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Just as Focht had feared, ilKhan Leo Showers would not accept his proposed location for the Trial for Terra. The scarred leader of the Clans had pushed his fearsome warriors ever onward torward victory with a sense of urgency that only seemed to increase since his near death experience at Radstadt. Nearly all of the InnerSphere's futile efforts to stem the tide against the seven Invading Clans ended in failure. Rare reversals such as Wolcott, Twycross, Somerset, Camelot Command, and Luthien had been the exception to the rule. Only the technologically superior ComGuard stood a chance of halting their inexorable advance onn the Cradle of Humanity. Thankfully both the Primus and the ilKhan had agreed to this bargaining which would hopefully impose a fifteen year truce and give the Great Houses a chance to modernize their forces. For this oppurtunity ComStar would have to pay a steep price which if defeated could cost them everything. Losing would see the Order absorbed wholesale into the Clans and Terra fall under their dark aegis. An ilClan would be proclaimed according to the Crusader's ideology and it would only be a matter of time till the InnerSphere was subjugated. While Anastasius was heartened by the honorable response his offer had drawn the rejection of his initial combat zone of Tukayyid was disappointing. Showers had even turned down another proposal by the Precentor Martial to fight this titanic clash on the Lyran world of Chaffee. He had served there before and was familar with that planet's terrain which would have been advantageous but the ilKhan would not be dissuaded. Terra was the ultimate goal and if the Clans were to halt their advance for this gigantic proxy battle then the combat must indeed occur there. Thankfully the Clans accepted my final alternative for the proposed Trial on the continent of South America. The recall order has already gone out to the ComGuard around the InnerSphere and it will be good to have the homefield advantage but beating the Clans will not be easy. Blake help us all

Questions
1. Most important what exactly are the seven Invading Clans objectives in South America that will determine victory or defeat? The seven biggest cities, certain industrial sites, symbolic points of interest, castle brians?? 
2. Operation Scorpion on Steriods. With the frontline forces of the Clans drawn to Terra will Primus Myndo Waterly be able to resist the oppurtunity to destroy them all by nefarious means? There could be a Tamo Bunker scenario ala Tukayyid where Focht is killed or incapacitated which even justifiably provokes this action. ROM could certainly initiate final strategic options like ComStar's fleet, SDS sites, and nuclear weapons from which the invaders would not escape. 
3. Clan victory. ComGuard tactics being judged dishonorable from the start by the ilKhan could provoke the Clans to disregard their own rules of combat and if that happens, well.....

Who or what emerges from this Crucible? Focht and a 15 year truce? Waterly and the annihilation of the Invaders? Or a new ilClan?

Discuss.....