lyran half from her brother's realm and recalling all traditionally Lyran units to within traditional borders. In doing so, she gave Marik his objective, so he ceased offensive operations. This situation led to the creation of the Chaos March and forever sundered the Federated Commonwealth. Katherine called her new nation the Lyran Alliance, because she claimed her brother had sullied the term "Commonwealth".

Victor made no moves to reclaim his territory, so, when he prosecuted the reborn Star League's war against Clan Smoke Jaguar, he left his rump Commonwealth open to Katherine. She manipulated their little sister Yvonne into giving her the regency of the Commonwealth. When Victor returned from Clan space in 3060, he came back to the Inner Sphere a leader without a nation. Though Victor did not want to lead a civil war against his sister, events forced his hand.

Ignition

Katherine had an unscrupulous style of government. This led to small battles on various worlds for three main reasons:

When a local political leader was deemed dissenting or disloyal, Katherine punished his or her whole planet with economic problems, such as rerouting shipments of luxury goods. This led to civil unrest, sometimes against the political leaders of the respective planets and sometimes against inner or outer enemies, or even herself.

Katherine also regularly bypassed the military chain of command and gave direct orders to units, creating confusion and encouraging cronyism. Additionally her orders were often so vague, that the commanding officers knew what she wanted, but all the blame would be put on them if anything went wrong. These units were used to restore order on the aforementioned rebellious planets and to secure planets with important installations. One such planet was Kathil with its shipyards. Two chains of command collided: Sharp words were traded and each side considered the other as traitors. In the end, open warfare was inevitable.

The third reason was her favoring of Lyran interests. Although Katherine was head of both houses and states, she was supposed to be neutral between the cultures and populations. However she openly favored Lyran interests and military units. This led to a silent dissatisfaction and sometimes demonstrations. When local police and military units tried to contain the problem, it went worse. One such example is Thorin, where Archer Christifori's sister wrote newspaper articles about this unfair behavior. She was accidentally shot and when her killer used his political connections to the Lyran military to avoid prison, Archer started his rebellion.

All these were isolated events, but like an avalanche, the battles infested other planets and other minds.

Victor viewed the scattered conflicts as a direct result of his sister's lies and manipulations and was confident that she would be dethroned one day. Arthur Steiner-Davion was apparently assassinated, and Victor openly blamed Katherine for his death. Laying aside his new post as Precentor Martial, Victor jumped into the fracas. The leaders of the various rebellions immediately accepted him as an ally or even as their commander.


History

Early Stages: 3062-3063

Upon hearing of his brother's death, Prince Victor gathered his loyal forces on the world of Mogyorod and immediately drafted up a plan to take the key infrastructure of the Commonwealth intact. He jumped from Mogyorod to the planet Newtown Square, where he was almost killed by the Lyran troops until rogue ComGuard forces loyal to Prince Victor from his position of Precentor Martial landed on the planet. Victor allowed the Lyran forces (commanded by his cousin Adam Steiner) to retreat. With the new troops in hand, Prince Victor moved against the planet of Coventry, which was one of the greatest production sites for military supplies and 'Mechs in the whole Lyran Alliance. Additionally the duke of Coventry was a critic of Katherine and had to go underground to evade prison. In a few weeks of low-key fighting, Victor's forces captured the planet and its factories intact, which he used to refit his weary personal units.

Coinciding with Victor's march on Coventry was the breakout of major rebellions on the planets Muphrid and Thorin in the Lyran Alliance. Sparked by the accidental shooting of the sister of one Archer Christifori, the Thorin militia revolted and began a guerrilla campaign to dislodge the garrisoning regiment (which proved to be eventually victorious). Prince Victor offered Christifori's troops status as regular troops, and refit many of Christifori's worn out 'Mechs. The newly-promoted General Christifori, his ranks swelled to two regiments, began a campaign of liberation against planetary rulers accused of cracking down on Davion supporters all across the Alliance. This was noticed by LAAF High Command, however, and a plan was drafted to destroy Christifori's unit.

On the planet of Odessa, the ruling Count was told to begin a program of cracking down on dissenters. It was hoped that Christfori would land on the planet and try to destroy the Lyran forces on-planet. Coinciding with the plan, the elite mercenary unit Snord's Irregulars was on-planet pending the signing of a new contract with the Lyran Alliance. A trap was planned to set the two sides against each other, which would fill the Lyran goals of destroying Christifori and shaming the Irregulars into signing a new contract. Both units fought hard and suffered heavy losses, until evidence of the plan came up. The Irregulars and Christifori joined forces and destroyed the Lyran troops (another mercenary unit) on planet and captured Odessa. But the Irregulars still declined to sign a contract with Prince Victor. But Christifori came up with another idea, to keep Snord's Irregulars from rejoining the Alliance. He offered them a contract with ComStar, guarding a planet right next to the border against Clan Jade Falcon.

Realizing that her public opinion was dropping even amongst her normally loyal Lyran subjects, Archon Katherine quietly ordered the elimination of the popular, bizarre and extremely critical artist Reginald Starling. Reginald Starling was the artist-identity of Sven Newmark. Newmark was one of Ryan Steiner's top aides and (except Katherine herself) the only living person who knew that Katherine ordered the assassination of her mother. Her Loki agents took Starling out, but he left traces for his lover (a secret agent working for Victor) that led her ultimately to proofs of Katherine's vile actions. But the evidence was not enough, so the agent came up with a plan to pretend that Reginald Starling was still alive, just underground. Victor hoped, this would make Katherine so nervous, that she would try to destroy further evidence, leading Victor's agents to it.

Middle Stages: 3064-3065

The main theaters of the war were concentrated around the main manufacturing planets of both the Alliance and the Suns. The fighting on planets such as Kathil became veritable meat grinders for both sides, chewing up any units sent into the fray. Victor's conquering armies swept through the Lyran Alliance, taking many worlds from Katherine's followers. However, Victor's leadership was almost cut short by a near-defeat of his forces on Halfway which left his forces badly battered. General Maria Esteban's combat force (formed by regular units and militias) had set up a trap.

Victor stepped back from the fighting, to join the next Whitting Conference on Marik. He successfully persuaded Thomas Marik, head of the Free Worlds League, that Katherine was a very dangerous person. Thomas allowed Victor's participation under one condition: That he would only speak out, if Katherine herself brought up the topic of the FedCom Civil War. Sun-Tzu Liao followed his agreement with Katherine and nominated her for the next Lord of the Star League. She indeed brought up the FedCom Civil War and tried to present herself as willing to negotiate with Victor, thus branding herself as a caring goodhearted diplomat and Victor as a warmonger. At this point Victor demanded to be heard and Thomas Marik granted his wish. Victor stated that Katherine had killed their mother, but that he had no hard evidence, just like Katherine had no hard evidence for her misrepresentations of Victor. Eventually Katherine was not elected but she had her revenge as well. She hired an assassin who killed Omi Kurita, the love of Victor, to break his spirit. Upon hearing the news of his success, Victor had a nervous breakdown and suffered depressions for almost a year.

The offense of Victor's combat group (which had conquered the heavy industrialized planet Tikonov in a surprise attack) came to a standstill and they returned to Thorin and Muphrid. Only with the help of Kai Allard-Liao and Isis Marik was Victor convinced to refocus on the present. His combat group finally returned to Tikonov, reinforcing his troops.

On the Suns front, Archon Katherine was wary that Duke George Hasek, son of the late Marshal of the Armies Morgan Hasek-Davion, would someday challenge her rule. He tried to stay neutral between Victor and Katherine, though he secretly backed Victor, but that was not enough for her. She finally freed up enough forces from various conflicts to be able to send three regiments to the Capellan March capital of New Syrtis. The leader of the March rallied his troops however, and, in months of bitter fighting, drove off the invading units from his capital world. Reinforcements loyal to Victor arrived, but the enemy was already beaten. Ardan Sortek tried to persuade Hasek to support Victor, but he declined. George wanted to keep most of his troops within the Capellan March to guard against Capellan aggression.

The Jade Falcon Offensive

In 3064, Khan Marthe Pryde wanted to test the newest generation of Clan Jade Falcon's warriors against Lyran forces. She started a full-scale invasion with several Galaxies against heavily guarded planets along the whole border. Later it turned out that she also had wanted to open a new route to Terra, unguarded by the ComGuard, by conquering the planet Rasalgethi.

Both Loyalists and Allies combined their forces to turn back the Falcons.

