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*'''April:''' The [[New Delos Massacre]] takes place.
*'''July:''' The [[Battle of Tyrfing]] takes place with forces from all five [[Successor States]] present.
*  [[Draconis Combine]] troops invade Helm in an effort to capture a SLDF arms depot. Unable to locate the depot, Coordinator Minoru Kurita forces assume it was already stripped and bombard the planet's population centers with nuclear warheads in frustration.
* [[Federated Suns]] troops launch a lightning raid on [[Hesperus II]], but are repulsed.
* The Draconis Combine raids Sudeten and destroys the [[Tamar Heavy Industries]] BattleMech factory there.
* The Draconis Combine raids Yed Posterior and destroys the [[Argile Technologies|Argile Technologies MechWorks]] factory located there.
* The Free Worlds League Military bombards [[Duantia]] with chemical and nuclear weapons.

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* '''January 1st:''' The [[Star League-in-Exile]] begins a demilitarization process to build a more balanced society.
* Department of Communications is formally renamed [[ComStar]] by Jerome Blake.
* '''[[Operation SILVER SHIELD]]'''.
** '''June 25th 0600 hours Terran Standard Time:'''  All [[HPG]] transmitters shut down.
** In a 72 hour campaign, ComStar employed "mercenary units", secretly crack SLDF divisions pledged to aid Blake, seize control of [[Terra]].
** HPG transmission resumes and Jerome Blake broadcasts reasons for Silver Shield and goals of ComStar to entire [[Inner Sphere]], Successor Lords deplore his capture of Terra but take no military action.
** '''June 28th:''' [[Jerome Blake]]'s forces capture Terra and declares its neutrality in the Succession Wars, forging ComStar's
power base.
** '''July:''' - ComStar secretly strips [[New Earth]], former headquarters of the [[SLDF]] of any remaining military equipment, transporting and mothballing it on Terra.
* '''February 9th:''' Federated-Boeing Interstellar begins production from the [[Galax]] Megaplex.

{{year sections | characters }}
* [[Vincent Kurita (28th c.)|Vincent Kurita]] is killed in combat.

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