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A '''hiring hall''' is a designated area on a world where [[mercenary unit]]s can go to be hired. They are essentially common meeting grounds, though some are more high tech than others. Prior to the [[Fourth Succession War]], the premier hiring hall in the [[Inner Sphere]] was on [[Galatea]], then known as the [[Mercenary's Star]]. After the Fourth War, [[Wolf's Dragoons]] was given the world of [[Outreach]] by Prince [[Hanse Davion]] and worked very hard to make Outreach into the premier hiring hall. | A '''hiring hall''' is a designated area on a world where [[mercenary unit]]s can go to be hired. They are essentially common meeting grounds, though some are more high tech than others. Prior to the [[Fourth Succession War]], the premier hiring hall in the [[Inner Sphere]] was on [[Galatea]], then known as the [[Mercenary's Star]]. After the Fourth War, [[Wolf's Dragoons]] was given the world of [[Outreach]] by Prince [[Hanse Davion]] and worked very hard to make Outreach into the premier hiring hall. | ||
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Revision as of 05:14, 23 May 2008
A hiring hall is a designated area on a world where mercenary units can go to be hired. They are essentially common meeting grounds, though some are more high tech than others. Prior to the Fourth Succession War, the premier hiring hall in the Inner Sphere was on Galatea, then known as the Mercenary's Star. After the Fourth War, Wolf's Dragoons was given the world of Outreach by Prince Hanse Davion and worked very hard to make Outreach into the premier hiring hall.
Mercenary contracts throughout the Inner Sphere used to be brokered by ComStar who provided a hiring agency through the Mercenary Review Board (MRB). Through the MRB, ComStar held a monopoly on hiring, arbitration, general administration and other clerical services surrounding the mercenary business. The trust universally placed into ComStar was lost following their collaboration with the Clans, however, and the MRB collapsed in 3052. In its stead, the Mercenary Review and Bonding Commission (MRBC) set up shop on Outreach, only returning to set up a satellite office on Galatea in 3067 after the 'Mech Riots damaged the trade there during the FedCom Civil War. This move proved to be fortuitous as the Word of Blake's first target during their Jihad was Outreach, which was conquered and devastated through the use of nuclear weapons.
Other halls dot worlds with large, famous mercenary units, like Northwind and Arc-Royal. In a similar fashion to what Jaime Wolf did for Outreach, Morgan Kell built up his home of Arc-Royal to the mercenary trade, though it was never granted the legitimacy of Galatea and Outreach through an official MRBC office. Nonetheless, it became quite popular during the Jihad due to its relative safety. Northwind became a hall somewhat accidentally, as employers who were turned away by the Northwind Highlanders and MechWarriors who attempted and failed to join the famed unit met up and started doing business together.
Other worlds like Noisiel and Solaris VII are frequented by employers looking to hire skilled pilots for real warfare, while Westerhand and Fletcher became havens for MechWarriors who were down on their luck.
Those few units who wander into the Periphery and choose to stay sometimes call Astrokaszy or Herotitus home.
While numerous worlds can be expected to have minor hiring halls, major or at least notable notable hiring halls on are the following worlds: