Clan Ghost Bear
Powerful Clansmen, the Ghost Bears are known for their conservative nature and their strong sense of family. They joined the original Clan Invasion in 3050 and seized some forty worlds from the Free Rasalhague Republic and Draconis Combine. They won a minor victory against the ComGuards at the Battle of Tukayyid and bode their time since.
Ghost Bear Demographics
Affiliation: Warden
Clan Space Worlds:
Arcadia (25 percent)
Capital: Alshain (IS)
Population (Clan Space): 24,294,000 (3060)
Population growth rate: 2.1 percent (43/22)
Self-Sufficiency Index: 99 percent
Leaders:
Khan: Bjorn Jorgensson
saKhan: Aletha Kabrinski
Loremaster: Laurie Tseng
Scientist-General: Jorge (Agassiz)
Merchant Factor: Werner
Master Technician: Alejandro
Senior Laborer: Alia
Military:
Clusters: 58
WarShips: 14
Exclusive Ghost Bear Bloodnames
General Bloodnames:
- Gurdel
- Snuka
- Malthus
- Bekker
- Hall
- Jorgensson
- Tseng
- DelVillar
- Kabrinski
- Vong
Pilots:
- Bourjon
- Gilmour
- Devon
History
- Children of the Bear, hearken to my words:
- Be always vigilant.
- Learn for yourselves that which your forebears imparted So easily and freely;
- Demand of yourselves
- The foresight of Jorgensson
- And the courage of Tseng;
- Through them, we are strong.
- To them a debt is owed,
- Repaid through loyalty undying and Character unflinching.
- -From the Oath of Acceptance, Clan Ghost Bear
Founding
Clan Ghost Bear founders Hans Ole Jorgensson and Sandra Tseng were elite warriors serving Nicholas Kerensky during the Second Exodus from the Pentagon Worlds to the Kerensky Cluster. They were also husband and wife. When Kerensky created the Clans, he decided Jorgensson and Tseng were too valuable to assign together to a single clan and would have separated the pair. Rather than be separated or directly refuse the orders of the Founder, they chose to die together. They traveled into the antarctic wilderness of the planet Strana Mechty, wandering until their supplies ran out.
In a mountain cave, waiting for death, they encountered a ghost bear. Despite their circumstance, they would not go quietly, and roared a defiant challenge at the bear. The bear did not attack, but circled and investigated until the pair, succumbing to cold and hunger, collapsed into unconsciousness. For unknown reasons, the bear did not take them as prey while they slept, but warmed them with its body, and upon waking, brought them fresh meat to eat. For three days it tended them this way, until they regained their strength. Upon emerging from their shelter, they found they had not been adopted by a solitary hunter, but by a pack.
Inspired, they returned to the Founder and argued for the clans to embrace the virtues of family and communal strength as a supplement to that of the individual. Hearing their tale, he granted their request to remain together, and honored their wilderness trial by naming their clan 'Ghost Bear'.
Later era
During the Great Refusal on Strana Mechty, the Ghost Bears abandoned their Crusader beliefs and embraced the Warden faction, leading them out of the Trial of Refusal being waged by the Inner Sphere. They subsequently relocated to the Inner Sphere, abandoning all their Clan holdings save for their enclave on Arcadia and their posting on Strana Mechty.
They are a now a permanent feature of the Inner Sphere and have remained tranquil, save for a brief war with the Draconis Combine following the latter's attack on their capital, Alshain. Currently they have merged with the Inner Sphere faction Free Rasalhague Republic to form the Ghost Bear Dominion. It was the first true merger between a Clan and an Inner Sphere nation where the citizens treat the Clan Warrior caste as the rulers, but the ruling warriors give free reign to their Rasalhague citizens. The Ghost Bear Khan holds the main power and there is a Prince voted for by the people to control all matters concerning the population.
In 3103, the Ghost Bear Dominion was renamed the Rasalhague Dominion. It is ruled by the Dominion Council.
