Difference between revisions of "Watch"

(Removed unsourced "alternative history" that had been there for years and contradicts well-sourced statements..)
Line 32: Line 32:
 
* Loremaster Semi Kalasa
 
* Loremaster Semi Kalasa
  
* The Sharks role as merchants for the clans and as founder of the Chatterweb give them a dominant role in the clan-wide intelligence play. Heavily influenced by the merchant caste, the orientations are quite different. In many operations economic goals are the primary mission. In many cases the Watch is a match for IS agencies.
+
* The Sharks founded the Chatterweb, and continue to dominate in its use. Their Watch has long had a reputation for gathering up-to-the-minute intelligence, mainly for their own use but also as a larger part of the Clan-wide intelligence arm. Heavily influenced by the merchant caste, the Sharks focus their Watch operations on economic goals.  
 +
* The Diamond Shark Watch is considered a match for its Inner Sphere counterparts. The [[Wars of Reaving]] supplement is framed as a single large intelligence report to the [[Council of Six Clans]]. The book mentions the use of deep-cover penetration agents and signals intelligence (including some of the few remaining [[Bug-Eye]] warships) as part of their efforts to stay current on news in the clan homeworlds.
  
 
===Clan Fire Mandrlll===
 
===Clan Fire Mandrlll===

Revision as of 15:17, 20 December 2012

Clan Watch Insignia

History

The Watch is the intelligence agency of the Clans. Founded by Nicholas Kerensky to spy on Clan Wolverine, the Watch originally answered to the ilKhan only. Later, and especially after the failed invasion of the Inner Sphere, the Clans began to understand the value of an intelligence service, so every Clan got an arm of the Watch. Still, since the Clans perceive spying as un-Clanlike, the Watch is considered weak even in comparison to SAFE.

Only members of the Warrior, Scientist, and the Technician Caste serve as the Watch operatives. Many warriors serving in the Watch are considered old and useless by the Clan standard, whose only other choice would be serving in a Solahma unit. This circumstances actually help the efficiency of the Watch because of the additional experience of the warriors though.

The command of the Watch arms of all Clans are their respective Loremasters, except for the Clan Fire Mandrill, where the command is shared with the ilChi, and the Clan Nova Cat where the Oathmaster Minoru Novacat is the current head of the Watch.

The current (3057) head of the All-Clan Watch is Kael Pershaw of Clan Jade Falcon[1] since he is also the Loremaster of the Clans.

Clan Watch Commands

Clan Blood Spirit

  • Loremaster Bayle Campbell

The isolationist Spirits have a defensive oriented watch. The normal work was the analysis of the Chatterweb and information from their allied ilChis. The recent activities lead to a more offensive course and a closer cooperation with the Fire Mandrill's agents.

Clan Cloud Cobra

  • Loremaster Eleni Riaz

The Cloud Cobras use the normal resources for information gathering, like Trials and the Chatterweb. The Cloisters give them an opportunity to infiltrate other Clans with minimal work. It is believed that agents are operating in the near Periphery and surrounding Clan space.

Clan Coyote

  • Loremaster Clarissa Jericho

The task of the branch is to gather information from the Chatterweb and from diamond sharks merchants combined with a few field operations on the ground.

Clan Diamond Shark

  • Loremaster Semi Kalasa
  • The Sharks founded the Chatterweb, and continue to dominate in its use. Their Watch has long had a reputation for gathering up-to-the-minute intelligence, mainly for their own use but also as a larger part of the Clan-wide intelligence arm. Heavily influenced by the merchant caste, the Sharks focus their Watch operations on economic goals.
  • The Diamond Shark Watch is considered a match for its Inner Sphere counterparts. The Wars of Reaving supplement is framed as a single large intelligence report to the Council of Six Clans. The book mentions the use of deep-cover penetration agents and signals intelligence (including some of the few remaining Bug-Eye warships) as part of their efforts to stay current on news in the clan homeworlds.

Clan Fire Mandrlll

  • Loremaster Drew Tanaga and ilChi Jas Keller
  • Every Kindraa has its own watch branch. This makes it difficult to cooperate within the clan as a whole. The cooperation with the Spirits give them something like a central command and the Spirits a greater access to the world outside their own clan.

Clan Ghost Bear

  • Loremaster Laune Tseng
  • The Watch received an improvement through rasalhaghian operatives. The former Tyr resistance movement is now part of the watch and gives it a superior edge about the other invasion clans.

Clan Goliath Scorplon

  • Loremaster Kyrie Ben-Shimon
  • In the past limited to discovering lost Star League artifacts, the branch is now more offensively orientated. The seeker movement gives them the cover needed for missions in other Clan territories. Rumors suggest a close cooperation with Clan Snow Raven and Blood Spirit.

Clan Hell's Horses

  • Loremaster Temuchin Amirault

The invasion of the Ghost Bear Dominion had shown that the Horses were adapt to the use of elite commando-squads. This commando teams make preparations for the invading force through information gathering and sabotage.

Clan Ice Hellion

  • Loremaster Jonas Cage
  • The Hellions use reactivated dropships equipped with sensor to improve their operation. The improvements still need to show. Most operatives hail from the technician caste.

Clan Jade Falcon

  • Loremaster Kael Pershaw
  • In 3060, Loremaster Kael Pershaw was head of their Watch. In 3064, Khan Marthe Pryde used the Jade Falcon Watch to steal information about pirate jump points of Lyran systems. This knowledge was used in the assault on Melissia. Although the Jade Falcon Watch is among the best of the Clans - due to a progressive Khan and the genius of Kael Pershaw - their distaste for covert operations leaves the Watch with mostly intelligence gathering and analysis work through conventional sources and scouting. Currently, lots of monitoring activity of the Jade Falcon Scientist Caste hints to some kind of an internal conflict.

Clan Snow Raven

  • Loremaster Klaus Harper
  • The domination in the naval field gives the Ravens an unique insight view in the strength, political orientation and future developments of other clans. The Machiavellian maneuvering in politics make them a special opponent. The Snow Raven's internal rivalry sometimes prevents their own success.

Clan Star Adder

  • Loremaster Dagmar Lahiri
  • The absorption of Clan Burrock gave the Star Adders a deeper look inside the workings of the dark caste. As a result the anti-bandit missions are more successful and more effective. The personal of the watch contains more former Burrock warriors than original Star Adders at the moment. The watch is on pare with the branches of other Homeclans.

Clan Steel Viper

  • Loremaster Artrhur Stoklas
  • The Steel Vipers are traditionalist in every way and as a result put little resources in intelligence operations. The Vipers were forced to restructure their watch after their touman was surprised by the Jade Falcon-counterattack, which lead to all loses of IS territories to the Jade Falcons.

Khan Perigard Zalman's efforts to improve the work of the watch has had little influence until now. The normal agents are washed out or solhama warrior with little support through technicians.

Clan Wolf

  • Loremaster Katya Kerensky
  • It was Clan Wolf which used the Watch right from the start, it was Clan Wolf which suggested sending Wolf's Dragoons to the Inner Sphere to report to the Watch. It surprises not that Clan Wolf has got a strong Watch arm, second only to Clan Wolf-in-Exile. Hardened by years in the occupation zone, the Wolf Watch is experienced in information gathering, analysis and commando-style operations. Clan Wolf Watch especially tries to infiltrate the Clan Jade Falcon and the Lyran Alliance Armed Forces for military intelligence gathering. During the Jade Falcon Incursion of 3064 Khan Phelan Kell of Clan Wolf-in-Exile recognized a Clan Wolf Watch agent and sent through him a message to Vlad Ward. The current head of the Wolf Clan Watch is Loremaster Katya Kerensky.

Clan Wolf (In Exlle)

  • Loremaster Daphne Vickers
  • During the Jade Falcon incursion of 3064 their Watch cooperated with the Lyran LIC and ComStar's ROM to deliver the best possible intelligence to the defenders of the Lyran Alliance. Since Khan Phelan Kell brought a sizable part of the already very able Clan Wolf watch to Arc-Royal and used his family contacts to augment it further, the Exile Wolf Watch is considered the strongest Watch agency and is schooled not only in intelligence gathering, but also counter-intelligence work and even commando missions. Loremaster Daphne Vickers is the head of Clan Wolf-in-Exile Watch.

Clan Nova Cat

  • Oathmaster Minoru Nova Cat
  • Through their new Oathmaster the Nova Cats received a boost in intelligence operations after their relocation to the Inner Sphere. The order of the five pillars support and assist the Clan watch secretly. This is a sign of future cooperation with the Draconis Combine.

Clan Smoke Jaguar


References

  1. I Am Jade Falcon, pp.??[citation needed]

Bibliography