The Five

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The Five, also occasionally called The Hidden, are five secret worlds (or facilities) that played a key role in the Jihad.

Overview

The scarce information available about them suggests that ComStar, during the reigns of Jerome Blake and Conrad Toyama, used its control of communications and mapping to deliberately hide the existence of at least five worlds among the many depopulated and devastated during the maelstrom of early Succession Wars, maintaining them in secret as havens, manufacturing and fallback sites for the Blessed Order. Information indicating the existence of the The Blood, a rumoured cabal of Clan Wolverine descendants hidden within the ComStar organisation, refers to the Five falling under the control of the Blood during the reign of Raymond Karpov.

One hidden world supposedly lay in the territory of each of the five Successor States. One report indicated that one world, most likely the one in the Draconis Combine, was dead even before the Jihad began. Aside from their anonymity, the Five were reportedly defended by descendants of the Clinton's Cutthroats mercenary unit, hired in secret by Kaprov after the accidental discovery of one of the worlds on 15 October 2869.

Following the breakaway of the Word of Blake from the secular ComStar, the knowledge and control of the Five came under Word of Blake control while the reformed ComStar remnant remained largely unaware of their existence. The mysterious Manei Domini and their Shadow Divisions were rumoured to have originated from the Five.

The known worlds are

• The Ruins of Gabriel (Lyran Commonwealth space) turned out to be a shipyard complex hidden in the Lyran system of Odessa. Gabriel was found and attacked by a coalition battle fleet.
• Jardine (Free Worlds League space), previously also known as Herakleion. Apparently a center for cybernetics and presumably the homeworld of Precentor Apollyon and the Manei Domini. Thomas Marik was brought here to be treated for the injuries sustained in the bombing that killed his father. His double (Thomas Halas) was trained on Jardine. Brooklyn Stevens found Jardine during the Jihad, but her team was hunted down and terminated. Later, an expedition sent by Thomas Halas found that the planet Jardine had succumbed to a natural disaster known as a traps volcano, and had become totally uninhabitable.
• Mayadi
• Obeedah
• Taussen

Notes

While the existence of the Five is Canon, significant portions of the background about them released to date comes from so-called Canon Rumor sources which complicates and clouds their true history, at least until later sources are released to corroborate or dispute them.

Bibliography

• Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents