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SaKhan Rood's Task Force split. The three divided forces took their separate objectives: The saKhan's Beta Galaxy captured [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]], [[Botany Bay]], and [[Von Strang's World]]. Among the casualties of these conquests was Star Colonel [[Brendon Wick]], who had commanded the forces assigned to capturing Apollo, a long-term friend of saKhan Rood and Rood's favoured candidate for the next Galaxy Commander slot to become available.<ref name="OISP1p46">''Operation ICE STORM (Part One)'', p. 46-57, "Chapter Six"</ref> Delta Galaxy attacked [[Steelton]], but its [[Delta Galaxy Naval Star (Clan Ice Hellion)|Naval Star]] saw heavy action against defending Falcon forces. The battle resulted in the capture of Delta's ''[[Fredasa]]''-class corvette CIH ''[[Swift Bait]]'' by Falcon forces. | SaKhan Rood's Task Force split. The three divided forces took their separate objectives: The saKhan's Beta Galaxy captured [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]], [[Botany Bay]], and [[Von Strang's World]]. Among the casualties of these conquests was Star Colonel [[Brendon Wick]], who had commanded the forces assigned to capturing Apollo, a long-term friend of saKhan Rood and Rood's favoured candidate for the next Galaxy Commander slot to become available.<ref name="OISP1p46">''Operation ICE STORM (Part One)'', p. 46-57, "Chapter Six"</ref> Delta Galaxy attacked [[Steelton]], but its [[Delta Galaxy Naval Star (Clan Ice Hellion)|Naval Star]] saw heavy action against defending Falcon forces. The battle resulted in the capture of Delta's ''[[Fredasa]]''-class corvette CIH ''[[Swift Bait]]'' by Falcon forces. | ||
| − | The battle for Steelton was a turning point for the Ice Hellions; when Galaxy Commander [[Damon Hawkins]] arrived with his forces from Delta Galaxy, he found that Steelton had already been captured by the Hell's Horses. While some of this officers expected him to withdraw, Hawkins instead chose to launch a Trial for the system, believing it to be in keeping with Clan traditions; concerns from Star Colonel [[Tanda Ho Jang]] that the Horses would view it as a breach of their agreement were dismissed by Hawkins, who argued that the Horses wouldn't complain as they were supposed to be conquering worlds belonging to [[Clan Wolf]], not the Falcons.<ref name="OISP1p46"/> | + | The battle for Steelton was a turning point for the Ice Hellions; when Galaxy Commander [[Damon Hawkins]] arrived with his forces from Delta Galaxy, he found that Steelton had already been captured by the Hell's Horses. While some of this officers expected him to withdraw, Hawkins instead chose to launch a Trial for the system, believing it to be in keeping with Clan traditions; concerns from Star Colonel [[Tanda Ho Jang]] that the Horses would view it as a breach of their agreement were dismissed by Hawkins, who argued that the Horses wouldn't complain as they were supposed to be conquering worlds belonging to [[Clan Wolf]], not the Falcons.<ref name="OISP1p46"/> Following Hawkins death in the first battle on the world when his ''[[Warhawk]]'' was downed by a point of [[Gnome]] [[battle armor]], Star Colonel [[Scott Moore]] took command of the Galaxy as senior Star Colonel. It took until the end of September for Delta Galaxy to force the Hell's Horses offworld.<ref name="OISP1p58"/> |
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| + | Despite saKhan Rood's request to consolidate the Ice Hellion forces and their new acquisitions, Khan Montose ordered him to continue the offensive, and direct him to conquer [[Lackhove]] and [[Last Chance]]. Aware that attempting to confront or challenge the Khan's decision would turn many of the Clan's warriors against him, Rood obeyed orders, dispatching the [[121st Hellion Lancers (Clan Ice Hellion)|121st Hellion Lancers]] to Last Chance, while leading the Lithe Kill Keshik and the surviving elements of the [[90th Striker Irregulars (Clan Ice Hellion)|Ninetieth Striker Irregulars]] to Lackhove.<ref name="OISP1p46"/> | ||
