https://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Jolly_Roger_Affair&feed=atom&action=historyJolly Roger Affair - Revision history2024-03-28T22:25:36ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.34.4https://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Jolly_Roger_Affair&diff=1049132&oldid=prevCungrVanck: Fixed link2024-02-06T22:54:07Z<p>Fixed link</p>
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</table>CungrVanckhttps://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Jolly_Roger_Affair&diff=1030937&oldid=prevCyc: Explorer Corps repoint2024-01-04T04:58:23Z<p>Explorer Corps repoint</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Anxious to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13>''Field Manual: ComStar'', p. 13 "The Com Guards - Bait and Switch"</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Anxious to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13>''Field Manual: ComStar'', p. 13 "The Com Guards - Bait and Switch"</ref> </div></td></tr>
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</table>Cychttps://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Jolly_Roger_Affair&diff=942369&oldid=prevDmon: /* Bibliography */2023-03-14T22:39:54Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Bibliography</span></span></p>
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</table>Dmonhttps://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Jolly_Roger_Affair&diff=869854&oldid=prevRevanche: Proper noun capitalization project: "aerospace fighter"2022-08-05T10:56:04Z<p>Proper noun capitalization project: "aerospace fighter"</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[2997]] the [[LCAF]] high command requested a slowdown in their offensive against the Draconis Combine to rest their exhausted troops. Although [[Archon]] [[Alessandro Steiner]] refused, the military found ways to deliberately delay and bog down their own offensive through bureaucracy. At the same time across the border, the [[DCMS]] had lost their fighting spirit under [[Hohiro Kurita I|Hohiro Kurita]]'s excessively centralized control and increasing paranoia; save for the (failed) [[Twelfth Battle for Hesperus II|attack on Hesperus II]] in early [[3000]] the Kurita military preferred to concentrate their efforts on the [[Federated Suns]] instead.<ref name=CS-49>''ComStar'', p. 49 "The Jolly Roger Affair"</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[2997]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>the [[LCAF]] high command requested a slowdown in their offensive against the Draconis Combine to rest their exhausted troops. Although [[Archon]] [[Alessandro Steiner]] refused, the military found ways to deliberately delay and bog down their own offensive through bureaucracy. At the same time across the border, the [[DCMS]] had lost their fighting spirit under [[Hohiro Kurita I|Hohiro Kurita]]'s excessively centralized control and increasing paranoia; save for the (failed) [[Twelfth Battle for Hesperus II|attack on Hesperus II]] in early [[3000]] the Kurita military preferred to concentrate their efforts on the [[Federated Suns]] instead.<ref name=CS-49>''ComStar'', p. 49 "The Jolly Roger Affair"</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==The Jolly Roger Plan==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==The Jolly Roger Plan==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Anxious to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13>''Field Manual: ComStar'', p. 13 "The Com Guards - Bait and Switch"</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Anxious to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13>''Field Manual: ComStar'', p. 13 "The Com Guards - Bait and Switch"</ref> </div></td></tr>
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</table>Revanchehttps://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Jolly_Roger_Affair&diff=805354&oldid=prevMadness Divine: updated link2022-04-21T17:53:01Z<p>updated link</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Jolly Roger quickly spun out of control. On orders of the Primus, Precentor Kintero of the [[ComStar Guards and Militia]] tried to negotiate with the renegades to bring them back in line with ComStar's agenda. For reasons unknown, the talks escalated to the point that Kintero's party had to fight their way out of the bandit's holdings. Darleen Dunson was killed in the process. ComStar thereby earned the wrath of "Black" Jack McGirk, who felt his former benefactors had betrayed him and was infuriated over the death of his lover. He laid waste to the [[HPG]] compounds on the worlds of [[Lost]] and [[Canal]], killing dozens of personnel in the rampage.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Jolly Roger quickly spun out of control. On orders of the Primus, Precentor Kintero of the [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Com Guards|</ins>ComStar Guards and Militia]] tried to negotiate with the renegades to bring them back in line with ComStar's agenda. For reasons unknown, the talks escalated to the point that Kintero's party had to fight their way out of the bandit's holdings. Darleen Dunson was killed in the process. ComStar thereby earned the wrath of "Black" Jack McGirk, who felt his former benefactors had betrayed him and was infuriated over the death of his lover. He laid waste to the [[HPG]] compounds on the worlds of [[Lost]] and [[Canal]], killing dozens of personnel in the rampage.