3070

	Jihad era
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Battles

• Word of Blake attacks Marian Hegemony.
• Sherwood starts to suffer from escalating bandit raids.
• February 14th-28th: The Draconis Combine cleanses Galedon V by nuclear strike.
• June: Elements of the Solaris Home Defense League on Solaris VII successfully raid several Word of Blake supply caches and recover valuable war materiel.
• June 7th-14th: Clan Jade Falcon attack Zanderij.
• July 11th: The Ghost Bear forces arrive at Tukayyid and destroy the Word of Blake ships.
• August 22th: Rebel WarShips in the Shiloh system destroy two Word of Blake WarShips.
• September 13th-15th: Word of Blake attacks St. Ives and Sian.
• November 14th-28th: Clan Hell's Horses returns to the Inner Sphere and invades Clan Wolf Occupation Zone, the Hell's Horses capture Nyserta and Oberon VI.
• November 25th: The DropShip Irregulars are destroyed on Bethel by a Blakist orbital nuclear strike.
• December 1st-14th: The Hell’s Horses take Paulus Prime from Clan Wolf.
• December 28th: Word of Blake destroys Clan Wolf's headquarters on Tamar with a nuclear weapon.
• Word of Blake's 14th Division strikes worlds of McAlister, Jeanette and Matamoras in Draconis Combine.
• Late 3070: elements of the Blakist 9th Division and the Black Angus Boys unsuccessfully attempt to raid Beid.

Events

• January 7th: Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao of the Capellan Confederation pledges an immediate cease-fire with the Capellan March so that the CCAF can redeploy to meet the Word of Blake invasion.
  • Operation THUNDERSTRIKE ends.
  • Operation SOVEREIGN JUSTICE officially ends.
• February 6th: Word of Blake captures Hesperus II and Donegal as part of Operation: Steel Hammer.
• March 14th: War between Taurian Concordat and Calderon Protectorate.
• October 13th: Sun-Tzu Liao marries Naomi Centrella.
• November 1st: Free Capella disbands, with the Blackwind Lancers returning to the CCAF.
• Clan Ghost Bear pushes the Word of Blake out of the Free Rasalhague Republic, most notably on Tukayyid and Orestes.
• Clan Ghost Bear takes first steps towards merging with Free Rasalhague Republic.

Characters

• January 5th: Theodore Kurita dies of a stroke.

• His son Hohiro succeeds him as Coordinator of the Draconis Combine.

• March 19th: Duke George Hasek II is assassinated.
• September 19th: Warner Doles dies protecting the Capellan Confederation Chancellor.
• October 30th: Mandrinn Treyhang Liao, the head of Free Capella, is assassinated.
• December 9th: President Allison Carver of Herotitus is assassinated.
• December 28th: saKhan Marialle Radick is killed during the annihilation on Tamar.
• Harrison Davion born.
• Jade Falcon Scientist Peri (Watson) missing and presumed dead.

Technology

• Lyran Alliance develop Battle Armor Mechanical Jump Boosters.
• Word of Blake introduce the Void Signature System.
• The Clan Snow Raven Scientist caste develop the Ferro-Lamellor Armor.
• The Federated Suns introduces Hauberk battle armor.
• First upgraded Feng Huang Cruiser is spotted.
• ER Flamer is developed by the Federated Suns.
• Actuator Enhancement System is developed by the Kell Hounds in conjunction with Wolf Dragoons.
• The Free Worlds League and Word of Blake start their research in Variable Speed Lasers technology.
• The Guillotine IIC 2, UrbanMech IIC 2, and Pack Hunter 4 variants are introduced.
• The Djinn is introduced by Gibson Federated BattleMechs.