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This quest, due to the choices of the player base and the dierolls, has managed to get several truly impressive outcomes:

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  • Rhiannon's uncle Thomas shows off by using his Highlander 90-ton assault battlemech to kill a dropship. In melee, during re-entry. He successfully ejects to get clear of the impact, and the BattleROM records of that exchange becomes an impressive legend by itself as the "Biggest Highlander Burial in history". His opponent during this engagement, a DCMS mechwarrior named Akio, attempts (unsuccessfully) to stop Thomas, using his paper-thin little Jenner light mech. He, too, ejects and survives to be taken prisoner. Thanks to the choices of the players afterwards, Akio ends up defecting from the Combine and joining Rhiannon's entourage as a retainer in her Ducal Guard.
  • After helping to fight off an attempted Pirate action, Magnusson a cryogenically frozen SLDF Blackheart combat engineer that survived the Amaris Civil war, leads Rhiannon and co to a set of deep space coordinates and finds the Andrew Jackson, an honest to god Texas Class Battleship with 6 Colossus docked and all of it full of Royal Grade equipment.
  • Rhiannon drunkenly suggesting that Katrina use her share of the equipment from the Andrew Jackson to rebuild the Fourth Royal Guard.

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  • Kitten Platoon using a squirrel that Shoshannah Gemma found to successfully draw off any Third Lyran Guard pursuit while Kitten platoon heads off in another direction. Meanwhile, Sola returns to campus with the flag still in her possession.
  • Kitten Platoon fights Morgan at the end of the last Exercise before he returns home, and stalemates him enough that it is declared a draw.
  • In the lead-up to the preparations of the Royal Wedding between Hanse and Melissa, the jumpship that Rhiannon, Melissa, and several other trainees were taking over to the Federated Suns got ambushed at Thorin by the Combine. Despite losses, most of the trainees survive and Rhiannon makes Ace as a trainee as she joins in the defensive action.
  • Estoc Marik and Akio Matsumoto during the Battle of Thorin after fighting off the Combine attackers on the Grim Memory, Took the combine's shuttle and boarded the enemy Achilles, They then captured the wanted Canon character Hadji Rajpuman who was leading the attack.
  • Katrina Steiner, on the birthday of the Lyran Commonwealth, announces the reformation of the Fourth Royal Guard, after its destruction 180 some years ago due to the actions of Claudius "the Cruel" Steiner who knowingly left them to die at the hands of the DCMS.
  • Duke Brecker decapitating Aldo Lestrade for his action in tipping off the Drac's to the route the Cadet Convoy was taking to the NAIS from Tharkad in an attempt to kill Rhiannon Bruce, and in retribution for endangering his Daughter who was also part of the convoy. Katrina Steiner rolls with it when she finds out about his actions, as LIC was able to gather even more evidence of the late Aldo's misdeeds and exploit it to divide the Free Skye movement, resulting in the more extremist separatists becoming even less influential.
  • Rhiannon and a bunch of her classmates design and prototype the first modern ASF in 200 years as a class project and then get A+ passing grades. A sidestory snippet in Thread 3 later details how a test pilot was able to take off and land safely with the first-ever complete prototype of the ASF.

