The following is a historical account of the Clan Jade Falcon's battle lineage while engaged in the invasion of the Inner Sphere as retold by Jade Falcon LoreMasters.
Clan Jade Falcon began their invasion of the Inner Sphere on 20 March 3050 by launching simultaneous attacks against ten Federated Commonwealth worlds.
Alkalurops
March 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Third Falcon Talon Cluster
(Jade Falcon Galaxy), Gyrfalcon Galaxy
Defending Forces: Alkalurops Militia, the Bouncer Regiment
(Merc.)
Major Battle Sites: Dravinna Vale, Benden City
Outcome: With a fast and furious assault, Star Colonel
Arien Hazen succeeded in seizing the capital and economic centers
of the planet. Many of the defending forces, though, including
a large contingent from the Bouncer mercenary regiment, were never
captured. Just days after the planet's surrender, these forces
formed organized and effective resistance, attacking the invaders
near the ore-processing factories of Dravinna Vale, using the
valley's perpetual fog to cover their activities.
Anywhere
March 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Eighth Falcon Regulars (Peregrine
Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Second New Ivaarsen Chasseurs, the Anywhere
Militia
Major Battle Sites: Pickrock Hill, Brigham Rollo, Santina
Trespass
Outcome: The Second New Ivaarsen Chasseurs, the ducal forces
of the Stephensons of the Draconis March, arrived on Anywhere
shortly before the Clan assault, and so were unfamiliar with the
planet's terrain. The Golden Talons attacked so quickly that they
caught the Chasseurs unprepared and forced them to commit several
costly mistakes, culminating in the loss of more than 60 percent
of their forces in the Brigham Rollo.
Barcelona
March 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Ninth Talon Cluster (Jade
Falcon Galaxy, Third Falcon Talon Cluster (Jade Falcon Guards
(Reserve))
Defending Forces: Seventeenth Skye RCT, the Barcelona Militia
Major Battle Sites: Mariah's Pinnacle, Su Filla, Vacuum
Ridge
Outcome: The elite Skye RCT, nicknamed the "Boys of
Summer," defended Barcelona and its vital industrial complexes.
The Jade Falcon invasion took them by surprise, but the Seventeenth
Skye recovered quickly, counterattacking with such ferocity that
they halted the Falcon advance. Star Colonel Devon Hazen was forced
to swallow his pride and call in the Falcon Guards, who dislodged
the Boys of Summer from their defensive positions around the capital.
The Skye commander, Leftenant Mitchell Simons, then requested JumpShips from Area Commander Hauptmann General Frances Bissell to evacuate his forces. Bissell denied Simons' request, but an insubordinate JumpShip commander flouted Bissell's order and evacuated a handful of the RCT to Somerset. Federation of Skye separatists later claimed that Bissell deliberately denied the Skye Rangers transportation because of the Rangers' loyalty to the Skye people.
Bone Norman
March 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Turkina Keshik, Eighth Falcon
Regulars (Peregrine Galaxy)
Defending Forces: First Grave Walkers (Merc.), Bone Norman
Militia
Major Battle Sites: Red Stone Palace
Outcome: Bone Norman's defenders received ample warning
of the enemy's advance via a test run of an FCCS surveillance
satellite network that coincided with the Falcon's approach. Colonel
Dennis Merwin, commander of the Grave Walkers, read the small
number of approaching Clan DropShips as a sign of weakness and
attacked the Falcons as they dropped onto the plain below the
Red Stone Palace. The Grave Walkers initially beat back the invaders,
but as Falcon reinforcements arrived, the momentum of the battle
swung in favor of the attackers. Warned of the enemy's strength,
the planetary militia scattered and begun guerrilla action. Bone
Norman continues to be a hotbed of armed resistance to the Clans.
Here
March 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Turkina Keshik, Third Falcon
Talon Cluster (Jade Falcon Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Eighth Arcturan Guards RCT, Here Militia
Major Battle Sites: Cameron Valley, Connor Pass
Outcome: The elite Turkina Keshik and the Third Falcon
Talons used their greater battle experience to offset the Eighth
Arcturans' numerical advantage. Fighting street to street through
the deserted Cameron City, the Falcons rolled back all of the
defenders' attempts to slow them. The Eighth Arcturans collapsed
twenty hours into the campaign when the Falcons pierced the hastily
erected defences around the capital city of Struggle and killed
Hauptmann General Frederic Anderson. The survivors of the RCT
retreated to planet Somerset, while the remnants of the militia
fled into the planet's catacombs to organize guerrilla resistance.
