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Line 21: {{ApocryphalContentStart}} {{ApocryphalContentStart}} − In [[3026]], Richard Westrick and the Crater Cobras participated in the [[Operation GALAHAD]] wargames on [[Avigait]], joining another mercenary unit, [[Nik's Cavaliers]], in defending a decommissioned orbital defense system from a [[Federated Commonwealth]] coalition led by [[House Steiner|Steiner]] Colonel [[Steven Zaks]] and [[House Davion|Davion]] Marshal [[Jackson Davion]]. The lack of coordination between the two Houses allowed the mercenaries to repel their forces and launch an immediate counterattack on their headquarters. Westrick advanced with the bulk of his Cobras as a diversion, prompting the coalition forces to overcompensate with too many units to face them after their earlier failure, allowing the Cavaliers to conduct a surgical strike and take out their leader, Colonel [[Ardan Sortek]], behind enemy lines.<ref name=MW5Ma>''MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries'', Kestrel Lancers Missions: "Operation: GALAHAD"</ref> + In [[3026]], Richard Westrick and the Crater Cobras participated in the [[Operation GALAHAD]] wargames on [[Avigait]], joining another mercenary unit, [[Nik's Cavaliers]], in defending a decommissioned orbital defense system from a [[Federated Commonwealth]] coalition led by [[House Steiner|Steiner]] Colonel [[Steven Zaks]] and [[House Davion|Davion]] Marshal [[Jackson Davion]]. The lack of coordination between the two Houses allowed the mercenaries to repel their forces and launch an immediate counterattack on their headquarters. Westrick advanced with the bulk of his Cobras as a diversion, prompting the coalition forces to overcompensate with too many units to face them after their earlier failure, allowing the Cavaliers to conduct a surgical strike and take out their leader, Colonel [[Ardan Sortek]], behind enemy lines.<ref name=MW5M>''MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries'', Kestrel Lancers Missions</ref> {{ApocryphalContentEnd}} {{ApocryphalContentEnd}} Line 34:
Line 34: {{ApocryphalContentStart}} {{ApocryphalContentStart}} − In mid-October, Westrick and his Cobras had taken refuge in the interior of a derelict [[WarShip]] located deep in northern [[Sarna#Geography|Jacarlos]] after having repelled an all-out attack from the Third McCarron's Armored Cavalry at Graves Hallow the previous week. The Cavaliers, there on special assignment with the [[Second Crucis Lancers]], linked up with them after having been located by the [[Fifth Syrtis Fusiliers]] and together repelled another attack by the Third.<ref name=MW5Mb>''MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries'', Kestrel Lancers Missions: "Sarna"</ref> + In mid-October, Westrick and his Cobras had taken refuge in the interior of a derelict [[WarShip]] located deep in northern [[Sarna#Geography|Jacarlos]] after having repelled an all-out attack from the Third McCarron's Armored Cavalry at Graves Hallow the previous week. The Cavaliers, there on special assignment with the [[Second Crucis Lancers]], linked up with them after having been located by the [[Fifth Syrtis Fusiliers]] and together repelled another attack by the Third.<ref name=MW5M/> − Westrick's forces had spent months probing the facilities the [[Capellan Confederation|Capellans]] had been using to disrupt long-range communications on-planet, but didn't feel they had the numbers to launch an assault on any of them without heavy losses. With the Cavaliers now present, Westrick devised a plan similar to their strategy during the GALAHAD wargames and moved with all of his remaining forces to meet McCarron's head on and provide the Cavaliers an opening to destroy a number of regional jamming arrays. As the situation looked grim for the Cobras, they learned that Ardan Sortek and the [[Davion Heavy Guards]] were already in-system and about to make planetfall. Westrick relayed their coordinates to Sortek at fifty klicks east of the city of [[Sarna#Planetary Locations|Catatonia]], notifying that they were pinned down by the Big Mac. The Fusiliers and Cavaliers moved to reinforce their position, allowing their combined strength hold out long enough for the Guards to arrive via an orbital 'Mech drop and push McCarron's forces back, eventually forcing them to retreat off-world.<ref name=MW5Mb/> + Westrick's forces had spent months probing the facilities the [[Capellan Confederation|Capellans]] had been using to disrupt long-range communications on-planet, but didn't feel they had the numbers to launch an assault on any of them without heavy losses. With the Cavaliers now present, Westrick devised a plan similar to their strategy during the GALAHAD wargames and moved with all of his remaining forces to meet McCarron's head on and provide the Cavaliers an opening to destroy a number of regional jamming arrays. As the situation looked grim for the Cobras, they learned that Ardan Sortek and the [[Davion Heavy Guards]] were already in-system and about to make planetfall. Westrick relayed their coordinates to Sortek at fifty klicks east of the city of [[Sarna#Planetary Locations|Catatonia]], notifying that they were pinned down by the Big Mac. The Fusiliers and Cavaliers moved to reinforce their position, allowing their combined strength hold out long enough for the Guards to arrive via an orbital 'Mech drop and push McCarron's forces back, eventually forcing them to retreat off-world.<ref name=MW5M/> {{ApocryphalContentEnd}} {{ApocryphalContentEnd}}