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  • During the Liao party, Rhiannon takes advantage of an opening by Romano Liao to cause the woman to lose her temper and humiliate both herself and the Capellen Confederation, thus forming more cracks in the already shaky Concord of Kaptyn.
  • Hanse Davion sucessfully negotiates a peace treaty with not only the Taurian Concordat he does it as well with the Aurigan Coalition, the Magistracy of Canopus, thus both securing his borders and getting them to agree to attack the Capellen Confederation when the time comes. The efforts that Katrina Steiner and himself put into the peace talks plays an important role in helping Janos to decide that Katrina was serious about her peace talks with the Free Worlds League, and his impression is only improved by the fact that she had already prepared treaty papers for a ceasefire between their nations and brought them along with her.
  • The Somerset Ducal Guard, despite being taken by surprise, fight off the Thuggee attack on the Bachelorette party on Terra and do not lose a single member, with only a few of them ending up wounded.
  • Katrina Steiner and Hanse Davion manage to not only leverage the repeated failures at security by Comstar at the wedding for serious concessions, they also manage to convince Janos Marik to take their overtures for peace seriously, resulting in his abandonment of the Kapteyn Pact. As a result of the Capellan meddling at the wedding (and Romano Liao's Thuggee Cultist attacks), Comstar ends up interdicting the entire Capellan Confederation for an entire year (cut down from a lifetime interdiction for the Confederation as long as Maximillan Liao was in power as a result of his being willing to surrender his guilty daughter into Comstar custody for her misdeeds), allowing Operation RAT to fire off without anyone except Hanse knowing exactly how much territory he could seize under the cover of the communications embargo. The thread jokingly suggests that Hanse should send an award and a medal to Romano's cell in Comstar custody honoring her for her contributions to the Federated Suns.
  • Janos Marik, after the attack on the Bachelorette cruise party, finally has all the excuse he needs and withdraws from the Concord of Kaptyn, thus leaving the Draconis Combine and Capellen Confederation vulnerable to attacks from the newly formed Federated Commonwealth.
  • Rhiannon's first true taste of war as a fully-trained and commissioned officer ends up being part of the 4th Royal Guards, and in her first engagement, she ends up making Triple Ace from all the ASF and Dropships she shoots down, and despite the truly terrifying amount of firepower directed at her Royal Stuka, she manages to break away and retreat to base. A trio of DCMS fighters attempt to finish her off, but she manages to outmanuver and take down two of them, terrifying the other into retreating. Her return to base, with the Stuka limping on one wing and with less armor than the piloting suit she wore, end up cementing her callsign as 'Sephiroth'.
  • The Third Royal Guard manages to not only drive off the Second Sword of Light, they manage to completely destroy the entire unit except for one dropship that managed to lift off but was quickly destroyed by the Black Aces. And the sword of Light's Flag and banner were also captured as well.
  • The 4RG manages to rout the Fifth Sword of Light in such a fashion that the Dieron Regulars suffered massive losses during the retreat, and a wedge was driven between the 5SOL force commander and the district warlord as a result of his excessively aggressive stance that allowed Frederick Steiner and the Boys of Skye to divide and conquer their forces.
  • With the dissolution of the Capellan Confederation and a formal Peace Treaty actually signed between the Fed Com powers, the Free Worlds League and the Draconis Combine, the Succession Wars have ended. With the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth going a step further to formally renounce the Star League accords and withdraw from both the Star League itself while also renouncing any claim on the First Lordship. The centuries of war over who got to sit on the Camerons chair ended with Katrina and Hanse simply walking away from it.
  • The Fourth Royal Guards (Pride of the Commonwealth) service in the war as a whole is a long string of Crowning Moments of Awesome as they begin their 'Inner Sphere Comeback Tour' smash the equally elite and storied Fifth Sword of Light and force the Seventeenth Dieron Regulars to retreat off Altair (the only defeat in the war for the 17DR). Then they fight Theodore Kurita to a standstill during an ambush over Ko to blunt Teddy's plans to mousetrap the Lyrans. Then they misjump to the Free Worlds League, which results in them getting drafted by Janos Marik to spearhead the assault on the Capellan Confederation's capital of Sian. On Sian they utterly destroy the best-in-the Capellan Confederation elite flagship regiment of the Red Lancers in hours to capture the Forbidden City. Then in their finale they serve as a linchpin for the Commonwealth's victory in the Battle of Skye where they go up against the Genyosha commanded by the DCMS' best general Yorinaga Kurita in a brutal defensive battle. In addition, the battalion sized detachment bodyguarding Melissa Steiner destroy the elite Liao Death Commando Special Operations unit int he Battle of New Avalon, including Melissa scoring multiple Mech kills with her tank while providing cover fire for her husband and his bodyguards.
    • This sequence of events is especially poignant because the Fourth Royals were the flagship unit of the entire Lyran army until their Second Succession War betrayal and destruction during a truly epic seven year long Last Stand while outnumbered 4:1. The newly reformed Fourth Royals under the command of Frederick Steiner lived up to — and arguably exceeded the standard that had been set by their legendary predecessors in Battletech canon here in Bruce Quest's version of the Fourth Succession War (which was rolled out by the GM and some of the players). 'Pride of the Commonwealth' indeed.
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  • Akio performing a truly impressive Die Hard fight against an assassin team attempting to kill Jasmine Kurita. Bonus points for starting it only armed with his sword since he's paying a social call on his sister, who is one of Jasmine's handmaids.

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