OOC: Looking at the (end) Classic era 3080 AD, my two cents is that "Terra" is a metaphor now, and the Way of the Clans, is the key now, developing and enriching base Clan Society, centering around new permanent "dominions" in the Inner Sphere, not merely a "Occupation Zone" (more like, for the Falcons to fully move in, so to speak) keep the Eugenics Programme in its entirety, but also integrate conquered worlds populations to be contributing to society, just do not change the government like the bears, then anything Clan, slowing starts to get diluted and will wither away
I'm not sure how the OZ is referred to in the fiction in 3080, but the CGL field manuals and era digests and era reports still refer to the Jade Falcon corridor as an "occupation zone." I'm not sure the Falcons ever gave up on the idea of Operation Revival. Practical things put active invasion on hold, of course, but I think Falcons are the best at being pragmatic in the short term without ultimately losing sight of their greater ideological vision in the long term.
You know, the more I read about Malvina the more I am coming to change my view of her. I am starting to believe that she actually epitomizes the true Way of the Clans. Lets think about it:
1) The true purpose of Operation Revival and the Crusader doctrine isn't "reintegrating into Inner Sphere life." If that were true, then the Great Father Kerensky would have made a mistake leaving the Inner Sphere in the first place (which is impossible).
2) Aleksandr Kerensky's vision was to return when the Inner Sphere had grown tired of its immature wars of petty politics and factionalism and was in need of a grand, ideological program for social unity and progress. Kerensky wanted to keep the pure, simple idea of the Star League intact (that humanity prospers when we overcome our differences), so that someone could reintroduce it when the time was right. Kerensky did not trust politics and knew that the military could never be allowed to be subservient to the machinations of politicians interested only in advancing their petty agendas (something which led to perpetual conflict, destruction and societal regression).
3) After the Exodus Civil War, Nicholas Kerensky developed his father's vision of a scientific, progressive society. He broke the back of factionalism by removing the hurdles of nationality, race and culture. Nicholas knew factionalism was irrational and only supported the schemes of the politicians who could exploit it for power and wealth. To dismantle this, he divided all of the resources in his socialist utopia among Clans (non-ethnic or nationalist "teams" that resolved differences through ritualised games of combat and competition). These rituals allowed the struggling exiles to avoid wasting resources, matériel and lives when making decisions and resolving disputes. And the Clans weren't natural groups of belonging... you were born into a Clan, but you might be captured and reintegrated into another Clan as Abtakha just as easily (thus curbing the human tendency towards tribalism). Nicholas knew that humanity always devolved into communities of difference, and so he filtered that tendency through the highly ritualised and fluid bondaries of Clan culture, thus ablating the most divisive and destructive excesses inherent in the unresolvable sociological problem of difference.
Malvina is admittedly a bit crazy, but her doctrine largely doesn't contradict these essential ideas. For Kerensky, society should be ruled by military commanders, whose approach to governance is more administrative than executive or autocratic. Military commanders are simply civil servants, on the payroll like everyone else, who are not subject to corruption and autocratic impulses because (unlike politicians) they have nothing to gain from this. Power is spread out, just as resources are, among the large branches of military staff, and a system is in place to rise within the ranks.
And military leaders best know the costs of war. Sure, Malvina has committed an atrocity or two, but can we really say that the Periphery or the Rim Worlds Republic viewed General Kerensky any differently when he brutally suppressed rebellions there? In fact, her doctrine goes to the very heart of the Remembrance... if we think of Elizabeth Hazen at the DeChavilier Massacre, Falcons are taught that we must win at any cost when survival itself is at stake.
Looking at the corruption of the other Clans who have lost their vision and their Way, the Falcons alone recognize that the success of the Crusade is itself a matter of survival or extinction. Either Kerensky was right or he was wrong, and since we know the latter is impossible, then there is only one thing left to do.
There is a minor point to be made about how Malvina has abandoned Zellbringen and bidding etc. These practices were developed in a time of great scarcity during the Exodus. They are not a central aspect of Clan creed... rather, they were historically necessary to survive in the brutal conditions of the Pentagon Worlds and the Kerensky Cluster. Sure, dropping an entire Warship on her opponents is "wasteful," but with the manufacturing centers and resources of the Occupation Zone, these aspects of the Clan vision are less important. The main objective of Clan society is to establish a progressive, scientifically-planned society that banishes factionalism, nationalism and politics so that humanity can once again progress as one in a new Golden Era. This core principle remains unchanged under Malvina's doctrine.
tl;dr: So, basically, Falcon harder. I said HARDER!