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While the Lyran suspicions were allayed with a cover story claiming that the HPGs had only suffered light damage from periphery raiders, Primus Rusenstein ordered the [[1st Division (ComStar)|First Division of the ComStar Guards and Militia]] to exterminate the renegade pirates. This was achieved, but it cost ComStar dearly: McGirk's forces achieved a 2.3 to 1 kill ratio against the inexperienced ComStar Guards in a three-day battle on the isolated, unmapped world of [[Trisha]], some eight jumps into the periphery, before being wiped out.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While the Lyran suspicions were allayed with a cover story claiming that the HPGs had only suffered light damage from periphery raiders, Primus Rusenstein ordered the [[1st Division (ComStar)|First Division of the ComStar Guards and Militia]] to exterminate the renegade pirates. This was achieved, but it cost ComStar dearly: McGirk's forces achieved a 2.3 to 1 kill ratio against the inexperienced ComStar Guards in a three-day battle on the isolated, unmapped world of [[Trisha]], some eight jumps into the periphery, before being wiped out.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td></tr>
</table>Madness Divinehttps://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Jolly_Roger_Affair&diff=465123&oldid=prevFrabby: copyedits2018-04-04T06:15:09Z<p>copyedits</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Always anxious </del>to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area. <ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13>''Field Manual: ComStar'', p. 13 "The Com Guards - Bait and Switch"</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Anxious </ins>to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13>''Field Manual: ComStar'', p. 13 "The Com Guards - Bait and Switch"</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>ComStar covertly provided renegade [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] with [[BattleMech]]s, [[Aerospace Fighter|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fighters</del>]] and [[DropShip]]s and even went so far as to provide them with bases on lost Periphery worlds that had been rediscovered by the [[Explorer Corps]] years earlier; the existence of these worlds had been kept secret from the [[Successor States]]. No trace could ever be found linking any of the equipment, financial aid or information to ComStar.<ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>ComStar covertly provided renegade [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] with [[BattleMech]]s, [[Aerospace Fighter|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">aerospace fighters</ins>]] and [[DropShip]]s and even went so far as to provide them with bases on lost Periphery worlds that had been rediscovered by the [[Explorer Corps]] years earlier; the existence of these worlds had been kept secret from the [[Successor States]]. No trace could ever be found linking any of the equipment, financial aid or information to ComStar.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plan went quite well initially. The pirates accepted the aid and equipment without asking too many questions about its origin or the intentions of their benefactors. Several new [[Bandit Kingdom]]s sprung up in short order. By spring of [[3002]] the Lyran Commonwealth repeatedly came under attack from <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Periphery </del>bandits, and within half a year the same pirates struck against the Draconis Combine as well. The Commonwealth and Combine accused each other of having sponsored the pirate attacks and tensions flared up. Suspicious about each <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">others </del>motives and pressured by the raids, both governments moved entire regiments of key troops out to their <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Periphery </del>borders.<ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plan went quite well initially. The pirates accepted the aid and equipment without asking too many questions about its origin or the intentions of their benefactors. Several new [[Bandit Kingdom]]s sprung up in short order. By spring of [[3002]] the Lyran Commonwealth repeatedly came under attack from <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">periphery </ins>bandits, and within half a year the same pirates struck against the Draconis Combine as well. The Commonwealth and Combine accused each other of having sponsored the pirate attacks and tensions flared up. Suspicious about each <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">other's </ins>motives and pressured by the raids, both governments moved entire regiments of key troops out to their <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">periphery </ins>borders.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Within ComStar, this was seen as a great success at covertly exercising power in the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Periphery </del>and manipulating the Successor States. In the light of the apparent success, Primus Rusenstein did not hesitate to accept the credit.<ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Within ComStar, this was seen as a great success at covertly exercising power in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">periphery </ins>and manipulating the Successor States. In the light of the apparent success, Primus Rusenstein did not hesitate to accept the credit.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Backlash and Termination==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Backlash and Termination==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[3004]] two of the Jolly Roger <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bandit Kings</del>, [[Jack McGirk|"Black" Jack McGirk]] and [[Darleen Dunson]], became lovers and joined forces. Between them, they fielded almost a regiment of BattleMechs and support forces, constituting an unusually strong force by Periphery standards which they used to conduct a series of lightning-fast raids <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">along the Commonwealth/Periphery border</del>. Following their example, other pirates also joined forces to gear up on choice targets.<ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[3004]] two of the Jolly Roger <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bandit kings</ins>, [[Jack McGirk|"Black" Jack McGirk]] and [[Darleen Dunson]], became lovers and joined forces. Between them, they fielded almost a regiment of BattleMechs and support forces, constituting an unusually strong force by Periphery standards which they used to conduct a series of lightning-fast raids. Following their example, other pirates also joined forces to gear up on choice targets.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Jolly Roger quickly spun out of control. On orders of the Primus, Precentor Kintero of the [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ComGuards|</del>ComStar Guards and Militia]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>tried to negotiate with the renegades to bring them back <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">into </del>line with ComStar's agenda. For reasons unknown the talks escalated to the point that Kintero's party had to fight their way out of the bandit's holdings. Darleen Dunson was killed in the process<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and </del>ComStar thereby earned the wrath of "Black" Jack McGirk who felt his former benefactors had betrayed him and was infuriated over the death of his lover. He laid waste to the [[HPG]] compounds on the worlds of [[Lost]] and [[Canal]], killing dozens of personnel in the rampage.<ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Jolly Roger quickly spun out of control. On orders of the Primus, Precentor Kintero of the [[ComStar Guards and Militia]] tried to negotiate with the renegades to bring them back <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in </ins>line with ComStar's agenda. For reasons unknown<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>the talks escalated to the point that Kintero's party had to fight their way out of the bandit's holdings. Darleen Dunson was killed in the process<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>ComStar thereby earned the wrath of "Black" Jack McGirk<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>who felt his former benefactors had betrayed him and was infuriated over the death of his lover. He laid waste to the [[HPG]] compounds on the worlds of [[Lost]] and [[Canal]], killing dozens of personnel in the rampage.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While the Lyran suspicions were allayed with a cover story claiming that the HPGs had only suffered light damage from <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Periphery </del>raiders, Primus Rusenstein ordered the [[1st Division (ComStar)|First Division of the ComStar Guards and Militia]] to exterminate the renegade pirates. This was achieved, but it cost ComStar dearly: McGirk's forces achieved a 2.3 to 1 kill ratio against the inexperienced ComStar Guards in a three-day battle on the isolated, unmapped world of [[Trisha]], some eight jumps into the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Periphery</del>, before being wiped out.<ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While the Lyran suspicions were allayed with a cover story claiming that the HPGs had only suffered light damage from <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">periphery </ins>raiders, Primus Rusenstein ordered the [[1st Division (ComStar)|First Division of the ComStar Guards and Militia]] to exterminate the renegade pirates. This was achieved, but it cost ComStar dearly: McGirk's forces achieved a 2.3 to 1 kill ratio against the inexperienced ComStar Guards in a three-day battle on the isolated, unmapped world of [[Trisha]], some eight jumps into the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">periphery</ins>, before being wiped out.<ref name=CS-49/><ref name=FMCS-13/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although he really had little personal responsibility for the affair, the failure was laid at the feet of Primus Rusenstein rather than on the actual sponsors of the plan, and severely damaged his position and authority. The Jolly Roger Affair, together with the unexpected appearance of the five regiments of pristine 'Mechs of [[Wolf's Dragoons]] seemingly out of nowhere, led to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">his </del>forced resignation from office a year later.