Clan Jade Mission : Armor Veil

Mission Instructions

--- Incoming Coded Message ---
Kurultai GalxB_7th - Steel level clearance
- disseminate by need only -

The Wolf and their Inner Sphere freebirth allies, the Kell Hounds, have engaged and are overpowering our forces at Icegrief Pass. Many of our positions have already been overrun. Our damaged units are retreating to the airbase at Resnick Flats. You must hold the base long enough for our 'Mechs to arrive and reestablish a defensive line.

DEFEND the AIRBASE at all costs. We can't afford to lose our only route to orbit. Trust your sensors. Visibility is low and the snowstorms are getting worse.

Objectives

Situations and Aftermaths

On December 5, 3057, the Jade Falcon Omicron and Peregrine Galaxies arrived in the Morges system to exterminate the remaining warriors of the Wolf Clan. Much to their surprise, they found themselves facing not the two Wolf Galaxies they had expected, but one Wolf Galaxy and two regiments of the Kell Hounds, the famed Inner Sphere mercenary unit. Khan Phelan also bid his Sixteenth Battle Cluster, and chose the southern polar continent of Morges as the site of the battle.

Furious at being forced to fight "a gang of dirty freebirths," Star Colonel Angeline Mattlov bid all the forces at her disposal: five front-line clusters, five garrison Clusters, and even a solahma unit. The Jade Falcons dropped onto Morges on 13 December, into the teeth of Khan Phelan's fortified and entrenched combined-arms forces. The frozen landscape of Icegrief Pass became the first of many battlegrounds in a conflict that would decide the fate of Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon.

Aftermath

The Kell Hounds pounded the Falcons at Icegrief Pass, thanks to a concerted effort by the mercenaries that cost the Falcons the entire 4th Talon Cluster. During the savage fighting, several Falcon MechWarriors ejected from their 'Mechs, only to be caught in a barrage of laser fire from their Inner Sphere opponents. Once again, the Hounds showed the Jade Falcons the folly of underestimating the MechWarriors of the Inner Sphere.