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	After discovering that the Brian Cache had already been emptied by the Steel Vipers, Khan Carrol wanted to push on to Ettiau with the combined Fire Mandrill and Goliath Scorpion forces, a plan opposed by Kelton, who argued that they should instead settle into a defensive posture and await resupply from Portage. Amanda and Kelton were unwilling to background, and moved to resolve the situation via a Trial of Refusal when the Steel Vipers launched an attack, catching the allies off-guard. An aerospace fighter strike launched by the [[2nd Fang (Clan Steel Viper)|Second Fang]] inflicted damage on both the [[71st Firestorm (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Seventy-first Firestorm Cluster]] and the Tenth Scorpion Dragoons, and the strike launched by the rest of the Second Fang killed Khan Carrol and broke the Fire Mandrill forces, leaving them fighting in small pockets that were swiftly overwhelmed. Kelton was injured in the battle, but the Scorpion forces rallied around him, fighting back against the Second Fang, and the [[38th Phalanx (Clan Steel Viper)|Thirty-eighth Phalanx]], who had moved to support the Second. As the Scorpion forces withdrew from SLB-32 they called down supporting fire from the ''[[Nightlord]]''-class Battleship [[Atropos|CSV ''Atropos'']], which enabled them to break off contact with the Steel Viper forces and withdraw to Portage. Absorbing the Kindraa Mattila-Carrol civilian population from Portage, Kelton prepared for a counterassault.<ref name="WoRp127">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 127: "Scorpion Gambit"</ref>		After discovering that the Brian Cache had already been emptied by the Steel Vipers, Khan Carrol wanted to push on to Ettiau with the combined Fire Mandrill and Goliath Scorpion forces, a plan opposed by Kelton, who argued that they should instead settle into a defensive posture and await resupply from Portage. Amanda and Kelton were unwilling to background, and moved to resolve the situation via a Trial of Refusal when the Steel Vipers launched an attack, catching the allies off-guard. An aerospace fighter strike launched by the [[2nd Fang (Clan Steel Viper)|Second Fang]] inflicted damage on both the [[71st Firestorm (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Seventy-first Firestorm Cluster]] and the Tenth Scorpion Dragoons, and the strike launched by the rest of the Second Fang killed Khan Carrol and broke the Fire Mandrill forces, leaving them fighting in small pockets that were swiftly overwhelmed. Kelton was injured in the battle, but the Scorpion forces rallied around him, fighting back against the Second Fang, and the [[38th Phalanx (Clan Steel Viper)|Thirty-eighth Phalanx]], who had moved to support the Second. As the Scorpion forces withdrew from SLB-32 they called down supporting fire from the ''[[Nightlord]]''-class Battleship [[Atropos|CSV ''Atropos'']], which enabled them to break off contact with the Steel Viper forces and withdraw to Portage. Absorbing the Kindraa Mattila-Carrol civilian population from Portage, Kelton prepared for a counterassault.<ref name="WoRp127">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 127: "Scorpion Gambit"</ref>
−	In November 3073, Khan [[Connor Rood]] of [[Clan Ice Hellion]] appeared at [[Roche]] with an unprecedented proposal for Khan Suvorov; being open and honest with Suvorov over the losses taken by the Ice Hellions in [[Operation ICE STORM]] and the certainty that the Ice Hellions would soon be either wiped out via a [[Trial of Absorption]] or a [[Trial of Annihilation]] in a power play within the Grand Council, Rood wanted to retain whatever control was possible over the fate of the Ice Hellions by negotiating a merger with the Goliath Scorpions. Suvorov was amenable to the offer, as it would provide the Goliath Scorpions with another Galaxy of troops - sorely needed after the losses taken by the [[Clan Goliath Scorpion Touman|Scorpion ''touman'']] - as well as half a dozen support facilities and two factory complexes for relatively little effort. Kelton opposed the idea, arguing that to engage in such a plan argued that the Scorpions and Ice Hellions were equal, whereas the Ice Hellions were demonstrably the weaker party. Instead, Kelton argued for forcibly Absorbing the remnants of the Ice Hellions, which he believed could be done with relatively few losses on the part of the Scorpions.