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I do think the next line is critical to the quote though.

I don't think so but you are the original author.

Ostensibly founded by Waterly, but controlled in reality by the Master (the real Thomas Marik).  If you belive the hype, the Master also controls The Blood, a remnant of Clan Wolverine, who have controlled ComStar's destiny at times and became the core of the original Manai Domini.  The WoB took Terra, opened up the factories and planned to join the Star League in an effort to wipte out the Clans, by leading humanities counter-crusade with the Manei Domini the xreaming edge of the wedge.  The collapse of the 2nd SL saw the WoB throw a Fissy Hit of epic proportions, which was ended by the rise of Stone.

Okay, so Clan Wolverine wound up in ComStar?

Heavily hinted but not yet confirmed, unless you ask the Ghost Bears.

But now you say they turned into The Blood, apparently accepted in by ComStar.  So how does ComStar get caught off guard by the Clans if part of they're number are the decendents of Clansmen?  What, they kept their mouth shut for all those years?

Only a tiny group within ComStar knew of them.  Over time they took control of that group and became the secret order within the order.  Guiding from the shadows so to speak.

And what the heck is the Manai (Manei) Domini?  I've heard of the missi dominici but they were Charlemagne's inspector generals. 

These are the cyborg WOB super-soldiers designed to be the answer to Clan Trueborn Warriors.

And, lastly, Thomas Marik was the one leading the $%#*ing-WizKid-rip-off-the-Muslim-term-for-holy-war?  So calm and cool Thomas Marik starts popping nukes like a Pezz dispenser and tried to collapse the IS in on itself?

The bomb blast seems to have destabilised him a little.  Funny as it sounds, I have seen this personality swing from calm, cool and measured to rabid zealot, brought on by trauma in real life.  Not pretty, but it can happen.

And the Clans, what the heck happened to them?  They just turn into a bunch of wusses and do nothing?

 

War on 2 fronts (or three) for the IS Clans drained them, and the 1st Succession War rerun in the Homeworlds gutted those that stayed there.

What of the Free Worlds League C-rex?

Historically motorcycle racing has been a young man's pursuit.  Now there have been exceptions, drag racing and American flat track racing spring to mind, but usually the more physically demanding the style of racing the younger the field and the champions.  But now something new is occuring.  World Superbike has become the old man's series.  Last year it was won by Carlos Checa who will turn 40 this year.  The year before it was won by Max Biaggi who will turn 41 this year.  Yesterday were the first races of the 2012 season at Phillips Island, Australia.  Race 1 was won by Biaggi (after Checa had a terrible highside while leading the race) and Race 2 was won by Checa (who some how came back from landing on his head and back at around 100 mph in Race 1) and Biaggi came in second after running off the track early in the race and winding up in last place.  And what's even more impressive is that Checa is doing it on a bike that is considered long in the tooth and isn't even made by its manufacturer anymore (the Ducati 1098) and Biaggi is doing it on a bike that everyone knows has mega power and razor sharp handling but no one else seems to be able to control (the Aprilia RSV4).  Let's hear it for the geezers!

I have cried every night since you have been gone.

Thank you.  Thank you.  You like me.  You really, really like me!