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| − | '''Operation Scorption''' (1 May 3052 - ?? May 3052) was a failed attempt to put the entire [[Inner Sphere]], including [[Clans|Clan]] [[Clan Occupation Zones|occupied territory]], under [[ComStar]] control. The plan was designed by [[Primus]] [[Myndo Waterly]] and called for insurrections on all Clan occupied worlds administered by ComStar, to tie down all garrisons, as well as complete [[HPG]] interdiction of the [[Successor States]].
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| − | The operation was conducted without the knowledge of the [[Precentor Martial]] [[Anastasius Focht]] or the [[First Circuit]], save [[Sharilar Mori]], Precentor Dieron, whom Waterly had hand picked as her successor twenty years prior. The operation’s name was chosen due to an old folk tale that Focht had recently recalled during a conversation with Waterly.
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| − | The attempt was foiled when it was leaked (by Sharilar Mori, who also leaked information about the [[Smoke Jaguar]] and [[Nova Cat]] [[Battle of Luthien|attack]] on [[Luthien]]) to [[Theodore Kurita]] who passed the information to [[Hanse Davion]]. Jumping at the chance to pay ComStar back for its [[Fourth Succession War#ComStar|treacherous acts]] during the Fourth Succession War (the incident at the Sarna HPG startion and subsequent [[interdiction]] of the [[Federated Suns]], as well as the false [[Death Commando]] raid on the [[New Avalon Institute of Science]]), Davion planned assaults on the HPG stations on several worlds of the [[Federated Commonwealth]].
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| − | Though [[Melissa Steiner-Davion|Melissa]] initially feared an interdiction of the whole Federated Commonwealth, Hanse did not, citing the estimates of capturing 80% of the facilities his forces targeted and the [[black box]] fax machines that he had successfully used during both the [[Fourth Succession War]] and the [[War of 3039]] to pass orders to his commanders without the knowledge of ComStar.
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| − | After the assault on the HPG station in Avalon City, [[New Avalon]], which ironically employed a truck transporting insecticide to breach the outer wall of Comstar's facility, Hanse Davion triumphantly stated “Operation Scorpion indeed!” <ref>''[[Michael A. Stackpole|Stackpole, Michael A.]], [[Lost Destiny]]''</ref>
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