Marik Quarrel

BattleTechnology News Service

by Bob Carter

June 18, 3029: Atreus, Free Worlds League

Outside the office of Captain-General Janos Marik two men almost came to blows today, two men each of whom has a right to consider that he himself may one day own that office. Duncan Marik, nephew to the CaptainGeneral, and Duggan Marik, the oldest of his surviving sons, had an angry altercation over the use by Duggan of supplies which had been meant for Duncan's men. As neither man is commanding a force which is actually in the field at the moment, the bitterness of the argument seems excessive.

Duggan has been heard to criticize his father's slowness in following up on Operation Dagger. He argues that now if ever is the time to strike hard at the hated Lyran Commonwealth and to regain territory which is historically and culturally that of House Marik. Duncan agrees as to the necessity of regaining such alienated systems, but believes that a coordinated strike with Marik's ally under the Treaty of Kapteyn, House Kurita, would do more damage and reap more gains.

The Captain-General himself has preferred reaction to action. Since the end of the February-May Lull in the Fourth Succession War, the Free Worlds League has lost four worlds to invasion by the Tikinov Free Republic - and ceded eight more to the newly independent republic which used to belong to Marik's ally House Liao.

Thomas, youngest of the Captain-General's sons, home on a visit from the station where he has been a valued member of ComStar for over a decade refused comment on the ground that to do so would be inappropriate. BattleTechnology wonders... When the Captain-General decides to pass on his office, could ComStar possibly release the able Thomas for the task? He certainly wouldn't brawl in public corridors.

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