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| + | On the 29th of September, a major Ice Hellion supply convoy under the overall command of Star Captain [[Fordham]] was at the [[Deep Periphery]] marker known as [[Falcon's Beacon]] when the ''[[Whirlwind]]''-class destroyer [[Emerald Tornado|CJF ''Emerald Tornado'']] jumped in-system. The convoy had no WarShip escort - Fordham was aboard the ''[[Star Lord]]''-class JumpShip [[Admiral Garrett|CIH ''Admiral Garrett'']], and the close air patrol fighters were still aboard their ships when the Falcons arrived. [[Star Admiral]] [[Carlos Binetti]], the commanding officer of the ''Emerald Tornado'', was as surprised as Fordham - Falcon's Beacon was a Watch outpost, with little expected to be in-system other than some warehouses, support personnel, and perhaps a Star of warriors. Despite his surprise, Binetti ordered the Captain of the ''Emerald Tornado'', Star Captain [[Charlotte van Jankmon]], to issue a ''batchall''. Fordham surrendered, rather than provoke the needless deaths of those under his command. The loss of the convoy was a huge blow to the Ice Hellion forces in the Inner Sphere.<ref name="OISP1p58">''Operation ICE STORM (Part One)'', p. 58-66, "Chapter Seven"</ref> | ||
Clan Jade Falcon's Alpha Galaxy recaptured Erewhon. | Clan Jade Falcon's Alpha Galaxy recaptured Erewhon. | ||
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Operation ICE STORM was the code name given to Clan Ice Hellion's invasion of Clan Jade Falcon's occupation zone in the Inner Sphere during the early years of the Jihad.
At the same time Clan Hell's Horses conducted their own invasion of Clan Wolf and the Falcons' occupation zones. The Ice Hellions and the Hell's Horses were aware of each other's plans and had an unspoken agreement, but no joint battle plan or even formal cooperation or alliance. The objective of the two Home Clans invasion of the Clan Occupational Zones was a bid to carve out a new occupational zone for themselves.
For Clan Ice Hellion the operation was a bold gamble that overextended their resources and ended in defeat. Clan Jade Falcon, in cooperation with the angered Clan Hell's Horses, crushed the entire Clan Ice Hellion, eradicating it save for a small band of refugees who were allowed to limp away towards the Clan homeworlds (already devastated by the Wars of Reaving). Unfit to survive on their own, the Ice Hellion remnant allowed themselves to be absorbed into Clan Goliath Scorpion.
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Operation Brief
In the middle 3071, Clan Ice Hellion began its invasion of Clan Jade Falcon's occupation zone. The invasion was split between the Clan's Khan and saKhan, who each had a task force assigned to them. Intelligence reports of the invasion showed that the Hellion's efforts were uncoordinated between the two invasion forces.[1]
Factions and Units Involved the Conflict
Clan Ice Hellion
Khan Raina Montose's Task Force
saKhan Conner Rood's Task Force
Clan Jade Falcon
- Alpha Galaxy
- Delta Galaxy
- Gamma Galaxy[1]
- Epsilon Galaxy[1]
- Falcon Guards (acting independently at times)[1]
Clan Hell's Horses
Operation History
June 3071
In the summer of 3071, the Clan Jade Falcon worlds of Golandrinas, Persistence, Wotan, and Winfield were taken by Khan Raina Montose's Task Force. The invasion of Winfield causes the planet's industrial sectors to be destroyed in the fighting.[1]
Meanwhile, saKhan Conner Rood's Task Force's Galaxies successfully took Anywhere, Bone-Norman, the Dark Nebula, Erewhon, Lackhove, and Somerset.[1] Somerset was defended by the 452nd Garrison Binary, who were defeated on the 13th of June.[2] SaKhan Rood led the Lithe Kill Keshik into battle on Bone Norman on the 14th of June; the defenders, the Eleventh Provisional Garrison Cluster led by Star Colonel Idris,[3] used good tactics to delay the conquest of Bone Norman by two weeks,[4] before the final battle, in which both sides managed to ambush each other. SaKhan Rood took Star Colonel Idris as a bondsman.[5]
Clan Jade Falcon's Gamma Galaxy reclaimed Golandrinas and Wotan in counterattacks. The Falcon Guards, operating independently, invaded and retook Bone-Norman on their own. On Wotan, the planet's HPG was damaged in the fierce fighting.[1]
Clan Hell's Horses meanwhile invaded the Falcon's worlds of Seiduts and Steelton and defeated Clan Jade Falcon's Epsilon Galaxy which was garrisoning them. The Horses also took the Clan Wolf worlds Liezen, Harvest, and Planting.
