Project Sunlight
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Project SUNLIGHT was a joint ComStar-Republic of the Sphere investigation project focused around HPGs founded by Tucker Harwell.
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History
After the Gray Monday, almost all the HPG generators, than allow faster-than-light communications, were burned by a virus, or destroyed by direct attacks. Only some of them, older than others, survived. Almost all the Inner Sphere fall to the chaos and wars erupted everywhere. The last ones operatives became priority targets for all the warring factions.
ComStar attempts to repair or rebuild the HPGs failed: any core burned out barely seconds after being turn on. In 3135, some hope appeared, when the technician Tucker Harwell managed to reactivate successfully Wyatt's HPG.[1]
However, a second repair on Millungera didn't last. There were so many factions wanting to reactivate the HPGs that Tucker's success made him a target for Republic forces, Spirit Cats, Bannson's Raiders and the reborn Com Guards, who finally take his men with them. However, Harwell failed to repeat Wyatt's success.
The Republic created Sunlight to uncover the reason of the blackout and reactivate the HPGs. They focused their work on Northwind, because their HPG, older than others, initially gone dark, but later inexplicably begin transmitting again.[2]
That made that planet a target, and around the HPG complex a three sides, between Northwind Highlanders, Draconis Combine and Capellan Confederation, in the Battle of Northwind (3150), forcing the defenders to blow the HPG to drive both invaders offworld. However, they keep the underground part of it intact, and still critical to Sunlight's research.[3]
In the end, Sunlight was described as a doomed effort. However, Clan Sea Fox, using a markedly different line of research, managed to find an (unknown) solution, and in 3152, they managed to restore Alyina HPG, and began building new ones, immune to whatever caused the blackout, the first one on Twycross, while they were absorbing and replacing ComStar as the only ones controlling interstellar communications.[4]
Notes
The virus that shut down the HPG appears to be Clarion Note, a Devlin Stone secret project, but he says he hasn't initiated it.[5]
References
- ↑ A Bonfire of Worlds indicates it is still operating in 3143.
- ↑ Shattered Fortress P.93.
- ↑ Shattered Fortress p.97
- ↑ Empire Alone, p. 70
- ↑ A Bonfire of Worlds, Ch. 10