Comstar/House Lords Interlude 3016
Davion Palace, New Avalon
"You have a message for me?" Ian asked Colonel Peterson the CO of the first Marksman RCT.
"Yes sir." Peterson replied, "I was told to hand deliver this Pad to you personally." Peterson inhaled. "Hull recommends you wait to open it until Hanse is in the same room as you." Peterson then waited until he was dismissed before leaving.
Ian picked up his phone to call directly to his brother's room and waited for him to answer. "Yeah, Hull sent us a message. No I haven't opened it yet, he wanted you here before I read/saw it."
While Ian waited for this brother to arrive, he settled down and did some paperwork. They were still rebuilding some of the units with Hardware from the Helm cache and some things needed to be signed off on and reviewed.
"You ready to watch this?" Ian asked as he waved the small disc in his hand at his brother. "Because He was just here a little while ago, what trouble has he gotten into that required a specialized courier?"
"Let's find out." Hanse took the data disc and put it into a Tri-Vid viewer.
"Hello, is this thing on?" A vid of Hull appeared. "We good?" He nodded at the camera. "Okay, so I decided to do a raid on a Comstar facility using a Warship that I had hidden from you." Hull said flat out. "We've got actionable intelligence, and are going to hopefully be pulling several intact Warships that need minor repairs out of Comstars hands and into ours. There are two facilities, and I'll be hitting one of them. Upon my return, I'm going to be repairing them and sending a good portion of them over to New Avalon. I hope to be back by June, wish me luck!"
"That son of a bitch." Hanse said as he stood up. "I'm gonna kill him."
"Why?" Ian asked.
"Because he didn't take me with him," Hanse said.
The Triad, Tharkad
"Melissa, I'm going to need you to calm down a bit." Katrina told her daughter. "David won't be here for another couple of weeks."
"But he's the same age as Elsa!" Melissa squealed, "We're going to be the best of friends." She laughed a little maniacally.
Katrina just facepalmed at her daughter's dramatic behavior before picking up her third child to rock him to sleep.
"Archon," Simon Johnson entered the room. "Is this a bad time?"
"No, just let me get some things done here and I'll join you in a bit."
"We've finally pinned Duncan down to one planet." Anton Marik observed to his brother Janos. "We're just going to have to finish off two regiments of radical elite forces."
"I am aware of this." Janos glared at his brother. "We shouldn't have let it get this far in the first place. The Steiners are probing us, and the Andurians are carving chunks off of the Capellan Confederation while we are here fighting each other."
"We're going to have to do this quickly if we want to bring the Andurians to heel." Anton said. "We've already taken too long to whittle their forces down to this state."
"I'm moving my personal forces to Procyon in order to assist in taking out Duncan." Janos said. "Remind them to be mindful of the forest." Anton said. "There's an extreme risk of a forest fire if Duncan's forces decide to do so."
"That's a chance we'll have to take." Janos said. "If the war goes on for much longer we may split into separate nation states once again."
Sian, Capellan Confederation
"Why is she not dead yet?!" Maximillion Liao screamed at the current head of MASK. "I told you I wanted her head delivered to me." Max drew his sword and decapitated him.
"That's the third one this week." Candace muttered to herself below her breath. "Maybe I shouldn't have set Romano up."
"Father." Cancade announced. "I request the ability to move to St. Ives, and begin to recover some of our forces"
"No." Max looked at her with madness in his eyes. "You will remain here, I have need of you, seeing as these incompetents cannot accomplish a task as simple as killing she who has no name."
Luthien
"Director Indrahar," Takeshi Kurita greeted. "Walk with me my old friend, we have much to discuss."
"Of course Coordinator." Indrahar replied. "As the Dragon commands."
"Why is it that I find the ISF revealing itself to the Davions in a wasted assassination attempt?" There was a shar edge to the Coordinator's voice. "When the Dragon has ordered no such thing to be done."
"Coordinator, any assassination attempts were not authorized by myself or any of my immediate subordinates." Indrahar promised. "I believe that others have obtained some of the command codes that we use to activate cells such as the ones on Robinson."
"Then they are traitors." Takeshi said with finality. "Find them, and bring them to me. I wish to see them dead at my feet."
Hilton Head Island, Terra
"Sir, there's nothing here." The captain of the CSV Bordeaux reported to Primus Tiepolo. "There's some debris, but there's no station, and none of our Warships are here."
"Primus!" One of the adepts nearby said. "Are you there?"
Tiepolo grabbed his chest in agony, his face scrunching up as he struggled to gasp for breath and lost his footing, falling to the floor.
"Primus!" The adept said once more before turning to another Adept as she began CPR. "Get a med team in here, I think the Primus is suffering from Cardiac arrest."
The entire team of people in the room scrambled to find something that they could do to help, with one of the other CPR certified Acolytes rotating out with the Adept.
"Come on! I've still got a pulse and breathing, but I'm not sure how much longer he has." The Adept yelled.
The med team arrived a couple of minutes later. Loading the Primus up on a stretcher and taking him away to get medical treatment.
"I regret to inform the First Circuit of this." Precentor Rom, Vesar Kristofur started their meeting. "But Primus Tiepolo suffered from a heart attack yesterday and we did not manage to get him to the hospital in time to save him." He sighed deeply. "I would like to ask that we have a short period of mourning in order to announce his death to the Inner Sphere before electing a new Primus."