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The scarce information available about The Five suggests that ComStar, during the reigns of [[Jerome Blake]] and [[Conrad Toyama]], used its control of communications and mapping to deliberately hide the existence of worlds that had been depopulated and devastated during the maelstrom of the early [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], maintaining them in secret as havens, manufacturing centers and fallback sites for the Order. The process of hiding these worlds was achieved through retroactive alteration of star maps throughout the [[Inner Sphere]] and shell games involving name changes, combined with the utter chaos of the Succession Wars and ComStar's near-monopoly on such information.
 
The scarce information available about The Five suggests that ComStar, during the reigns of [[Jerome Blake]] and [[Conrad Toyama]], used its control of communications and mapping to deliberately hide the existence of worlds that had been depopulated and devastated during the maelstrom of the early [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], maintaining them in secret as havens, manufacturing centers and fallback sites for the Order. The process of hiding these worlds was achieved through retroactive alteration of star maps throughout the [[Inner Sphere]] and shell games involving name changes, combined with the utter chaos of the Succession Wars and ComStar's near-monopoly on such information.
  
One of the Five Hidden Worlds supposedly lay in the territory of each of the five [[Successor State]]s.<ref>''Jihad Conspiracies: Interstellar Players 2'', p. 18</ref> One report indicated that one world, most likely the one in the [[Draconis Combine]], was dead even before the Jihad began. By the end of the Jihad, two of these locations had been found and a third was later discovered by the [[Republic of the Sphere]]. Two others remain undiscovered.
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One of the Five Hidden Worlds supposedly lay in the territory of each of the five [[Successor State]]s.<ref>''Jihad Conspiracies'', p. 18</ref> One report indicated that one world, most likely the one in the [[Draconis Combine]], was dead even before the Jihad began. By the end of the Jihad, two of these locations had been found and a third was later discovered by the [[Republic of the Sphere]]. Two others remain undiscovered.
  
 
There are additional hidden worlds maintained by ComStar or the Word of Blake (see below), but they do not share the near-mystical relevance of The Five nor their notoriety.
 
There are additional hidden worlds maintained by ComStar or the Word of Blake (see below), but they do not share the near-mystical relevance of The Five nor their notoriety.

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