July 6, 3050: Black Pearl Base, Sudeten, Tamar March, Lyran Commonwealth
As the Emergency Combined Planning Session of the AFFC moved into its second month, and the important Mercenary Liason Sessions began, luminaries like General Adriana Winston of the Eridani Light Horse, Colonel Daniel Allard and the seldom seen Major Christian Kell of the Kell Hounds formally joined the smaller mercenary groups for combined policy/planning sessions, one celebrated unit still formally under contract to the Federated Commonwealth was conspicuous by its absence. There was no representative of Wolf's Dragoons.
Rearguard Action
As our readers will remember, the Dragoons began last autumn to return all of their earnest monies, breaking their training companies' contracts all over the Inner Sphere. They have not formally broken their contract with the Commonwealth, but have failed to renew it this year. (The twenty-year contract signed just before the Fourth Succession War ended in 3048; since then the Dragoons have signed on a year-to-year basis.)
All five battalions of the Dragoons have rendezvoused on the planet of Outreach. Since House Davion gave the world to Wolf's Dragoons at the end of the Fourth Succession War, it has seen a heavy military buildup. Weaponry and training is state-of- the-art.
Federated Commonwealth spokespeople deny the idea that Colonel Jaime Wolf and his celebrated unit would even consider turning on the Federated Commonwealth. BattleTechnology sources do note an unusual number of ponyexpress duty JumpShips waiting in nearby systems.
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