Sharon Byran, the commander of the Melissia Theater, had a plan to lure the Clan forces into attacking Melissia, where they should break on the fortress and the defending regiments "like a wave breaks on a shore." General Adam Steiner knew that this strategy had long been proved fatal against the Clans and hassled Sharon Byran until she allowed him to draw up a reserve plan. Khan Marthe Pryde attacked personally with the Turkina Keshik, Delta Galaxy and Omega Galaxy. She crushed the defenders which only narrowly escaped from the planet. After this, major resistance in the Melissa Theater was broken. Archon Katherine Steiner-Davion sent a letter promoting Adam Steiner to the commander of the Melissa Theater, but still sent no reinforcements.

Archer Christifori united his forces with a reluctant Adam Steiner, who finally agreed to a two-fold plan. Rather then just defending Alliance planets, they would attack Jade Falcon planets, as well, forcing the Clan forces to retreat.

Christifori and Steiner conquered several planets in the Jade Falcon Occupation Zone, though they suffered heavy losses. On Twycross, a planet which has seen a historic defeat, Christifori challenged the Falcon Guards, one of the most prestigious units of Clan Jade Falcon. He wanted to humiliate them by beating them in honorable combat. However a lazy Tech wreaked doom on Clan Jade Falcon. A technical flaw caused Star Colonel Ravill Pryde to accidentally break zellbrigen, leaving the Falcon Guards victim to the superior firepower of Christifori's troops.

In the meantime, Clan Wolf-in-Exile kept reconquering worlds the Jade Falcons had deemed safe. They defeated the Jade Falcons in every instance, taking warriors and 'Mechs as isorla. They even liberated Melissia for the Alliance.

Several Jade Falcon units started their own Trial of Annihilation, without approval by Khan Marthe Pryde, against Christifori's forces to wipe out their Clan's shame. This fighting waged for a few weeks until Marthe Pryde called a ceasefire. Both sides met on Blair Atholl, where no clear victor was in sight. Adam Steiner negotiated a cease fire agreement with Marthe Pryde. Each side kept the planets it had conquered. As a result, the Jade Falcons controlled more worlds than they started out with, although they were in a strategically unsound position. Blair Atholl would remain jointly-held. As long as Adam Steiner would send troops to Blair Atholl as sparring-partners for the Jade Falcons, there would be no need for them to attack Lyran worlds.

Adam, now not only the commander of the Melissia Theater, but also a popular hero among its soldiers and populations, sent a strongly worded letter to Katherine Steiner-Davion. He declared that he was heavily disappointed that it took rebels and outlaws to save her nation because she did not send reinforcements. Due to her incompetence, he declared the Melissa Theater neutral in the conflict between her and her brother. For the rest of the civil war, units of neither side were allowed to stay in the Melissia Theater.

Late Stages: 3066-3067

By 3066, the war had become more of a battle of attrition across both of the afflicted realms, as Prince Victor's forces advanced against Archon Katherine's Lyran troops, and began to plan attacks on the respective capitals of both of the realms. It was decided that Victor himself would lead the attack on the Davion capital world of New Avalon, where Katherine and seven regiments of elite loyalist troops awaited the inevitable assault on the capital world. While Victor was tempted to just go for the kill with all of his available forces, he and his advisers realized that the conflict could not end until Nondi was defeated on Tharkad. They needed a political joker, someone trustworthy to Victor and to the Lyran people. Morgan Kell went to the desert planet Zaniah III in early 3067, where Peter Steiner-Davion was hiding, living among monks. He wanted to stay out of the cruel political games, that were so common in the Inner Sphere. But in the end, Morgan Kell persuaded Peter that he had to return, for the good of the Lyran people.

In early 3067, the attack on New Avalon commenced, with Prince Victor leading a gigantic assault force to the planet. After a long and costly WarShip battle above the skies of New Avalon, Victor's forces emerged triumphant and landed on the planet, joining with a task force already there under the command of Field Marshal Tancred Sandoval. Immediately upon landing, the fighting commenced, and went on for several grueling months against Katherine's elite troops. Victor's forces, although nearly losing at one point, were bolstered by veteran troops (Davion Light Guards and others) brought to New Avalon by Ardan Sortek. Those reinforcements pushed back Katherine's forces until they finally reached the Davion Palace. Katherine waited too long to flee and in the end Victor's forces blocked all escape routes. Confident that she would find a way to talk herself out of this situation in any court, Katherine ordered the surrender of her forces through former Marshal of the Armies Jackson Davion.

Simultaneously, Prince Peter arrived on Tharkad along with troops representing the whole spectrum of the Lyran Alliance, including regular units, Skye loyalists, the Kell Hounds, and forces of Clan Wolf in Exile. Peter not only battled for a planet. He tried to truly represent the Lyran Alliance to the population of Tharkad. Accordingly, the Avalon Hussar regiment in his combat group never saw battle. They successfully pushed back Nondi Steiner's forces until they reached the Tharkad palace. There, in an urban area, Peter and Nondi Steiner happened to end up in a direct fight, where he killed her with a shot to the cockpit. The FedCom Civil War was over.

Aftermath

It was expected that Prince Victor would take over both of the realms again to rule as the Archon-Prince of the reunited Federated Commonwealth. Subsequently, it came as a great shock when Prince Victor abdicated the thrones of both of those realms, instead giving them to his siblings Peter and Yvonne to rule in his place.

Peace and order were restored. Only minor battles remained, with commanders loyal to Katherine unwilling to give up.

Initially, Katherine was to be interred in a palatial prison under the wary eyes of the exiled Wolves. But then Khan Vlad Ward of Clan Wolf showed up on Arc-Royal. He demanded the extradition of Katherine to Clan Wolf, knowing that re-educating her into a Clan Warrior was the only way, she would finally understand his motivations. He threatened the assembled leaders with a renewed offensive (the Truce of Tukayyid having expired one month prior to the conference) unless he got his way. Victor complied, and handed over Katherine to Clan Wolf.

Victor was allowed to resume his role as the Precentor Martial of ComStar under the condition, that he would never again interfere with political decisions of the Inner Sphere.


Timeline

3057

Unknown date

  • Katherine Steiner-Davion renames herself Katrina after her popular grandmother Katrina Steiner to appease the Lyrans.

3060

  • Victor leads Operation Bulldog to Huntress. He leaves Yvonne Steiner-Davion as regent of the Federated Commonwealth.
  • October: Katherine Steiner-Davion tricks Yvonne into installing her as ruler of the Federated Commonwealth, after creating massive political pressure through manipulated polls and news. As Katherine Steiner-Davion already has a power base in the Lyran Alliance, she mainly resides on New Avalon.
  • Nationalistic tensions between Lyrans and FedSuns are growing rapidly. As a cultural symbol, the Federated Suns return into the hearts and minds of it's citizens.

