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'''The Hellion's Fury''' (3048<ref name=TC:WOKp85>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 85 - "Clan Ice Hellion, History"</ref>-????) was a series of battles fought to assuage Clan honor on the part of the [[Clan Ice Hellion|Ice Hellions]] after their failure to win a slot in the [[Inner Sphere]] invasion.  They would win numerous territories and gain resources from other [[Clans]] weakened by the intense trials.
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| date        = May-June [[3050]]<ref name=OTPRTp34>''Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials'', p. 34, "Touchpoint: Marshall"</ref> <ref name=OTPRTp38>''Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials'', p. 38, "Touchpoint: Londerholm"</ref>
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| date        = 3048-30??
 
| place      = Clan Space/[[Kerensky Cluster]]
 
| place      = Clan Space/[[Kerensky Cluster]]
| planet      =[[Foster]]<ref name=OTPRTp35>''Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials'', p. 35, "Touchpoint: Foster"</ref><br>[[Hoard]]<ref name=OTPRTp37>''Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials'', p. 37, "Touchpoint: Hoard"</ref><br>[[Homer]]<ref name=OTPRTp36>''Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials'', p. 36, "Touchpoint: Homer"</ref><br>[[Londerholm]]<ref name=OTPRTp38/><br>[[Marshall]]<ref name=OTPRTp34/>
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| commander1  = Khan [[Stephen Tyler]]
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| commander1  = Khan Asa Taney, Clan Ice Hellion
| forces1    = Various [[Clan Ice Hellion|Ice Hellion]] Clusters and Galaxies
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| forces1    = Various Ice Hellion Clusters and Galaxies
 
| commander2  = Various Khans of opposing Clans
 
| commander2  = Various Khans of opposing Clans
 
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| result      = Large gains for the Ice Hellions, but can they hold on to them?
* Significant territorial and resource gains for Clan Ice Hellion
 
* Alienation of other Clans from the Ice Hellions
 
 
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'''The Hellion's Fury''' (referred to as '''The Hellion's Tantrum''' by other [[Clans]]) of May-June [[3050]] was a series of battles fought to assuage the anger of [[Clan Ice Hellion|Clan Ice Hellion's]] Khan and warriors after their failure to win a place in [[Operation REVIVAL|the invasion]] of the [[Inner Sphere]]. They would win numerous territories and resources but also lost their senior leaders and the respect of other Clans.<ref name=TC:WOKp86>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 86: "Clan Ice Hellion, History"</ref> <ref name=OTPRTp14>''Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials'', p. 14</ref>
 
 
==Background==
 
====Outbound Light and the Operation REVIVAL Trials====
 
In [[3048]] the [[ComStar]] vessel ''[[Outbound Light]]'' was captured by [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] and the crew was forced to reveal information about the current state of the Inner Sphere. Using this opportunity to his advantage, the Jaguar Khan [[Leo Showers]], a staunch [[Crusader Clans|Crusader]], aired a selectively edited version of this intelligence to the [[Grand Council]]. With an invasion of the Inner Sphere overwhelmingly approved, various Clans would conduct [[Trial of Possession|Trials of Possession]] for three of the four invasion corridors into the Inner Sphere ([[Clan Wolf]] had already been granted one as the Clan of [[Nicholas Kerensky]]) and a slot as the fifth reserve Clan.<ref name=OTPRTp12-13>''Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials'', p. 12-13</ref>
 
 
====Hellion Strife====
 
Clan Ice Hellion had narrowly avoided mounting its own solo invasion of the Inner Sphere half a century earlier after the Grand Council's decision to postpone the return there. After defeating the pro-invasion faction in a civil war, its leaders since then, including the current Khan [[Stephen Tyler]], had prepared for the hoped-for invasion. When this was finally decided by the Grand Council the Hellions eagerly participated in the Trials for an invasion corridor, only to be knocked in the second round. To avoid another civil war between his furious warriors, Khan Tyler turned their attention towards the other Clans and spent over a year preparing a series of attacks against various enclaves across the [[Kerensky Cluster]].<ref name=FMCCp77>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 77, "Hellion's Fury"</ref>
 
 
==The Hellion's Fury Campaign==
 
On May 26 [[3050]], as Operation REVIVAL was underway, Clan Ice Hellion began coordinated strikes on five worlds. Given that the date was [[Liberation Day]] they caught most of their opponents off-guard during the celebrations.
 