<ref name=CS-49/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although he really had little personal responsibility for the affair, the failure was laid at the feet of Primus Rusenstein rather than on the actual sponsors of the plan, and severely damaged his position and authority. The Jolly Roger Affair, together with the unexpected appearance of the five regiments of pristine 'Mechs of [[Wolf's Dragoons]] seemingly out of nowhere, led to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Primus Rusenstein's </ins>forced resignation from office a year later.<ref name=CS-49/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Background==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Background==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[2997]] the [[LCAF]] high command requested a slowdown in their offensive against the Draconis Combine to rest their exhausted troops. Although [[Archon]] [[Alessandro Steiner]] refused, the military found ways to deliberately delay and bog down their own offensive through bureaucracy. At the same time across the border, the [[DCMS]] had lost their fighting spirit under [[Hohiro Kurita I|Hohiro Kurita]]'s excessively centralized control and increasing paranoia; save for the (failed) [[Twelfth Battle for Hesperus II|attack on Hesperus II]] in early [[3000]] the Kurita military preferred to concentrate their efforts on the [[Federated Suns]] instead.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[2997]] the [[LCAF]] high command requested a slowdown in their offensive against the Draconis Combine to rest their exhausted troops. Although [[Archon]] [[Alessandro Steiner]] refused, the military found ways to deliberately delay and bog down their own offensive through bureaucracy. At the same time across the border, the [[DCMS]] had lost their fighting spirit under [[Hohiro Kurita I|Hohiro Kurita]]'s excessively centralized control and increasing paranoia; save for the (failed) [[Twelfth Battle for Hesperus II|attack on Hesperus II]] in early [[3000]] the Kurita military preferred to concentrate their efforts on the [[Federated Suns]] instead.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref name=CS-49>''ComStar'', p. 49 "The Jolly Roger Affair"</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==The Jolly Roger Plan==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==The Jolly Roger Plan==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Always anxious to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Always anxious to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13>''Field Manual: ComStar'', p. 13 "The Com Guards - Bait and Switch"</ref> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>ComStar covertly provided renegade [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] with [[BattleMech]]s, [[Aerospace Fighter|Fighters]] and [[DropShip]]s and even went so far as to provide them with bases on lost Periphery worlds that had been rediscovered by the [[Explorer Corps]] years earlier; the existence of these worlds had been kept secret from the [[Successor States]]. No trace could ever be found linking any of the equipment, financial aid or information to ComStar.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>ComStar covertly provided renegade [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] with [[BattleMech]]s, [[Aerospace Fighter|Fighters]] and [[DropShip]]s and even went so far as to provide them with bases on lost Periphery worlds that had been rediscovered by the [[Explorer Corps]] years earlier; the existence of these worlds had been kept secret from the [[Successor States]]. No trace could ever be found linking any of the equipment, financial aid or information to ComStar.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plan went quite well initially. The pirates accepted the aid and equipment without asking too many questions about its origin or the intentions of their benefactors. Several new [[Bandit Kingdom]]s sprung up in short order. By spring of [[3002]] the Lyran Commonwealth repeatedly came under attack from Periphery bandits, and within half a year the same pirates struck against the Draconis Combine as well. The Commonwealth and Combine accused each other of having sponsored the pirate attacks and tensions flared up. Suspicious about each others motives and pressured by the raids, both governments moved entire regiments of key troops out to their Periphery borders.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plan went quite well initially. The pirates accepted the aid and equipment without asking too many questions about its origin or the intentions of their benefactors. Several new [[Bandit Kingdom]]s sprung up in short order. By spring of [[3002]] the Lyran Commonwealth repeatedly came under attack from Periphery bandits, and within half a year the same pirates struck against the Draconis Combine as well. The Commonwealth and Combine accused each other of having sponsored the pirate attacks and tensions flared up. Suspicious about each others motives and pressured by the raids, both governments moved entire regiments of key troops out to their Periphery borders.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Within ComStar, this was seen as a great success at covertly exercising power in the Periphery and manipulating the Successor States. In the light of the apparent success, Primus Rusenstein did not hesitate to accept the credit.