3071

	Jihad era
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Battles

• January 13th: The Jade Falcons attack Great X.
• January 21st: The Word of Blake attacks Robinson.
• January 28th: Word of Blake forces on Wasat detonate a nuclear weapon in the capital city.
• February: The Word of Blake's Twenty-ninth Division and Forty-second Shadow Division assault Pesht with biological and nuclear weapons.
• May: The Second Regulan Hussars are destroyed by the Forty-ninth Shadow Division on Wallis.
• May: The Forty-second Shadow Division arrives on Luthien to support the Word's Ninth Division.
• June: Clan Ice Hellion launches Operation ICE STORM against the worlds of the Jade Falcon Occupation Zone.
• June: Winfield is captured by Clan Ice Hellion.
• The Word of Blake's Fourteenth Division attacks the Draconis Combine worlds of Echo V and Qandahar.
• Word of Blake forces destroy the Pesht Motors facility on Pesht.
• The re-formed Twenty-fifth Arcturan Guards stop an attack on the Lyran Alliance by Delta Galaxy of Clan Jade Falcon dead in its tracks.
• The Forty-eighth Shadow Division raids the planet Necromo.
• Sathen's Snipers are captured by the Word of Blake's Ninth Division on Luthien.
• The pirate band known as the Tortugan Phalanx conduct a flawless raid on Lackland.
• The Fourth Pesht Regulars are destroyed on Pesht by the Blakist Twenty-ninth Militia and Forty-ninth Shadow Divisions.

Events

• March: Hansen's Roughriders are deployed to Electra.
• August 9th: The Free Worlds League cedes Gibson to Precentor Apollyon.
• August: Vermezzo is struck by pro-Democracy Now rioting.
• October 7th: Richard Steiner, as a pawn of the Blakists, assassinates Jeremy Brett. Both men die in the explosion.
• October 12th: Clan Nova Cat allegedly conducts a council meeting to discuss aligning with Devlin Stone (in a video transmitted by Belial).
• November 1st: An HPG intercept released by ComStar purports to have Belial reporting on a confidential Clan Nova Cat council meeting.
• November 19th: Therese Brett-Marik declares the Duchy of Tamarind independent of the FWL and names herself the Duchess of Tamarind.
• November 19th: Therese Brett-Marik places her son, Photon Brett-Marik, in command of all FWLM forces.
• Peter Steiner-Davion abdicates the Archonship in favor of Adam Steiner.
• The decimated 21st Centauri Lancers attempt to rebuild on Tukayyid, opening membership to any other surviving military units willing to join.
• The Word of Blake's Nineteenth Division abandons Algot and Yangtze, due to rebellions.
• The Sorenson's Sabres depart from Luthien.
• The Ronin mercenary unit is formed from survivors of the 10th Ghost Regiment.
• Dissidents within the Grumman Industries branch on New Earth begin smuggling more than two hundred Zephyr hovertanks to anti-Blakist forces.

Characters

• January 27th: Magestrix Naomi Centrella gives birth to Daoshen Liao-Centrella.
• March/April: saKhan Nelson Elam of Clan Goliath Scorpion is killed in battle.

• Star Colonel Kelton Myers is elected saKhan of Clan Goliath Scorpion.

• September: Galaxy Commander Damon Hawkins is killed in battle on Steelton.
• Emma Centrella is killed by Word of Blake forces on Canopus.

Technology

• The Federated Suns develop the Anti-Ship Missile.
• The Transgressor TR-15 variant is fielded.
• Kali Yama Weapons Industries Incorporated begins production of the Trebuchet TBT-8B variant.
• Johnston Industries phases out production of the AXM-1N Axman in favor of the AXM-4D variant.
• The Draconis Combine begins production of the MRM "Apollo" Fire Control System.
• The Small Variable Speed Laser is developed by the Free Worlds League.
• The Draconis Combine develops the C3 Emergency Master.
• The BMB-12 Bombardier BattleMech and new BMB-05 variant reintroduced into service in the Outworld Alliance.
• The Canis 2 'Mech variant is introduced.
• The Fire Scorpion 3 BattleMech variant is introduced.
• The Wyvern IIC 2 BattleMech variant is introduced.
• The AXM-4D Axman BattleMech variant is introduced.
• Novis AT-H, Inc. fields the Tamerlane Strike Sled Hover vehicle.
• The Crimson Hawk BattleMech is introduced by Clan Blood Spirit.
• The STG-3P variant of the Stinger BattleMech is introduced.