3061

3062

  • unknown date: Revolts and mass-arrests on New Aragon.
  • February: Katherine Steiner-Davion orders the Davion Heavy Guards to leave New Avalon and guard the Galax-shipyards. There, they are left without JumpShips.
  • May 24: The First Circuit of ComStar orders Victor Steiner-Davion to inspect all ComGuards along the Lyran-Jade Falcon border.
  • On Solaris VII, massive brawls between Lyran and FedSun hooligans appear regularly at duels.
  • August 15: Due to sabotage, the Lyran-FedSun duel, Victor Vandergriff versus Michael Searcy, leaves the arena. As nobody trusts the other, everybody tries to contain the fight, but nevertheless shootouts between stables of different nationality begin. This turns into open warfare in Solaris City.
  • August 15: Katherine Steiner-Davion orders ComStar to pull their 56th Division from Solaris VII.
  • August 19: One battalion of the 32nd Lyran Guards arrives on Solaris VII as peacekeepers. They are decimated within hours.
  • August 22: Victor Vandergriff and Michael Searcy finish their duel. It ends in a draw with the apparent death of both fighters. The 17th Arcturan Guards arrive on Solaris VII as peacekeepers. Ceasefire is negotiated.
  • September 30: One battalion of the 15th Arcturan Guards is stationed on Thorin, the two others on Muphrid.
  • October: The 8th FedCom RCT resists direct orders from Field Marshal George Hasek to transfer from Kathil to Lee. It issues it's orders from Katherine Steiner-Davion and the inexperience of the Kathil CMM as an excuse. Duke Petyr VanLee orders the 1st Capellan Dragoons to Kathil to bolster his loyal troops and counter the inexperience-argument.
  • November 3: The live-feed HPG-connection between Tharkad and New Avalon is completed. Katherine Steiner-Davion will use it in the following years as a powerful political tool for propaganda and speeches.
  • November 9: The sister of Oberstleutnant Archer Christifori, the CO of the Thorin FTM, is accidentally shot by a Lyran officer.
  • November 11: Major-General Weintraub from the 8th FedCom RCT sent a letter to Katherine Steiner-Davion, asking for clarification of his orders. She answers, that Kathil is a very important planet and that he should just follow his orders.
    Duke VanLee arranges food shortages for the 8th FedCom RCT to annoy them. Weintraub reacts by deploying his troops to guard the Hall of Nobles against "rioters".
  • November 16: The murderer of Andrea Christifori is acquitted, by using his political connections. Archer Christifori begins with preparations to drive the 15th Arcturan Guards off-planet. He is politically anti-Katherine, but not yet pro-Victor.
    Duke VanLee orders the Kathil CMM to infiltrate their HQ and arrest all officers of the 8th FedCom RCT in a covert operation. The commandos fail and open warfare between the 8th FedCom RCT and the Kathil CMM breaks out.
  • November 24: The Lyran government press secretary denounces, that there are any open revolts against the Archon's reign.
    The 8th FedCom RCT attacks the 2nd NAIS Training Cadre and conquers one of the microwave transmitters for the orbital docks.
  • November 28: The Avalon-class battlecruiser IFS Robert Davion is conquered by the Lyran members of the crew and infantry of the 8th FedCom RCT. After cautiously-worded encouragements by Katherine Steiner-Davion to solve this problem by violence, Lord Roland (the commander of the Lyran troops) executes the whole Dresari family on Kentares IV. Rumors about estimated 5000 dead or wounded civilians.
  • December 5: Arthur Steiner-Davion is apparently assassinated with a bomb, in the midst of a speech. But he really is abducted. James Sandoval suspects the Draconis Combine and orders a military counter-attack.
    Four planets are engaged in an open rebellion against Katherine's rule. Five more might join after hearing of Arthur's death. Violent anti-Steiner-protests on Clinton.
    Oberst Felix Blücher of the 15th Arcturan Guards is attacked with a bomb, apparently by Davion-terrorists. Indeed it was planted by Lyran soldiers who want to escalate the situation. Blücher reacts with mass-arrests.
  • December 7: The 1st Capella Dragoons reach the orbit of Kathil. The Kathil CMM fights a hard battle against the 8th FedCom RCT to secure a safe landing for the dragoons, suffering heavy losses. The 8th FedCom looses a whole 'Mech battalion in the process. The IFS Robert Davion is destroyed by a complicated ram-maneuver by an Excalibur-class DropShip. The 1st Capellan Dragoons immediately join the Kathil CMM and the 2nd NAIS Training Cadre in their war against the 8th FedCom RCT. Within days the tables have turned and the 8th FedCom is on the brink of defeat.
  • December 8: Open rebellions on Kathil, Benet III, Kentares IV, Demeter and Bromhead, among few others.
    Victor Steiner-Davion leaves ComStar. In a public speech, he declares Katherine unfit for rule and declares his intention to depose her.
    Upon hearing this speech, mass-protests break out on Thorin. Archer Christifori mobilizes his militia and begins a guerilla-war against the 15th Arcturan Guards. Oberst Blücher reacts by declaring martial-law.
  • December 10: Violent revolts on Muphrid. The battalions Beta and Gamma of the 15th Arcturan Guards and the Muphrid FTM are mobilized.
    Confirmed revolts on Kathil, New Aragon, Coventry, Nanking, Kikuyu, Demeter, Algol, Benet III, Brockway, Bromhead, Fort Loudon, Rasalgethi and Thorin.
  • December 15: The Thorin FTM allies with the other anti-Steiner rebels on Thorin.
  • December 23: A message by Victor Steiner-Davion reaches Archer Christifori: He is awarded Colonel of the Federated Suns and his troops are renamed to 1st Thorin Regiment/Archers Avengers.
  • December 29: Katherine Steiner-Davion sends a to secret note to all Commanding Officers of the Lyran Alliance Forces, declaring war to Victors reinstated Federated Suns. All private HPG-messages are furthermore declared illegal.

3063

  • unknown date: The mercenaries Vanguard Legion are deployed to New Syrtis by Duke George Hasek.
  • January: Duke Frederick Bradford voices sympathies for Victor.
  • January 6: The 5th Alliance Guards are deploying patrols to counter the uprising and looting on Fort Loudon.
  • January 7: The pro-Victor 1st Kestrel Grenadiers have conquered Nanking.
  • January 17: The Coventry CPM is detained and wiped out by the 1st Coventry Jaegers and Kristen's Krushers. The media reports are manipulated, as if the militia was the aggressor.
    Tancred Sandoval manages to found a task force by allying with the pro-Victor 3rd Crucis Lancers.
  • January 22: The 1st Thorin Regiment (their strength slightly at two companies) leaves Thorin and launches a surprise-attack on the Beta battalion of the 15th Arcturan Guards on Muphrid. They are able to salvage most of their military equipment.
  • February: On Kikuyu, the 8th Deneb Light Cavalry declared itself neutral and is attacked by the pro-Katherine 6th Donegal Guards and Storm's Metal Thunder. On Newtown Square the 39th Avalon Hussars declare themselves for Victor. The 7th Crucis Lancers stand on Winter and the 15th Lyran Regulars on Hood IV.
  • February 2: The 1st Thorin Regiment attacks and defeats Alpha battalion of the 15th Arcturan Guards on Thorin. They capitulate and Oberst Felix Blücher negotiates the retreat of the remains of Alpha battalion and of Gamma battalion from Muphrid.
  • February 3: The pro-Katherine 11th Avalon Hussars are defeated on Brockway, which is conquered by pro-victor forces.
    The neutral Snord's Irregulars are deployed to Odessa to trick them into either fighting the 1st Thorin Regiment, or into signing a new contract with the Lyran Alliance that includes fighting Victor's forces.
  • Conflicting data in the novels: From February 9th to 11th the 1st Thorin Regiment has conquered Syrma and Milton. The conquest of Alcor started in mid-January.
  • February 11: The 1st Thorin Regiment defeats the Alcor Home Guard and establishes a pro-victor resistance-cell on this planet. It receives orders by Victor Steiner-Davion to either negotiate a contract with Snord's Irregulars that brings them on victor's side, or at least ensure that they won't fight for Katherine. The pro-Victor LIC agent Anton Gramash is assigned to Archer Christifori's unit for this mission as intelligence coordinator.
    Bryceland and Sirdar have been conquered by pro-Victor forces. Confirmed fights on Algol, An Ting, Alcyone, Demeter.
  • March: The family Yalos, the rulers of the planet Mayetta in the Draconis March, declares themselves in an opportunistic change pro-Victor. As they are attacked by the pro-Katherine Milligan DMM and Bremond DMM, Kirk Yalos offers Tancred Sandoval control over the Mayetta DMM in exchange for military support.
    The IFS Melissa Davion defects and begins it's search for Victor.
  • April 15: The 1st Thorin Regiment reaches Odessa. To discredit Snord's Irregulars as unpatriotic and unreliable, Duke Nicholas Fisk orders the Odessa militia to attack the 1st Thorin Regiment on their own. They are decimated and driven back.
  • April 16: Archer Christifori and Rhonda Snord are about to meet, but fall into a trap by the pro-Katherine Loki agent Erwin Vester and a 'Mech company of the mercenary unit Wolverton's Highlanders.
  • April 18th: The 1st Thorin Regiment and Snord's Irregulars suspect each other of treason and start to fight to exact revenge for their dead. Snord's Irregulars are driven back into their base and the 1st Thorin Regiment lays siege.
  • April 24: On Newtown Square, Victor and the 39th Avalon Hussars fight the pro-Katherine 14th Donegal Guards. They win narrowly, when the Com Guards 244th Division arrive.
    Tancred Sandoval prepares a political trick: He declares Woodbine neutral, knowing that this will prompt Katherine to attack. Afterward he can free the planet, securing the loyalty and political support of it's rulers.
  • April 26: Snord's Irregulars are reduced to one understrength battalion. (The 1st Thorin has lower casualties, as they were able to salvage material.)
  • April 29: The rest of the Wolverton's Highlanders regiment arrives on Odessa.
  • May 1-3: The 1st Thorin finds evidence of the ploy to trap them in a no-win-situation. They present the evidence to Snord's Irregulars and declare a unilateral ceasefire.
  • May 4: Wolverton's Highlanders attempt to destroy the weakened 1st Thorin. However the 1st Thorin and Snord's Irregulars join forces. Wolverton's Highlanders are wiped out. Thus, the 1st Thorin accidentally conquered Odessa.
  • July: The 7th Crucis Lancers declare themselves for Victor and conquer the heavily industrialized planet Inarcs in his name.
    The 1st Argyle Lancers suffered heavy losses against an unknown pro-Katherine unit and retreat to the neutral ARD.
    The 1st Davion Guards rebelled against Katherine on New Avalon. They are fighting, among two other units, the 3rd Robinson Rangers.
    The 1st Ceti Hussars declared themselves for Victor, the 3rd Lyran Regulars for Katherine. The 3rd Lyran Regulars receive orders to conquer Woodbine.
    The LAS Angela Franks is renamed LAS Arthur Steiner-Davion and receives orders to defend Coventry against Victor.
  • September: The IFS Melissa Davion finds Victor and he integrates it into his task force.
    The Foreign Legion joins Victor's forces, consisting of foreigners who want to fight for Victor: one lance from Kingston's Legionnaires, one company from the 1st Regulan Hussars, one battalion from various Draconian volunteers.
  • October 9: The LAS Arthur Steiner-Davion disappears under unclear circumstances, after encountering a non-standard jumping signature.
    The 1st Crucis Lancers have joined Tancred Sandoval's task force. He absolutely wants to win the support of Duke Ferdinand Rein of Woodbine, so he plans to use the influence of his aunt Jessica Sandoval-Groell to postpone his fathers arrival until his position is strong enough.
  • October: Victor's task force (39th Avalon Hussars, 244th ComGuard Division, Foreign Legion) attacks Coventry. The 1st Coventry Jaegers are outnumbered and driven into a dead-end landscape, where Victor wants to wear them down bit by bit.
  • unknown date: fights on Dahar IV, Benet III, Allerton
  • November 28: The last remains of the 3rd Lyran Regulars capitulate.
  • December 12: The last survivors of the 1st Coventry Jaegers are defeated, when they try to break the siege.
    James Sandoval reaches Woodbine. As he declares, that Woodbine is only one world among many that he has to care about, Duke Ferdinand Rein sides with Tancred Sandoval.
  • December 20: The 1st Davion Guards are defeated and wiped out by the 3rd Robinson Rangers, the 10th Deneb Light Cavalry and the New Avalon militia. Propaganda depicts them as traitors. Some of them are executed before even being court-martialed. They are striked from the official unit-list.

