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Jihad Plot SuPPlement

TO: Devlin Stone

FROM: David Lear

Date: 13 August 3079

Blakist occupation has left these worlds ambivalent to House Davion at

best, and openly hostile at worst. Combine this with Capellan relations

worse than even our own, and New Avalon is faced with deciding to

protect its core worlds or expending its limited resources in holding

“problem worlds” against Sun Tzu’s ongoing Xin Sheng movement.

So long as the Princess-Regent maintains her current course, we

can expect little interference from New Avalon and likely even outright

support. The Regent’s “Castle Avalon” policy calls for the strengthening

of core areas of the Suns and rebuilding outward from there. Between

the threat of confrontation with the Confederation and their own

overextended lines, the AFFS is not positioned to hold the Protectorate

worlds, even if they were enthusiastic about doing so.

Continued, excellent relations with the leadership of the

Federated Suns—combined with hands-on knowledge from Victor,

General Sortek and the late General Redburn—have provided us with

reliable information on the AFFS’ rebuilding and redeployment plans.

Despite these sources, we have also employed additional means to

conirm the data provided. While error is inevitable, I believe this will

be minimal in the case of this report.

The strength of our alliance with the Federated Suns is greatly

tempered by the viability of their ability to mount any efective

military operations. Once counted the largest military in the Sphere,

the AFFS is a shadow of its former strength despite the elaborate shell

game they have undertaken to hide their actual combat strength. This

weakness may be to our favor in regards to establishing a stable bufer

around Terra. Despite this, we cannot be completely complacent.

Of notable concern is the often-open dissent of the Capellan March

and (more recently) the Draconis March, which may alter the nation’s

course despite the Regent’s best eforts.

Possibly more so than any other Coalition liberation force, the

Federated Suns has already faced the brutal fact that many of the

worlds freed from the Word of Blake’s Protectorate have little desire

to see a return of the Sun and the Sword. Their abandonment by the

Federated Commonwealth and subsequent decades of chaos and

How to Use tHis Book

Field Report: AFFS is a BattleTech supplement designed to provide information about the state of the Federated Suns military

(AFFS) in the aftermath of the liberation of Terra during the Jihad (and before the eventual formation of the Republic of the

Sphere).

This irst section of this book— Federated Suns Overview —is divided into two sections, a Strategic Update and the Goals of

the Throne . Strategic Update is a brief overview of the AFFS’ current condition and perceived objectives, while Goals of the Throne

presents the political and suspected military benchmarks the Federated Suns is likely to use in the future.

The next chapter, Logistical Status , covers the state of Academies and Command Centers throughout the Suns, while

Infrastructural Integrity will present an overview of the state of support units in the wake of the Jihad.

Military Readiness , will present a speciic update on the status, oicers, and notable events of the brigades of the AFFS.

Included are ratings for the experience and estimated combat strengths of each regiment within the subject brigade.

Finally, Irregular Forces covers both the prominent state-employed mercenaries, as well as the latest reports on the state of

the Filtvelt and Malagrotta breakaway states.

Credits

Project Development: Herbert A. Beas II

BattleTech Line Developer: Herbert A. Beas II

Writing: Joel Bancroft-Connors

Strategic Assistance : Øystein Tvedten

Production Staf

Factchecking/Playtesting : Roland Boshnack, Joshua Franklin, Johannes Heidler,

Daniel Isberner, William Gauthier, Keith Hann, Chris Marti, Mike Miller, Aaron

Pollyea, Craig Reed, Luke Robertson, Christopher Smith, Chris Wheeler, Patrick

Wynne, Mark Yingling

Special Thanks : To the twenty-plus year veteran players. Your dedication inspires

us all.

Developer’s Note: For more information about the Armed Forces of the Federated

Suns, or the state of warfare before and during the Jihad, see Field Manual:

Federated Suns, Field Manual: Updates, Jihad: Terra, or Technical Readout: 3085 .

Cover Design and Layout: Ray Arrastia

Evolved Faction Logos Design: Jason Vargas

Map : Øystein Tvedten

Federated sUns overview

Given the severe amount of damage sustained in the recent war, and the Civil War

before that, the Federated Suns is in a very precarious state in many ways. When faced

with similar defeats and damage, smaller nations have simply collapsed and it is at least

possible that the Suns may yet do so as well. But the realm’s sheer size and history has

granted it a certain inertia that held things together through the darkest days of the

Jihad, a common purpose if you will. With relative peace settling over the Inner Sphere,

it now remains to be seen if the Princess-Regent can seize the initiative to mend the

many fractures that even now strain her nation at the seams.

projeCt roar

Dating as far back as the Clan war, transport

logistics have been the Federated Suns’ Achilles

heel. More often than not a combat force was

resupplied not because it was the most in need,

but because it was simply closest to the source of

supplies. This imbalance continued through the

FedCom Civil War and into the Jihad, where some

commands operated at nearly full strength while

others—no less vital or prestigious—were forced

to cannibalize civilian equipment just to keep their

jeeps running.

