Bryceland Engulfed: How the Jihad, Black Dragons and the DMI almost destroyed us all.
By Phillip G. Kens for the Bryceland Daily Chronicle
October 21, 3089
Background:
The Jihad: A time of rage, fury, death and chaos. Its battles were many–and fought on many worlds: from Terra, the cradle of humanity, to the farthest reaches of the known universe. While most of the battles are well known, a great many more are merely blips in the colloquial history books. While others have been deliberately buried and hidden from view under meters of red tape…and blood.
The Black Dragon Society’s (or, Kokuryu-kai in their native Japanese) attack on the Davion world of Bryceland on June 4, 3075 is common knowledge–indeed the courage and sacrifice of the defenders is still heralded proudly in the Draconis March. Bryceland was world which held stockpiles of mothballed ‘mechs and other military equipment as well as a fairly large ‘mech repair and refit yard. Bryceland also held a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons, weapons that had they fallen into the Black Dragon’s hands could have changed the course of events on the Draconis Combine, and indeed the entire Jihad.
But how did the Black Dragons know what was there? The facilities and storehouses were a well kept secret and only a few within the Draconis March Command even knew of the facilities. And the raid conducted by the Black Dragons was a well executed operation–they knew exactly where to go.
The answer, it seems, has finally come to light…
After over 2 years of research, hundreds of interviews, dozens of ‘Right to Information” (RiTI) requests and more than a few death threats later, the pieces of the puzzle have started to come together…
And so it begins…:
A year before the Black Dragon attack on Bryceland, some point in mid-3074, the Department of Military Intelligence (DMI) discovered that elements of the Black Dragon Society was up to something on Niles, a jump away in the Draconis Combine, information that made elements of the command very, very nervous. Just how nervous? Well, rumor has it was non-other than a special strike team from the mythical “Rabid Foxes” that was sent to investigate.
MI-6 or the “Rabid Foxes” is a unit so shrouded in secrecy that the Davion government still denies their very existence. Make no mistake, they DO exist and they are just as capable as the more (in)famous elites from around the ‘sphere: Loki, DEST and the Death Commandos. Indeed, the fact that they are kept such a secret makes them all the more formidable.
Sent to Niles sometime in Late October to investigate whatever was keeping the DMI up at night, the “Foxes” encountered far more then even they were prepared for…