3064

  • February: Victor's task force (39th Avalon Hussars, 244th ComGuard Division, Foreign Legion) tries to conquer Alarion. They prepare for a huge battle, but General Maria Esteban has withdrawn the defenders, creating her own task force for a counter-attack. Alarion is conquered without a fight, but proves to be useless for Victor: The only valuable installation are the shipyards and Victor's task force has neither the resources nor the time to use them. The 39th Avalon Hussars are left as a garrison to secure them nevertheless.
  • March: Victor's task force is on the way to the Skye Theater. He wants to reinforce it and schedules a rendezvous on York with the 6th Crucis Lancers and 17th Skye Rangers. But Maria Esteban is on his heels: She manipulates the 17th Skye Rangers to return to Skye instead.
  • March 6: Katherine Steiner-Davion broadcasts a fake press conference (actually no journalists are present) to the whole Lyran Alliance and Federated Commonwealth. She states that the war has tuned down and that she hopes, that he will soon be over, for the sake of the common good.
  • March 13: Victor's troops (6th Crucis, 244th Com Guard, Foreign Legion and the Avalon-class Melissa Steiner-Davion) are resting on York and prepare to launch a new offensive, when they are attacked by Maria Esteban's task force (11th Arcturan Guards, 1st Alarion Jaegers, Alarion APM, Carlisle APM and two Fox-class corvettes). Victor's forces are outnumbered and their only chance is a hasty withdrawal to Halfway.
  • March 15: Omi Kurita is assassinated by a trap, set up by Dancing Joker. She dies with Victor's name on her lips. Theodore Kurita orders the immediate halt to all travels and interstellar communications crossing the border of the Draconis Combine. The Dancing Joker saw this coming and stays on Luthien for the next few years with a false identity.
  • May: Clan Jade Falcon attacks the Lyran Alliance:
    On Blue Hole they attacked and almost annihilated the 3rd Alliance Guards. On Kikuyu they attack the 6th Donegal Guards. On Newton Square Adam Steiner's 14th Donegal Guards repel the Jade Falcons and leave the planet afterward. Kookens Pleasure Pit and Ballynure are attacked as well.
    The Jade Falcons attack along the whole border: Delta Galaxy and Omega Galaxy attack the Melissia Theater, Rho Galaxy attacks the Arc-Royal Defense Cordon and Lambda Galaxy attacks the Pandora-Theater.
    To bleed the Jade Falcons out, Marshal Sharon Byran orders all her troops to Melissia to lure the Jade Falcons in a final battle.
  • May 14: The 244th Com Guard Division destroys the Halfway Militia and conquers Halfway.
  • May 23: Victor sets up a strategic conference in an empty brothel on Halfway with the commanders of his task force, Morgan Kell, Khan Phelan Kell, General Caradoc Trevana and Archer Christifori. (Nobody would suspect them there.) The 23rd Arcturan Guards are on the way to reinforce Victor's task force.
    Victor and Katherine receive intelligence, that Clan Jade Falcon has attacked the Lyran Alliance.
    Katherine Steiner-Davion asks Comstar to activate the ComGuards, but Precentor Martial Gavin Dow refuses: Clan Wolf and Clan Ghost Bear are still a threat. Katherine decides to counter the Jade Falcons by shuffling the troops already in the region. She explicitly leaves the Arc-Royal Defense Cordon out of any plannings: Morgan Kell's domain, his problems.
    Victor Steiner-Davion set's up a two-pronged task force to repel the Jade Falcons: Clan Wolf-in-Exile will keep the Jade Falcons busy within the Lyran territory. Meanwhile Archer Christifori's task force will unite with pro-Katherine Lyran units and attack the Jade Falcon occupation zone. This is Operation Audacity.
  • June: On Blue Hole Storm's Metal Thunder and the 8th Deneb Light Cavalry are still fighting the Jade Falcons. Sharon Byran orders half of the 6th Donegal Guards to Melissia, the other half to Blue Hole.
    The Jade Falcon's Lambda Galaxy attacks Graceland: The 22nd Cluster wipes out the 11th Donegal Guards but a single company, which integrates itself into the local ComGuards. The 74th Battle Cluster attacks the the 388th ComGuard Division.
  • June 11: Maria Esteban's task force (11th Arcturan Guards, 1st Alarion Jaegers, Alarion APM, Carlisle APM, half-a-dozen smaller militias like the Timbuktu TTM and one Fox-warship) attacks Halfway. They are encountered by only the aerospace Wings of the 6th Crucis Lancers, who retreat as well after dealing enough damage. Maria Esteban's units are forced to stay on Halfway and repair their DropShips.
  • June 15: The 14th Donegal Guards arrive on Melissia, joining the 9th Lyran Regulars and the remains of the 3rd Alliance Guards. Parts of the 6th Donegal Guards are on the way as well.
    Archer Christifori's task force assembles in the ARD: The 2nd and 3rd regiment of Archer's Avengers are joined by the 2nd Crucis Lancers. The 1st Regiment is on the way to Graceland to help the ComGuards, before joining the task force as well.
    Khan Marthe Pryde is on Blue Hole to inspect the battle-action. A garrison cluster, a freeborn-unit, is fighting guerillas from the 3rd Alliance Guards and local militia. A stray artillery shell explodes near Marthe Pryde, but she remains unhurt. She is impressed by the skill and cunning of the Inner Sphere warriors.
  • June 23: The aerospace units of the 6th Crucis reunite with Victor's task force on Clinton
    Victor has pulled a political trick, by asking Robert Kelswa-Steiner for permission to attack Hesperus II. But he never had this in mind and knew that this information would trickle to Katherine, prompting her to rearrange her forces to repel this attack. Instead, Victor's task force temporarily breaks up into the single units, rapidly attacking a dozen unimportant planets to further irritate the Lyrans.
    The pro-Victor 5th Syrtis Fusiliers have conquered Axton.
  • July: The Foreign Legion (including Victor and his personal staff) attacks Dar-es-Salaam and destroys the Dar-es-Salaam Militia.
    The 23rd Arcturan Guards attack Aristotle, Gallery and Thuban.
    The 6th Crucis Lancers attack Solihul, Drosendorf and Gypsum.
    The 244th Com Guard Division attacks Eidsfoss, Ciotat and Furillo.
    Afterwards, they reunite and hide on the pro-Victor planet Thorin.
    The 6th Donegal Guards are forced to retreat from Kikuyu to Melissia reuniting with the rest of their unit. The Jade falcons attack Storm's Metal Thunder so hard, that the unit has to retreat from Kikuyu. Only two Mechs and the non-combatants make it into orbit, the rest of the unit is eradicated. The 8th Deneb Light Cavalry is also under attack by the Jade Falcons. The 3rd Alliance Guards retreat from Blue Hole to Melissia as well. They are reduced to two Battalions.
  • July 6: The 1st Thorin Regiment arrives on Graceland and the 74th Battle Cluster allows them to take over the batchall of the ComGuards. They defeat the 74th Battle by luring it into a trap and taking out its Star Colonel, so he declares defeat. Christifori takes some of their Mechs and pilots as Isorla. Lamda Galaxy retreats into the occupation zone.
  • July 30: Rho Galaxy attacks Dustball in the ARD, because of the presence of the 4th Wolf Guards. The 7th Falcon Regulars and the Jade Falcon Eyrie win the bidding. The rest of the galaxy stays in orbit and waits. Khan Phelan Kell leads the battle himself. His strategy is to bind the whole galaxy by prolonging the battle and wearing the Jade Falcons down bit by bit.
    The 388th ComGuard Division arrives on Dustball to aid the Wolves.
  • August: The ComGuards destroy 2 Trinaries of Rho Galaxy in a narrow pass. This turns the tide in the battle. Rho Galaxy is defeated and leaves Dustball.
  • August 7: The remains of Storm's Metal Thunder reach Melissia. A Jade Falcon task force materializes in the Melissia system at a Pirate Jump Point: the Turkina Keshik, Delta Galaxy and Omega Galaxy. Khan Marthe Pryde will personally lead her troops into combat. The Jade Falcons gained knowledge of that pirate jump point through their Watch.
  • August 12: The understrength 15th Arcturan Guards (reinforced by the Gacrux FTM and Neerabup MTM) arrive in the Melissia system at a pirate jump point, even closer than the Jade Falcons. General Adam Steiner orders them to guard the landing zone, to keep it secure for an emergency evacuation.
  • August 15: The Jade Falcons reach Melissia. They consist of the Turkina Keshik, Delta Galaxy and Omega Galaxy. The defenders are commanded by Marshall Sharon Byran and consist of: 9th Lyran Regulars, 3rd Alliance Guards (~2 battalions), 6th Donegal Guards (~1 regiment), 14th Donegal Guards (~1 regiment), 15th Arcturan Guards (reinforced regiment) and some militia-companies. Her plan is to lure the Jade Falcons into the artillery and mine-fields around her HQ-bunker built inside a mountain. General Adam Steiner is not confident, that her plan will work and secretly contacts the Reserve Corps to deploy three dropships with supplies and a jump-ready jumpship to the Chapultepec-system.
    Archer Christifori's task force assembles in the Adelaide-system: the three combined-arms regiments of the Archer's Avengers, the understrength 2nd Crucis Lancers and the 20th Arcturan Guards. Their intelligence-unit is lead by the pro-Victor LIC-agent Anton Gramash. He has a small number of operatives at his command. ComStar's ROM is providing him with information and there is also a limited cooperation with the Watch of Clan Wolf-in-Exile. The COs of the task force guess, that the survivors of Melissia will retreat to Chapultepec, so they will try to meet them there.
    The Grave Walkers had to retreat from Kookens Pleasure Pit, after suffering 60% losses. The battle on Dustball (Exile-Wolves and ComGuards vs Jade Falcons) is still raging. On Koniz, Barber's Marauder IIs fought to the last man and were annihilated. On Crimond, the fate of the 1st Argyle Lancers is unknown. (The were reduced to two companies during the civil war.) As the Jade Falcons won't leave Crimond, the Argyle Lancers are probably setting up a guerilla war. On Ballynure, the Fighting Urukhai try to hold out, but it's unknown how long they can keep on fighting.
    Blue Hole, Kikuyu, and Newton Square are lost to the Jade Falcons. The Jade Falcons have troops in the undefended Clermont-system, but don't conquer it.
  • August 16: After two days of heavy fighting on Melissia, the 3rd Alliance Guards and 6th Donegal Guards are almost wiped out. The Jade Falcons refuse to fall for Byran's trap and instead concentrate on eliminating the Lyran units. Finally, the Jade Falcons use a Broadsword to drop Elementals right onto the bunker. The Lyran HQ is wiped out within minutes. General Adam Steiner activates the 15th Arcturan Guards and orders all troops to evacuate from Melissia.
  • August 25: The Golden Keshik and 1st Wolf Legion attack the 7th Talon on Blue Hole.