The Horses also sent an ambassador to the Ghost Bear Dominion to normalize the relations between the two past enemies.
July 3071
In July, Khan Montose's Task Force invaded and captured Derf, Maxie's Planet, Romulus, and Trell I. Khan Rood dispatched Hellion forces to retake Golandrinas and Wotan. However, the Hellions' counterattacks had with mixed results. Golandrinas was successfully retaken for the Hellions, but Delta Galaxy failed to capture Wotan.
Fighting over Derf went badly for both sides, with the Hellions' Alpha Galaxy Naval Star destroying an orbital supply station.
The Jade Falcons' Gamma Galaxy attacked Somerset in an attempt to retake the planet. A naval battle ensued over the planet that resulted in each side losing a WarShip, Clan Ice Hellion's Aegis-class Heavy Cruiser CIH Taney and Clan Jade Falcon's Vincent-class Corvette CJF Lightning Strike.
August 3071
Khan Montose led Alpha and Zeta Prime Galaxies to conquer of Evciler. During the fighting, both Galaxies broke long-honored traditions of zellbrigen with the Falcons. Khan Montose was badly injured.
The Ice Hellions chose Bangor Harbor on Evciler as their initial landing site, but when they arrived, the clusters of Alpha and Zeta Prime Galaxies were already tired; the Ice Hellion Watch's information on Evciler was also out of date, as they had believed only elements of the Falcon Alpha Galaxy to be present on the planet, not the entire Galaxy. Galaxy Commander Brian Pryde pressed the Hellions hard from the outset, and it was obvious to a number of the Hellion senior officers that Khan Montose was acting erratically. Montose had resisted a Trial of Possession for the entire world, instead turning the campaign into a war of attrition using smaller Trials, although the Falcons had more resources for such a war than the Hellions did. On the 9th of August, Montose accepted a more general Trial, bidding two Clusters from her forces - the Fortieth and Seventy-eighth Hellion Lancers - against matching forces from the Falcons, with Montose commanding the Hellion forces in the field personally. The Fortieth, Montose's former command, took to the field under the command of Star Captain Vandal Hildenrath, as the Star Colonel commanding the Cluster was in a field hospital waiting for a replacement arm after an earlier battle, while the Seventh-eighth was commanded by Star Colonel Patricia Rood.[6]
During the battle, Khan Montose was challenged to a duel by Brian Pryde, and during that duel deliberately ran away, leading Pryde into an ambush at the hands of a Flurry Star of Harpy ProtoMechs, an action witnessed by Star Captain Hildenrath. Hildenrath contacted Patricia Rood with details of what she had seen, even as Falcon 'Mechs moved to support Pryde; Rood ordered Hildenrath to attack, because the warriors of Zeta Prime had seen the Falcon 'Mechs moving to support their commander and had assumed that it was the Falcons who had broken zellbrigen.[6]
In the days before the trial on Evciler, the Jade Falcon Guards recaptured Bone-Norman, and despite taking command of the invasion of Wotan, Connor Rood was deadlocked on the planet, which was defended by a Falcon Provisional Garrison Cluster at the time.[6]
The Hell's Horses captured Ferleiten and Zoetermeer. The Ghost Bears joined these assaults and started Trials of Possession for Balsta, Hermagor, and Dawn.
September 3071
SaKhan Rood's Task Force split. The three divided forces took their separate objectives: The saKhan's Beta Galaxy captured Apollo, Botany Bay, and Von Strang's World. Among the casualties of these conquests was Star Colonel Brendon Wick, who had commanded the forces assigned to capturing Apollo, a long-term friend of saKhan Rood and Rood's favoured candidate for the next Galaxy Commander slot to become available.[7] Delta Galaxy attacked Steelton, but its Naval Star saw heavy action against defending Falcon forces. The battle resulted in the capture of Delta's Fredasa-class corvette CIH Swift Bait by Falcon forces.