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Within ComStar, this was seen as a great success at covertly exercising power in the Periphery and manipulating the Successor States. In the light of the apparent success, Primus Rusenstein did not hesitate to accept the credit.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Backlash and Termination==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Backlash and Termination==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[3004]] two of the Jolly Roger Bandit Kings, [[Jack McGirk|"Black" Jack McGirk]] and [[Darleen Dunson]], became lovers and joined forces. Between them, they fielded almost a regiment of BattleMechs and support forces, constituting an unusually strong force by Periphery standards which they used to conduct a series of lightning-fast raids along the Commonwealth/Periphery border. Following their example, other pirates also joined forces to gear up on choice targets.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[3004]] two of the Jolly Roger Bandit Kings, [[Jack McGirk|"Black" Jack McGirk]] and [[Darleen Dunson]], became lovers and joined forces. Between them, they fielded almost a regiment of BattleMechs and support forces, constituting an unusually strong force by Periphery standards which they used to conduct a series of lightning-fast raids along the Commonwealth/Periphery border. Following their example, other pirates also joined forces to gear up on choice targets.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Jolly Roger quickly spun out of control. On orders of the Primus, Precentor Kintero of the [[ComGuards|ComStar Guards and Militia]] tried to negotiate with the renegades to bring them back into line with ComStar's agenda. For reasons unknown the talks escalated to the point that Kintero's party had to fight their way out of the bandit's holdings. Darleen Dunson was killed in the process, and ComStar thereby earned the wrath of "Black" Jack McGirk who felt his former benefactors had betrayed him and was infuriated over the death of his lover. He laid waste to the [[HPG]] compounds on the worlds of [[Lost]] and [[Canal]], killing dozens of personnel in the rampage.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Jolly Roger quickly spun out of control. On orders of the Primus, Precentor Kintero of the [[ComGuards|ComStar Guards and Militia]] tried to negotiate with the renegades to bring them back into line with ComStar's agenda. For reasons unknown the talks escalated to the point that Kintero's party had to fight their way out of the bandit's holdings. Darleen Dunson was killed in the process, and ComStar thereby earned the wrath of "Black" Jack McGirk who felt his former benefactors had betrayed him and was infuriated over the death of his lover. He laid waste to the [[HPG]] compounds on the worlds of [[Lost]] and [[Canal]], killing dozens of personnel in the rampage.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While the Lyran suspicions were allayed with a cover story claiming that the HPGs had only suffered light damage from Periphery raiders, Primus Rusenstein ordered the [[1st Division (ComStar)|First Division of the ComStar Guards and Militia]] to exterminate the renegade pirates. This was achieved, but it cost ComStar dearly: McGirk's forces achieved a 2.3 to 1 kill ratio against the inexperienced ComStar Guards in a three-day battle on the isolated, unmapped world of [[Trisha]], some eight jumps into the Periphery, before being wiped out.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While the Lyran suspicions were allayed with a cover story claiming that the HPGs had only suffered light damage from Periphery raiders, Primus Rusenstein ordered the [[1st Division (ComStar)|First Division of the ComStar Guards and Militia]] to exterminate the renegade pirates. This was achieved, but it cost ComStar dearly: McGirk's forces achieved a 2.3 to 1 kill ratio against the inexperienced ComStar Guards in a three-day battle on the isolated, unmapped world of [[Trisha]], some eight jumps into the Periphery, before being wiped out.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref name=CS-49/> <ref name=FMCS-13/></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Aftermath==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Aftermath==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although he really had little personal responsibility for the affair, the failure was laid at the feet of Primus Rusenstein rather than on the actual sponsors of the plan, and severely damaged his position and authority. The Jolly Roger Affair, together with the unexpected appearance of the five regiments of pristine 'Mechs of [[Wolf's Dragoons]] seemingly out of nowhere, led to his forced resignation from office a year later.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although he really had little personal responsibility for the affair, the failure was laid at the feet of Primus Rusenstein rather than on the actual sponsors of the plan, and severely damaged his position and authority. The Jolly Roger Affair, together with the unexpected appearance of the five regiments of pristine 'Mechs of [[Wolf's Dragoons]] seemingly out of nowhere, led to his forced resignation from office a year later.