    General Steiners task force reaches Chapultepec. The 9th Lyran Regulars, 14th Donegal Guards and 15th Arcturan Guards have suffered heavy losses. The 3rd Alliance Guards and 6th Donegal Guards are reduced to about one company each. Somehow the two last Mechs of Storm's Metal Thunder, piloted by the Rivenberg-brothers, have survived. Omega Galaxy is on their heels and is dripping into the Chapultepec-system cluster by cluster. Archer Christifori's task force reaches the jump point of the Chapultepec-system, but they are a few days behind the Jade Falcons.
    Via a priority-message from Nondi Steiner, Adam Steiner is promoted commander of the Melissia-theater. He almost goes mad, when hears that Katherine Steiner-Davion still won't send any reinforcements.
  • August 26: Katherine Steiner presents a new memorial on New Avalon to remind of the "betrayal" of the 1st Davion Guards. In a press conference she states her hope, that the quiet last weeks were a sign of an end to this war.
    After an HPG-conversation, Thomas Marik agrees to serve as Victor's reputation at the Whitting Conference, so he would have a right to claim speech-time.
  • August 29: A single cluster of Omega Galaxy is fighting Adam Steiner's troops. The rest of Omega Galaxy is only days away. Archer Christifori's task force lands and forces them to retreat via dropship to another continent.
    Archer Christifori explains his and Victor's plan to Adam Steiner, but he is reluctant. He only agrees after reading a personal letter from Victor Steiner-Davion: Victor asks him not to prejudge him from Katherine's propaganda. Victor states that he has sent reinforcements for the Lyran Alliance, and not played political games.
  • August 30: The Jade Falcons are defeated on Blue Hole. Star Colonel Daniel Kyle is taken isorla.
    Archer Christifori and Adam Steiner set up a plan to draw the attention from Clan Jade Falcon: They will both randomly attack planets in the occupation zone. Then Archer's task force will beat the Falcon Guards on Twycross, hopefully enraging the Jade Falcons enough to disobey orders and follow Archer's units. Both task forces will reunite on Blackjack and try to hold out until the Jade Falcons stopped their offensive on the Lyran Alliance.
    Anton Gramash captures an agent of the Clan Wolf-watch and hands him over to Phelan Kell. Phelan gives the agent a message: He invites Khan Vlad Ward to join his attack on Sudeten, the capital of Clan Jade Falcon in the Inner Sphere. This is a trick, as Phelan has no intention to attack Sudeten. He knows that Vlad has two choices: Either he will warn Marthe Pryde, prompting the retreat of some of her forces, or he will attack the Jade Falcons, forcing them to retreat troops as well.
  • August 31: The combined forces of Christifori and Adam Steiner leave Chapultepec.
    Omega Galaxy is granted a pause to repair and re-equip its troops on Chapultepec. Khan Marthe Pryde orders to attack the ComGuards on Crimond and Rasalgethi, to keep the Exile-Wolves busy. Furthermore, conquering Rasalgethi would allow Clan Jade Falcon to bypass the Free Rasalhague Republic and its ComGuards-defenders on its way to Terra.
  • September: Archer Christifori asks Phelan Kell to send the Blue Star Irregulars to garrison the Jade Falcon worlds the two task forces would conquer. The 2nd Crucis Lancers are deployed to Adam Steiners task force to bolster it.
  • October 3: Archer Christifori's task force (the three combined-arms regiments of Archer's Avengers and the 20th Arcturan Guards) are about to attack Roadside and conquer the ammunition factory.
    Adam Steiner's task force (14th Donegal Guards, 15th Arcturan Guards, 2nd Crucis Lancers) is already fighting the 3rd Talon Cluster on Black Earth. The 9th Lyran Regulars have been integrated into the command-structure of the 14th Donegal, bringing them to a reinforced regiment. The virtually destroyed 6th Donegal Guards and 3rd Alliance Guards were maybe integrated into other units. The Jade Falcons will wage a guerilla war to drag the fighting.
  • October 4: Christifori's task force defeats a solahma trinary of Rho Galaxy on Roadside and conquers the planet. The ammunition-factory is accidently almost destroyed. One battalion is left as garrison.
    Adam Steiner's task force realizes, that the Jade Falcons couldn't possibly have their base on the main continents.
  • October 17: The main battle on Black Earth begins, as the Lyrans are attacking the Falcon base. The Lyrans are suprisingly reinforced by the 1st Wolf Strike Grenadiers.
    Christifori's task force arrives in the Butler system where the Aegis-battlecruiser CJF Black Talon is undergoing repairs in a ship-yard. The Lyrans cripple it with a massive fighter attack, using the experience of Commodore Lee Fullerton. Christifori sends a HPG-message to Phelan Kell: He asks him to send a boarding crew to salvage the battlecruiser, as none of his personnel has the necessary experience.
  • October 26: Adam Steiner's task force attacks Malibu, but the local government is unwilling to support them. (Steiner speculates that they are tired of war.) They fight against the 8th Falcon Regulars on the surface of an asteroid, over the control of the nadir recharge-station. The Jade Falcon Star Colonel retreats after a short and brutal fight.
    The 74th Battle Cluster is attacking Crimond and Phelan Kell is countering them. Anton Gramash informs Phelan Kell about the broader picture of the war. The 39th ComGuard Division is on the way to Crimond.
    Jade Falcon forces are about to attack Rasalgethi. The defenders are Brion's Legion and the Rasalgethi PTM.
  • October 30: Christifori's task force is attacking Twycross. Their plan is to beat the single Falcon Guards trinary in a fair fight. But a lazy tech failed to repair the weapon-control circuits in Star Colonel Ravill Pryde's Timber Wolf, prompting him to accidently break zellbrigen. The Jade Falcons are overwhelmed with massive firepower. Christifori sends records of the Jade Falcons dishonorable defeat to Khan Marthe Pryde to challenge her to a reaction.
  • November 1: Adam Steiner's task force attacks Hot Springs, fighting the 5th Battle Cluster. He awaits a short fight and a quick victory.
  • November 3: Jade Falcons attack Twycross to exact revenge: the rest of the Falcon Guards, the 9th Talon and 1st Falcon Hussars, the whole force being at least 12 Trinaries strong. Although outraged, they don't attack blindly: The Jade Falcons perform a combat-drop into a sand-storm, whereas their dropships still proceed their landing, faking a standard landing so the spherers will suspect the attack from the wrong direction. Indeed the Jade Falcons attack them from behind and a bloody battle ensues. Finally the Jade Falcons are beaten. Christifori sends the highest-ranking survivor Star Captain Diana Pryde back to Marthe Pryde with the message, that he is not finished yet. The 1st and 3rd regiment of Archer's Avengers suffered heavy losses, the 2nd regiment and 20th Arcturan Guards suffered minor losses.
  • November 4: On the eve of the third Whitting Conference, Duke George Hasek tries to talk to Katherine. He hoped, that they could together find a way to stop the fighting in the Capellan March, which was essentially neutral in the FedCom Civil War. But Katherine is not in the mood to listen. She offers George Hasek to sit next to her during the Whitting Conference (to demonstrate his support for her side) and to talk about this issue later. He declines and angrily questions her loyalty to her own people. She reminds him, that his people would have to suffer for his decisions.
  • November 6: Khan Marthe Pryde decides to halt her offensive to stop Christifori's task force. But she will leave troops on the conquered Lyran worlds as garrison.
  • November 10: While everyone is looking at the Whitting Conference, Victor's task force surprisingly enter Federated Suns territory and attacks Tikonov. They save the remains of the pro-Victor 1st NAIS Cadet Cadre and Valexa CMM and battle the pro-Katherine 15th Deneb Light Cavalry and 3rd Republican Guards.
  • November 14: Precentor Gavin Dow gives Katherine Steiner-Davion the information that Omi Kurita is dead.
    At the eve of the election of the new First Lord, Katherine tries to get the help of the Star League to end the rebellion of her "war-hungry" brother. Because of his deal with Thomas Marik, Victor Steiner-Davion is allowed to counter this with his own arguments. In his speech, he clarifies that there had been numerous other times he could have started a rebellion against her rule, if he were indeed this war-hungry. Furthermore he openly accuses her of complicity in the murder of their mother. Finally he asks the politicians to remember the manipulations and back-room-politics they have witnessed. Do they really want such a person as their First Lady? Katherine suddenly looses the political support for the election.
    Katherine informs Victor that his beloved Omi is dead, causing him a nervous breakdown.
  • November 24: Khan Phelan Kell lands with the 4th Wolf Guards (and maybe the Golden Keshik) on Melissia and challenges Galaxy Commander Timur Malthus of Sigma Galaxy. The Jade Falcons answer with an unusually high bid.
    On Hot Springs the 5th Battle Cluster is still dragging the fighting against Adam Steiner's task force.
  • December: Snord's Irregulars join the defenders of Rasalgethi.
  • December 12: Archer Christifori's task force arrives in the Blackjack system. The 1st regiment of Archer's Avengers is understrength, the 2nd has minor losses, the 3rd is almost wiped out and 20th Arcturan Guards are at 75% strength. The 8th Provisional Garrison Cluster is stationed on Blackjack. The 4th Striker Cluster and the CJF White Talon intercept the task force in the Blackjack system. Both Jade Falcon units unite on Blackjack and immediately start smaller skirmishes against the spherers.
    Adam Steiner decides abruptly to leave Hot Springs in the cover of a thunderstorm.
    Phelan Kell defeats Sigma Galaxy. The 4th Wolf Guards had tricked the Jade Falcons by faking higher losses.
  • December 16: a LIC agent of Anton Gramash informs Christifori that Clan Wolf-in-Exile has salvaged the CJF Black Talon and renamed it to CWiE Black Paw. The Black Paw lures in the asteroid belt of the Blackjack system. The Jade Falcons of Blackjack are waiting for reinforcements before they start another major offensive.
    The 388th ComGuard Division has attacked Blair Atholl, fighting a provisional garrison cluster.
  • December 19: The 1st Falcon Hussars have arrived in the Blackjack-system and are on the way to the planet.
  • December 21: Archer contacts the CWiE Black Paw to start an orbital bombardement of the Jade Falcons. Immediately afterwards, the Black Paw is engaged by the CJF White Talon. The White Talon is destroyed and the Black Paw suffers heavy damages. Adam Steiner's task force arrives in the Blackjack system.
  • December 24 : Adam Steiner's task force (9th Lyran Regulars, 15th Arcturan Guards, 14th Donegal Guards, 2nd Crucis Lancers) save Christifori's task fore on the brink of defeat. They also suffer losses, especially the 9th Lyran Regulars. A jumpship with saKhan Samantha Clees arrives in the Blackjack-system. She invites Christifori to meet Khan Marthe Pryde on Blair Atholl. Christifori and Adam Steiner comply.

