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Line 113: In an unofficial discussion thread on the [[BattleTech Forum]], [[Herbert A. Beas II]], who had been the [[BattleTech Line Developer]] while the [[Jihad era]] played out, explained the world and its demise thus:<ref>In [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/ this] thread, specifically [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075442/#msg1075442 here]</ref> In an unofficial discussion thread on the [[BattleTech Forum]], [[Herbert A. Beas II]], who had been the [[BattleTech Line Developer]] while the [[Jihad era]] played out, explained the world and its demise thus:<ref>In [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/ this] thread, specifically [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075442/#msg1075442 here]</ref> {{quote|Because the world was supposed to be "dead", it couldn't have much of an active defense network, to avoid casual discovery. Thus, Jardine's defense consisted of warning buoys and drone launcher satellites that only activated when specifically beamed a warning. Even the population centers were tightly controlled (which is why the planet has "Waywards"--people who live outside the city, but at a decidedly low-tech level). As it happens, the primary city--Hope--stood atop a supervolcano-sized pocket of magma, where it likely fed itself on the geo-thermal energy as much as anything else. From orbit, you'd have mistaken them for ruins....if you hadn't done something to trigger a drone attack, like [[Brooklyn Stevens|Stevens]] did.<br />The real fun begins, of course, when one drops a half-megaton asteroid at relativistic speeds on that supervolcano. Gets a deeper impact that even a nuke can pull off quickly, liquefies Hope AND the surrounding Wayward communities, buries and/or incinerates all the hidden warehouses and bunkers storing surplus gear, and spews enough ash and smoke into the atmosphere to potentially send the rest of the planet into a mini-ice age. Jardine's ecosystem or feline analog mammals and rainforests will likely perish completely over the next few decades, and all that would be left for anyone to find would be on the continents and islands deliberately left to decay since the planet was initially erased from the maps in the First War.}} {{quote|Because the world was supposed to be "dead", it couldn't have much of an active defense network, to avoid casual discovery. Thus, Jardine's defense consisted of warning buoys and drone launcher satellites that only activated when specifically beamed a warning. Even the population centers were tightly controlled (which is why the planet has "Waywards"--people who live outside the city, but at a decidedly low-tech level). As it happens, the primary city--Hope--stood atop a supervolcano-sized pocket of magma, where it likely fed itself on the geo-thermal energy as much as anything else. From orbit, you'd have mistaken them for ruins....if you hadn't done something to trigger a drone attack, like [[Brooklyn Stevens|Stevens]] did.<br />The real fun begins, of course, when one drops a half-megaton asteroid at relativistic speeds on that supervolcano. Gets a deeper impact that even a nuke can pull off quickly, liquefies Hope AND the surrounding Wayward communities, buries and/or incinerates all the hidden warehouses and bunkers storing surplus gear, and spews enough ash and smoke into the atmosphere to potentially send the rest of the planet into a mini-ice age. Jardine's ecosystem or feline analog mammals and rainforests will likely perish completely over the next few decades, and all that would be left for anyone to find would be on the continents and islands deliberately left to decay since the planet was initially erased from the maps in the First War.}} − He confirmed later in the same thread that the asteroid strike was carried out by the ''[[Erinyes (Individual WarShip)|Erinyes]]'', the Word of Blake's secret planet-killer [[WarShip]].<ref>In his answer [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075491/#msg1075491 here] to a question asked [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075453/#msg1075453 here]</ref> + He confirmed later in the same thread that the asteroid strike was carried out by the ''[[Erinyes (Vessel)|Erinyes]]'', the Word of Blake's secret planet-killer [[WarShip]].<ref>In his answer [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075491/#msg1075491 here] to a question asked [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075453/#msg1075453 here]</ref> :''(It should be noted that these explanations are not technically [[canonical]], as they were not posted in an official function or in the forum section reserved for canonical rulings and explanations. As such, this background information, which is not known within the BattleTech universe at large and was not explicitly given in any canonical source, may be invalidated or altered in the future.)'' :''(It should be noted that these explanations are not technically [[canonical]], as they were not posted in an official function or in the forum section reserved for canonical rulings and explanations. As such, this background information, which is not known within the BattleTech universe at large and was not explicitly given in any canonical source, may be invalidated or altered in the future.)''
