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August 06, 2007
Mechwarrior: Age of Destruction Factions: the Dog Days of Clan Nova Cat
The Nova Cats were among the most effective of the invading Clans, but the outcome of war with the Inner Sphere was humiliating for Clan Nova Cat. Not only were they militarily defeated and forced into a humbling peace by the events at Tukayyid, but over time they were left without any planets of their own. Instead, they live in semi-autonomy, guests of the Draconic Combine.
Worse were the effects of the Blakist jihad, which sent forth regiments of battlemechs rampaging through Clan Nova Cat space. Irreplacable clan mechwarriors and mechs were destroyed in the onslaught, further reducing the mech forces of Clan Nova Cat vis-à-vis the remainder of the Inner Sphere. These are truly dog days for the Nova Cat.
Here’s a bit of the canonical history as written by Wizkids:
” In truth, the Nova Cats’ fortunes both rose and fell with the invasion of the Inner Sphere. Though they were defeated at Tukayyid, forced for years to fend off the Smoke Jaguars, eternal enemies who shared an occupation zone with them, they would play a vital role in the Inner Sphere’s effort to end the Clan Wars. From there, (once more guided by visions) they would join with the Inner Sphere forces and their new Star League, to help smash the Jaguars and end the Invasion for all time. . . Though war would continue to dog them even there, with the brief Ghost Bear–Combine War of the early 3060s, the Nova Cats had at last found some kind of home, and a future of promised prosperity. . . To many Nova Cats, there was no way to go but up; a spirit of hope—or at least hopeful determination—had begun to glow anew.
And then came the Jihad.Touched off, ironically enough, by the shattering of their own vision, the Word of Blake, ComStar’s reactionary splinter faction, engulfed the Inner Sphere in a holy war of nuclear weapons, neutron bombs, biochemical weapons, orbital strikes, and fanatical, rampaging armies of BattleMechs. Their assault spared no one, not even those who saw their own visions of peace and prosperity shattered with the death of the new Star League. The Nova Cats, every bit as stunned by the breakdown of the League they had sacrificed so much to join and preserve, were all but lost when Blakist assault forces struck at their enclaves on Itabiana. . . The war would take a heavy toll on the Cats, however; all but shattering the remains of their military forces, while Blakist counterstrikes nearly laid waste to the Combine worlds they called home. Yet, through it all, the Cats fought on.”
Posted by Discoshaman at August 6, 2007 07:49 AM