3065

  • unknown date: In early 3065, Katherine Steiner-Davion deployed additional LAAF forces and mercenaries to the Skye Province, to quell secessionist tendencies. Operatives of Lohengrin, the Molehunters and Loki are deployed as well, to counter any uprising. In some systems all interstellar travel was shut down, to suppress informations about war-preparations of the Lyran Alliance.
  • unknown date: The pro-Victor 17th Skye Rangers are defeated on Lost.
  • unknown date: The pro-Katherine 11th Avalon Hussars fight the Lexington Combat Group on Brockway. They suffer heavy losses and have to retreat to Ridgebrook.
  • January: The pro-Victor 1st Federated Suns Armored Cavalry arrive on Kathil.
    The rogue Draconis March-forces now only hold Proserpina. The Draconis Combine counter-invades the Draconis March and conquers Addicks, Cassias, Breed and Kasai. Cassias was almost defenseless, as the 3rd Crucis Lancers had departed Cassias to support Tancred Sandoval. The 24th Dieron Regulars destroyed the 8th Striker Regiment of the Fighting Urakhai on Addicks. The Davion Assault Guards split their forces between Addicks and Tigress.
    The 10th Lyran Guards left Robinson and seized a JumpShip to meet with Victor on Tikonov.
    Tancred Sandoval now controls most of the Woodbine PDZ and the LeBlanc PDZ.
  • January 8: The 11th Arcturan Guards (having absorbed two militias to maintain their strength) and the Fox-class LAS Katrina Steiner followed Victor's task force to Tikonov. the rest of Maria Esteban's task force stays in the Lyran Alliance to cut off Victor's supply lines. (For unknown reasons, Word of Blake secretly warned Victor's forces of the arrival of the 11th Guards.)
    Now the Foreign Legion, 23rd Arcturan Guards, 6th Crucis Lancers, 244th ComGuard Division, 1st NAIS Cadet Cadre and Valexa CMM fight the 11th Arcturan Guards, 15th Deneb Light Cavalry, 3rd Republican Guards and the movement Free Tikonov. Victor's IFS Melissa Davion stays at the nadir Jump Point, while Esteban's LAS Katrina Steiner hides deeper in the solar-system. Katherine's forces are outnumbered, but they hold Tikonov's most important industries and have better access to supplies.
    Victor Steiner-Davion is caught in a deep depression and keeps himself busy with military work, to avoid thinking about Omi. Morgan Kell has secretly taken over the everyday-work.
  • January 28: The JumpShip of the 10th Lyran Guards is sabotaged and they are stuck in the Kentares system.
  • February: The 388th Division ist still defending Blair Atholl against the Jade Falcons. They are pushed back from continent to continent, but won't give up.
  • February 16: The 3rd Davion Guards fight Draconians on Cassias.
    The 5th Davion Guards are destroyed on Kathil.
    As no further reinforcements are available to give Victor's offensive a new momentum, his commanders decide to leave Tikonov with him, to keep Tikonov from becoming a meatgrinder. The 6th Crucis Lancers, 1st NAIS Cadet Cadre and Valexa CMM will stay. A final offensive is prepared to conquer Harcourt Industries to get a logistical advantage.
  • February 21: The 244th ComGuard Division is reduced to about half a regiment: 15 'Mechs, about 20 tanks, some Battle Armor and infantry, some aerospace fighters and helicopters.
    Victor's forces attack simultaneously on the ground and in space. In space, the inexperience of the pro-Katherine militia aerospace forces and the fire-power of the IFS Melissa Davion decide the battle. As soon as the battle in space has ended, Victor is extrected from Tikonov with a heavy escort of multiple DropShips and aerospace fighters. On the ground, sheer desperation drives Victor's forces to victory, when they are attacked by orbital fire. Most of Victor's units and the 11th Arcturan Guards suffer heavy losses.
  • February 27th: Adam Steiner, Archer Christifori, Phelan Kell and Anton Gramash have reached Blair Atholl. Marthe Pryde is already there to inspect how her troops are faring against the ComGuards. Steiner and Christifori meet with Marthe Pryde and Diana Pryde to discuss a cease-fire. Clan Jade Falcon has conquered Rasalgethi, Koniz, Kookens Pleasure Pit, Ballynure, Chahar, Kikuyu, Chapultepec, Medellin, Barcelona and Newton Square. The Lyrans have conquered Black Earth, Roadside, Blackjack, Butler, Twycross and one jump point of the Malibu-system. Marthe Pryde refuses to exchange planets. Each side will keep, what it has conquered. Adam Steiner offers to exchange Twycross, but she refuses. She states, that it's a world of shame for her Clan. Clan Jade Falcon will make no attempt to reconquer it. So, only one planet remains contested in this war: Blair Atholl. Adam Steiner has realized, that Marthe Pryde started the war mainly for the fighting itself. He offers her a deal: He will regularly send Lyran units to fight against the Jade Falcons, so they won't have to attack other planets to find an opponent. Marthe Pryde hesitates, but after thinking about it, she agrees.
    Adam Steiner presents his future plans to Christifori and Phelan Kell: As Katherine Steiner-Davion, the legal ruler, has not sent reinforcements to save her nation, but Victor Steiner-Davion, the rebel, did, he will declare the Melissia Theater and it's forces neutral. All pro-Victor units are allowed to repair themself, but then they would have to leave.
  • March: Adam Steiner is celebrated as a hero of the Lyran Alliance.
    Archer's Avengers have disappeared from public sight. The LIC speculates, that they are on the way to support Victor.
  • March 15th: Adam Steiner sends a personal video-message to Katherine Steiner-Davion. He declares that he is not confident, that Katherine has the best for her nation in mind. Accordingly he officially declares the Melissia Theater neutral and independent from the rule of the Lyran Alliance. Katherine orders Marshall Nondi Steiner to arrest Adam, but she says, that there are simply no units available for this task. Furthermore, Adam Steiner would be too popular for such a move.
  • April: The fighting on Kathil has come to a halt. The neutral 2nd NAIS Training Cadre and Kathil CMM were destroyed first, then the pro-Katherine 8th FedCom RCT, then the neutral 1st Capellan Dragoons, then the 8th Donegal Guards, then the 5th Davion Guards, then the 2nd Chisholm's Raiders. During al this fighting, the shipyards kept on working. The 2nd Chisholm's Raiders held out long enough to extract two Avalon-class battlecruisers (the FCS Andrew Davion and the FCS Hanse Davion). Finally, in April, the heavily damaged, neutral 6th Syrtis Fusiliers and the pro-Victor 1st Federated Suns Armored Cavalry stand on Kathil.
  • April 9: The 244th ComGuard Division and the Foreign Legion stand on Thorin to protect Victor's residence. But he really is hidden in a luxurious manor on Muphrid.
  • April 16: Nondi Steiner orders the arrest of Duke Robert Kelswa-Steiner to prevent a rebellion of the Skye region in advance.
  • April 25: The Gray Death Legion recieves orders to reinforce the defenders of Hesperus II and arrives there on Juny 14th.
  • May: Rumors about a possible invasion of New Syrtis by pro-Katherine forces rise.
  • June 4: Victor's forces control Alarion, Bolan, Coventry and Donegal.