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In an unofficial discussion thread on the [[BattleTech Forum]], [[Herbert A. Beas II]], who had been the [[BattleTech Line Developer]] while the [[Jihad era]] played out, explained the world and its demise thus:<ref>In [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/ this] thread, specifically [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075442/#msg1075442 here]</ref> | In an unofficial discussion thread on the [[BattleTech Forum]], [[Herbert A. Beas II]], who had been the [[BattleTech Line Developer]] while the [[Jihad era]] played out, explained the world and its demise thus:<ref>In [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/ this] thread, specifically [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075442/#msg1075442 here]</ref> | ||
{{quote|Because the world was supposed to be "dead", it couldn't have much of an active defense network, to avoid casual discovery. Thus, Jardine's defense consisted of warning buoys and drone launcher satellites that only activated when specifically beamed a warning. Even the population centers were tightly controlled (which is why the planet has "Waywards"--people who live outside the city, but at a decidedly low-tech level). As it happens, the primary city--Hope--stood atop a supervolcano-sized pocket of magma, where it likely fed itself on the geo-thermal energy as much as anything else. From orbit, you'd have mistaken them for ruins....if you hadn't done something to trigger a drone attack, like [[Brooklyn Stevens|Stevens]] did.<br />The real fun begins, of course, when one drops a half-megaton asteroid at relativistic speeds on that supervolcano. Gets a deeper impact that even a nuke can pull off quickly, liquefies Hope AND the surrounding Wayward communities, buries and/or incinerates all the hidden warehouses and bunkers storing surplus gear, and spews enough ash and smoke into the atmosphere to potentially send the rest of the planet into a mini-ice age. Jardine's ecosystem or feline analog mammals and rainforests will likely perish completely over the next few decades, and all that would be left for anyone to find would be on the continents and islands deliberately left to decay since the planet was initially erased from the maps in the First War.}} | {{quote|Because the world was supposed to be "dead", it couldn't have much of an active defense network, to avoid casual discovery. Thus, Jardine's defense consisted of warning buoys and drone launcher satellites that only activated when specifically beamed a warning. Even the population centers were tightly controlled (which is why the planet has "Waywards"--people who live outside the city, but at a decidedly low-tech level). As it happens, the primary city--Hope--stood atop a supervolcano-sized pocket of magma, where it likely fed itself on the geo-thermal energy as much as anything else. From orbit, you'd have mistaken them for ruins....if you hadn't done something to trigger a drone attack, like [[Brooklyn Stevens|Stevens]] did.<br />The real fun begins, of course, when one drops a half-megaton asteroid at relativistic speeds on that supervolcano. Gets a deeper impact that even a nuke can pull off quickly, liquefies Hope AND the surrounding Wayward communities, buries and/or incinerates all the hidden warehouses and bunkers storing surplus gear, and spews enough ash and smoke into the atmosphere to potentially send the rest of the planet into a mini-ice age. Jardine's ecosystem or feline analog mammals and rainforests will likely perish completely over the next few decades, and all that would be left for anyone to find would be on the continents and islands deliberately left to decay since the planet was initially erased from the maps in the First War.}} | ||
| − | He confirmed later in the same thread that the asteroid strike was carried out by the ''[[Erinyes ( | + | He confirmed later in the same thread that the asteroid strike was carried out by the ''[[Erinyes (Vessel)|Erinyes]]'', the Word of Blake's secret planet-killer [[WarShip]].<ref>In his answer [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075491/#msg1075491 here] to a question asked [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/wob-jihad-the-plan/msg1075453/#msg1075453 here]</ref> |
:''(It should be noted that these explanations are not technically [[canonical]], as they were not posted in an official function or in the forum section reserved for canonical rulings and explanations. As such, this background information, which is not known within the BattleTech universe at large and was not explicitly given in any canonical source, may be invalidated or altered in the future.)'' | :''(It should be noted that these explanations are not technically [[canonical]], as they were not posted in an official function or in the forum section reserved for canonical rulings and explanations. As such, this background information, which is not known within the BattleTech universe at large and was not explicitly given in any canonical source, may be invalidated or altered in the future.)'' | ||