With the Regent’s blessing, Marshal of the

Armies Jon Davion launched his Reallocation,

Organization and Rearmament program (ROaR).

The goal of this program was a military wide

resetting of priorities, with all military commands

selected for rebuilding based on their proximity

to hostile borders and current force strengths. This

is achieved both by routing new production and

vital supplies to the priority commands and also

by restructuring of the AFFS around the new Light

Combat Team formation model. Commands that are

now overstrength as LCTs may have equipment and

even personnel shifted to other commands—or

even used to rebuild dead commands. In this way,

ROaR will see a general leveling of the AFFS and

rebuilding of many shattered commands, albeit

around smaller LCT cores.

This process is not without its critics and

problems. Draconis March units in particular are

chaing at this restructuring plan, as they will see

large amounts of equipment shifted to the Capellan

March to rebuild the defensive line along House

Liao’s border. Many Draconis Marchers are angered

at what they see as their being punished for the

folly of George Hasek’s war. Between the rising

unrest and the already strained transport channels

that ROaR now pushes to the limits, this radical

restructuring may well backire on the Federated

Suns, creating fractures in its still unsteady military.

Note: At this time, Project ROaR is well

underway, and has created a number of “phantom”

formations—commands that are either destroyed,

or stafed only by minor assets such as command

staf, infantry, and light armor. In an efort to

retain the reporting integrity we have carefully

established in the preceding Field Reports, I have

removed statistical references to these efectively

depleted formations, but have earmarked all of

them for intelligence monitoring in the future.

strategiC Update

The Federated Suns’ military high command has been rather public in

communicating the status of the AFFS. These open reports give every appearance of a

strong and powerful realm that has weathered the brutality of the Jihad unbowed. The

reality, however, is that the AFFS is more paper tiger than it is a juggernaut.

Marshal of the Armies Jon Davion has laid out an ambitious program to restructure

the military from end to end, and his program is fully endorsed by both the Princess-

Regent and Prince’s Champion, Duke Tancred Sandoval. Not since First Prince Melissa

Davion formed the AFFS’ version of the Regimental Combat Team has such a far-reaching

program been proposed, much less attempted. It is unlikely that such an act would have

been possible at any other time (save at the height of Hanse Davion’s power), but the

loss of so many senior military commanders and nobility has broken down barriers and

lowered the resistance to change one might otherwise expect. Combined with the sheer

devastation still felt on all three of the realm’s capital worlds, this has enabled the Princess-

Regent to push through numerous reforms that otherwise would have been impossible.

However, while Marshal Davion has begun his reforms, which call for massive

reorganization of combat formations and a nationwide redistribution of equipment,

the reality is that this is still very much a work in progress, and will remain so for years

to come. To the casual observer, it appears as if the entire Capellan March Militia

has been reconstituted in a matter of two years, but in fact these units are more

paper than metal, and represent what should be in place when Davion’s reforms are

completed. This report will provide the most current formation strengths and sizes,

to highlight just how far along the AFFS is in this reorganization process. So while a

large percentage of the AFFS is publicly listed at full combat strength, this is actually a

shell game made possible by the Marshal’s newest formation class, the Light Combat

Team. Already seriously damaged, most of the AFFS front line brigades are being

rebuilt as these LCTs, deliberately smaller forms of the classic RCTs. Because they are

smaller than RCTs, these forces can claim to be at “full strength” simply by virtue of

their smaller force structure, but many of these units may in fact have little more than

a command staf to their names. The stark reality is that, right now, the AFFS has barely

twenty ive percent of its pre-Clan Invasion combat strength.

The StarCorps corporate intelligence report compiled in 3077 accurately described

the state of the Suns economy and the industry that drove it. While it has lost a large

percentage of its “factory worlds”, the Suns’ dispersed component infrastructure allowed it

to survive and even thrive (to a limited degree) in wartime. Peace will unfortunately have

a detrimental efect on this recovery, and the resulting economic slowdowns will certainly

slow the rebuilding of the AFFS BattleMech regiments, if not all its combat forces.

Internal political fractures also continue to plague the nation, further reducing its

potential threat to neighboring realms. Between the Regent’s “Castle Avalon” policy and

Martial Davion’s Reallocation, Organization and Rearmament (ROaR) program, eforts

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