  • June 15: The 22nd Skye Rangers sneak into the Hesperus system in preparation of an invasion. First they sneak to Hesperus V and then Hesperus III, where they hide and wait for the right time for a surprise attack on the space-port of Hesperus II.
  • June 23: An aerospace patrol of the 12th Hesperus militia (deployed on Hesperus III) finds the landed Dropships of the 22nd Skye Rangers, but is destroyed before they can issue a warning.
  • June 28: A task force of the Skye rebels arrives in the Hesperus-system: 2 Fox-class corvettes (the Indefatigable and the Illustrious) and the 4th Skye Rangers. They are engaged by the loyalist Avalon-class Simon Davion, which destroys the Illustrious. In return, the Simon Davion is conquered by boarding troops from the Indefatigueable. The 22nd Skye Rangers start from Hesperus III and reach Hesperus II later that day. They proceed with the alternative attack plan and attack the agricultural region of Hesperus II, to lure the defenders (Gray Death Legion, 15th Lyran Guards, 36th Lyran Guards, Defiance Security Forces) away from the installation.
  • June 30: The 4th and 22nd Skye Rangers start an irritating strategic game against the Gray Death Legion and the 15th Lyran Guards, slowly gaining ground, while the 36th Lyran Guards stay in the Maldon valley to defend its industry.
  • July: Victor Steiner-Davion is being hidden on Muphrid. His only escort is a single bataillon of the 23rd Arcturan Guards, busy luring a regiment of Katrina-loyalists through the wilderness. [1]
    The 244th ComGuard Division and the Foreign Legion are on Thorin to pretend Victor's presence. They are fighting the 11th Arcturan Guards. [2]
  • July 1: The Skye-controlled Simon Davion destroys the HPG of Hesperus II via an orbital bombardement, seconds the defenders can call for reinforcements.
  • July 18: The pro-Skye 17th Skye Rangers and 32nd Lyran Guards reach Hesperus II. The 17th Skye Rangers attack the 36th Lyran Guards, while the 32nd Lyran Guards reinforce the depleted 4th and 22nd Skye Rangers in their attack on Defiance Industries. The Gray Death Legion is wiped out, but in return, infantry from the 15th Lyran Guards captures the commander of the 32nd Lyran Guards. Defiance Industries have been successfuly defended, the Skye rebels are in disarray. Maybe the 36th Lyran Guards are dispatched to hunt them down.
  • July 22: The Davion Light Guards depose their CO Major-General Jon Buckvold under dubious circumstances and court-martial him for (among others) dereliction of duty. Marshal Jessica Quarles takes over the command. This shifts the political direction of the Davion Light Guards from neutral to pro-Victor.
    The Davion Light Guards, 8th Syrtis Fusiliers, New Syrtis CMM and Vanguard Legion set up plans to defend New Syrtis against possible invaders. This includes the Covenant-battlecruiser.
  • August 23: Isis Marik lures Victor in a restaurant and confronts him on his feelings. As this is a public appearance, she has forced him to reenter the Civil War. [3]
  • August 25: A provisional regiment, created from the remains of pro-Katherine units, is dispatched to Hesperus II to bolster the defenders.
  • September 20: Ardan Sortek, an emissary for Victor, arrives on New Syrtis. He tries to persuade George Hasek to support Victor, but George Hasek refuses, as he thinks that Victor wages this war to become ruler himself.
    A press spokesman on New Avalon issues a carefully-worded statement to denounce rumors, that a military strike on New Syrtis is planned.
    Katherine orders her champion Simon Gallagher to prepare an invasion of New Syrtis. He offers three units, five if Katherine were willing to wait two more months. But she wants the attack to commence as fast as possible. Katherine orders the MI6 to assassinate George Hasek.
  • October 7: A family-council deposes the turned-senile James Sandoval and installs Tancred Sandoval as the new Duke of Robinson. He voices his intent to help Victor with full force. [4]
    The Robinson-forces are down to holding Proserpina. The Draconian counter-attack has hit Cassias, Breed, Kasai and Addicks. [5]
    The 1st Robinson Rangers are badly damaged and unable to fight in the near future. The cadre of the Robinson military academy has been destroyed on Ashio. [6]
  • October 31: A pro-Katherine task force, consisting of the 4th Donegal Guards, 11th Avalon Hussars, Ridgebrook CMM and Avalon-class FCS Hanse Davion arrives in the New Syrtis system.
    An agent of MI6 attempts to assassinate George Hasek, but manages only to wound him heavily, before he is killed. George Hasek falls into a coma.
    Katherine Steiner-Davion delivers a press-conference, claiming that George Hasek were a secessionist and wanted to establish his own nation and House under his dictatorial rule. She said that a task-force had arrived on New Syrtis to persuade him with a "peaceful demonstration of power" to give up his plans.
    The Covenant and the FCS Hanse Davion face off in the orbit of New Syrtis. Both are destroyed, when the first attacks the later with a suicidal ram maneuver. This merciless, suicidal behaviour will set the tone for this whole conflict.
    Major-General Victor Amelio from the 4th Donegal Guards tries to buy the Vanguard Legion with a new contract, right before the battles begin, but they reject.
  • November 1: After long fighting, the pro-Katherine 3rd Alliance Guards have finally destroyed the pro-Victor 7th Crucis Lancers, but that victory only came in, after the 7th Crucis Lancers had destroyed the 9th Lyran Regulars (at an unknown date). Inarcs and its Mech-factories are reclaimed by Katherine.
    The invaders of New Syrtis achieved great initial gains, as the defenders were demoralized. A turnaround comes as George Haseks awakes from his coma.
    Central points in this war are Cavanaugh II, Dalkeith, Giausar and Marlette, as each side has at least three units invested in these fightings.
    The pro-Victor 20th, 23rd and 25th Arcturan Guards have defeated the 3rd Donegal Guards and conquered Cumbres, but the 25th Arcturan Guards were destroyed in the process.
  • November 9: Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao issues a press release, denouncing the accusations the the Capellan Confederation was behind the attack on George Hasek and demands proofs and a public apology from House Steiner-Davion.
    The invaders of New Syrtis have paralyzed most of it's industry, but the defenders keep harassing them.
  • December 11: George Hasek returns to it's duties as CO of the defenders of New Syrtis. (He lost his left hand in the assassination attempt.) Counter-attack-plans to drive the invaders off New Syrtis are initiated.
  • December 31: Demi-Precentor X Peter Fedt sends a secret note to Katherine Steiner-Davion, assuring her, that the 299th Division (except for one Level-III unit) will support her in the defense of New Avalon.
    The 11th Avalon Hussars singlehandedly try to neutralize the cavern (the military HQ of New Syrtis) by a parachute-surprise-attack of a company of Infiltrator Mk II Battle Armors. To their surprise, they are awaited by a company of Cavalier battle armor. The Infiltrators are finally defeated after a gruesome battle.