The battle for Steelton was a turning point for the Ice Hellions; when Galaxy Commander Damon Hawkins arrived with his forces from Delta Galaxy, he found that Steelton had already been captured by the Hell's Horses. While some of this officers expected him to withdraw, Hawkins instead chose to launch a Trial for the system, believing it to be in keeping with Clan traditions; concerns from Star Colonel Tanda Ho Jang that the Horses would view it as a breach of their agreement were dismissed by Hawkins, who argued that the Horses wouldn't complain as they were supposed to be conquering worlds belonging to Clan Wolf, not the Falcons.[7] Following Hawkins death in the first battle on the world when his Warhawk was downed by a point of Gnome battle armor, Star Colonel Scott Moore took command of the Galaxy as senior Star Colonel. It took until the end of September for Delta Galaxy to force the Hell's Horses offworld.[8]
Despite saKhan Rood's request to consolidate the Ice Hellion forces and their new acquisitions, Khan Montose ordered him to continue the offensive, and direct him to conquer Lackhove and Last Chance. Aware that attempting to confront or challenge the Khan's decision would turn many of the Clan's warriors against him, Rood obeyed orders, dispatching the 121st Hellion Lancers to Last Chance, while leading the Lithe Kill Keshik and the surviving elements of the Ninetieth Striker Irregulars to Lackhove.[7]
On the 29th of September, a major Ice Hellion supply convoy under the overall command of Star Captain Fordham was at the Deep Periphery marker known as Falcon's Beacon when the Whirlwind-class destroyer CJF Emerald Tornado jumped in-system. The convoy had no WarShip escort - Fordham was aboard the Star Lord-class JumpShip CIH Admiral Garrett, and the close air patrol fighters were still aboard their ships when the Falcons arrived. Star Admiral Carlos Binetti, the commanding officer of the Emerald Tornado, was as surprised as Fordham - Falcon's Beacon was a Watch outpost, with little expected to be in-system other than some warehouses, support personnel, and perhaps a Star of warriors. Despite his surprise, Binetti ordered the Captain of the Emerald Tornado, Star Captain Charlotte van Jankmon, to issue a batchall. Fordham surrendered, rather than provoke the needless deaths of those under his command. The loss of the convoy was a huge blow to the Ice Hellion forces in the Inner Sphere.[8]
Clan Jade Falcon's Alpha Galaxy recaptured Erewhon.
October 3071
Ice Hellion's saKhan Rood continues to advance his Beta Galaxy into Falcon's territory. His galaxy splits and attacks Lackhove and Last Chance. However, Falcon forces are later bolstered by elements of the Falcon's Gamma Galaxy.
The Hellion's Zeta Galaxy successfully captures Here and Götterdämmerung. However, elements of Zeta still on Wotan end up razing the planetary capital. The razing of Borealtown was in order to destroy the Falcon's entrenched 78th Provisional Garrison Cluster. saKhan Samantha Clees declares Hellion dezgra after their razing of Borealtown is reported. Falcon forces on Wotan receive reinforcements from the Alpha Galaxy. The Falcons loses Evciler but reconquer Anywhere and Lackhove.
The Ice Hellion's Delta Galaxy is forced to quit Steelton, after being pushed off by Falcon's Epsilon Galaxy.
The defending Wolf's units on Ridderkerk, Basiliano, and Hohenems repulsed the conquest attempts of the Horses and the lost ground on Basiliano Hohenems. The Wolves on their own started a counter invasion on Ridderkerk, Mozirje, and Unzmarkt.
November 3071
Fighting on Apollo boils to the breaking point for Ice Hellion forces. Zeta Galaxy's elements are forced to withdraw under fire. During withdrawal the Galaxy's WarShip, Lola III Class Destroyer CIH Cold Hunter is heavily damaged by Jade Falcon WarShips, the Texas-class Battleship Falcon's Nest and Aegis-class Heavy Cruiser Blue Talon.
The Falcon's Gamma Galaxy forces saKhan Rood's Beta Galaxy to retreat from Lackhove. During the fighting, the Hellion's 200th Attack Cluster is destroyed in the fighting.
