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House Kurita HISTORICAL ARCHIVE TEAM FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSES OF THE INNER SPHERE AND STAR LEAGUE HOUSE KURITA HAT Coordinator Warner Doles Text OCR Stuart Elle Text Correction Raymond D. Arrastia Graphics Scanning Remy van Vliet (Page Header Graphics) Warner Doles (Cover & Inside Cover Page) Map Creation Oystein Tvedten Electronic Layout Stuart Elle PDF Creation Stuart Elle THIS IS AN INTERIM COPY MEANT TO MAKE THE TEXT AVAILABLE IN A RAPID MANNER. AN IMPROVED COPY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE AT A LATER DATE. AN ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE MADE WHEN AN UPDATED COPY IS AVAILABLE. Useful Acrobat Key Shortcuts: Use the Arrow Keys or Pageup/Down to navigate Ctrl + G -- Find Again between pages. Ctrl + + -- Zoom In Ctrl + N -- Go to Page Ctrl + - -- Zoom Out Ctrl + F -- Find Word Ctrl + M -- Change Magnification PREFACE The First Succession War HISTORY Bujitsu Introduction The Dragon Strikes Early Kuria Kentares IV Kearny and Fuchida The Massacre Politics and Technology Rising Suns Exodus Military Realities Colonizing Space Collapse Water Shortage Blown Back to the Stone Age Expansion and Autonomy Purging Terran Politics Second Succession War The Beginning of the End Gearing Up The Outer Reaches Rebellion Chain Gang Missions The Terran Hegemony The Minnesota Tribe and the Chahar Profit The Ozawa Clan Round Two Begins Birth of a Dynasty The Dahar Incident Alliance of Galedon Jinjiro’s Last Years Show of Force Yoguchi Kurita Political Maneuvers Planet-Hopping and Sunstroke Conquest of Resistance Roweena Kurita Growth of the Combine Divine Sacrifice Shiro Relents The Sting of Snow Fire War Against Rasalhague Divine Retribution Tenno’s Reign The Marathon Offensive A Lukewarm Leader Early Successes A Race to Arms Slow Down The Age of War The Third Succession War Controlling Warfare Shadow War Advances Against Tamar and Skye Is War the Natrual State of Man? Robert and Parker Kurita Military Hot Spots Turmoil and Treachery Good Plan, Unexpected End The Von Rohrs Dynasty The Rise of Taragi Battles in the Age of War The Battle of Skye McAllister and the Rebellion Regrets Siriwan McAllister-Kurita The New Century Star League Era Operation Freedom Preparations for War Tamar The Prodigal Son The ISF Since the Shadow War The McAllisters, Part Two Sinjiro and the ISF The Good Years On Two Fronts Peace and Progress Hugai Kurita Economic Unification Xhosa VII Pulling Up Roots Abduction of an Acolyte Old Ways and New The Steiner Quagmire Urizen II Decline and Fall Bushido and BattleMech Duelling Hohiro Kurita The Resurgence of the ISF The Dragon Renewed Death of the Star League The New Millenium Open Season Assassination of Hohiro Takiro Kurita Takashi’s “Benevolence” Gutting of the Star League Military Revival Misplaced Trust Attitudes Towards His Rivals Stefan the Usurper The Halstead Station Affair Into the Darkness Attitudes Towards Mercenaries Masterless Warriors Recent Developments When Enemies Unite Internal Squabbles PILLAR OF GOLD PILLAR OF STEEL Sociopolitical Structure Military Forces The Ruler Organization of Military Unit The Nobility Uniforms Court Ritual Structure Privileges Deployment of Combine Military Forces Governmental Structure Weapon Industries Ministries Major Military Academies Interior Medals and Decorations War Selected Regiments Treasury Strengths and Weaknesses Justice PILLAR OF TEAK Court Daily Life and Culture ISF The Draconian People Government Districts Codes of Conduct Rasalhague Structure of Society Pesht Militarism Galedon V Xenophobia Benjamin Education Dieron Distinctive Features Interstellar Relations Universities and Other Higher Learning Istitutions Liao Arts Marik National Treasures School Davion Social Problems Steiner PILLAR OF JADE Comstar Economics Strengths and Weaknesses Economic Structure PILLAR OF IVORY Military ends Religion and Philosophy Conservation and Waste Doctrines of Kurita The Corporate Structure Pillar of Ivory Inportant Corporations Mythology of Ivory Trade The Sanctum Arcanum Intracombine Trade Keeper of the House Honor Interstellar Trade The Order of the Five Pillars Strengths and Weaknesses The Dictum Honorium PERSONALITIES Death of Shada Kurita A Brief Atlas The First Keeper Pesht Military District The Third Keeper Galedon Military District The Underground Decades Benjamin Military District Restoration under Siriwan and Marhta Dieron Military District Controlling the Ki Rasalhague Military District The O.5.P., the Military, and the ISF MAP OF THE DRACONIS COMBINE The Art of Vendetta Vendetta Lines: Within the Draconis Combine Vendette Lines: Outside the Draconis Combine Wisdom of the Dragon The Mysticism of Five Belief Systems of the Five Classes Minority Religions Off-Brand Sects HOUSE KURITA Writing Boy F. Peterson, Jr. Tara Gallagher Todd Huettel Donna Ippolito John Theisen Robt. Wells Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief L. Ross Babcock III Senior Editor Donna Ippolito Editorial Assistant Todd Huettel Tara Gallagher Robt. Wells Production Staff Production Manager Jordan K. Wiesman Tara Gallagher Art Director Dana Knutson Uniform Design and Illustration David R. Dietrick Color Illustration Jim Holloway Todd F. Marsh Cover Art Dana Knutson Illustration Jeff Laubenstein Todd F. Marsh Tim Bradstreet Dana Knutson Tara Gallagher Typesetting and Layout Tara Gallagher Pasteup Todd F. Marsh Dana Knutson BATTLETECH and MECHWARRIOR are Trademarks of FASA Corporation registered in the U.S. Published by Patent and Trademark office. ‘Mech and BattleMech are Trademarks of FASA Corporation. FASA Corporation Copyright ? 