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  • January: On Tharkad, Peter Steiner-Davions troops have conquered the Nagelring military academy. It's capacities of analyzing battles are of great strategic advantage. Additionally, its prestige legitimizes Peter's claim for power. The Kell Hounds wipe out the 1st Alarion Jaegers after their commander is killed in action. But the Blue Star Irregulars loose a regiment to a trap of the 11th Arcturan Guards. The 39th Avalon Hussars and the 4th Skye Rangers reinforce Peter Steiner-Davions troops, but he hesitates using them, for political reasons. [39]
  • January 19: On Marlette, Warner Doles from the Blackwind Lanciers offers the 244th ComGuards to stop fighting here and instead join Victor on New Avalon. [40]
  • unknown date: The Davion Assault Guards approach too fast, are cut off from reinforcements and are destroyed. The 1st Crucis Lanciers try to save them and are destroyed as well. [41]
  • March: The movement Free Tikonov attacks Victor's forces on Tikonov. When House Daidachi shows up to help, they are also shot at and start a campaign, conquering Tikonov. They temporarily claim it for the Capellan Confederation. [42]
  • March 23: Nondi Steiner launches a major offensive. The center of the formation is held by the 1st Royal Guards, the flanks by the 24th Lyran Guards and the 11th Arcturan Guards, the 66th ComGuards are the reserve, behind the Royal Guards. On Peter's side, the Kell Hounds and 20th Arcturan Guards hold the center, with the 4th Wolf Guards as reserve. When the 4th Skye Rangers lure away the 11th Arcturan Guards for a deadly hide-and-seek, the front changes to a "W"-shape, Peter's forces being surrounded. Peter realizes that the commander of the ComGuards is too arrogant to accept the option of retreat, so he rearranges his troops, the Kell Hounds facing the 24th Lyran Guards, the 4th Wolf Guards facing the 1st Royal Guards and his 20th Arcturan Guards in full assault on the ComGuards. The ComGuards fall back, fighting back-to-back with the 1st Royal Guards. Then Peter changes the strategy again: He orders the arcturan tanks to take on the badly damaged ComGuards, while the arcturan Mechs, the Kell Hounds and the Wolves attack the Royal Guards. They retreat and Nondi Steiner orders the 24th Lyran Guards to sacrifize themselves to cover her retreat. Instead they capitulate. [43]
  • March 28: Victor plans his final offensive. First, Ardan Sortek's 2nd Ceti Hussars and Kai Allard-Liao's Foreign Legion will land as a distraction, stirring up the 22nd Avalon Hussars and the MCM Remagen. Then the 10th Lyran Guards and the 6th Crucis Lanciers will land on the northern coast to ambush the 10th Deneb Light Cavalry. If the 299th ComGuards show up, the Davion Heavy Guards and 2nd Robinson Rangers will take care of them. The 244th ComGuards and the 1st NAIS Training Cadre are reserve. It is unknown, where Katrina's 19th Arcturan Guards or the remains of the 17th Avalon Hussars are. [44]
    Victor sent the evidence he has, Katherine being responsible for her mother's death, to Jackson Davion. Preventing a conflict of interest, he steps down as her Marshal of the Armies, Katrina loosing another important aide. [45]
  • April 2: Peter launches his final offensive on Tharkad City. The first line of defense are the remains of the 2nd Royal Guards and the 11th Arcturan Guards, but the Royal Guards are overwhelmed after a hard battle and the Arcturans refuse to keep on fighting against fellow lyrans. Peter arranges their capitulation. Only the 1st Royal Guards remain and they hide in Tharkad City. Fighting from street to street, Peter ends up in a direct fight with Nondi Steiner, where he kills her with a lucky shot to the cockpit. Tharkad is conquered. [46]
  • April 20: The 2nd Davion Guards have arrived, further strengthening Victor's forces.
    Victor's forces advance steadily, forcing Katrina's forces to retreat on several flanks. The 1st NAIS Training Cadre fights the 299th ComGuards, trying to conquer their old academy. They win, as they are suddenly reinforced by the 2nd Davion Guards and elements from the 10th Lyran Guards. The 299th ComGuards are destroyed. The NAIS-cadets march towards their academy, when they are suddenly eradicated by a massive artillery-strike: The whole valley was one gigantic trap. The cadets try to flee but are annihilated completely by massive artillery fire. [47]
    Katrina's forces retreat to the spaceport, but Victor's forces are on their heels. Katrina hesitates for too long and in the end Victor's forces are close enough to prevent her escape with a suicidal assault, if necessary. She reinstalls Jackson Davion, so he can declare her capitulation. [48]
  • April 24: Katrina is arrested. Victor broadcasts a speech, declaring the end of the FedCom Civil War and presenting Peter Steiner-Davion and Yvonne Steiner-Davion to the citizens as their new respective rulers. [49]
    To prevent Katrina from further distorting the truth, she will not be put on trial in a court. Instead she will be put under house-arrest, while the evidence of her deeds is slowly spread to the public. [50]
  • August: Several aristocrats and military commanders are still hostile to Victor, but he stays clear of such situations by issuing personal orders of Peter and Yvonne. [51]
  • August 26: Khan Vlad Ward demands the extradition of Katherine Steiner-Davion, threatening war if he doesn't get her. Victor doesn't understand what's going on, but he complies. First to prevent war, second to ruin the image of Katherine. Maybe she would learn about honor, living among clansmen. [52]

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