The Clan Hell's Horses move to assault a number of worlds taken by the Ice Hellions, and retreat from Basiliano and Hohenems because of Clan wolf attacks. Mozirje, Feltre, Unzmarkt and Planting are lost to the Wolfs . They deploy their Iota and Theta Galaxies to assault; Apollo, Bensinger, Toland, and Von Strang's World. During the attack on Bensinger, the Horses destroy Hellion's 176 Attack Cluster. While, Ice Hellion's naval forces clash over Toland. The Ice Hellion's Essex-class Destroyer, CIH Moore's Honor is destroyed by Horse's Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser CHH Steel Shield and Lola III-class Destroyer CHH Black Knight.
December 3071
Ice Hellion Khan Montose splits her task force as she continues take Falcon worlds for the Clan. She leads her Alpha Galaxy to Vantaa, where they take planet. Her forces avoid being caught in a deadly trap by tech caste members of Jade Falcon. The trap, which resulted in the destruction of Vantaa's spaceport, failed to destroy Khan Montose's DropShips. Elements of the Alpha Galaxy are defeated on Derf by Jade Falcon's own Alpha Galaxy, which resulted in them taking back planet from them. Meanwhile, the Khan Montose's other Galaxy, Zeta Prime, attacks Seiduts where they force the defending Falcon's Delta Galaxy to retreat from the planet.
Elements of the Falcon's Alpha Galaxy successfully retake Winfield from their Ice Hellion occupiers. On Trell I, the Gamma Galaxy's Falcon Guards invokes Trial of Possession using Zellbrigen against defending 45th Striker Irregulars. The Guards are successful, in the trial and defeat the Irregulars in honorable combat.
Clan Hell's Horses' Theta Galaxy split up to conqueror a score of Ice Hellion held worlds. These included Botany Bay, Lackhove, Last Chance and Here. While taking Götterdämmerung, Theta Galaxy forces destroyed all Hellion's Zeta Galaxy units on planet save, but the 3rd Hector Cavaliers who managed to escape off planet.
The Ice Hellions fought their former allies on Seiduts and Vantaa.
January 3072
3072 signaled the beginning of the Clan Jade Falcon's renewed efforts to eradicate the Ice Hellion from their space. The Falcon's Alpha and Delta Galaxies launch their successful invasion of Romulus. The Jade Falcons ravaged the Ice Hellions on the planet, destroying Hellion's 150th Hellion Lancers. Falcons retakes the planet, while successfully absorbing the 53rd Strike Irregulars into their ranks. They also lose Persistence and Winfield.
The Horses would lose the worlds of Planting, Mozirje, Feltre, and Unzmarkt before offering a ceasefire to the Wolves.
February 3072
Clan Ice Hellion forces are in tatters and try regroup at worlds they still retain. Khan Montose's Alpha Galaxy retreats to Vantaa, while its Task Force mate, Zeta Prime, retreats from Seiduts and makes its way to link up with Alpha. SaKhan Rood's Task Force survivors retreat to Dark Nebula orbital station with remains of Beta Galaxy Naval Star.
Clan Jade Falcon forms a task force of three Galaxies consisting of Alpha, Delta, and Gamma. The task force assaults and retakes Evciler. Though they were successful, the initial planetary assault cost the task force's Aegis Class Heavy Cruiser, CJF Janis Hazen to remains of Hellion's Aerospace forces.
Maxie’s Planet and Seiduts is captured by Clan Hell's Horses' elements of Theta Galaxy. During this time period, in a gesture of friendship, Horses transfer control of Botany Bay and Last Chance back to the Jade Falcons.
March 3072
The last battles of the conflict occur, as Jade Falcons and Hell's Horses unit to finish off Ice Hellions. The final two key battles take place at Dark Nebula and Vantaa.
