Cogwerk Powerplay

[History]

In 3327, a new wave of piracy began to noticeably hamper the economic activity in the Society of Cogwerk Planets, apparently with the connivance of different of the Cogwerk factions in an attempt to gain greater prominence over the remaining factions.

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In the midst of the overflow of SoCP's military forces, in their attempts to repel the well orchestrated and numerous assaults of the pirates, as well as to prevent guarded the frontiers against a possible Hegemony action to snatch the border systems, two political parties arose , which thrived amid the situation of chaos.

Both parties, the New Order on the one hand, and the Freedom Party on the other, antagonistic and populist discourse, sought to have the solution to the problem, demanding for themselves the political direction of the SoCP.

Duke Crimson and the New Order

Duke Crimson, known as a notorious smuggler in the Cogwerk space, maintained that the richest and most powerful factions were using the pirates to execute a vendetta against the antagonistic powers within the SoCP and thus obtain economic, political and military hegemony.

Crimson argued that this situation also offered a semi-legitimacy to the pirates within the Cogwerk space and called for the support of forces outside the SoCP (the mercenary clans) to restore order and banish the pirate threat.

Mammoth Jack and the Freedom Party

Officer in command of the SoCP´s 1st Cavalry Division, he has been involved in the past in different military and political maneuvers against totalitarian governments, conducting sabotage actions against the Hegemony. Relative to Duke Crimson, of whom he is uncle, he led the Freedom Party, the opposition party of the New Order.

The Freedom Party argued that the new order was one of several forces that used pirates and that its maneuver to destabilize the political situation in the SoCP and manipulate the popular reaction only served as a smoke screen to eliminate competition.

Mammoth Jack filed a request to the mercenary clans in search of a real solution in the SoCP system that he deemed corrupt, arguing that any support to his nephew, Duke Crimson would only serve to maintain a status quo of stiffness and corruption.

 Support of the Major Corporations

 With the evolve of both political campaigns, Talbus Arms decided  to support the New Order and Duke Crimson's goals, and the Legionaries of Galactic Trade endured the Free Party led by Mammoth Jack.

 Talbus Arms and the New Order gained greater support from the mercenary clans, which earned them a greater influence in Cogwerk Society, granting Duke Crimson victory over his uncle Mammoth Jack and the Freedom Party.

 During the celebrations, Talbus Arms released an enhancement module for the iMech class that was distributed among the supporting mercenary clans to increase the chances against the pirates when fighting in narrow scenarios that may require smaller Mechs.


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(By GJ - 685605)