Year of Peace
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The so called Year of Peace was an unofficial truce between The Clans and Inner Sphere powers in the Clan Invasion.
History
The Year from peace extended since the October of 3050 to November 3051.[1] The Operation REVIVAL, or Clan Invasion, saw the Clans, descendants of SLDF's army, invaded the Inner Sphere states of Federated Commonwealth, Free Rasalhague Republic and Draconis Combine surprisingly easily. Even the Clan defeats of the Battle of Twycross and Battle of Wolcott, barely slowed the advance. Then, the fate intervened. In the Battle of Radstadt, a Shilone fighter piloted by a mortally wounded pilot, Tyra Miraborg, rammed the Wolf Clan WarShip Dire Wolf, breaching the bridge. The Clans military leader, ilKhan Leo Showers was sucked into space, dying.[2]
Their leader's death stunned the Clans, specially his Clan, Clan Smoke Jaguar. The invasion cannot proceed without choosing another leader, which need the participation of all Clans leaders. For this, the invading Clans Grand Kurultai voted to return to their capital, Strana Mechty, taking all their Bloodnamed warriors with them to participate in the election. This stopped the invasion for more than a year, as the trip to the Clan Homeworlds was of about six months.[3] The unofficial truce was spent, by both sides, preparing for the renewal of invasion. The Inner Sphere leaders believed the Clans advance had stopped by their two victories, but Wolf's Dragoons, originally a Clan recon unit, tell them the truth when invited them to his base of Outreach, to inform them about the Clans threat, expecting to make them join in a coalition against their common enemy. They succeeded in that: only the Capellan Confederation refused to join the coalition. All the other leaders agreed to stop their old conflicts and to share information, troops and resources.[4]
Meanwhile, the Crusader Clans attempted to blame Clan Wolf Khan Ulric Kerensky for Leo Showers' death, but they failed, and ironically chose him as the new ilKhan, expecting to force him to lead the invasion he didn't want. Ulric reinforced the invasion, incorporating to the invaders two new Clans, Clan Nova Cat and Clan Steel Viper.[3] The Inner Sphere leaders considered the idea of launching a counterattack against the Clan Occupation Zones, but as these were heavily defended, even by second-class units, eventually decided not to attack. In November of 3051, the truce ended; the Clans had returned.[3]
Consequences
The truce was a gift for the Inner Sphere, as it gave them a much needed respite to develop new strategies, build new and more advanced weapons and, specially, processing all what they know about the Clans. The Clans also draft and redraft their attack and defense plans, but only Clan Ghost Bear made deep changes to avoid making the same mistakes.[5] After the truce, the Clans' advance was much more difficult, but that only slowed them. Even the Inner Sphere's best leaders, like Victor Steiner-Davion, and the elite units, like the Tenth Lyran Guards RCT, were crushed in combat, on Alyina.[6] It was only after the Com Guards defeated the Clans in the Battle of Tukayyid that the invasion was finally stopped.[7]