Persistence
March 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Fourth Falcon Talon Cluster
(less Trinary Bravo)(Peregrine Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Persistence Militia, Persistence Inc.
Security Force
Major Battle Sites: Jestin Ridge, Danderson City
Outcome: While ill-equipped to protect themselves against
the onslaught of a Clan Cluster, the defenders of Persistence
lived up to their homeworld's name. Nichole Danderson, charismatic
president of the planet's congress and CEO of Persistence Munitions,
Inc. led her personal security force to a near-impossible victory
over the Fourth Talon at Jestin Ridge overlooking Danderson City.
The victory was only temporary, however. The Falcons regrouped,
flanked the defenders, and took the city, but most of the militia
fled into the surrounding hills.
Steelton
April 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Eighth Falcon Regulars (Peregrine
Galaxy), Twelfth Falcon Regulars Cluster (Jade Falcon Galaxy)
Defending Forces: First Regiment of the Twelfth Star Guards,
Steelton Defence Brigade
Major Battle Sites: Knuteson's Drabbins, Chosin, Red Stain Rock
Outcome: Clan Codex records identified Colonel Francis
"Crab" Carranza, commander of Steelton's defences, as
a relative of an honoured warrior who had joined the Exodus and
died in combat defending the Kerenskys. The Falcons honoured Colonel
Carranza by challenging him according to the rules of the batchall.
Carranza falsely claimed that he commanded a brigade of crack
'Mech troops. In response, Galaxy Commander Angeline Mattlov reluctantly
added the Twelfth Falcon Regulars forces to her own Eighth Falcon
Regulars to invade Steelton. The Falcon invasion targeted Cregan
Bluff, the planet's capital, and the Lear Mountain mine works
to the south of the city. Anticipating an attack from Colonel
Carranza's non-existent 'Mech brigade, the Falcons advanced slowly.
The two Clusters did not cooperate, and seemed as interested in
hindering each other's progress as in attacking the enemy. "Crab"
Carranza's deception finally failed when the Twelfth Falcon Regular's
heavy 'Mechs overran his second battalion at the town of Chosin.
The Twelfth Star Guards managed to hold a perimeter around Red
Stain Rock long enough for nearly a battalion of their unit and
a regiment of the local militia to evacuate to the planet Wotan,
but the Twelfth could not prevent their gallant Colonel's death.
Toland
March 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Turkina Keshik, Ninth Talon
Cluster
Defending Forces: Second Regiment of the Twelfth Star Guards,
Toland Defence Force (three mixed regiments)
Major Battle Sites: Judea Jungles, Cantor Climb, Toland
City
Outcome: The Turkina's heavy 'Mechs, complemented by the
light 'Mechs of the Ninth Talon, virtually annihilated Colonel
Franklin Pierce Marinetti's Twelfth Star Guards 'Mech regiment.
The Falcons forced the Star Guards out of the dark hollows of
the Judea Jungle and chased them onto the exposed barrens of the
Cantor Climb, where Falcon fighters strafed them and swift Falcon
units continued to sap their remaining strength in lightning raids.
Less than a company of Star Guards reached the defence works of
Toland City, most of those survivors died in the final battle
a day later.
Winfield
March 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Fifth Battle Cluster (Gyrfalcon
Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Winfield's Regiment, Winfield Militia
Brigade
Major Battle Sites: None
Outcome: Insufficient Clan intelligence reports and Jade
Falcon arrogance made the planet Winfield the Falcons' most difficult
conquest. The elite 'Mechs of Winfield's Regiment surrounded the
Fifth Battle Cluster, almost overrunning the Gyrfalcon landing
zones. Star Colonel Evak Mattlov breached the ring of Winfield
'Mechs with teams of Elementals whose fierce fighting, speed,
and strength broke the defenders' lines. Before make an orderly
retreat off-planet, Winfield's Regiment organized the planet's
militia to wage a guerrilla campaign.
All excerpts to this point are taken from the BattleTech Clan Jade Falcon Sourcebook and The Falcon and the Wolf Scenario Pack. All material in this document is Copyright© FASA Corporation and is used without permission.
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