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Jihad Plot SuPPlement

STATE OF THE INDUSTRY…

Since the coming of the Clans, the military, industrial, and command complexes of the

Inner Sphere have raced against the invaders—and each other—to out-produce one another in

battle-worthy manpower and materiel. Factories that were smashed in the Succession Wars

were reborn and revitalized, churning out ever more cutting-edge equipment, while academies

expanded their curriculums and sent generations of fresh warriors into battle.

At the pinnacle of the arms race, new wars erupted, first against the Clans, and then

between the Great Houses and Periphery states of the Inner Sphere. In the fires of the Word

of Blake Jihad, destruction reached a level not seen since the early Succession Wars…but

the stricken realms persevered.

Objectives: Capellan Confederation describes the state of the major factories, training

centers, and command centers of House Liao’s Capellan Confederation in the wake of the

events described in Jihad Hot Spots: Terra. Including detailed stats on every key system

within the realm, this supplement also includes basic rules to help guide players in

developing BattleTech scenarios focused on defending—or attacking—these critical sites.

STAR LEAGUE ERA

CLAN INVASION ERA

JIHAD ERA

SUCCESSION WARS ERA

CIVIL WAR ERA

DARK AGE ERA

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TO: Devlin Stone

FROM: David Lear

Date: 30 December 3079

Knowing that the Capellan Confederation is likely to be the biggest outside opponent and obstacle, I have commissioned a series of supple-

ments starting with House Liao to detail its Commonalities manufacturing and logistical capability. Briely discussed in my Field Report, there

is much more to go over than just the size of and skill of its military formations that was detailed in my previous document. An Army lives on its

“stomach”, and if you take away its ability to resupply and replace its losses, you take away its capability to ight.

Knowing that we will likely be the primary target for the Confederation in the coming years, it seems prudent to assemble the systems that

would be the most viable targets for retaliatory action. Not limiting this report to simply Industrial targets, I have expanded it to list major acad-

emies and logistical and command centers so should we be forced to a ight, we can thoroughly plan our objectives to hit whatever we need to

to achieve our desired efect.

Though small compared to the other Inner Sphere powers, the Confederation remains in a strong place. It’s neighboring rival, the Federated

Suns is spread thin across multiple borders. The Free Worlds League is one in name only, splintering into over half a dozen provinces, none of

which can do more than mount some probing raids on it. With is rimward border covered by a loyal Magistracy of Canopus, it leaves only their

border with us a perceived signiicant threat to them.

HOw TO USE THIS BOOk

Objectives: Capellan Confederation is a BattleTech companion to the Field Report PDF-exclusive series that is designed to provide

campaign players and gamemasters with information about the state of the Capellan Confederation’s Military-Industrial complex

immediately following the liberation of Terra during the Jihad (and before the eventual formation of the Republic of the Sphere).

This irst section of this book—the Confederation Overview —is a brief update on the history of the systems within the Confed-

eration . Split up into two groups, the irst is Industrial Update and the second is Strategic Integrity detailing what happened to them

as a whole during the Jihad

The next chapter, Industrial State , covers the state of all the military industrial companies still functioning and producing war

material for its various provinces and what defending units are stationed within the system. Listing the systems by Commonalities,

the subsections are broken up into Industrial systems that have war material and components being produced in that system, and

Strategic Systems that are Commonality capitals and other systems containing logistical targets such as reit centers, Academies,

and non-production dry docks.

Upcoming Projects covers new facilities and lines currently being built or being converted to in eforts to rebuild from the losses

sufered during the Jihad.

Finally, Rules Annex provides a index for where to ind advanced game rules referenced in the planetary statistic boxes, loose

guidelines for creating corporate security and local militia, as well as several record sheets for generic ixed emplacements that

may be surrounding the target sites.

CREDITS

Project Development: Herbert A. Beas II

Development Assistance: Nicholas Marsala

BattleTech Line Developer: Herbert A. Beas II

Assistant Line Developer: Ben H. Rome

Writing: Nicholas Marsala

Production Staf

Cover Design and Layout: Ray Arrastia

Evolved Faction Logos Design: Jason Vargas

Map: Øystein Tvedten

Factchecking/Playtesting : Joel Bancroft-Connors, Roland “ColBosch” Boshnack, Joshua “NCKestrel” Franklin, William “Mad

Capellan” Gauthier, Keith “Xotl” Hann, Johannes “jymset” Heidler, Daniel “DarkISI” Isberner, Chris “Alexander Knight” Marti, Luke “Jellico”

Robertson, Chris “Chunga” Smith, Peter Smith, Chris Wheeler, Patrick Wynne

Special Thanks : To Herb and Randall for letting me give this product line a shot.