<ref name="WoRp127"/>	+	In November 3073, Khan [[Connor Rood]] of [[Clan Ice Hellion]] appeared at [[Roche]] with an unprecedented proposal for Khan Suvorov; being open and honest with Suvorov over the losses taken by the Ice Hellions in [[Operation ICE STORM]] and the certainty that the Ice Hellions would soon be either wiped out via a [[Trial of Absorption]] or a [[Trial of Annihilation]] in a power play within the Grand Council, Rood wanted to retain whatever control was possible over the fate of the Ice Hellions by negotiating a merger with the Goliath Scorpions. Suvorov was amenable to the offer, as it would provide the Goliath Scorpions with another Galaxy of troops - sorely needed after the losses taken by the Scorpion ''[[Touman]]'' - as well as half a dozen support facilities and two factory complexes for relatively little effort. Kelton opposed the idea, arguing that to engage in such a plan argued that the Scorpions and Ice Hellions were equal, whereas the Ice Hellions were demonstrably the weaker party. Instead, Kelton argued for forcibly Absorbing the remnants of the Ice Hellions, which he believed could be done with relatively few losses on the part of the Scorpions.<ref name="WoRp127"/>
	After some debate, the Scorpions offered to Absorb the Ice Hellions, an offer Rood accepted, as he believed it was the best offer the Hellions were likely to get.<ref name="WoRp127"/> Before beginning the Absorption, Suvorov took forces from the Scorpions to Shadow in an unsuccessful attempt to contact whatever remnants of the Fire Mandrills might remain on their homeworld, only to be blocked by forces from Clan Coyote; Suvorov then moved to Dagda, only to discover that the planet was declining as a result of a failing ecosystem apparently caused by extensive orbital bombardment. The combination of the eruption of Hades and the shattering of several undersea domes meant that very few Clan enclaves were still managing to survive on the planet; the only surviving military forces were a few Fire Mandrills under the command of Star Colonel [[Hampton Schroeder]], who agreed to a Trial of Absorption fought via a boxing match between Schroeder and Suvorov. Suvorov's return to Roche with news of the devastation at Dagda led the Scorpion Clan Council to vote overwhelmingly to support Suvorov's proposed plan for Absorbing the Ice Hellions.<ref name=WoRp129/>		After some debate, the Scorpions offered to Absorb the Ice Hellions, an offer Rood accepted, as he believed it was the best offer the Hellions were likely to get.<ref name="WoRp127"/> Before beginning the Absorption, Suvorov took forces from the Scorpions to Shadow in an unsuccessful attempt to contact whatever remnants of the Fire Mandrills might remain on their homeworld, only to be blocked by forces from Clan Coyote; Suvorov then moved to Dagda, only to discover that the planet was declining as a result of a failing ecosystem apparently caused by extensive orbital bombardment. The combination of the eruption of Hades and the shattering of several undersea domes meant that very few Clan enclaves were still managing to survive on the planet; the only surviving military forces were a few Fire Mandrills under the command of Star Colonel [[Hampton Schroeder]], who agreed to a Trial of Absorption fought via a boxing match between Schroeder and Suvorov. Suvorov's return to Roche with news of the devastation at Dagda led the Scorpion Clan Council to vote overwhelmingly to support Suvorov's proposed plan for Absorbing the Ice Hellions.<ref name=WoRp129/>

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{{InfoBoxCharacter | image = | caption = | name = Kelton Myers | birthdate = | died = March [[3074]]<ref name=WoRp129>''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 129: "Scorpion Gambit"</ref> | othernames = | affiliation = [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]] | rank = [[SaKhan of Clan Goliath Scorpion|saKhan]] | title = | position = | profession = [[Elemental]] | parents = | siblings = | spouse = | children = }} '''Kelton Myers''' was [[saKhan]] of [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]] from [[3071]] until his death. ==History== ===Rise to saKhan=== Kelton Myers was the successor to [[Nelson Elam]] as saKhan of the Goliath Scorpions. Elam was a casualty of the [[Trial of Refusal]] fought by the Goliath Scorpion [[Khan]], [[Ariel Suvorov]], against the short-lived [[Clan Fire Mandrill]] [[ilKhan]] [[Garret Sainze]] on [[Shadow]] in early [[3071]]. The Trial of Refusal had been prompted by Sainze's failure to secure enough votes in the [[Grand Council]] held in February 3071 to have the [[Great Refusal]] overturned; a major factor in Sainze's failure was the failed attempt by three allied Clans—[[Clan Cloud Cobra]], [[Clan Star Adder]], and [[Clan Steel Viper]]—to have Khan [[Stanislov N'Buta]] of the Star Adders elected to ilKhan, prompting the three snake Clans and their allies to vote against the motion to overturn the Great Refusal. Following Sainze's death in the Trial of Refusal fought by the Goliath Scorpions, then-[[Star Colonel]] Kelton Myers successfully fought a [[Trial of Possession]] via single [[Elemental (Battle Armor)|Elemental]] combat for almost half of the Star Adder enclaves on [[Albion (Clan System)|Albion]] less than a week after the Trial of Refusal. Within a week of his victory in the Trial of Possession, Kelton had been elected saKhan in place of the fallen Nelson Elam.