Editing Clan Smoke Jaguar
Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
The edit can be undone.
Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision
Your text
Line 49:
Line 49: ===The Political Century=== ===The Political Century=== − Though their military successes had managed to keep the Clan relevant, the Smoke Jaguars were inexorably falling behind the other Clans in political and economic terms throughout the [[twenty-ninth century|twenty-ninth]] and [[thirtieth century|thirtieth]] centuries. Only a constant turnout of highly-skilled warriors allowed the Smoke Jaguars to keep pace, and even here their military strength was being outstripped by the technological breakthroughs pioneered by other Clans. Even the Clans' system of limited warfare soon became a liability as it deprived the Smoke Jaguar warriors sufficient opportunity to gain glory in combat.<ref name=ICp51,52>''Invading Clans'', pp. 51–52: "Rise of the Crusaders"</ref> + Though their military successes had managed to keep the Clan relevant, the Smoke Jaguars were inexorably falling behind the other Clans in political and economic terms throughout the [[twenty-ninth century|twenty-ninth]] and [[thirtieth]] centuries. Only a constant turnout of highly-skilled warriors allowed the Smoke Jaguars to keep pace, and even here their military strength was being outstripped by the technological breakthroughs pioneered by other Clans. Even the Clans' system of limited warfare soon became a liability as it deprived the Smoke Jaguar warriors sufficient opportunity to gain glory in combat.<ref name=ICp51,52>''Invading Clans'', pp. 51–52: "Rise of the Crusaders"</ref> As the early decades of the [[thirtieth century]] wore on the Clans began to turn their attention back to the Inner Sphere and the [[Hidden Hope Doctrine]], the belief that one day they would return and rebuild the shattered [[Star League]] by destroying the decadent [[Great Houses]]. With their deteriorating situation and eyes fixed on the one challenging target left to them, Clan Smoke Jaguar was the first to shape this spreading idea into a specific, immediate call to arms, publicly claiming that the Clans had successfully purged themselves of the Inner Sphere's taint and that their return which both Aleksandr and Nicholas Kerensky had foretold was at hand. This call for invasion immediately split the Clans politically, the Smoke Jaguars and their supporters taking the title [[Crusader Clans|Crusaders]] while their opponents took on the moniker [[Warden]]s. That [[Clan Wolf]] became the leader of the Warden movement helped the Jaguars gain the enthusiastic support of [[Clan Jade Falcon]], and during the last decades of the thirtieth century both Clans' pro-invasion propaganda efforts gained enough converts that by [[3000]] not even the Wolf Clan could prevent a vote in the Grand Council.<ref name=ICp51,52/> As the early decades of the [[thirtieth century]] wore on the Clans began to turn their attention back to the Inner Sphere and the [[Hidden Hope Doctrine]], the belief that one day they would return and rebuild the shattered [[Star League]] by destroying the decadent [[Great Houses]]. With their deteriorating situation and eyes fixed on the one challenging target left to them, Clan Smoke Jaguar was the first to shape this spreading idea into a specific, immediate call to arms, publicly claiming that the Clans had successfully purged themselves of the Inner Sphere's taint and that their return which both Aleksandr and Nicholas Kerensky had foretold was at hand. This call for invasion immediately split the Clans politically, the Smoke Jaguars and their supporters taking the title [[Crusader Clans|Crusaders]] while their opponents took on the moniker [[Warden]]s. That [[Clan Wolf]] became the leader of the Warden movement helped the Jaguars gain the enthusiastic support of [[Clan Jade Falcon]], and during the last decades of the thirtieth century both Clans' pro-invasion propaganda efforts gained enough converts that by [[3000]] not even the Wolf Clan could prevent a vote in the Grand Council.<ref name=ICp51,52/>
The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
| Latest revision | Your text | ||
| Line 49: | Line 49: | ||
===The Political Century=== | ===The Political Century=== | ||
| − | Though their military successes had managed to keep the Clan relevant, the Smoke Jaguars were inexorably falling behind the other Clans in political and economic terms throughout the [[twenty-ninth century|twenty-ninth]] and [[ | + | Though their military successes had managed to keep the Clan relevant, the Smoke Jaguars were inexorably falling behind the other Clans in political and economic terms throughout the [[twenty-ninth century|twenty-ninth]] and [[thirtieth]] centuries. Only a constant turnout of highly-skilled warriors allowed the Smoke Jaguars to keep pace, and even here their military strength was being outstripped by the technological breakthroughs pioneered by other Clans. Even the Clans' system of limited warfare soon became a liability as it deprived the Smoke Jaguar warriors sufficient opportunity to gain glory in combat.<ref name=ICp51,52>''Invading Clans'', pp. 51–52: "Rise of the Crusaders"</ref> |
As the early decades of the [[thirtieth century]] wore on the Clans began to turn their attention back to the Inner Sphere and the [[Hidden Hope Doctrine]], the belief that one day they would return and rebuild the shattered [[Star League]] by destroying the decadent [[Great Houses]]. With their deteriorating situation and eyes fixed on the one challenging target left to them, Clan Smoke Jaguar was the first to shape this spreading idea into a specific, immediate call to arms, publicly claiming that the Clans had successfully purged themselves of the Inner Sphere's taint and that their return which both Aleksandr and Nicholas Kerensky had foretold was at hand. This call for invasion immediately split the Clans politically, the Smoke Jaguars and their supporters taking the title [[Crusader Clans|Crusaders]] while their opponents took on the moniker [[Warden]]s. That [[Clan Wolf]] became the leader of the Warden movement helped the Jaguars gain the enthusiastic support of [[Clan Jade Falcon]], and during the last decades of the thirtieth century both Clans' pro-invasion propaganda efforts gained enough converts that by [[3000]] not even the Wolf Clan could prevent a vote in the Grand Council.<ref name=ICp51,52/> | As the early decades of the [[thirtieth century]] wore on the Clans began to turn their attention back to the Inner Sphere and the [[Hidden Hope Doctrine]], the belief that one day they would return and rebuild the shattered [[Star League]] by destroying the decadent [[Great Houses]]. With their deteriorating situation and eyes fixed on the one challenging target left to them, Clan Smoke Jaguar was the first to shape this spreading idea into a specific, immediate call to arms, publicly claiming that the Clans had successfully purged themselves of the Inner Sphere's taint and that their return which both Aleksandr and Nicholas Kerensky had foretold was at hand. This call for invasion immediately split the Clans politically, the Smoke Jaguars and their supporters taking the title [[Crusader Clans|Crusaders]] while their opponents took on the moniker [[Warden]]s. That [[Clan Wolf]] became the leader of the Warden movement helped the Jaguars gain the enthusiastic support of [[Clan Jade Falcon]], and during the last decades of the thirtieth century both Clans' pro-invasion propaganda efforts gained enough converts that by [[3000]] not even the Wolf Clan could prevent a vote in the Grand Council.<ref name=ICp51,52/> | ||