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.
Alyina
July 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Turkina Keshik, First
Falcon Striker, First Falcon Velites (Gyrfalcon Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Tenth Lyran Guards RCT
Major Battle Sites: Mar Negro
Outcome: The Tenth Lyran Guards RCT detected the approaching Jade Falcon DropShips
early and made preparations for the assault. The Guards met the Turkina and First Falcon
Striker at Mar Negro, overlooking the ocean. The Tenth held their own against severe pressure
until the First Falcon Velites arrived to reinforce Clan Jade Falcon. Heavily outgunned, the
Tenth Lyran disengaged. Victor Steiner-Davion and his battalion fought a delaying action to
buy the Tenth Lyran Guards time to evacuate to their DropShips. Aware to the identity of their
opponent, the Falcons tried to capture Victor, knowing that the loss of their Prince would
devastate Federated Commonwealth morale. Victor escaped the Jade Falcon trap, but lost his best
friend and fellow officer Kai Allard-Liao, who is listed as missing in action, presumed killed.
Antares
July 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Gyrfalcon Galaxy
Defending Forces: Antares Militia
Major Battle Sites: Antares City, Alba
Outcome: Of minor strategic importance to the Federated Commonwealth, the world of
Antares was lightly defended only by a militia battalion and a series of fortifications
constructed by the locals. Clan Jade Falcon's Star League records named Antares as the site
of an SLDF replenishment and resupply base, and so the Falcon Khans ordered the base taken at
all costs. Gyrfalcon Galaxy landed on Antares with heavy aerospace support and destroyed the
planetary militia's fighters on the ground. Antares City fell quickly, despite the militia's
valiant efforts. The town of Alba proved harder to take.
Unknown to its inhabitants, Alba was situated almost on top of the old Star League base. Because Alba contained the planets largest water purification plant, the battle there was among the bloodiest of the fourth wave. The Falcons, initially reluctant to risk damaging the water purifier by using massed airstrikes, suffered severe casualties, especially the Second Falcon Jaegers. When Khan Crichell's logistics officer informed him that JumpShips could deliver a water purifier from Clan space in two and a half months, Crichell ordered the fighters to bomb the town flat. The stunned survivors watched Jade Falcon engineeres unearth the huge Star League base beneath their town. The Star League-era supplies and the base facility made Antares a valuable prize. When ilKhan Ulric Kerensky forced Clan Jade Falcon to share control of Antares with Clan Steel Viper, he precipitated a brutal series of Trials of Possession for the base which increased the Falcons hatred for their fellow Clan.
Apolakkia
July 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Peregrine Galaxy
Defending Forces: Apolakkia Militia
Major Battle Sites: None
Outcome: The Apolakkia Militia engaged Peregrine Galaxy as it advanced on the
planetary capital, prepared to disappear into the forests as soon as defeat became imminent.
Few survivors escaped the devastated militia to wage guerilla actions from the forests, and
Peregrine Galaxy secured the world for the PGC's within twenty-four hours.
Baker 3
August 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Turkina Keshik
Defending Forces: Baker's Militia
Major Battle Sites: None
Outcome: Because his combined-arms battalion stood at less than full strength, Colonel
Matthew Anders defended his world by setting traps and ambushes. His forces destroyed a few
OmniMechs and three Elemental Points using this tactic, but the militia's "dishonourable"
strategy drove the warriors of the Turkina Keshik to hunt them down and kill every militia
member they could find. Colonel Anders died in his command bunker when two Points of flamer-
equipped Elementals slipped past the militia lines and destroyed the HQ.
Blackjack
August 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Gyrfalcon Galaxy
Defending Forces: Blackjack Training Battalion
Major Battle Sites: None
Outcome: Kommandant Dean Bristow's Blackjack Training Battalion did not expect their
first combat experience to be fighting Clan Jade Falcon. The outgunned and inexperienced
battalion impressed the Clan warriors by fighting bravely and honourably. Despite suffering
an 80 percent casualty rate, they mauled the Second Falcon Jaegers, and a Cadet Mark Harris
defeated a Clan OmniMech in an impromptu Trial of Possession for the cadet's family home.