<ref name="WoRp64">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 64: "Machinations and Manipulations"</ref> ===Wars of Reaving=== The enclaves on Albion won by Kelton were lost to the Scorpions shortly after the Trial of Possession, as a result of attacks by the [[Dark Caste]]. The Scorpions were soon suffering from losses in a number of their holdings as a result of the machinations of the organization known as [[The Society]]. A combination of losses on [[Brim]], [[Huntress]] and [[Marshall]], the eruption of a major volcano named Hades in the region of [[Dagda (Clan System)|Dagda]] known as Satan's Table that destroyed a large percentage of the Scorpions' mineral and ore resources, and the loss of communications with the two major undersea manufacturing plants on Dagda as well as the Scorpion enclaves on [[Delios]] and [[Foster]] led Khan Suvorov to take actions that echoed the responses being made by other Clans under similar pressures; the Scorpions worked to consolidate their current holdings and forces, and looked for opportunities to make specific, focused strikes against their opponents.<ref name="WoRp124">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 124: "Scorpion Gambit"</ref> In March [[3073]], word reached the Goliath Scorpions of attacks against their enclaves on other worlds, and Khan Suvorov was forced to lead the Scorpion forces into battle. After losses on other worlds—including [[Loremaster]] [[Kyrie Ben-Shimon]] on [[Foster]] against forces from [[Clan Coyote]]<ref name="WoRp124"/>—the remains of the Scorpion [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Beta]] and [[Gamma Galaxy (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Gamma Galaxies]] were merged together, and Kelton was responsible for leading them to [[Glory (system)|Glory]] in September 3073, where their allies, [[Kindraa Mattila-Carrol (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Kindraa Mattila-Carrol]] had been shattered, and their few remaining forces were grimly hanging on to the enclave at Portage under repeated attack from Steel Viper forces.<ref name="WoRp125">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 125: "Scorpion Gambit"</ref> Dishonorable actions by an [[Inner Sphere]] [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] in the [[22nd Scorpion Uhlans (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Twenty-second Scorpion Uhlans]] against the Steel Viper [[144th Phalanx (Clan Steel Viper)|144th Phalanx Cluster]] on Foster<ref name="WoRp124"/> had led to the Steel Vipers to declare the Goliath Scorpions to be little better than bandits. When Kelton's forces moved to orbit Glory, the Steel Vipers immediately declared the Scorpions to be ''[[dezgra]]'' and launched an attack on the Scorpions with their naval forces. Led by the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser [[Ophidian|CSV ''Ophidian'']] and the ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Silver Snake|CSV ''Silver Snake'']], the Steel Viper forces did everything they could to block the Scorpions from landing. Heavily-damaged, the ''Silver Snake'' finally drew back behind Foster's primary moon with the surviving Steel Viper fighters after the ''Ophidian'' had been destroyed, the Vipers having destroyed the ''[[Lola III]]''-class destroyer [[Auriga|CGS ''Auriga'']], the ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Serket|CGS ''Serket'']] and the ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Corona Borealis|CGS ''Corona Borealis'']].<ref name="WoRp125"/> Kelton worked with [[Khan]] [[Amanda Carrol]] to use the combined remnants of the Kindraa Mattila-Carrol forces and his own troops in a strike against the main Steel Viper holding on Glory, Ettiau. The first step was securing a [[Brian Cache]] designated SLB-32. Star Colonel [[Anders Breen]] of the Steel Viper [[93rd Assault (Clan Steel Viper)|Ninety-third Assault Cluster]] was overeager to try and obtain glory and honor by crippling or destroying the Mattila-Carrol forces and moved most of his troops out of their defensive positions to strike at the Fire Mandrill forces. Breen's move left his defending [[Trinary]] of troops to be overwhelmed by a bombing run from the [[3rd Scorpion Cuirassiers (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Third Scorpion Cuirassier]] [[aerospace fighter]]s before the [[10th Scorpion Dragoons (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Tenth Scorpion Dragoons]] swept around the Ninety-third and crushed the Viper troops against the Fire Mandrill forces.