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Line 25: Meanwhile, her brother Charles ruthlessly consolidated his position and attempted to rebuild the devastated infrastructure of the League. However he was forced to admit defeat with his failed efforts to restore the Free Worlds League's shattered intelligence organization [[SAFE]] from the losses it suffered in the First Succession War. Desperate to overcome the intelligence blind-spot as tensions among Great Houses increased ahead of the [[Second Succession War]], in February [[2830]] Charles met privately with Jeanette on [[Irian]] during one of her many recruitment trips and asked her to use her ComStar connections to intercept military communications relating to [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] and [[Capellan Confederation Armed Forces]] intentions against the League. Incorrectly assuming that her loyalty to her family was greater than to ComStar when she agreed to do so, Charles failed to realize that she would also immediately inform the Primus of his request.<ref name=CSp24-27/> Meanwhile, her brother Charles ruthlessly consolidated his position and attempted to rebuild the devastated infrastructure of the League. However he was forced to admit defeat with his failed efforts to restore the Free Worlds League's shattered intelligence organization [[SAFE]] from the losses it suffered in the First Succession War. Desperate to overcome the intelligence blind-spot as tensions among Great Houses increased ahead of the [[Second Succession War]], in February [[2830]] Charles met privately with Jeanette on [[Irian]] during one of her many recruitment trips and asked her to use her ComStar connections to intercept military communications relating to [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] and [[Capellan Confederation Armed Forces]] intentions against the League. Incorrectly assuming that her loyalty to her family was greater than to ComStar when she agreed to do so, Charles failed to realize that she would also immediately inform the Primus of his request.<ref name=CSp24-27/> − Already seeking a way to draw the Free Worlds League into the Second Succession War as part of his [[Operation DIVINE INTERVENTION]], and to reinforce Jeanette's loyalty to the Order by showing that his brother was not above the mindless warmongering that led her to join ComStar, Toyama provided her with a document he claimed had come from the Lyran high command to the commander of the [[Skye Rangers]] containing plans for the invasion of [[Graham IV]], [[Castor]] and [[Callison]]. Unaware that the document had been created by Toyama himself, Jeanette passed on the seemingly important transmission to her brother in mid-June. Wholeheartedly believing its authenticity, Charles refused to accept Lyran denials that such attacks weren't planned and ordered his troops into a state of readiness to launch his own attack against House Steiner.<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32a>''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', p. 32: "History - The Second Succession War - The Fighting Resumes - The Unanswered Question"</ref> + Already seeking a way to draw the Free Worlds League into the Second Succession War as part of his [[Operation DIVINE INTERVENTION]], and to reinforce Jeanette's loyalty to the Order by showing that her brother was not above the mindless warmongering that led her to join ComStar, Toyama provided her with a document he claimed had come from the Lyran high command to the commander of the [[Skye Rangers]] containing plans for the invasion of [[Graham IV]], [[Castor]] and [[Callison]]. Unaware that the document had been created by Toyama himself, Jeanette passed on the seemingly important transmission to her brother in mid-June. Wholeheartedly believing its authenticity, Charles refused to accept Lyran denials that such attacks weren't planned and ordered his troops into a state of readiness to launch his own attack against House Steiner.<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32a>''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', p. 32: "History - The Second Succession War - The Fighting Resumes - The Unanswered Question"</ref> As Marik forces stepped up preparations to prevent and preempt the supposed Steiner invasion, the Lyran Commonwealth was forced to do the same, creating the threat that faked documents had foretold and moving both nations to the brink of war. Thrilled at the success of this plot, Toyama revealed to the [[First Circuit]] his eventual goal. With their shattered intelligence network, the Free Worlds League would be desperate for the secret intelligence ComStar could provide, and Toyama believed this could be used to damage the [[FWLM]] and Charles to the point where Jeanette would again be the only choice for the Captain-Generalcy, making the Successor State a de facto ComStar protectorate.<ref name=CSp24-27/> As Marik forces stepped up preparations to prevent and preempt the supposed Steiner invasion, the Lyran Commonwealth was forced to do the same, creating the threat that faked documents had foretold and moving both nations to the brink of war. Thrilled at the success of this plot, Toyama revealed to the [[First Circuit]] his eventual goal. With their shattered intelligence network, the Free Worlds League would be desperate for the secret intelligence ComStar could provide, and Toyama believed this could be used to damage the [[FWLM]] and Charles to the point where Jeanette would again be the only choice for the Captain-Generalcy, making the Successor State a de facto ComStar protectorate.<ref name=CSp24-27/> Line 31:
