As it happens, there is a short fiction piece in the PDF-only Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials, in which the process of bidding for the number of Clans to be sent to the Inner Sphere is observed by Khan Cassius N'Buta of Clan Star Adder.
Notably, the Star Adders not only argued that all of the Clans should take part in REVIVAL; when the question of how many forces each invading Clan should send was being argued, they bid their entire Clan Touman to further emphasize the point. When this was rejected, the Star Adders dropped out of the running, though they did serve as an OPFOR in order to even out any odd-numbered bidding forces during the Placement Trials themselves.
One might argue that the earliest seeds which bore such bitter fruit across the Clan Homeworlds during the subsequent Wars of Reaving were sown in the failure of the Star Adders to convince their fellow Clans to follow this vision of conquest.
But then, if the Spheroids thought the actual invasion was bad enough, think of how badly it would have gone for them had the Dragoon Compromise not happened. Were it not for the creation of Wolf's Dragoons, the IlClan Era might well have started a hundred and fifty years early...
Notably, the Star Adders not only argued that all of the Clans should take part in REVIVAL; when the question of how many forces each invading Clan should send was being argued, they bid their entire Clan Touman to further emphasize the point. When this was rejected, the Star Adders dropped out of the running, though they did serve as an OPFOR in order to even out any odd-numbered bidding forces during the Placement Trials themselves.
One might argue that the earliest seeds which bore such bitter fruit across the Clan Homeworlds during the subsequent Wars of Reaving were sown in the failure of the Star Adders to convince their fellow Clans to follow this vision of conquest.
But then, if the Spheroids thought the actual invasion was bad enough, think of how badly it would have gone for them had the Dragoon Compromise not happened. Were it not for the creation of Wolf's Dragoons, the IlClan Era might well have started a hundred and fifty years early...
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