Unity Pact
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The Unity Pact was a short-lived alliance between the Capellan Confederation and Draconis Combine in 3149-3150.
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History
After the Blackout, war erupted through all the Inner Sphere. The Draconis Combine and Capellan Confederation were two of the most successful states, as they have grown more than ever, mainly at expanse of the Republic of the Sphere and Federated Suns space.
They have different goals, as the Capellan leader, Daoshen Liao was obsessed with the supposed threat he sees in the Republic space, entrenched behind The Walls of Fortress Republic, ad the Coordinator of the combine, Yori Kurita was much more interested in conquering Federated Suns space than nothing more. However, as they shared common enemies, the Suns and the Republic, Daoshen Liao chose to develop a formal alliance with the Combine.[1] In early April of 3149, an ambassadorial contingent from Capella arrived in Combine space, and was shuttled to Luthien to met with Coordinator Yori Kurita and her advisors. Warlord Toranaga was not permitted into the meetings until very late. Daoshen Liao proposed a military partnership that harkened back to the Concord of Kapteyn. The Free Worlds League wasn't invited to this alliance, but the Unity Pact shared the spirit of cooperation against their common enemy. When kanrei Toranaga was invited to the talks, attempted to sway the Coordinator to accept, but fall on deaf ears. Yori fear than the Combine alliance allowed the Capellans to claim Earth and that later, the Chancellor declared himself First Lord of the Star League and that triggered a new Succession War. But after Daoshen shared the information than Devlin Stone was alive and well, and was responsible of recent Republic attacks on the Dieron district, the Coordinator, who blamed Stone for the Combine weakening in the last decades, and finally agreed to sign the pact and the commencement of joint military operations against the Republic space.[2] The Unity Pact was signet on 21 April at Unity Palace. Since that moment, the Combine joined at the other interstellar striking at the Republic.
Anyway, the Combine's contribution at the Pact was minimal, as they don't want to help too much the Confederation, and they were focused in fighting the Federated Suns: they only launched Operation TIAMAT the same year, taking the Republic worlds of Asta, Altair and Formalhaut and four more worlds of the Suns, separating them from Republic space, and in 3150 send the Hikage, one of their newest and better regiments, to assist the Capellan to take Northwind.[3] But the Battle of Northwind (3150) only proved the two allied states didn't work well: the Hikage take a lot of time to help the Capellans, and these, fearing that the kuritans were planning to attack them, launched an attack, and both Allies finished figting each other at the same time they fought the Republic defenders. The destruction of the working HPG, the most valuable asset on the planet, made the Hikage lose interest, and they retreated from the world, and the Capellans made the same soon after. Both blamed each other for the sabotage, but in reality was done by Republic infiltrators.[4] The disaster sounded the death knell of warm relations between the Confederation and Combine.[5]
Notes
- The Unity Pact differed from the Concord of Kapteyn because it was much less complete than it: it don't contained provisions for mutual defense, only joint military operations.[6]