The Jade Falcons allowed the battalion to evacuate the planet, though they took some cadets
as bondsmen. Many Jade Falcon warriors considered these cadets the most honourable foes the
Clans had met in the Inner Sphere, as one Star Colonel later said that the Inner Sphere cadets
had passed their Trial of Position. Three months after the battle at Tukayyid, Cadet Mark
Harris waas positively identified as a Star Commander in Gyrfalcon Galaxy. Clan Steel Viper
later occupied the planet, and their first act was to raze the Blackjack School of Conflict.
Colmar
August 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Seventh Falcon Talon (Iota Galaxy)
Defending Forces: 25th Arcturan Guards RCT (75 percent strength)
Major Battle Sites: Colmar Plains, Hell's Kitchen, Colmar Space
Outcome: The 25th Arcturan Guards arrived on Colmar already tired from heavy fighting
in the Clan Wolf invasion corridor to meet the Seventh Falcon Talon, a second-line Cluster
fresh from garrison duty. The Jade Falcon Khans decided that in order to catch up to Clan
Wolf's rate of conquest, they would bring second-line forces to the front and risk losing a
battle or two. The Seventh defeated the 25th Arcturan Guards, but their fighter pilots
bungled a deep-space interception that would have annihilated the surviving enemy force.
The Seventh's overall performance pleased the Khans.
Denizli
August 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: First Falcon Velites (Gyrfalcon Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Demon Company (Merc.), Denizli Militia
Major Battle Sites: None
Outcome: Following a short battle at the space port, the Demon Company abondoned their
defensive positions and withdrew into the planet's wilderness. Jade Falcon fighters promptly
bombed the mercenary company's main supply depot, preventing the Demons from waging an effective
guerrilla campaign. When he realized there was no more point in continuing to fight, the
Demons' commander tried to bribe his way into Clan Jade Falcon and was shot to death by an
Elemental for his efforts. The Falcons turned the soldiers of the Demon Company over to the
local authorities for justice.
Devin
August 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: First Falcon Striker (Gyrfalcon Galaxy)
Defending Forces: First and Second Devin Armoured Battalions
Major Battle Sites: The Boneyard
Outcome: The First and Second Devin Armoured attempted to hold off the First Falcon
Striker at the Boneyard, the crash site of an old SLDF Texas Class Battleship
destroyed by Stefan Amaris' navy. The crash produced huge craters and mountains of wreckage,
and the planet used the area as a giant salvage yard, eventually accumulating a mass of metal
that rivaled Ishiyama Arena on Solaris VII. The piles of metal slowed the fighting and
rendered radar and magnetic-anomaly detection devices worthless. 'Mechs and tanks often
discovered each other at pointblank range. The Jaegers managed to wipe out both armoured
battalions, but at the cost of two Stars of OmniMechs.
Dompaire
August 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: 305th Assault Cluster (Gyrfalcon Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Dompaire Armoured Cavalry (one battalion)
Major Battle Sites: Dompaire Central
Outcome: The 305th Assault Cluster made a bold landing almost on top of Dompaire
Central, the planetary capital. Unprepared for the Jade Falcon assault, the planetary defence
rallied for a brief counterattack, but the force's old tanks and 'Mechs malfunctioned and
broke down under battle stress. The 305th Assault Cluster secured the world by the end of the
second day, though terrorist bombings and guerrilla attacks still occur.
Goat Path
August 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: First Falcon Striker (Gyrfalcon Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Goat Path Militia
Major Battle Sites: None
Outcome: Clan Jade Falcon chose Goat Path as one of its targets because the planetary
administrators allegedly maintained connections to an organized crime family named Malthus. The
Bloodname of Malthus announced their intention to burn Goat Path to ash if they found any
relationship between the Clan Bloodname Malthus and the criminal organization. Fortunately for
the people of Goat Path, the Clan's information was incorrect, and the Jade Falcons changed their
mission from destruction to conquest. The First Falcon Striker landed on the planet and
easily took the space port and capital city. The planet surrendered soon afterward.
