Xenia, Federated Suns, Juno 17, 3049 Waco's Rangers Somewhere on Andurien front 3036 Ranking Officer Precentor IV Patrick Sammeli of the ComGuard 11th Division indignantly denied ComStar connection with this May's street rioting in Menominee Falls, chief industrial city of Xenia. Coupled with last week's denial from planetary Precentor Archer Simpson, this leaves news gathering sources totally at a loss to explain the ROM dagger tattoo on the right upper bicep of the dead Stephen Chastain. Chastain, our readers will recall, was in life the huge strong- man aide to gang czar Irri Iradia. Iradia had come from nowhere to unify six of the major street gangs in Menominee Falls. Overthe three weeks between May 7 and May 22, the coaltion came dangerously close to seizing the city. Gang sources claim the deaths of these two men are due to deliberate assassination by the MIIO, the Federated Sun's secret service. There have been rumors of a hidden war between the MIIO and ROM, the ComStar Covert Operations department. Newsmen never like to publish guesses, but so few facts are emerging from the charge and countercharge that we are forced to. There is indeed a war. And the Lyran Intelligence Corps is involved as well. Facts submitted to this and other newsmagazines by the Maskirova indicate well over two hundred agent deaths in the last five years alone. There seems to be no end in sight to this 'non-existent' war. BattleTechnology News Service ComStar Denies Street Crime Waco's Rangers in an Uproar Thugee Cult Repressed Wolf's Dragoons Buy Out Contract Merc Reservation Cited as Inhumane Briefly Noted Back to BattleTechnology 13 Table of Contents Back to BattleTechnology List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 1990 by Pacific Rim Publishing. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com