 
===Foster===
 
[[Foster]] was home to enclaves controlled by different [[Kindraa]] of [[Clan Fire Mandrill]], and given their fractious nature the Mandrills left their kin to fight independently rather than put up any unified resistance. [[Kindraa Kline (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Kindraa Kline]] especially suffered as a result, and while the Mandrills talked of mounting a joint counterattack these discussions came to nothing, leaving the Hellions' territorial gains untouched.<ref name=OTPRTp35/> <ref name=FMCCp41>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 41, "Tales of Glory, Ashes of Defeat"</ref>
 
 
===Hoard===
 
The Ice Hellion's chosen target on [[Hoard]] was a mineral-rich but weakly defended [[Clan Hell's Horses]] enclave. Underestimating the defenders, a training Cluster of trueborns, the Hellions combat-dropped into the designated [[Circle of Equals]] only to discover that the Horses' panicked flight was in fact a deliberate maneuver. After reassembling the Horse warriors challenged their opponents to single combats and swiftly drove the Hellion force off-world.<ref name=OTPRTp37/>
 
 
===Homer===
 
Knowing they would not be able to secure territory on [[Homer]], [[Clan Cloud Cobra|Clan Cloud Cobra's]] capital world, the Hellions instead bid for half a year's production from the El Ghaza OmniFighter complex. Despite at first ravaging the Ice Hellion attackers, the [[Clan_Cloud_Cobra#Josian_Cloister|Josian Cloister]]-affiliated Cobra defenders lost their edge when a prominent ''ristar'' pilot was killed, allowing the Hellions to emerge victorious.<ref name=OTPRTp36/>
 
 
===Marshall===
 
Caught off-guard while celebrating Liberation Day, the [[Clan Snow Raven|Snow Raven]] pilots assigned to protect their Clan's research station in [[Marshall|Marshall's]] polar area nonetheless managed took a heavy toll on the Hellion attackers even before they could deploy from their [[DropShip]]. Despite suffering crippling losses, the Hellions prevailed when they reached the facility and overwhelmed the small ground-based garrison.<ref name=OTPRTp34/>
 
 
===Londerholm===
 
The final target of the Hellion's Fury campaign, [[Londerholm]] also became the site of its greatest defeat for the Hellions. A week after mounting simultaneous attacks on [[Clan Coyote|Coyote]] and [[Clan Smoke Jaguar|Smoke Jaguar]] facilities, Khan Tyler and his force found themselves on the losing end of hit-and-fade engagements with the defenders. The remaining Hellions rallied at the outskirts of Vostok's ruins, hoping to turn the tide at this reminder of Clan Smoke Jaguar's [[Londerholm Revolt|sordid history on Londerholm]]. Fighting began during a rainstorm as the Coyotes led the charge and the Smoke Jaguars, reluctant to enter a city their forbears had brutally razed, followed. The Hellions suffered heavy casualties but both of their Khans and some other warriors escaped to Hellion territory.<ref name=OTPRTp38/> <ref name=OTPRTp12-13/>
 
 
==Aftermath==
 
The campaign netted the Ice Hellions considerable gains in territory and resources but proved costly in other ways. Their reputation with their fellow Clans suffered as the attacks were dubbed a tantrum. The architect of the Hellion's Fury himself would not live long enough to capitalize on the Clan's gains. A few weeks later Stephen Tyler was slain by bandit caste raiders on Londerholm, with unproven suspicions that the vengeful Smoke Jaguars had provided the necessary intelligence to his assailants. The same attack saw saKhan [[Danielle Lienet]] maimed and forced to resign.<ref name=OTPRTp12-13/>
 
  
The grudges and general disparagement of the Ice Hellions begun by the Hellion's Fury continued for years after. Khan Tyler's successor [[Asa Taney]] proved incapable of overcoming this handicap or strengthening the Hellions enough to join the [[Invader Clans]] ranks, with his [[Home Clan Coalition]] failing to achieve the latter goal.<ref name=FMCCp77/> <ref>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 23</ref>
 
  
==Map==
 
<gallery>
 
The Hellions Fury Map (3050).jpg
 
</gallery>
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
 
* ''[[The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky]]''
 
* ''[[The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]]''
 
* ''[[Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials]]''
 
 
 
[[Category: Clan Trials]]
 

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