Graus
September 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Fourth Falcon Velites (Peregrine Galaxy)
Defending Forces: None
Major Battle Sites: None
Outcome: The Lyran Commonwealth planet Graus, home to a pacifist movement in for
several decades, offered the Fourth Falcon Velites no resistance when they arrived to take
the planet. When the planetary council responded to the Falcon batchall by stating that no
forces defended the world, the Jade Falcons assumed they were attempting to deceive the Clan.
They discovered that the council had spoken the truth upon landing. Graus assimilated into
Falcon society almost effortlessly, though it is unlikely that the planet will ever produce
any members of the warrior caste.
Leskovik
September 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Second Falcon Jaegers (Gyrfalcon Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Leskovik Militia
Major Battle Sites: Leskovik Refinery
Outcome: The Leskovik Militia lured Alpha Trinary of the Second Falcon Jaegers into the
massive Leskovik Refinery. During the battle, a hugh tank of liquid natural gas exploded,
consuming invader and defender alike in the firestorm. Subsequent investigation proved that
the explosion was accidental, not the result of sabotage or battle damage. Leskovik Refinery
remained a ruin, a monument commemorating the brave warriors struck down by fire.
Parakoila
September-October 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Gyrfalcon Galaxy
Defending Forces: Parakoila 'Mech Battalion
Major Battle Sites: Forty-Niner Mine, Mainstrike
Outcome: Parakoila, a primary source of gold and heavy metals for the Commonwealth,
hosted one of the longest battles of the fourth wave of the invasion. The defending 'Mechs
converted several of the mines into defensive installations backed by miles of tunnels, rivaling
the fortified structure of a Castle Brian. The Jade Falcon Khans wanted the mines intact.
Because Gyrfalcon Galaxy could not use planetary bombardment, it was forced to root out the
Inner Sphere 'Mechs tunnel by tunnel. They accomplished this task in just over six weeks, the
longest time required to conquer any Inner Sphere world. Even after Tukayyid, the Clan Steel
Viper garrison on Parakoila occasionally reports 'Mechs emerging from the miles of tunnels to
raid Viper supply depots and patrols.
Sudeten
September-October 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Turkina Keshik, 124th Striker Cluster (Peregrine Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Gray Death Legion, Sudeten Militia
Major Battle Sites: Sudeten Space Port
Outcome: The Gray Death Legion, one of the best mercenary units in the Inner Sphere,
defended Sudeten by fighting a series of delaying actions to maul the 124th Striker Cluster.
The Legion escaped off-planet after the Sudeten Militia's 'Mech company sacraficed itself to
hold the Falcons off long enough for the mercenaries to board their DropShips.
Twycross, Phase II
September 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Falcon Guards, Jade Falcon Eyrie Cluster (Jade Falcon Galaxy)
Defending Forces: Tenth Lyran Guards RCT ('Mechs), Ninth Federated Commonwealth RCT,
Kell Hounds First and Second Battalions
Major Battle Sites: Plain of Curtains, Great Gash
Outcome: Please refer to BattleTech 1653 "The Battle for Twycross." This 3050 Scenario
Pack goes into great detail on this battle as it is the cause for the second greatest defeat
suffered by the Clans.
Zoetermeer
September-October 3050
Clan Jade Falcon Forces: Emerald Talon Naval Assault Star
Defending Forces: Tenth Donegal Guards RCT (25 percent strength), Able Battalion,
Third Regiment, Twelfth Star Guards (from Clan Wolf Occupation Zone)
Major Battle Sites: None
Outcome: The gutted Tenth Donegal RCT and the Twelfth Star Guards' Third Regiment made
a brave stand on Zoetermeer. Apparently possessing nothing the Clans would want, Zoetermeer
came under attack for reasons still unknown to the Inner Sphere, though some people suggest
a naval depot is hidden somewhere in the system. Khan Chistu ordered the Emerald Talon
Assault Star to take the world without resorting to an orbital bombardment, a tactic the Clans
abondoned in the wake of Clan Smoke Jaguar's destruction of Turtle Bay in retaliation for that
planet's continued resistence. The Khan used the Emerald Talon mainly because he
could spare no troops for the assault. Star Admiral Adrian Malthus positioned his ships above
the capital city of Hohenzollern and bluffed the planetary forces into surrender by threatening
the orbital bombardment he was barred from unleashing.
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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