3068

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Battles

• January 1st: Word of Blake forces attack Luthien, creating a three-way battle involving Kokuryu-kai rebels and Draconis Combine troops loyal to Theodore Kurita.
• January 21th: Word of Blake forces devastate the 21st Centauri Lancers and other units on Tukayyid.
• February: Cavanaugh Theater Margrave Caesar Steiner is assassinated.
• March 9th: The Case White invasion begins.
• March: The Word of Blake's conducts raids against Hesperus II.
• June: Duke George Hasek launches Operation: Sovereign Justice against the Capellan Confederation.
• October: Sang-jiang-jun Talon Zahn launches Operation: Thunderstrike.
• Duchess Candace Liao is killed by a Word of Blake bombardment.
• The Word of Blake 14th Division raids Yorii disguised as FedSun/Lyran forces.

• • • Raventhir's Iron Hand faces off against the Blakists outside city of Crimson.
    • Blakists' infantry from the 34th Division slaughters the Iron Hand's infantry which was defending the Magestrix & other Magistracy VIPs.
      • Raventhir's Iron Hand units are overwhelmed by 34th Division and are destroyed.
      • Canopus is conquered by the Blakist while holding Magestrix and other VIPs as hostages.
  • October 26th - Word of Blake releases a gas attack over Atreus, killing hundreds of thousands, including most of Parliament.
• Word of Blake fails to take Orestes.
• December - The Chief of the ISF, Ninyu Kerai-Indrahar, is reportedly killed.
• December 14th - Word of Blake destroys ComStar’s Columbus Outpost in the Periphery and the 151st Regiment of Eridani Light Horse.
• Federated Suns and Draconis Combine become engaged in conflict.
• Word of Blake military Operation: Steel Hammer is launched.
  • Word of Blake's 2nd Division conducts series of raids against the planet, Donegal. Heavy damage is inflicted to the planet's industries and infrastructure.
• Primus Sharilar Mori is assassinated.

Events

• Duke Robert Kelswa-Steiner of Skye declares war on the Free Worlds League.
• Word of Blake Protectorate expands.
  • October 16th - The Contact with Canopus and the neighbor systems is lost.
• October 24th - Knights of the Inner Sphere arrive on Atreus.
  • Blakists flood the HPG grid with white noise, backing up transmissions for months.
• November 10th - Kiyomori Minamoto declares himself Gunji-no-Kanrei and temporarily moves the capital to New Samarkand.

Characters

• Primus Sharilar Mori of ComStar evacuated from Tukayyid.
• Kai Allard-Liao is taken to New Syrtis by The Bounty Hunter.
• Blakists reveal that the Captain-General of the Free Worlds League is not really Thomas Marik, but an impostor. They also reveal that Sharilar Mori was a Draconis Combine agent and that Anastasius Focht was Frederick Steiner.

Technology

• Majesty Metals and Manufacturing of Dunianshire begins limited production of the KSC-5MC Koschei.
• Clan Wolf-in-Exile unveils the Anti-Battle Armor Pod that is used by both the Clans and Inner Sphere.
• Federated Suns put the Light AC/2 and Light AC/5 into production.
• Researchers from the destroyed NAIS created the Machine Gun Array, which actually sees production with the Taurian Defense Force first.
• Clan Diamond Shark fields the Machine Gun Array.
• Lyran Alliance creates Compact Engine.
• Clan Hell's Horses introduces the Hyper-Assault Gauss Rifle models HAG 20, HAG 30, and HAG 40.
• The former states of the Federated Commonwealth unveil the Compact Gyro around the same time.
• Taurian Concordat produces the first Inner Sphere models of the Heavy Machine Gun.
• Scientists from the Capellan Confederation unveil their Light Machine Gun and Plasma Rifle.
• Clan Blood Spirit and Clan Ice Hellion introduce the ProtoMech Myomer Booster.