Mission: Corporate Ties
Location: Donegal, Lyran Alliance
Optional Bonuses: None
Outcome: Total Victory
Payment: 56,000,000 C-bills
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AFTERMATHAfter Action Report 89-1-CSThe fight for Donegal was incredibly brutal. We didn’t expect the Word to be so firmly entrenched…and we underestimated the sheer power and will of their Manei Domini troops, as they’re called. While the intel we’ve gained here is invaluable, if this type of victory is going to be the norm, then we’re in for several more years of hard, system-to-system fighting.
This war has only just begun, it seems.
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ST. VALENTINE’S DAY VICTORY[Scene opens on a man dressed in MechWarrior togs. He is short and obviously middle-aged, but his khaki shorts reveal heavily muscled legs. When he reaches the ground and turns, the viewer sees that his eyes are an alert blue. He wears a look of grim determination, on one of the most recognizable faces in the Inner Sphere: The face of Victor Steiner-Davion. Camera pans to an overweight man in his fifties with a pockmarked face. He wears military fatigues and press credentials clipped to a shirt pocket.][Russo]: “This is Joseph Russo. I’m here talking with Precentor Martial Victor Steiner-Davion about the liberation of Donegal. Sir, can you tell us how it was accomplished?”
[Steiner-Davion]: “This was a coalition victory. Without the joint strength of ComStar, the LAAF and the Wolf-in-Exile forces, we would not have prevailed.”
[The picture switches to combat footage of a ghost-white Toyama
battling a ghost-white Crab
. Russo’s and Steiner-Davion’s voices can be heard over the clip.][Russo]: “So you cobbled together enough forces to defeat the Blakists.”
[Steiner-Davion]: “I would say, rather, that we could only defeat the Blakists by working together.”
[The screen shows a Mad Dog
A painted in the red-brown and gray of Clan Wolf, tearing into the Toyama
with its LB 5-X followed by a flight of SRMs. The Clanners’ attack gives the wounded Crab
time to withdraw.][Russo]: “You place a lot of importance on the fact that this was a joint operation.”
[Steiner-Davion]: “Believe me, Joe. If the Inner Sphere is ever to recover from this madness, we will have to finally find a way to work together.”
— Taken from an INN broadcast, Donegal, 14 February 3072
