3049
Jan Advance forces set out from the Clan Homeworlds.
Aug Clan Smoke Jaguar begins attacks on Taurian Concordat
Sep Clan Jade Falcon begins attacks on Magistracy of Canopus
Clan Ghost Bear takes Portland, Rockwellawan and Herotitus as a staging grounds
Clan Wolf takes Addasaur, Spencer and Detroit as staging grounds.
Oct Reports begin to reach the Inner Sphere of heavy raiding in the Magistracy and of massive and brutal battles taking place in the Concordat.
Nov Clan Jade Falcon reaches Canopus and the border with the Free Worlds League.
The Grand Council suggest assigning the Steel Vipers to finish off the Magistracy in order to provide them with a staging ground but IlKhan Showers persuades them not to.
Dec ComStar makes first contact with the Clans.
3050
Feb A Grand Kurultai convenes to make final adjustments to the strategy
Mar Clans Ghost Bear, Wolf and Jade Falcon launch their first waves
Clan Smoke Jaguar succeed in taking several more Taurian worlds but have still not managed to take the core.
Apr Clan Smoke Jaguars failure is revealed to the Grand Council. IlKhan Showers is forced to accept the use of the Steel Vipers to take over the Smoke Jaguar corridor until the Taurians are beaten. Clan Diamond Shark and Clan Nova Cat are authorised to bring their reserves forwards.
May Clans Ghost Bear, Wolf, Jade Falcon and Steel Viper launch the second wave of the invasion.
Clan Smoke Jaguar take several more Taurian Worlds but have still not penetrated the coreworlds. They also take two worlds bypassed by the Steel Vipers.
June The Grand Council is alerted to major atrocities being carried out by the Smoke Jaguars. Showers is barely able to avert censure by proving the Taurian use of Nuclear and Chemical weapons.
Clan Wolf begins its third wave ahead of schedule.
Clans Ghost Bear, Jade Falcon and Steel Viper begin their third waves.
July Clan Wolf wins bidding to take Furud and Shiro III, forcing Clan Jade Falcon to alter their axis of advance deeper into the FWL.
Aug Clan Smoke Jaguar declare victory over the Taurian Concordat. However they have done so by such heavy use of orbital bombardment and weapons of mass destruction that several core worlds of the Concordat have been rendered lifeless. An estimated 50% of the Taurians are dead.
Clan Wolf and Clan Jade Falcon launch their fourth waves.
Sep Clan Ghost Bear and Clan Steel Viper launch their fourth waves.
ComStar uncovers the extent of damage done to the Taurians. IlKhan Showers is accused of hiding the evidence and killed in a Trial of Greivance by Khan Ulric Kerensky. Home Clans call for a Trial of Absorption and Clan Star Adder secures the right to fight them in the Homeworlds while Clan Nova Cat secures the right to fight the remaining Touman in the Inner Sphere.
Oct The Grand Council depart for Strana Mechty to elect a new IlKhan.
3051
Jan Outreach Conference convenes.
May Theodore Kurita is ordered home from Outreach by his father. He agrees to reduce garrisons abutting the Draconis March to ease the redeployment of the AFFC but cannot offer substantial aid.
Jun Ulric Kerensky is elected ilKhan. He appoints Clan Diamond Shark to reinforce the still
Steel Viper/Smoke Jaguar corridor.
Oct The fifth wave of the invasion is launched.
Clan Diamond Shark seize several worlds from the Federated Suns
3052
Jan ComStar provides Clan Diamond Shark with information on the defenses of New Syrtis.
The sixth wave of the invasion is launched.
Feb Clan Diamond Shark takes New Syrtis
April ComStar bids to fight the Clans on New Sagan
May Battle of New Sagan: the Clans lose and the Invasion ends.
State of Combatant Clans and States, July 3052
Clan Diamond Shark - controlling only ten worlds taken from the Federated Commonwealthl, the Diamond Sharks may appear to be the weakest of the invaders but their Touman is recoevering swiftly and several worlds in their occupation zone are wealthy. They are also exploring the possibility of trade with the Inner Sphere, particularly the impoverished worlds of the Federated Commonwealth's outback.
