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The Hellion's Fury (referred to as The Hellion's Tantrum by other Clans) of May-June 3050 was a series of battles fought to assuage the anger of Clan Ice Hellion's Khan and warriors after their failure to win a place in the invasion of the Inner Sphere. They would win numerous territories and resources but also lost their senior leaders and the respect of other Clans.[6] [7]
Contents
Background
Outbound Light and the Operation REVIVAL Trials
In 3048 the ComStar vessel Outbound Light was captured by Clan Smoke Jaguar and the crew was forced to reveal information about the current state of the Inner Sphere. Using this opportunity to his advantage, the Jaguar Khan Leo Showers, a staunch Crusader, aired a selectively edited version of this intelligence to the Grand Council. With an invasion of the Inner Sphere overwhelmingly approved, various Clans would conduct Trials of Possession for three of the four invasion corridors into the Inner Sphere (Clan Wolf had already been granted one as the Clan of Nicholas Kerensky) and a slot as the fifth reserve Clan.[8]
Hellion Strife
Clan Ice Hellion had narrowly avoided mounting its own solo invasion of the Inner Sphere half a century earlier after the Grand Council's decision to postpone the return there. After defeating the pro-invasion faction in a civil war, its leaders since then, including the current Khan Stephen Tyler, had prepared for the hoped-for invasion. When this was finally decided by the Grand Council the Hellions eagerly participated in the Trials for an invasion corridor, only to be knocked in the second round. To avoid another civil war between his furious warriors, Khan Tyler turned their attention towards the other Clans and spent over a year preparing a series of attacks against various enclaves across the Kerensky Cluster.[9]
The Hellion's Fury Campaign
On May 26 3050, as Operation REVIVAL was underway, Clan Ice Hellion began coordinated strikes on five worlds. Given that the date was Liberation Day they caught most of their opponents off-guard during the celebrations.
Foster
Foster was home to enclaves controlled by different Kindraa of Clan Fire Mandrill, and given their fractious nature the Mandrills left their kin to fight independently rather than put up any unified resistance. Kindraa Kline especially suffered as a result, and while the Mandrills talked of mounting a joint counterattack these discussions came to nothing, leaving the Hellions' territorial gains untouched.[3] [10]
Hoard
The Ice Hellion's chosen target on Hoard was a mineral-rich but weakly defended Clan Hell's Horses enclave. Underestimating the defenders, a training Cluster of trueborns, the Hellions combat-dropped into the designated Circle of Equals only to discover that the Horses' panicked flight was in fact a deliberate maneuver. After reassembling the Horse warriors challenged their opponents to single combats and swiftly drove the Hellion force off-world.[4]
Aftermath
After the Hellion's Fury Campaign had ended, the Ice Hellions would gain tremendous resources at the expense of Khan Stephen Tyler's life[11] and their reputation. While Clan Ice Hellion saw their attacks as a success and a force to be reckoned with, the other Clans viewed them differently. Most Clans saw their campaign as a temper tantrum for not being included in the Invasion, referring to their campaign as "The Hellion's Tantrum". As a result, no Clan would take the Ice Hellions seriously, giving them few allies. Stephen Tyler's successor, Hellion Khan Asa Taney, created the Home Clan Coalition to rectify the honor of their Clan, but the plan backfired with the Harvest Trials. The failure of the Home Clan Coalition along with their Hellion Fury campaign would permanently mark the Ice Hellions' as a weak Clan, leading to their destruction three decades later.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials, p. 34, "Touchpoint: Marshall"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials, p. 38, "Touchpoint: Londerholm"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials, p. 35, "Touchpoint: Foster"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials, p. 37, "Touchpoint: Hoard"
- ↑ Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials, p. 36, "Touchpoint: Homer"
- ↑ The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky, p. 86: "Clan Ice Hellion, History"
- ↑ Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials, p. 14
- ↑ Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials, p. 12-13
- ↑ Field Manual: Crusader Clans, p. 77, "Hellion's Fury"
- ↑ Field Manual: Crusader Clans, p. 41, "Tales of Glory, Ashes of Defeat"
- ↑ Field Manual: Crusader Clans, p. 77: Calm Before the Storm