Operation Higashikuni (Canon Event)
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| Operation Higashikuni (Canon Event, 2007) | |
|---|---|
| Product information | |
| Type | Scenario Pack (PDF) |
| Publication information | |
| First published | 2007 |
| MSRP | Free |
| Content | |
| Era | Jihad |
| Series | Canon Event |
Operation Higashikuni was played out as a scenario at Gen Con 2007 under Catalyst Game Labs' supervision by what had previously been the FanPro Commandos, with the result declared to be fully canonical for the BattleTech universe. The same was true for the follow-up event, Operation Kabutomushi, in 2008. However, the latter scenario, a naval battle for the secret Ruins of Gabriel shipyard, unexpectedly ended in a victory for the Word of Blake defenders, upsetting CGL's projected Jihad timeline. A successful follow-up attack was then written into BattleTech fiction to put the timeline back on track. Subsequent events were carefully selected so that the outcome would not impact the greater picture of the planned timeline.
2007 Gen Con Event[edit]
To set up the Gen Con event, players received a package of files including an 8-page excerpt of the treatise on The Hidden from the Jihad Conspiracies sourcebook, "Meeting Notes" from Peter Abdulsattah on the Consortium Emergency Board Meeting, under the auspices of Hachiman Taro Electronics and dated 12.03.71, as reported to Chandrasekhar Kurita (with a personal entry by Kurita himself attached), and annotated force briefs on the mercenary units involved in the operation.
The files were made available for free download via the CGL website. The blurb going with the download link read:
| “ | Operation HIGASHIKUNI Prior to launching Operation ANGEL REQUIEM to attack the Word of Blake’s Gabriel outpost, Chandrasekhar Kurita and his people gathered information on the mercenary commands who would participate in the assault. These files, along with Hachiman Taro corporate notes and information on the Word’s Hidden Worlds, were released to the public during Gen Con 2009. |
” |
Notes[edit]
- Canonical source material is inconsistent on the naming of the operations, suggesting the names Higashikuni and Angel Requiem were mixed up by the authors/publishers at some point. A "Jihad Master Timeline" document circulated among CGL authors and factcheckers refers to Operation: Angel Requiem as (only) the attack against Arcturus that was conducted by the Word of Blake's 40th Shadow Division, thus marking it a Word of Blake operation (and not Chandrasekhar Kurita's, whose opposing operation would have been Operation: Higashikuni). The Canon Event played at Gen Con 2008 was named Operation Kabutomushi.
- This Battle was made canonical as event Operation Higashikuni.