Blessed Order
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Blessed Order | |
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Organization Profile | |
Type | Religious Organization |
Once a term used by pre-Schism members to describe ComStar, the Blessed Order was the name adopted by a secret faction within Dark Age ComStar advocating a return to the Blakist faith and resurrection of ComStar to its pre-Schism standing in the Inner Sphere.
Overview
Hiding behind ComStar's neutrality, in 3128 at Malcolm Buhl's direction agents of the Blessed Order secretly stole advanced Word of Blake technical data, including extensive specs on the Manei Domini's Celestial series OmniMechs, stored within a protected Republic of the Sphere data depot on Terra. Reengineering the secured schematics to develop the Uraeus and Kheper BattleMechs, Buhl commissioned the New Earth Trading Company - little more than a corporate front owned and operated by ComStar since the early Succession Wars - to secretly construct production lines for these new 'Mechs as well as a new DropShip design, the Duat-class, hiding them among the massive volume of civilian manufacturing lines operated by NETC as the Blessed Order set about re-forming the Com Guards.[1][2]
Much like ComStar as a whole, the Blessed Order were caught off-guard by the HPG Blackout and assisted in trying to restore the HPG network, with Precentor Buhl in his role of Director of Special Projects setting up the Cassie DeBurke Institute for Hyperspatial Studies to solve the problem. When one of Institute's student Tucker Harwell, younger brother of Blessed Order member and First Division officer Patricia Harwell, devised a viable means of restarting an HPG, Buhl dispatched him to test his theories on the HPG on Wyatt. Delighted when Tucker succeeded and recognizing the importance of what Harwell's success could mean for ComStar, and more importantly the Blessed Order, Buhl made the fateful decision to send Patricia and the First to extract him the Blessed Order's secret Omega One base on Luyten 68-28.[2][3][4]
While considering the public revelation of the re-formed Com Guards worth the price to acquire Tucker for the Blessed Order, Buhl was unprepared for the Republic of the Sphere's response, with undercover Knight of the Sphere Alexi Holt successfully piercing the Blessed Order's security and infiltrating Omega One. A surprise strike by Republic Armed Forces troops in September 3140 rescued Tucker and Holt, but the bulk of the Blessed Order and First Division was able to evacuate, fleeing to a secret base on Epsilon Eridani. Cornered by the RAF in the form of the XIV Hastati Sentinels and later Stone's Revenants, the Blessed Order were ultimately crushed with all of ComStar within the Fortress Republic paying the price, forcibly integrated into the Republic.[4]
Military units
Equipment
Other known equipment included:
- Achilles-class assault DropShip[5][6]
- SWF-606R Swift light aerospace fighter/interceptor
- CX-11 Tomahawk light aerospace fighter/fire-support
- GTHA-500 Gotha medium aerospace fighter/attack
- AHB-443 Ahab heavy aerospace fighter/attack
- Raiden-type battle armor[7]
- Pollux/Pollux II ADA heavy air defense tanks
- Burke heavy tank (HPPC variant)[8]
- PAT-007 Puma main battle tank[9]
- Demon tank (HGR)[10]
- BE701 Joust medium tank[11]
- Hi-Scout / Hi-Scout Cunningham drone carrier and battlefield reconnaissance vehicle
- Bolla stealth tank[12]
- AS7-K2 Atlas assault sniper BattleMech
- HGN-641-X-2 Highlander assault juggernaut BattleMech
- KGC-008 King Crab sniper and assault BattleMech
- EMP-6A Emperor assault juggernaut BattleMech
- SCG-WF1 Scourge heavy skirmisher BattleMech[13]
- GRM-R-PR29 Grim Reaper medium skirmisher BattleMech
- GRF-6CS Griffin medium sniper BattleMech
- GDR-1D Gravedigger medium sniper BattleMech[14]
- SHD-11CS Shadow Hawk medium artillery (missile boat) BattleMech[15]
- RJN-301-B Raijin medium artillery spotter and scout BattleMech
- FNHK-9K1B Falcon Hawk light artillery spotter and brawler[16]
- NXS1-C Nexus light anti-infantry and striker BattleMech
- BLD-XX Blade light anti-aircraft and striker BattleMech
- LNC25-04 Lancelot heavy anti-aircraft and striker BattleMech
- AEM-05C Dragoon heavy brawler and command BattleMech
- Titan TI-1Aj assault juggernaut BattleMech[17]
- Uller BLO light (skirmisher configuration) OmniMech
- Avatar OBLO heavy (skirmisher configuration) OmniMech
- Vulture III BLO heavy (missile boat configuration) OmniMech
- Templar OBLO [TLR1-OBLO] assault (brawler configuration) OmniMech
- Doloire OBLO [DLR-OBLO] assault (brawler configuration) OmniMech
- Mad Cat BLO heavy (skirmisher configuration) OmniMech
- CLR-02-X-D Celerity Ultralight drone reconnaissance BattleMech
- CX-17 Fury Command and Control Vehicle
Group known bases
- Omega One base: Located in the system Luyten 68-28, abandoned in 3140 after being discovered.[18][2]
- Alpha base: Old Star League Defense Force base, located in Epsilon Eridani system, destroyed by Republic forces in 3140.[18][2]
- Other secondary bases around all Republic space.[2]
References
- ↑ Field Manual: 3145, pp. 137–138: "Republic of the Sphere - State of Republic Readiness - A Lasting Legacy"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Era Report: 3145, p. 84: "Factions - ComStar - First Division"
- ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 117: "Major Personas - ComStar - Malcolm Buhl"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Field Manual: 3145, pp. 135–136: "Republic of the Sphere - General Review - Behind the Wall"
- ↑ Turning Points: Epsilon Eridani, pp. 13–14: "Pursuit of Purity"
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3145 Republic of the Sphere, p. 50 "SCK-O Schrack"
- ↑ Target of Opportunity
- ↑ MUL Profile for Burke Defense Tank (HPPC)
- ↑ MUL Profile for Puma Assault Tank PAT-007
- ↑ MUL Profile for Demon tank (HGR)
- ↑ MUL Profile for Joust Medium Tank BE701
- ↑ MUL profile for Bolla Stealth Tank
- ↑ MUL Profile for Scourge SCG-WF1
- ↑ MUL Profile for Gravedigger GDR-1D
- ↑ MUL Profile for Shadow Hawk SHD-11CS
- ↑ MUL Profile for Falcon Hawk FNHK-9K1B
- ↑ MUL Profile for Titan TI-1Aj
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Turning Points: Epsilon Eridani