Developer’s Note: For more information about the Capellan Confederation Industry see Handbook: House Liao Field Manual: Capellan

Confederation, Field Manual: Updates, any of the Jihad line of products , or Technical Readout: 3085 .

CONFEDERATION

OvERvIEw

The Confederation’s infrastructure sufered many blows at the

onset of the Jihad, starting with Duke George Hasek’s Operation

SOVEREIGN JUSTICE. With many Confederation industries concen-

trated on a handful of systems, as each world was hit, so were most

of their factory complexes. Word of Blake’s eventual follow-ups were

no less devastating—indeed, in one case, Necromo, a world—and

its entire productive output—was outright destroyed.

STATE OF THE INDUSTRY

AT A GlANCE (DEC 3079)

Current

Operating Capacity

System (Company)

Losses*

Ares (Bergan)

38%

82%

Ares (EarthWerks)

25%

90%

Ares (Quikscell)

85%

52%

Bithinia (Bithinian)

100%

Capella (Ceres)

91%

INDUSTRIAl UpDATE

Early on, the military industries of the Capellan Confederation

were hit hard, irst by the Federated Suns in an efort to liberate

the former St. Ives Compact, and later on when the Word of Blake

descended upon them in several attempts to decapitate the small

state. After the second attempt to conquer Sian failed in 3074, at-

tacks against the Confederation largely tapered of to scattered raids

and assassination attempts. Nearly a year passed with only isolated

incidents before the Confederation—after furiously rebuilding its

depleted strength—struck back in force against the Word of Blake

and ighting began anew.

Ceres Metals took the most damage during the ighting by far,

with its numerous facilities in the St. Ives and Sian Commonalities

struck repeatedly. St. Ives took the worst of the damage, as security

forces attempting to deny the Federated Suns troops access to the

production facilities executed “scorched earth” tactics during their

retreat. This damage, however, was moderate compared to the fol-

lowing Word of Blake assaults, where aerial and orbital bombardment

resulted in the near destruction of Ceres’ half-repaired facilities. The

only site left unharmed was Ceres’ factory on Menke, where elements

of McCarron’s Armored Cavalry were stationed during their counterof-

fensive and successfully deterred any potential raiders.

The second largest corporation, Earthwerks, was hit equally hard

on Grand Base and Ares. However, where Ares was attacked by AFFS

troops, the Grand Base complex was instead the victim of industrial

sabotage (possibly by rival Tao Mechworks). The latter attack nearly

destroyed Earthwerks’ fusion engine plant, and caused signiicant

collateral damage to the surrounding buildings. Earthwerks’ retalia-

tion on Styk promised to escalate the afair into a full-ledged corpo-

rate war until the Jihad spread deeper to Capellan space and forced

the rival companies to put aside their diferences. (Undoubtedly, the

Chancellor himself also played a role in settling this dispute as well.)

Hellespont Industries lost much of their personnel and operat-

ing capital between the two campaigns for Sian, but this was due

to their lending of company security forces to surrounding areas

during the second assault. With security troops taking up garrison

work for the state, front-line forces were free to reinforce and pro-

tect the Forbidden City. The gamble paid of, saving Sian despite

widespread damage to Hellespont’s facilities. In gratitude, Chan-

cellor Sun-Tzu personally assisted in relieving much of the com-

Capella (Ras-Owens)

80%

Current

Operating Capacity

System (Company)

Losses*

Corey (Hollis)

100%

Nanking (Kallon)

85%

13%

Sarna (Asuncion)

95%

Sarna (Tengo)

100%

Styk (Tao)

63%

Current

Operating Capacity

System (Company)

Losses*

Betelgeuse (Aldis)

18%

100%

Betelgeuse (Firmir)

45%

78%

Betelgeuse (Hellespont)

88%

Grand Base (EarthWerks)

38%

70%

Menke (Ceres)

100%

Menke (Menke)

100%

Menke (SCorps)

100%

Sian (Ceres)

47%

90%

Sian (Hellespont)

50%

82%

Sian (Hellespont MW)

22%

89%

Sian (Saroyan)

60%

76%

Current

Operating Capacity

System (Company)

Losses*

Indicass (Ceres)

22%

100%

St. Ives (Ceres)

86%

45%

St. Ives (HildCo)

67%

42%

St. Ives (Mujika)

20%

100%

St. Ives (SCorps)

72%

66%

St. Ives (Tengo)

22%

100%

Texlos (HildCo)

25%

100%

Texlos (Kajuka)

30%

100%

Texlos (Texlos)

22%

100%

Warlock (Ceres)

39%

79%

Current

Operating Capacity

System (Company)

Losses*

Victoria (EarthWerks)

100%

Victoria (Shengli)

84%

63%

Victoria(Trellis)

100%

*Capital and personnel losses at location since the start of the Jihad.

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