Tenth Lyran Guard Fights On Kai:
Allard-Liao Survives

BattleTechnology News Service

by Hilary Ayer

Summer, May 30,3052

As the fair-fight duel on Tukayyid was entering its second day, May 2, 3052, ComStar seems to have begun a second, clandestine, counter invasion on certain planets, combined with zone-wide clandestine interdicts disguised as equipment failures, affecting Rasalhague in particular. The Federated Commonwealth seems to have had no military difficulties, although commercial and civilian communications were disrupted. This situation lasted for a week, then, just as abruptly, it ended.

During that unexplained lapse, ComStar attacked the Clans and the remnants of the 10th Lyran Guard on Alyina. The honorable enemies made common cause against a corrupt Precentor and reconquered the world for the Jade Falcons after a joint force shattered the ComStar fortress at Valigia. The Jade Falcons repaired a Tenth Lyran DropShip, supplied a captured JumpShip, repaired or provided 'Mechs for all the MechWarriors involved, and sent them off with comradely expressions of goodwill.

The senior officer of the surviving elements of the Tenth Lyran Guard was Kai Allard-Liao, who apparently survived as a ComStar bounty hunter, at one point collecting the bounty on his own assumed identity. He fought in a Clans Elemental suit, then as a MechWarrior. His family BattleMech, Yen-lo-Wang, was refurbished courtesy of a Jade Falcon repair facility.

This story is not datelined April Fool's.

BattleTechnology sources have checked and doublechecked this story. The Leopard-Class DropShip Leonidas is circling in a planetary orbit around Summer II even as we write this. Our staffers have flown around the DropShip, and Kai Allard- Liao gave a press conference today. His Centurion did indeed fall off a cliff while entangled with a Clan OmniMech. He attributes his survival to a freak underwater shelf and the fact that the Clan 'Mech landed on the bottom.

We're ready to believe anything now.

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