<ref name="WoRp125"/> After discovering that the Brian Cache had already been emptied by the Steel Vipers, Khan Carrol wanted to push on to Ettiau with the combined Fire Mandrill and Goliath Scorpion forces, a plan opposed by Kelton, who argued that they should instead settle into a defensive posture and await resupply from Portage. Amanda and Kelton were unwilling to background, and moved to resolve the situation via a Trial of Refusal when the Steel Vipers launched an attack, catching the allies off-guard. An aerospace fighter strike launched by the [[2nd Fang (Clan Steel Viper)|Second Fang]] inflicted damage on both the [[71st Firestorm (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Seventy-first Firestorm Cluster]] and the Tenth Scorpion Dragoons, and the strike launched by the rest of the Second Fang killed Khan Carrol and broke the Fire Mandrill forces, leaving them fighting in small pockets that were swiftly overwhelmed. Kelton was injured in the battle, but the Scorpion forces rallied around him, fighting back against the Second Fang, and the [[38th Phalanx (Clan Steel Viper)|Thirty-eighth Phalanx]], who had moved to support the Second. As the Scorpion forces withdrew from SLB-32 they called down supporting fire from the ''[[Nightlord]]''-class Battleship [[Atropos|CSV ''Atropos'']], which enabled them to break off contact with the Steel Viper forces and withdraw to Portage. Absorbing the Kindraa Mattila-Carrol civilian population from Portage, Kelton prepared for a counterassault.<ref name="WoRp127">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 127: "Scorpion Gambit"</ref> In November 3073, Khan [[Connor Rood]] of [[Clan Ice Hellion]] appeared at [[Roche]] with an unprecedented proposal for Khan Suvorov; being open and honest with Suvorov over the losses taken by the Ice Hellions in [[Operation ICE STORM]] and the certainty that the Ice Hellions would soon be either wiped out via a [[Trial of Absorption]] or a [[Trial of Annihilation]] in a power play within the Grand Council, Rood wanted to retain whatever control was possible over the fate of the Ice Hellions by negotiating a merger with the Goliath Scorpions. Suvorov was amenable to the offer, as it would provide the Goliath Scorpions with another Galaxy of troops - sorely needed after the losses taken by the Scorpion ''[[Touman]]'' - as well as half a dozen support facilities and two factory complexes for relatively little effort. Kelton opposed the idea, arguing that to engage in such a plan argued that the Scorpions and Ice Hellions were equal, whereas the Ice Hellions were demonstrably the weaker party. Instead, Kelton argued for forcibly Absorbing the remnants of the Ice Hellions, which he believed could be done with relatively few losses on the part of the Scorpions.<ref name="WoRp127"/> After some debate, the Scorpions offered to Absorb the Ice Hellions, an offer Rood accepted, as he believed it was the best offer the Hellions were likely to get.<ref name="WoRp127"/> Before beginning the Absorption, Suvorov took forces from the Scorpions to Shadow in an unsuccessful attempt to contact whatever remnants of the Fire Mandrills might remain on their homeworld, only to be blocked by forces from Clan Coyote; Suvorov then moved to Dagda, only to discover that the planet was declining as a result of a failing ecosystem apparently caused by extensive orbital bombardment. The combination of the eruption of Hades and the shattering of several undersea domes meant that very few Clan enclaves were still managing to survive on the planet; the only surviving military forces were a few Fire Mandrills under the command of Star Colonel [[Hampton Schroeder]], who agreed to a Trial of Absorption fought via a boxing match between Schroeder and Suvorov. Suvorov's return to Roche with news of the devastation at Dagda led the Scorpion Clan Council to vote overwhelmingly to support Suvorov's proposed plan for Absorbing the Ice Hellions.<ref name=WoRp129/> ===Death=== In March [[3074]], the Absorption of Clan Ice Hellion by the Goliath Scorpions was decided in a [[Star]]-on-Star battle between the two Khans. Suvorov was victorious, although Kelton was killed in action during the Trial. With Kelton dead, the unified Clan elected Connor Rood as his successor to the title of saKhan of Clan Goliath Scorpion.<ref name=WoRp129/> ==References== <references /> ==Bibliography== * ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]'' [[Category:Clan Goliath Scorpion Characters|Myers, Kelton]] [[Category:saKhans|Myers, Kelton]]

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