Dark Nebula
Clan Hell's Horses dispatches its Theta Galaxy to Dark Nebula with Jade Falcon's Delta Galaxy. SaKhan Rood's Beta Galaxy Naval Star engages the two clans in a fight for the station. While, Delta attacks the station itself, Naval forces of both the Clans clashed. The Hellion's naval forces consisted of Potemkin Class Troop Cruiser CIE Coterie, Fredasa Class Corvette CIE Whelp, Lola III Class Destroyer CIE Cold Hunter, The York Class Destroyer-Carrier CIE Pack Leader, and Aegis Class Heavy Cruiser, Chaos Sailor. The Naval battles that ensued resulted in the destruction of Whelp and Cold Hunter. When it became apparent that the Ice Hellions had lost, Falcon's saKhan Samantha Clees offered them Hegira, which saKhan Rood accepted to the later dismay of the Hellion Khan. For their loses, Falcons claimed Chaos Sailor as isorta and while Horses claimed Pack Leader. SaKhan Rood and barely three Clusters of Beta Galaxy departed in Coterie for the Periphery.
Vantaa
Vantaa was the last vestige of Ice Hellion's hold of Inner Sphere. Hellion's Khan Raina Montosa leads Alpha and Zeta Prime Galaxies against Jade Falcon Alpha and Gamma Galaxies and Hell's Horses' Iota Galaxy. Over the skies of the planet, Clan Jade Falcon Warships Sovetskii Soyuz-class Heavy Cruiser CJF Hawker and Black Lion-class Battlecruiser CJF Jade Aerie battled the Hellion's task force lone Warship, the McKenna-class Battleship CIH Cage's Pride. The Pride provides Orbital Fire Support for Hellions on ground, severely damages the Horses' Galaxy. The naval battle resulted in the Hellion's Battleship being destroyed.
Khan Montose receives word of saKhan Rood accepting Hegria from the Trial of Possession for worlds of Falcon's Occupation Zone. She rebukes her saKhan for accepting it. In the course of the ground battle for Vantaa, a series of brutal battles ensued. Notable figures such as [Diane Anu]], Galaxy Commander of the Epsilon Galaxy, would push her forces to crush any Hellion units in her warriors' way. In the end of fighting, both Ice Hellion galaxies are destroyed. Among casualties, reportedly killed was the Hellions Khan Raina Montose. The Jade Falcon's Falcon Guards were also destroyed in the battle as a fighting unit.
Aftermath
By April of 3072, hostilities had ended and the Ice Hellions were defeated. The only known survivors of the Clan invasion force freely departed aboard the remains of the Ice Hellion fleet, which included the ship Coterie. It is believed they were bound for an outpost on the Periphery world of Noveaux Paris. Hellion remnants were making piratical attacks on coreward regions of the Ghost Bear Dominion a few years later where they were eventually fended off by former KungsArmé units now part of the Ghost Bear Touman.
Clan Hell's Horses, while returning three worlds to the Falcons, gained six star systems from the conflict.
The Jade Falcons, while succeeding well against Ice Hellion, suffered considerable damage to its military forces in its occupational zone but prevented much damage being done to its industrial complexes.
Vantaa was uninhabitable by 3073 and abandoned due to vital life-supporting equipment being critically damaged by the final battle.[9]
Also See
Notes
Due to the nature of the intel and scattered media reports of source books used to provide the Operation's details, some information maybe considered to be incomplete.
The conflict was also named the Hellion Tantrum by Clan Jade Falcon's then Loremaster Kael Pershaw in a intelligence report made to Khan Marthe Pryde in May 3072.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 28, "Operation ICE STORM"
- ↑ Operation ICE STORM (Part One), p. 4-7, "Prologue"
- ↑ Operation ICE STORM (Part One), p. 8-16, "Chapter One"
- ↑ Operation ICE STORM (Part One), p. 17-23, "Chapter Two"
- ↑ Operation ICE STORM (Part One), p. 24-29, "Chapter Three"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Operation ICE STORM (Part One), p. 37-45, "Chapter Five"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Operation ICE STORM (Part One), p. 46-57, "Chapter Six"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Operation ICE STORM (Part One), p. 58-66, "Chapter Seven"
- ↑ Masters and Minions: The Starcrop Dossiers p. 126 - Preening and Posturing - Vantaa is noted rendered uninhabitable due to damaged caused by the Ice Hellion invasion
- ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents p. 28 - Prefect of original report to Khan Pryde by Pershaw given informal name of the Hellion conflict.