Blue Lightning

Blue Lightning
Disbanded	3051
Affiliation	Mercenary
Parent Command

The Blue Lightning was a mercenary unit known to be active in the years immediately prior to the Clan Invasion.

History

The Blue Lightning were one of a number of smaller mercenaries who were paradoxically employed by the Draconis Combine in the 3040's despite Coordinator Takashi Kurita's infamous "Death to Mercenaries" edict. Even with the Combine's public "anti-mercenary" stance, the Coordinator's son and Gunji-no-Kanrei Theodore Kurita held more pragmatic views. Making use of contracts subsidized by ComStar as part of Operation ROSEBUD and secretly routed through Matabushi Incorporated to mask them from the Coordinator and his hardliner supporters, small units of "independent contractors" like the Blue Lightning were employed for minor missions such as pirate hunting or garrison duty on interior worlds which would unwittingly place them right in the path of the attacking Clan invaders.

As of December 3051 the Blue Lightning were in the Kaesong system, stranded there after their JumpShip had experienced technical difficulties, placing them in a difficult position when the world was attacked by Clan Ghost Bear as part of the fifth wave of the renewed Clan Invasion. When the planetary government pleaded with Blue Lightning to come to their aid, the mercenaries had little choice. In the end, that caused more harm than good though as, knowing they faced dezgra mercenaries, Star Colonel Dane Jorgensson skipped the bidding process entirely and sent in the elite Trinary Command of his 14th Battle Cluster to hunt the enemy down. Totally outgunned and outmatched, the Blue Lightning fled to the streets of Vedsan with the Ghost Bears savagely rooting them out of the city and destroying them utterly.

Officers

Rank	Name	Command
Commanding Officers of the Blue Lightning

Tactics

No specific tactics are known for this unit.

Composition History

3050

A Company of 'Mechs.

Bibliography

• Invading Clans (sourcebook)
• Shrapnel Issue 12