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| − | In [[3026]], Richard Westrick and the Crater Cobras participated in the [[Operation GALAHAD]] wargames on [[Avigait]], joining another mercenary unit, [[Nik's Cavaliers]], in defending a decommissioned orbital defense system from a [[Federated Commonwealth]] coalition led by [[House Steiner|Steiner]] Colonel [[Steven Zaks]] and [[House Davion|Davion]] Marshal [[Jackson Davion]]. The lack of coordination between the two Houses allowed the mercenaries to repel their forces and launch an immediate counterattack on their headquarters. Westrick advanced with the bulk of his Cobras as a diversion, prompting the coalition forces to overcompensate with too many units to face them after their earlier failure, allowing the Cavaliers to conduct a surgical strike and take out their leader, Colonel [[Ardan Sortek]], behind enemy lines.<ref name= | + | In [[3026]], Richard Westrick and the Crater Cobras participated in the [[Operation GALAHAD]] wargames on [[Avigait]], joining another mercenary unit, [[Nik's Cavaliers]], in defending a decommissioned orbital defense system from a [[Federated Commonwealth]] coalition led by [[House Steiner|Steiner]] Colonel [[Steven Zaks]] and [[House Davion|Davion]] Marshal [[Jackson Davion]]. The lack of coordination between the two Houses allowed the mercenaries to repel their forces and launch an immediate counterattack on their headquarters. Westrick advanced with the bulk of his Cobras as a diversion, prompting the coalition forces to overcompensate with too many units to face them after their earlier failure, allowing the Cavaliers to conduct a surgical strike and take out their leader, Colonel [[Ardan Sortek]], behind enemy lines.<ref name=MW5M>''MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries'', Kestrel Lancers Missions</ref> |
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| − | In mid-October, Westrick and his Cobras had taken refuge in the interior of a derelict [[WarShip]] located deep in northern [[Sarna#Geography|Jacarlos]] after having repelled an all-out attack from the Third McCarron's Armored Cavalry at Graves Hallow the previous week. The Cavaliers, there on special assignment with the [[Second Crucis Lancers]], linked up with them after having been located by the [[Fifth Syrtis Fusiliers]] and together repelled another attack by the Third.<ref name= | + | In mid-October, Westrick and his Cobras had taken refuge in the interior of a derelict [[WarShip]] located deep in northern [[Sarna#Geography|Jacarlos]] after having repelled an all-out attack from the Third McCarron's Armored Cavalry at Graves Hallow the previous week. The Cavaliers, there on special assignment with the [[Second Crucis Lancers]], linked up with them after having been located by the [[Fifth Syrtis Fusiliers]] and together repelled another attack by the Third.<ref name=MW5M/> |
| − | Westrick's forces had spent months probing the facilities the [[Capellan Confederation|Capellans]] had been using to disrupt long-range communications on-planet, but didn't feel they had the numbers to launch an assault on any of them without heavy losses. With the Cavaliers now present, Westrick devised a plan similar to their strategy during the GALAHAD wargames and moved with all of his remaining forces to meet McCarron's head on and provide the Cavaliers an opening to destroy a number of regional jamming arrays. As the situation looked grim for the Cobras, they learned that Ardan Sortek and the [[Davion Heavy Guards]] were already in-system and about to make planetfall. Westrick relayed their coordinates to Sortek at fifty klicks east of the city of [[Sarna#Planetary Locations|Catatonia]], notifying that they were pinned down by the Big Mac. The Fusiliers and Cavaliers moved to reinforce their position, allowing their combined strength hold out long enough for the Guards to arrive via an orbital 'Mech drop and push McCarron's forces back, eventually forcing them to retreat off-world.<ref name= | + | Westrick's forces had spent months probing the facilities the [[Capellan Confederation|Capellans]] had been using to disrupt long-range communications on-planet, but didn't feel they had the numbers to launch an assault on any of them without heavy losses. With the Cavaliers now present, Westrick devised a plan similar to their strategy during the GALAHAD wargames and moved with all of his remaining forces to meet McCarron's head on and provide the Cavaliers an opening to destroy a number of regional jamming arrays. As the situation looked grim for the Cobras, they learned that Ardan Sortek and the [[Davion Heavy Guards]] were already in-system and about to make planetfall. Westrick relayed their coordinates to Sortek at fifty klicks east of the city of [[Sarna#Planetary Locations|Catatonia]], notifying that they were pinned down by the Big Mac. The Fusiliers and Cavaliers moved to reinforce their position, allowing their combined strength hold out long enough for the Guards to arrive via an orbital 'Mech drop and push McCarron's forces back, eventually forcing them to retreat off-world.<ref name=MW5M/> |
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