1987 FASA Corporation. P.O. Box 6930 All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Chicago, IL 60680 PREFACE The Draconis Combine is the warlike Successor State This history has been compiled from many sources, located in the northeast quadrant of the Inner Sphere. The history including old and rare documents whose existence is known of the region is a long and bloody one, dating back even before only to ComStar. As these materials were written, interpreted, or the formation of the Combine in 2319. From all apparent pieced together by various past and present authors and indications, the violence of this House will continue into the ComStar researchers, there may be minor inconsistencies or future. ambiguities that simply could not be resolved. ComStar has From the time of the Combine’s founding, its leaders have made every effort to verify the accuracy of all material included believed themselves destined to conquer all of Human space, a here, making this volume the only complete reference work goal still to be achieved some 700+ years and three Succession available on the Draconis Combine. Indeed, not even the Wars later. Bordered by House Davion’s Federated Suns on Combine’s own historians or archivists could have pieced one side, House Steiner’s Lyran Commonwealth on the other, together a study as exhaustive as this one made possible by and no man’s land of the Periphery on the third, the Draconis ComStar’s resources. Combine is surrounded by hostile forces. Until now, however, In this volume, we trace the history of House Kurita from the the balance of power among the rival Successor Houses has 24th century to the present, with additional pertinent background tipped in favor of one over the other. With the recent Steiner- dating as far back as the late 20th century. There is also full Davion alliance, it may be that House Kurita has missed its information on the economic, political, military, social, and cultural chance at seizing dominion. The Steiner wealth, combined with aspects of life under the rule of the Dragon. Though it is not Davion’s military prowess, may be too potent a combination possible to typify the lifestyle of each ordinary citizen in such a even for the Kuritans’ fanatic devotion to their cult of the Dragon. vast interstellar realm, we have been able to identity the cultural Those who consult this work may judge for themselves. myths that bind the public to their government and to describe This volume is one in a series of studies of the five Successor the institutions that shape the average Kuritan’s daily life. There Houses of the Inner Sphere. The series was commissioned by are also briefings on key worlds and key personalities of the the First Circuit to give the members of our Blessed Order insight current era. into the workings of the five realms. Though many observers —From Gillian Sorenson-Hague, ComStar Archives, Terra believe that the Combine has missed its chance at conquest over all humanity, ComStar must remain ever vigilant. If the ruthless leaders of House Kurita were to achieve their goal, they would certainly attempt to extend their domination to our own Blessed Order. MAJOR TAKASHI KURITA (2997) HISTORY INTRODUCTION History shows no force so strong, no statement so persuasive, as a people’s belief that they are the best, that they are destiny’s progeny, and the chosen rulers of mankind. They fall for it every time. -From In the Belly of the Dragon: My Service in the Draconis Combine, by Ambassador Cari Glessen, Lyran Commonwealth Historical Press, 2928 The Draconis Combine was founded in 2319 by Shiro Kurita, who used persuasive statesmanship, treachery, and bloody military conquest to forge it almost from nothing. Raised in a military and social tradition dating back more than six centuries, Shiro embraced and embodied the “way of the warrior.” Through the forcefulness of his personality, he first managed to become leader of New Samarkand and then went on to form a group of petty kings and lords into the Galedon Alliance. This Alliance, created to oppose the great Ozawa Mercantile alliance, was his starting point for the military conquest of dozens more planets. By 2319, Shiro Kurita controlled a domain stretching from the border of the Federated Suns to the Principality of Rasalhague, a realm he renamed the Draconis Combine. Shiro Kurita’s legacy continues to this day, in both the devotion to the way of the warrior and in the belief that House Kurita will one day reign over all inhabited space.
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