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.
- June 9th - Tamarind's Marshall Jeremy Brett leads Free Worlds League forces to counter-attack Lyran Alliance's invasion.
- June 2nd - Free Worlds League forces under the command of Tamarind Marshall Jeremy Brett counter the nominally Lyran invasion and continue into Lyran space.[1]
- November 27th - Lyran forces reclaim Syrma and Zebebelgenubi.[2]
- Operation Thunderstrike launches
- Jie Fang Legion is destroyed in First Wave in August by elements of the Death Commandos and the 5th Confederation Reserve Cavalry.
- Blackwind Lancers hearing news of Duchess Liao's death turns on its former Hasek allies on Ares; The Lancers destroy 85% of 5th Syrtis Fusiliers.
- Thunderstrike's three main Task Forces (Task Force Shen Lung, Task Force Light Horse, & Task Force Vengeance) are finally assembled to conduct three prong invasion re-take captured worlds and invade Federated Suns.
- October 7th; Second Wave of Thunderstrike launches; Task Forces hit captured worlds
- 13th Division of Word of Blake assaults world of Kittery in November as "part of" Operation: Thunderstrike's 2nd Wave.[3]
- The 13th Division destroys both the Kittery Borderers and Kittery Training Battalion; Kittery falls to Blake under the guise of being held in the name of the Capellan Confederation.[2]
- Capellan forces hit Valexa and Tallin.[2]
- 14th Division raids Yorii as FedSun/Lyran forces, they slip bio-warfare agents into water reserves sicking & killing millions. This was secret setup for Blakist forces to rescue and annex the planet.[4]
- A Blakist-sponsored insurgency creates chaos on Canopus IV and all HPGs within 60 light-years go down.[5]
- October 18th - 34th Division of the Word of Blake assaults Canopus IV.[6]
- 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.[1]
- October 18th - 34th Division of the Word of Blake assaults Canopus IV.[6]
- Word of Blake fails to take Orestes.
- December - The Chief of the ISF, Ninyu Kerai-Indrahar, is reportedly killed.[2]
- December 14th - Word of Blake destroys ComStar’s Columbus Outpost in the Periphery and the 151st Regiment of Eridani Light Horse.[2]
- Federated Suns and Draconis Combine become engaged in conflict.[1]
- Word of Blake military Operation: Steel Hammer is launched.[7]
- 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.[1]
- Primus Sharilar Mori is assassinated.[2]
Events
- Duke Robert Kelswa-Steiner of Skye declares war on the Free Worlds League.
- Word of Blake Protectorate expands.[2]
- October 24th - Knights of the Inner Sphere arrive on Atreus.[2]
- November 10th - Kiyomori Minamoto declares himself Gunji-no-Kanrei and temporarily moves the capital to New Samarkand.[1]
Characters
- Primus Sharilar Mori of ComStar evacuated from Tukayyid.[2]
- 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.[1]
Technology
- Majesty Metals and Manufacturing of Dunianshire begins limited production of the KSC-5MC Koschei.[8]
- Clan Wolf-in-Exile unveils the Anti-Battle Armor Pod that is used by both the Clans and Inner Sphere.[9]
- Federated Suns put the Light AC/2 and Light AC/5 into production.[10]
- Researchers from the destroyed NAIS created the Machine Gun Array, which actually sees production with the Taurian Defense Force first.[11]
- 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.[12]
- 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.[13]
- Clan Blood Spirit and Clan Ice Hellion introduce the ProtoMech Myomer Booster.[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedJihad Hot Spots: 3070 - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedJihad Hot Spots: 3072 - ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents page 140 - 13th Division unit profile.
- ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents page 99 - Bio-agents delivered by the 14th Division masquarating FedSun/Lyran forces.
- ↑ Dawn of the Jihad page 116 - Canopus Goes Silent - HPG on Canopus goes silent on October 18th 3068 (not in 3067 as printed in Jihad Hot Spots: 3076).
- ↑ Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers page 170 - Bloody and Blind - Raventhir's defeat outside of Crimson and its apparent destruction.
- ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents page 24 - Operation Steel Hammer.
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3075 page 244 - KSC-3I Koschei - Deployment - Majestry Metals begins limited production of Koschei.
- ↑ TechManual p.204
- ↑ TechManual pg.207
- ↑ TechManual pg.226
- ↑ TechManual pg.219
- ↑ TechManual pg.234
- ↑ TechManual pg.232