Clan Ghost Bear - having set themselves moderate goals in each wave of attacks, the Ghost Bears succeeded in having the lowest casualty rates out of all the Clans. They did fight and win two of the toughest battles of the early stages: on Menke and Grand Base; but after reorganising during the lull they proved their might by bringing down most of the St Ives Compact with relative ease during the Fifth and Sixth Waves.
Clan Jade Falcon - making the most progress towards Terra, a few light years more advanced than Clan Wolf by the end of the invasion, the Jade Falcons are now alone at the head of the Crusader faction, albeit one tainted by the atrocities of their long-term allies among the Smoke Jaguars. With the longest border open to the Inner Sphere and having suffered among the heaviest losses on New Sagan, the Jade Falcons may be vulnerable in the short term to both the Free Worlds League and their fellow Clans.
Clan Nova Cat - Although they have conquered no worlds directly and only sent a token force to New Sagan, the Nova Cat forces are in parlous state, being bled through a thousand minor attacks as they try to pacify the remaining Taurian worlds. Faced with guerilla warfare, the Cats are attempting restraint to prove that they are different from the Smoke Jaguars. Thus far this has not been a successful policy and garrison units are taking fearful casualties.
Clan Smoke Jaguar - no Clan is as reviled by either side of the Invasion as that of the Smoke Jaguars. Over a course of twelve months, their touman took sixty-percent losses fighting the Taurian Concordat with brutality escalating from nuclear attacks on warships by the Taurians to the point of the Jaguars unleashing orbital bombardment pre-emptively on populated areas. Their homeworld holdings were absorbed by Clan Star Adder but in the Inner Sphere Clan Nova Cat all but eradicated Smoke Jaguar warriors and civilians alike.
Clan Steel Viper - consistently the slowest of the Clans to advance, the Steel Vipers were nonetheless pitted against elements of the strongest military in the Inner Sphere, which seemed largely unable to stop them. With their flanks largely protected, the Steel Vipers main problem is recovering from their losses on New Sagan.
Clan Wolf - undoubtedly the most successful of the invading Clans, having conquered the largest occupation zone and secured the only victory on New Sagan, Clan Wolf stands in a dominant position backed by the Warden Clans. Given their relatively short border with the Inner Sphere, it is likely that the Wolves will seek to expand their invasion zone at the expense of their long term adversaries in Clan Jade Falcon.
Capellan Confederation - shattered by the juggernaut of the Federated Commonwealth twenty years ago, the Capellans could not resist the Clans despite many units fighting bravely. The two worlds that remain independent have joined the St Ives Compact following the demise of Romano Liao.
Federated Commonwealth - a lesser state would be reeling under the loss of more than fifty worlds and a dozen worlds but the Federated Commonwealth has barely shaken and regiments are flooding towards the new border. However, the death of Marshal of Armies Morgan Hasek-Davion and loss of the March Capital New Syrtis has left local military command in no state to contemplate a counteroffensive.
Free Worlds League - the loss of two major provinces, shattering of two others and conquest of dozens of minor provinces has shaken the Free Worlds League. Captain-General Marik requested, and was granted, extraordinary authority to respond to the threat. By stripping other borders, he has reinforced worlds neighbouring the Clans and has authorised a massive military build up, partly financed by aid from the Federated Commonwealth. The unmentioned price for this was the marriage in June 3052 of Isis Marik to Victor Steiner-Davion, heralding a future merger of the Free Worlds League into the Federated Commonwealth.
Magistracy of Canopus - while a shattered fragment of what once was, the Magistracy endures. The Magestrix and her immediate family escaped from the Jade Falcons and the remaining worlds were spared by little more than Leo Showers wish to avoid examination of his own Clan's progress. The remaining worlds are as concerned about beating off pirate attacks and the ambitions of their Marian neighbours as they are about the Clans.
St Ives Compact - the St Ives Compact was almost completely overrun by Clan Ghost Bear and Clan Steel Viper. The remaining worlds are still holding out under the leadership of Candace Liao but their dependence on the Federated Commonwealth has been underscored.
Taurian Concordat - essentially annihilated, the Taurians take no satisfaction in the downfall of their conquerers. They went down fighting and in the process expended a nuclear and chemical arsenal that had few equals. A few colonies have escaped attantion so far and Clan Nova Cat is attemping restoration but the resources required are crippling and hatred for the Clans as a whole is hardly lower than that for Smoke Jaguars.
