A Consensus on Time

[Gen Miyamoto]

Hello all!

I was just posting this new thread to see if we wanted to get a semi-official date that we are currently at in this little universe we call home. I see that since the start of this Site there have been three major breaks in the action. One of which involved major relocation of all Legionnaire assests to Tau Ceti's new facility in Gallen Hieghts.

It seems to me we are in early 3068 by now, and I for one, have a dossier to update if this is the case. I'd love to see this group stick around to join up with Devilin Stone and do some serious reunification. That's just some wishful thinking though.

[Captain Benjamin Maxwell]

December 18, 3068.

[Gen Miyamoto]

That's a bit later than I thought, we're rushing right up on that golden year of 71. Thank you kindly Mr. Maxwell. I'm much obliged.

[Commander Garrett Garland]

The formation of the Republic?

[Gen Miyamoto]

I was thinking of our boy Devlin Stone. He's supposed to be building an army around then. The seeds of the republic, I guess.

[Lance Commander William Rhodes]

Looking at the MechWarrior timeline, Devlin Stone escapes the Word of Blake prison camp in 3071 and spends the next ten years fighting. The Republic of the Sphere is formed in 3081.

[Captain Benjamin Maxwell]

I thought that our little brush with Mr. Stone on Hamal might offer a nice glimpse into one possible way he might have fallen captive to the Blakists. You see, Stone was captured and mind-wiped by the Blakists, and has no memory whatsoever of his past. Since Hamal fell very easily to the WoB (historical accounts indicate that the natives pretty much just threw down their weapons), I figured we could take a little creative license and suggest that Stone might have remained behind on Hamal in Suhdanjin, where he then was captured (leading to his 3071 escape).

[Lance Commander William Rhodes]

The BattleTech novels leave clues that Devlin Stone was actually Arthur Steiner-Davion, younger brother of Victor Steiner-Davion, before his memory wipe. Arthur was supposedly killed in an explosion on Robinson at the start of the FedCom Civil War, but was in reality captured by the WOB.

[Captain Benjamin Maxwell]

Hmm. Perhaps our Devlin wasn't one in the same.

[Lance Commander William Rhodes]

The Arthur Steiner-Davion connection is hinted at in the books but they never come out and directly say it.

Even if Devlin Stone was Arthur Davion, it is possible that the Legionnaires met him on Hamal. Arthur was supposedly killed in a bomb blast on Robinson in 3062. This was the trigger that finally convinced Victor Steiner-Davion to topple his sister from the FedCom throne. The book (I think it was Patriots and Tyrants) hints that Arthur actually survived and was captured by the Word of Blake, who began to mold him into somebody else both physically and mentally. It could be the Legionnaires encountered Stone AFTER he had his memory wiped and during a time when he had somehow gotten away from the WoB temporarily.

[Captain Benjamin Maxwell]

Either that, or he was a Blakist agent placed aboard the Phoenix at that point. Perhaps to infiltrate the Capellan Confederation?

[Lance Commander William Rhodes]

Sounds good to me.

[Commander Garrett Garland]

ARGH!!! I read the first sentance of your second to last post... I haven't reached the civil war yet... nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

PS

Don't feel guilty, it would seem that history repeats itself... Arthur is pulling a Fredrick Steiner on us.

[Lance Commander William Rhodes]

Oops!

Sorry about that, Garrett. You're absolutely right about the Frederick Steiner comparison. Since the novels have jumped forward sixty five years or so to the Mechwarrior: Dark Age universe, I don't know if they will ever confirm in print who Devlin Stone really was before his "conversion."