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref name=CS-49/></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Always anxious to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Always anxious to maintain the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]] in the ongoing [[Third Succession War]], ComStar's [[First Circuit]] wanted to escalate the Kurita/Steiner fighting back to its previous levels. With only marginal endorsement of [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]] [[Allen Rusenstein]], the First Circuit ordered [[ROM]] in 3001 to enact a plan to supply pirate forces in the Periphery with combat equipment as well as financial and logistical aid to set up pirate operations in various isolated parts of the Periphery to stir up and escalate military conflict in the general area. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>ComStar covertly provided renegade [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] with [[BattleMech]]s, [[Aerospace Fighter|Fighters]] and [[DropShip]]s and even went so far as to provide them with bases on lost Periphery worlds that had been rediscovered by the [[Explorer Corps]] years earlier; the existence of these worlds had been kept <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">concealed </del>from the [[Successor States]]. No trace could ever be found linking any of the equipment, financial aid or information to ComStar.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>ComStar covertly provided renegade [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] with [[BattleMech]]s, [[Aerospace Fighter|Fighters]] and [[DropShip]]s and even went so far as to provide them with bases on lost Periphery worlds that had been rediscovered by the [[Explorer Corps]] years earlier; the existence of these worlds had been kept <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">secret </ins>from the [[Successor States]]. No trace could ever be found linking any of the equipment, financial aid or information to ComStar.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plan went quite well initially. The pirates accepted the aid and equipment without asking too many questions about its origin or the intentions of their benefactors. Several new [[Bandit Kingdom]]s sprung up in short order. By spring of [[3002]] the Lyran Commonwealth repeatedly came under attack from Periphery bandits, and within half a year the same pirates struck against the Draconis Combine as well. The Commonwealth and Combine accused each other of having sponsored the pirate attacks and tensions flared up. Suspicious about each others motives and pressured by the raids, both governments moved entire regiments of key troops out to their Periphery borders.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plan went quite well initially. The pirates accepted the aid and equipment without asking too many questions about its origin or the intentions of their benefactors. Several new [[Bandit Kingdom]]s sprung up in short order. By spring of [[3002]] the Lyran Commonwealth repeatedly came under attack from Periphery bandits, and within half a year the same pirates struck against the Draconis Combine as well. The Commonwealth and Combine accused each other of having sponsored the pirate attacks and tensions flared up. Suspicious about each others motives and pressured by the raids, both governments moved entire regiments of key troops out to their Periphery borders.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Neufeldhttps://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Jolly_Roger_Affair&diff=138127&oldid=prevCyc: /* Background */ pipe repoint2010-09-08T05:56:33Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Background: </span> pipe repoint</span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[2997]] the [[LCAF]] high command requested a slowdown in their offensive against the Draconis Combine to rest their exhausted troops. Although [[Archon]] [[Alessandro Steiner]] refused, the military found ways to deliberately delay and bog down their own offensive through bureaucracy. At the same time across the border, the [[DCMS]] had lost their fighting spirit under [[Hohiro Kurita I|Hohiro Kurita]]'s excessively centralized control and increasing paranoia; save for the (failed) [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">12th battle </del>for Hesperus II|attack on Hesperus II]] in early [[3000]] the Kurita military preferred to concentrate their efforts on the [[Federated Suns]] instead.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[2997]] the [[LCAF]] high command requested a slowdown in their offensive against the Draconis Combine to rest their exhausted troops. Although [[Archon]] [[Alessandro Steiner]] refused, the military found ways to deliberately delay and bog down their own offensive through bureaucracy. At the same time across the border, the [[DCMS]] had lost their fighting spirit under [[Hohiro Kurita I|Hohiro Kurita]]'s excessively centralized control and increasing paranoia; save for the (failed) [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Twelfth Battle </ins>for Hesperus II|attack on Hesperus II]] in early [[3000]] the Kurita military preferred to concentrate their efforts on the [[Federated Suns]] instead.</div></td></tr>
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