Minnesota Tribe

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Overview

In 2825, a strange unit using SLDF tactics and bearing the insignia of North American state of Minnesota attacked several Draconis Combine worlds, the first of which was Svelvik. The army unit refused to communicate with the Draconis Combine militia, took what they wanted, and left the system.

They next attacked Trondheim, where the 20th Rasalhague Regulars were stationed. They defeated the regular unit, again refusing communication, even to the extreme of committing suicide before they could be captured. This scared Coordinator Jinjiro Kurita, because he believed that they could be an advance unit for the return of the Kerensky's troops, so he shifted troops to the Periphery borders of both his Pesht and Rasalhague Military Districts. This possibility also caused trepidation for Primus of ComStar Conrad Toyama, who feared ComStar's desired role as technological savior of the Inner Sphere would be undone, ordering ROM to shadow and attempt to discover the origins of the unknown unit. Led by Precentor Emilio Travis and equipped with a small volume of 'Mechs and AeroSpace Fighters from the Blessed Order's SLDF stockpiles as a precaution, ROM dispatched a fleet of JumpShips to search for any trace of the unit or its likely direction of travel.

The army unit, which had now been labeled the "Minnesota Tribe," attacked Jarett, this time using massed AeroSpace Fighters to keep the Draconis Combine BattleMechs out of the fight. The Tribe attacked for the last time on the planet Richmond, though it is unclear whether they knew about the jail that housed political prisoners before they freed them. The Tribe loaded the freed prisoners up in their DropShips and left, never making their presence known in the Inner Sphere again. ComStar continued to track the Tribe as it traveled in the Deep Periphery towards the Federated Suns, only to lose the trail near Valentina.

Though not realized until centuries later in the wake of the Clan Invasion, based on their use of combat tactics and equipment similar to the SLDF and coincidental timing of the Tribe's appearance in the very year of Clan Wolverine's Trial of Annihilation, many would openly suspect that the Minnesota Tribe were the unaccounted survivors of the Wolverines who escaped the Clan Homeworlds. The case was only reinforced after ComStar's public unveiling of much of its history in the wake of the Schism with the publication of a curious report penned by Emilio Travis on the clothing worn by a Minnesota Tribe MechWarrior killed in the fighting on Richmond. Piloting a pristine Lancelot, the warrior was clad in a more advanced version of the SLDF's full body coolant suits which displayed two patches, the Minnesota tribe's insignia with the numbers "331" stitched on it, appearing to be a revised version of the insignia of the 331st Royal BattleMech Division, and the other of a white Terran Wolverine with bloodied fangs.

References

• House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 64

Bibliography

• ComStar
• Field Manual: ComStar
• House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)
• Wolf Clan Sourcebook
• The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky

See Also

• Vandenberg White Wings
• Disappearing Battleship of Merope