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Downtown, Hotel Room
New Canton, Star League Protectorate World
Capellan Confederation
8th November 3075

   With some of them on leave and others on fact-finding missions for their commands eight members of the McCarron’s Armoured Cavalry Regiments, of the Capellan Confederation, met in a hotel room in the capital’s downtown section.  This was a secret meeting if the Capellan Confederation knew they were meeting likely all of them would be in trouble, if not killed by the Maskirovka.  This hotel, area and planet were hopefully far off the Capellan Intelligence Agency's radar not to attract too much attention.  Each member had submitted their request months apart and for different reasons only if someone was really looking at the Big Macs personnel records could they tell something was up.

   Sitting on a chair against the far wall sat Sang-shai Angel Bodez commander of the Second McCarron’s he was the highest ranking officer in the room and most successful of those gathered, he had fit into the Capellan nation.  Beside him was Zhong-shao Desmond Hernandez commander of the Second’s conventional forces ‘Angel’s Gypsies.’  Opposite them was Sao-shao Drake Calhoun, Battalion commander of the Fourth McCarron’s Special forces unit and one time enforcer of the Chancellor’s rule on some of the less happy McCarron warriors.  The Fifth had been the trouble maker regiment only recently shedding its questionable rating by the Capellans now classed as Regular skill and loyalty few within the Capellan High command truely understood the unit.

   Standing at the small bar in the room was the last three members gathered first was Sao-shao Steven Risner, commander of the Nightriders Regiment’s Special Forces, he was the only member of the First McCarron’s and most sceptical of what would come out of this meeting.  Nether the less he was also constantly scanning the room for eavesdroppers his loyalty to the McCarron's personnel.  Beside him stood the two youngest and most junior members of this meeting representing the McCarron’s future and the youth of the units.  First was Sang-wei Louisa Krane of the Fifth Regiment, a former officer of the Third Regiment now commanding a group of mismatched warriors, the second was the one true part of the legacy that still remained purely McCarron, Sang-wei Elizabeth McCarron, cousin to Faith McCarron (who now lived in the Federated Suns as Faith Steiner) she was the last active McCarron on the Regiment’s lists and she was the youngest in the room aged at just twenty years.

   â€œWe all know why we’re here, the Big Mac is no more, our brigade is disappearing and our unit, our family, is losing any strength it had in the Capellan nation.  What are we going to do about it?”  Drake Calhoun asked

   â€œI don’t want to be the bad guy here, but nothing” Steven Risner suggested he noticed the appalled looks “the Nightriders have gone from strength to strength, the Chancellors and her predecessor have given us technology and equipment no-one else ever would.  Many of our people have made lives in the Confederation should we disrupt theirs just because ours hasn’t gone to plan or the Brigade has fallen from its height?”

   â€œYes” Angel Bodez said quietly “we have always prided ourselves with being part of a larger whole.  The Brigade is failing, we are all failing.”  Bodez said his unit was almost as successful as the Nightriders to hear him say they were in trouble meant exactly that “we need to pull together, make the Chancellor see that we are an asset and that we need to be together to remain like that.”

   â€œAnd if we are not?” Drake Calhoun asked after a moment or two “if the Chancellor decides that our time has past?”

   â€œThen we take matters into our own hands” Louisa Krane propped up from her end of the bar.

   â€œAgainst the Chancellor?” Bodez asked very sceptical against the might of a succession state, even at its strongest the Big Mac would have had no chance.

   â€œNo, we take our destiny into our own hands, the McCarron family has numbered accounts in all the Succession States.”  Elizabeth said quietly revealing a family secret, the McCarron's ace in the hold for a rainy day. “Faith has access to them being the eldest of us alive and I have a way of communication to her if I’m in trouble."  She revealed her own secret "We contact Faith and she opens funding for us.”

   "Why would she?"  Angel asked continuing to be skeptical

   â€œThen what?” Desmond Hernandez asked at the same time there were no obvious moves after that.

   â€œWe escape the Confederation to pastures new” Elizabeth said trying to sound like her father would have on one of his better days. “Perhaps the Federated Suns or the Lyran Alliance, somewhere that hates the Capellans enough to be willing to protect us.”

   â€œThe Federated Suns?” Calhoun asked anger boiling, he'd fought them plenty in the past.

   â€œWhy not anyway to hurt the Capellans will do them.” Elizabeth said with not a small measure of venom.  "Also Faith is close to their heart, if we can convince her we need her help then we will have a safe harbour."

   â€œAnd if the others of our regiments don’t want to join us?” Risner asked, he for one would not be cutting down fellow McCarron warriors.

   â€œWe quietly have them transferred from one regiment to another and have those friendly to our cause transferred in either permanently or on training missions.  Then when all is set we get out of trouble.”  Bodez said, the others nodded slowly their agreement all eyes turned to Elizabeth, she was a McCarron and the one who could put things in motion.  She had the contact and hopefully the financial backing that would restore the McCarron's Armoured Calvary she nodded and that was it, the McCarron Regiments would break from the Capellan Confederation.


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