Touman
Unit (Nickname) | Facts |
---|---|
Alpha Galaxy (The Golden Bears) | |
Command Supernova (The Ourse Keshik) | 1 Trinary/Elite/Fanatical |
1st Bear Guards (The Rage) | 4 Trinaries/Elite/Fanatical |
3rd Bear Guards (The ilKhan's Shield) | 4 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
Galaxy Command Trinary (The Silveroot Keshik) | 1 Trinary/Elite/Fanatical |
50th Striker Cluster (The Black Bears) | 5 Trinaries/Elite/Fanatical |
1st Rasalhague Bears | 4 Trinaries/Veteran/Questionable |
Beta Galaxy (Night Howlers) | |
Galaxy Command Trinary (The Shrill Keshik) | 1 Trinary/Veteran/Fanatical |
12th Bear Chevaliers (The Wendigos) | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
304th Assault Cluster (The Howling Bears) | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
332nd Assault Cluster (The Iowa Blacklancers) | 5 Trinaries/Regular/Reliable |
14th Battle Cluster (The Maulers) | 5 Trinaries/Elite/Questionable |
Delta Galaxy (The Blitzkrieg) | |
Galaxy Command Trinary (Jorgensson's Keshik) | 1 Trinary/Elite/Fanatical |
8th Bear Cuirassiers (The Blinding Drive) | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
73rd Battle Cluster (The Lash) | 4 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
68th Striker Cluster (The Walking Panzers) | 4 Trinaries/Veteran/Questionable |
115th Striker Cluster (The Rolling Wave) | 5 Trinaries/Elite/Reliable |
140th Striker Cluster (Death From Above) | 4 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
Rho Galaxy (Bear Essentials) | |
Galaxy Command Trinary (Kabrinski's Keshik) | 1 Trinary/Elite/Fanatical |
18th Battle Cluster (Fire With Fire) | 4 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
243rd Battle Cluster (Apollo's Chariot) | 4 Trinaries/Elite/Reliable |
283rd Battle Cluster (Ursine Inferno) | 4 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
279th Battle Cluster (The Burnout Brigade) | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Questionable |
300th Battle Cluster (Roaring Pheonix) | 4 Trinaries/Regular/Fanatical |
Omega Galaxy (The Raging Bears) | |
Galaxy Command Trinary (Tseng's Keshik) | 1 Trinary/Elite/Fanatical |
139th Striker Cluster (The Sphere Hunters) | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
5th Bear Gaurds (Arctic Thunder) | 4 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
357th Assault Cluster (The Cave Bears) | 4 Trinaries/Regular/Fanatical |
115th Striker Cluster (The Rolling Wave) | 5 Trinaries/Elite/Reliable |
10th Bear Cuirassiers (Tundra Roughriders) | 4 Trinaries/Regular/Reliable |
Zeta Galaxy (Claws of the Ghost) | |
1st Claw | 5 Trinaries/Elite/Fanatical |
2nd Claw | 5 Trinaries/Elite/Reliable |
3rd Claw | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
4th Claw | 5 Trinaries/Regular/Fanatical |
Theta Galaxy | |
3rd Bear Regulars | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
17th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
30th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 5 Trinaries/Regular/Questionable |
7th Phalanx | 5 Trinaries/Regular/Reliable |
Kappa Galaxy | |
4th Bear Regulars | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
11th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 4 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
14th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 5 Trinaries/Regular/Reliable |
63rd Provisional Garrison Cluster | 4 Trinaries/Regular/Questionable |
Xi Galaxy | |
5th Bear Regulars | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
10th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 3 Trinaries/Green/Questionable |
42nd Provisional Garrison Cluster | 3 Trinaries/Regular/Questionable |
56th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 4 Trinaries/Green/Fanatical |
Omicron Galaxy | |
55th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 3 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
6th Bear Regulars | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
33rd Provisional Garrison Cluster | 5 Trinaries/Regular/Questionable |
69th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 3 Trinaries/Regular/Reliable |
Pi Galaxy | |
23rd Provisional Garrison Cluster | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Fanatical |
29th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 4 Trinaries/Regular/Fanatical |
54th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 5 Trinaries/Green/Reliable |
5th Phalanx | 4 Trinaries/Regular/Reliable |
13th Phalanx | 4 Trinaries/Regular/Reliable |
Sigma Galaxy | |
10th Phalanx | 5 Trinaries/Elite/Fanatical |
7th Bear Regulars | 5 Trinaries/Regular/Reliable |
12th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 5 Trinaries/Regular/Reliable |
21st Phalanx | 6 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
Tau Galaxy | |
1st Bear Regulars | 3 Trinaries/Elite/Fanatical |
2nd Bear Regulars | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
9th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 5 Trinaries/Veteran/Reliable |
18th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 4 Trinaries/Regular/Questionable |
37th Provisional Garrison Cluster | 5 Trinaries/Green/Reliable |
- Naval Reserve
- Flagship: Dieron's Run Cameron Class Battle Cruiser
- Ursa Major Nightlord Class Battleship
- Bear's Den Black Lion Class Battle Cruiser
- Ursa Minor York Class Destroyer
- White Claw Essex Class Destroyer
- White Fang Essex Class Destroyer
- Blizzard Lola III Class Destroyer
- Icepick Lola III Class Destroyer
- Black Ghost Fredasa Class Corvette
- Great Bear Leviathan Class Transport
- Leviathan Leviathan Class Transport
- Ursine Boatman Volga Class Transport
- Den Mother Carrack Class Transport
- Yggsdrasil Carrack Class Transport
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