MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries/Conflict Zones

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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries/Conflict Zones

Overview

Overlaid on the Starmap of the Inner Sphere, red-outlined Conflict Zones are regions where MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries' various missions can be found. Conflict Zones are more prevalent on and in immediate proximity to the borders of the Great Houses. Available contracts are listed above the name of each world within a Conflict Zone where Campaign Missions and High Reward Quests are highlighted in yellow.

Repairs and modifications both take longer and are more costly in these regions, with Conflict Zones also having greatly reduced selection of badly damaged 'Mechs and equipment to purchase and no pilots are available to hire. Conflict Zones do occassionally have Black Markets, which are marked in purple, which feature rare or more pristine options than usuaul for the region - at a price.

Each Conflict Zone has an indicated Reputation level as a sign of the level of reward and difficulty for the contracts within, the Reputation Level of the various zone increasing in a clockwise progression around the Inner Sphere - the lowest Reputation zones in the Federated Suns, the highest in the Draconis Combine. The difficulty level of the Conflict Zones are static, leaving and returning will reset the available contracts but will remain at the same difficulty and tonnage levels.

A list of Conflict Zones follows broken down by Reputation Level/

Mercenary Row (Reputation 3)

A cluster of systems known for housing various mercenary units such as Nik's Cavaliers and other freelancers, a shakey and informal alliance to leave each other alone shattered with the arrival of Black Inferno, resulting in everybody turning on each other.

Mercenary Row is the game's starting zone once the once the initial Campaign Tutorial missions have been completed.

Inferno's Wake (Reputation 4)

A Davion interior region battered by the march of Black Inferno, leaving the sparsly populated agricultral and industrial worlds easy prey for pirates and causing an uptick in mercenary contracts.

Davion/Kurita Frontline (Reputation 5)

House Davion is launching an invasion of Kurita space to retake long-lost worlds, leading to a variety of contracts with both parties.

Apex Mining Syndicate (Reputation 5)

Ore and gas-rich systems largely under the control of the Apex Mining Syndicate, the region draws those seeking to protect or take those resources as well as those seeking to take advantage for the growing opposition to AMS's iron-fisted control of its employees.

Kurita/Davion Frontline (Reputation 6)

House Kurita is launching an invasion of Davion space in response Davion efforts elsewhere along the border, seeking to expand its territory.

Davion Borderlands (Reputation 6)

Draconis March region representing the forefront of the conflict between the Federated Suns and Draconis Combine.

Refugee Hideout (Reputation 6)

House Liao region filled with Free Worlds League refugees driven out of their homes by Black Inferno raiders, now unable to return home due to the machinations of the region's governor.

Shipping Route (Reputation 6)

One of the most heavily trafficked trade routes in Davion space, while deep enough to avoid DCMS assault the sheer volume of goods results in significant pirate and mercenary activity.

Rashpur-Owens Manufacturing Worlds (Reputation 7)

Region centered around Rashpur-Owens Incorporated and the last JumpShip and DropShip manufacturers remaining in the Capellan Confederation, now much depleted as the Succession Wars drag on.

Refinery Systems (Reputation 7)

Region of space filled with various refinery and industrial plants, including rumors of chemical weapon plants in violation of the Ares Conventions.

Liao/Davion Border (Reputation 8)

While tensions persist all along the Davion/Liao, the border raids in this region are exceedingly frequent with the CCAF pushing hard while the AFFS is more focused on the more volatile Combine border.

Sian Commonality (Reputation 8)

The largest, most affluent and most prestigious commonality in the Capellan Confederation, with considerable infrastructure to defend and noble intrigue to navigate.

  • New Westin - High Reward Quest "The Cerberus Hounds" (House Liao) - The Confederation employs the Cavaliers to defend descendants of Davion defectors from AFFS reprisals.

Backwater Region (Reputation 8)

Rimward section of Sian Commonality barely one-step removed from the Periphery and treated as such. Rumors of LosTech do little but lure the hopeful into the hands of pirates.

Duchy of Tsitsang

The Duchy of Tsitsang is a collection of five system in the Sarna Commonality harshyly rulled with an iron fist by Duchess Karis So, more interested in the House of Scions than the complaints of her citizens.

Duchy of Andurien

Vacant Worlds

  • Watermael - High Reward Quest "Chasing Ghosts" (House Marik) - The Cavaliers are hired to assist a last ditch a father locate his son, missing for over a decade.

Free Worlds Commerce Hub (Reputation 9)

A region near the heart of the League renowned as a major commerical hub, made up of Principality of Regulus and Gibson worlds rife with underlying tensions between the haves and the have-nots.

Marik/Liao Border (Reputation 9)

The border between Free Worlds League and Capellan Confederation has always been a hotbed of conflict, but with House Liao's focus on the Federated Suns, the conflict is more defensive than offensive at present with multiple opptunities for mercenary units to be hired for intelligence gahtering raids.

Free Worlds Interior (Reputation 9)

Interior region of the League, closer to the Magistracy of Canopus than the Steiner or Liao borders, made up of worlds that do not belong to any specific province and thus represening a diverse melting pot of cultures.

  • Ngake - High Reward Quest "Destabilization" (Anonymous) - A group of concerned citizens seek to hire the Cavaliers to strike at manufacturers in the area to prove that the Captain-General must devote more resources to the defense of the region.

Stewart Commonality (Reputation 11)

Marik/Steiner Border

  • Colfax - High Reward Quest "The False Flag" (House Steiner): The Lyrans hire the Cavaliers to investigate who is using false flag attacks to provoke a war along the Marik/Steiner border.

Duchy of Tamarind

Free Worlds League Shipping Lane

Rebellious Lyran Province (Reputation 11)

The tensions within the Lyran Commonwealth's Isle of Skye are beginning to build, complicating efforts at defense from external as well as internal parties.

Lyran Military Strongholds

  • Eaton - High Reward Quest "Shadow Coup" (House Steiner) - Elements of the Lyran Guards hire the Cavaliers to assassinate inept Social General command staff.

Steiner/Kurita Border

Lower Class Kuritan Worlds(Reputation 12)

Consisting of the worlds of the Rashalague Military District, the former worlds of the Principality of Rasalhague are among the less well-respected in the Combine leading to frequent bad treatment.

Rogue Cluster (Reputation 12)

A group of Planetary Chairman have banded together to enhance their standing and power, leading them to start to openly rebel against the dictates of those below the Coordinator.

Drought Worlds (Reputation 13)

Graveyard (Reputation 13)

Draconis Badlands (Reputation 13)

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