Line 31: Between [[2831]] and [[2836]] Jeanette and her ComStar colleagues sent periodic messages to the palace at [[Atreus (FWL)|Atreus]] providing extraordinarily accurate LCAF and CCAF troop dispositions and movements that allowed House Marik to win a series of grand military campaigns against Houses Liao and Steiner. However for the great number of successful campaigns, there were also a number of setbacks and losses which Charles was convinced could only be due to his enemies receiving similar advance info of Marik troop movements. Eventually he began to suspect ComStar's role in providing similar aid to his enemies, reaching the conclusion that the Order desired crippling the League to the point of requiring direct ComStar aid. Charles however lacked tangible proof, and devised a top-secret plan to expose ComStar's duplicity, [[Operation COOKIE JAR]].<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32b>''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', pp. 32–33: "History - The Second Succession War - At War with ComStar"</ref> Between [[2831]] and [[2836]] Jeanette and her ComStar colleagues sent periodic messages to the palace at [[Atreus (FWL)|Atreus]] providing extraordinarily accurate LCAF and CCAF troop dispositions and movements that allowed House Marik to win a series of grand military campaigns against Houses Liao and Steiner. However for the great number of successful campaigns, there were also a number of setbacks and losses which Charles was convinced could only be due to his enemies receiving similar advance info of Marik troop movements. Eventually he began to suspect ComStar's role in providing similar aid to his enemies, reaching the conclusion that the Order desired crippling the League to the point of requiring direct ComStar aid. Charles however lacked tangible proof, and devised a top-secret plan to expose ComStar's duplicity, [[Operation COOKIE JAR]].<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32b>''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', pp. 32–33: "History - The Second Succession War - At War with ComStar"</ref> − Known only to a handful of personally selected SAFE agents and the Captain-General himself, Charles visited Jeanette at her posting as a [[Precentor]] at the Class A [[hyperpulse generator]] at [[Oriente]] in February 2837 and revealed that his troops had recently discovered a lost [[Star League]] military warehouse on [[Cursa]]. Afterwards, he secretly ordered the Marshall of Oriente to transmit the same information to Atreus using an old security code known only to ComStar. The operation culminated on March 13 when House Liao forces struck Cursa with three regiments of crack troops, who only found a virtually abandoned world. Charles Marik had confirmed his suspicions, and worse, had proven that his own sister was likely party to the betrayal.<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32b/> + Known only to a handful of personally selected SAFE agents and the Captain-General himself, Charles visited Jeanette at her posting as a [[Precentor]] at the Class A [[hyperpulse generator]] at [[Oriente]] in February 2837 and revealed that his troops had recently discovered a lost [[Star League]] military warehouse on [[Cursa]]. Afterwards, he secretly ordered the Marshal of Oriente to transmit the same information to Atreus using an old security code known only to ComStar. The operation culminated on March 13 when House Liao forces struck Cursa with three regiments of crack troops, who only found a virtually abandoned world. Charles Marik had confirmed his suspicions, and worse, had proven that his own sister was likely party to the betrayal.<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32b/> ===Death and Legacy=== ===Death and Legacy===
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Meanwhile, her brother Charles ruthlessly consolidated his position and attempted to rebuild the devastated infrastructure of the League. However he was forced to admit defeat with his failed efforts to restore the Free Worlds League's shattered intelligence organization [[SAFE]] from the losses it suffered in the First Succession War. Desperate to overcome the intelligence blind-spot as tensions among Great Houses increased ahead of the [[Second Succession War]], in February [[2830]] Charles met privately with Jeanette on [[Irian]] during one of her many recruitment trips and asked her to use her ComStar connections to intercept military communications relating to [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] and [[Capellan Confederation Armed Forces]] intentions against the League. Incorrectly assuming that her loyalty to her family was greater than to ComStar when she agreed to do so, Charles failed to realize that she would also immediately inform the Primus of his request.<ref name=CSp24-27/> | Meanwhile, her brother Charles ruthlessly consolidated his position and attempted to rebuild the devastated infrastructure of the League. However he was forced to admit defeat with his failed efforts to restore the Free Worlds League's shattered intelligence organization [[SAFE]] from the losses it suffered in the First Succession War. Desperate to overcome the intelligence blind-spot as tensions among Great Houses increased ahead of the [[Second Succession War]], in February [[2830]] Charles met privately with Jeanette on [[Irian]] during one of her many recruitment trips and asked her to use her ComStar connections to intercept military communications relating to [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] and [[Capellan Confederation Armed Forces]] intentions against the League. Incorrectly assuming that her loyalty to her family was greater than to ComStar when she agreed to do so, Charles failed to realize that she would also immediately inform the Primus of his request.<ref name=CSp24-27/> | ||
| − | Already seeking a way to draw the Free Worlds League into the Second Succession War as part of his [[Operation DIVINE INTERVENTION]], and to reinforce Jeanette's loyalty to the Order by showing that | + | Already seeking a way to draw the Free Worlds League into the Second Succession War as part of his [[Operation DIVINE INTERVENTION]], and to reinforce Jeanette's loyalty to the Order by showing that her brother was not above the mindless warmongering that led her to join ComStar, Toyama provided her with a document he claimed had come from the Lyran high command to the commander of the [[Skye Rangers]] containing plans for the invasion of [[Graham IV]], [[Castor]] and [[Callison]]. Unaware that the document had been created by Toyama himself, Jeanette passed on the seemingly important transmission to her brother in mid-June. Wholeheartedly believing its authenticity, Charles refused to accept Lyran denials that such attacks weren't planned and ordered his troops into a state of readiness to launch his own attack against House Steiner.<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32a>''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', p. 32: "History - The Second Succession War - The Fighting Resumes - The Unanswered Question"</ref> |
As Marik forces stepped up preparations to prevent and preempt the supposed Steiner invasion, the Lyran Commonwealth was forced to do the same, creating the threat that faked documents had foretold and moving both nations to the brink of war. Thrilled at the success of this plot, Toyama revealed to the [[First Circuit]] his eventual goal. With their shattered intelligence network, the Free Worlds League would be desperate for the secret intelligence ComStar could provide, and Toyama believed this could be used to damage the [[FWLM]] and Charles to the point where Jeanette would again be the only choice for the Captain-Generalcy, making the Successor State a de facto ComStar protectorate.<ref name=CSp24-27/> | As Marik forces stepped up preparations to prevent and preempt the supposed Steiner invasion, the Lyran Commonwealth was forced to do the same, creating the threat that faked documents had foretold and moving both nations to the brink of war. Thrilled at the success of this plot, Toyama revealed to the [[First Circuit]] his eventual goal. With their shattered intelligence network, the Free Worlds League would be desperate for the secret intelligence ComStar could provide, and Toyama believed this could be used to damage the [[FWLM]] and Charles to the point where Jeanette would again be the only choice for the Captain-Generalcy, making the Successor State a de facto ComStar protectorate.<ref name=CSp24-27/> | ||
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Between [[2831]] and [[2836]] Jeanette and her ComStar colleagues sent periodic messages to the palace at [[Atreus (FWL)|Atreus]] providing extraordinarily accurate LCAF and CCAF troop dispositions and movements that allowed House Marik to win a series of grand military campaigns against Houses Liao and Steiner. However for the great number of successful campaigns, there were also a number of setbacks and losses which Charles was convinced could only be due to his enemies receiving similar advance info of Marik troop movements. Eventually he began to suspect ComStar's role in providing similar aid to his enemies, reaching the conclusion that the Order desired crippling the League to the point of requiring direct ComStar aid. Charles however lacked tangible proof, and devised a top-secret plan to expose ComStar's duplicity, [[Operation COOKIE JAR]].<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32b>''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', pp. 32–33: "History - The Second Succession War - At War with ComStar"</ref> | Between [[2831]] and [[2836]] Jeanette and her ComStar colleagues sent periodic messages to the palace at [[Atreus (FWL)|Atreus]] providing extraordinarily accurate LCAF and CCAF troop dispositions and movements that allowed House Marik to win a series of grand military campaigns against Houses Liao and Steiner. However for the great number of successful campaigns, there were also a number of setbacks and losses which Charles was convinced could only be due to his enemies receiving similar advance info of Marik troop movements. Eventually he began to suspect ComStar's role in providing similar aid to his enemies, reaching the conclusion that the Order desired crippling the League to the point of requiring direct ComStar aid. Charles however lacked tangible proof, and devised a top-secret plan to expose ComStar's duplicity, [[Operation COOKIE JAR]].<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32b>''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', pp. 32–33: "History - The Second Succession War - At War with ComStar"</ref> | ||
| − | Known only to a handful of personally selected SAFE agents and the Captain-General himself, Charles visited Jeanette at her posting as a [[Precentor]] at the Class A [[hyperpulse generator]] at [[Oriente]] in February 2837 and revealed that his troops had recently discovered a lost [[Star League]] military warehouse on [[Cursa]]. Afterwards, he secretly ordered the | + | Known only to a handful of personally selected SAFE agents and the Captain-General himself, Charles visited Jeanette at her posting as a [[Precentor]] at the Class A [[hyperpulse generator]] at [[Oriente]] in February 2837 and revealed that his troops had recently discovered a lost [[Star League]] military warehouse on [[Cursa]]. Afterwards, he secretly ordered the Marshal of Oriente to transmit the same information to Atreus using an old security code known only to ComStar. The operation culminated on March 13 when House Liao forces struck Cursa with three regiments of crack troops, who only found a virtually abandoned world. Charles Marik had confirmed his suspicions, and worse, had proven that his own sister was likely party to the betrayal.<ref name=CSp24-27/><ref name=HMTFWL-32b/> |
===Death and Legacy=== | ===Death and Legacy=== | ||