ComStar

Description
Founded in 2788 by the Jerome Blake, ComStar guards and maintains the HyperPulse Generator communications network and other valuable technologies developed during the time of the Star League, guarding knowledge that might have been lost forever were it not for the foresight of our Blessed Founder.

Blake recognized two great responsibilities in the wake of the collapse of the Star League: preserving as much of the currently available technological knowledge as possible, and preventing the Successor States from seizing the interstellar communications network and misusing it to destroy each other. In 2788, Blake took control of Terra and declared it a neutral world. He offered secure interstellar communication to all Successor States that would pledge to respect the neutrality of the HyperPulse generator stations and personnel. The Inner Sphere leaders recognized that open communications were crucial to their survival, agreed to Blake's demands, and the blessed order of ComStar was born. Blake created the First Circuit to administer ComStar's affairs and fostered a "secret brotherhood" mentality among ComStar's members in order to keep the secrets of the Star League safe.

After Blake's death in 2819, Conrad Toyama of Dieron took control of ComStar. He replaced its corporate structure with a rigid, religious hierarchy, and shrouded its activities in mystic rituals. Toyama declared himself Primus, the highest authority in ComStar, bequeathing that august title and its responsibilities to every leader of ComStar who followed him. Primus Toyama's carefully crafted religious mystery served Blake's vision by fostering the belief that the sacred magic of HPG transmissions could only be wielded by ComStar adepts, ensuring that no Successor State would attempt to take control the Star League's technological legacy.

Politics
Despite ComStar's small size of territory and its professed neutrality, its assets and technological supremacy allows it to reside as a major dominating force in interstellar politics.

Armed Forces
The Com Guards, more formally known as the ComStar Guards and Militia, is the military arm of ComStar. Despite publicly professing for centuries that having a full military would damage its neutrality, the seeds for the future Com Guards were founded in the wake of the collapse of the Star League by Jerome Blake, formed around a core of Star League Defense Force troops as a source of order for the Inner Sphere should the Successor States attempt to attack Terra or any HPG stations across the Sphere. The Com Guards were kept hidden by Blake and his successors far from the prying eyes of the Successor State militaries, and, due to this, escaped much of the technological downgrades that said militaries suffered over the course of four Succession Wars.

Citing an supposed attack on HPG station by the Federated Suns during the Fourth Succession War as justification, Primus Myndo Waterly revealed the existence of the Com Guards to a shocked Successor States, with its mysterious commander Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht deploying the Com Guards forces to guard the Order's HPG compounds across the entire Inner Sphere, while also sending his forces out of assist with relief efforts for natural disasters, hostage rescues, political unrest, search and rescue operations as well as fending off Periphery bandit raids. As of 3049, Wolfnet estimated the Com Guards' BattleMech strength alone to represent the equivalent of more than fifty regiments.

BattleMechs
Thanks to ComStar's preservation of Star League technology and its secret seizure of numerous SLDF caches during its formation, the Blessed Order's modern Com Guards boasts a large number of Star League designs that are exceedingly rare or have disappeared entirely within the Successor State militaries. Even for those designs that are still manufactured today, the Com Guard


 * Light
 * Mercury
 * Thorn
 * Hermes
 * Hussar
 * Mongoose
 * Spider
 * Firestarter
 * Ostscout
 * Panther
 * Locust
 * Wasp
 * Stinger
 * UrbanMech


 * Medium
 * Assassin
 * Blackjack
 * Cicada
 * Clint
 * Crab
 * Dervish
 * Griffin
 * Hunchback
 * Kintaro
 * Phoenix Hawk
 * Trebuchet
 * Sentinel
 * Shadow Hawk
 * Scorpion
 * Whitworth
 * Wolverine
 * Wyvern


 * Heavy
 * Archer
 * Black Knight
 * Catapult
 * Champion
 * Crusader
 * Lancelot
 * Exterminator
 * Bombardier
 * Flashman
 * Orion
 * Ostroc
 * Ostsol
 * Marauder
 * Rifleman
 * Shootist
 * Thug
 * Thunderbolt
 * Warhammer


 * Assault
 * Atlas
 * Awesome
 * Banshee
 * BattleMaster
 * Crockett
 * Cyclops
 * Goliath
 * Highlander
 * King Crab
 * Stalker

Equipment
Each House and faction have unique industrial aspects which results in some having greater access to different access equipment than others.

Technology
ComStar has large and easy access to powerful Lostech weapons which gives them a mythical "unbeatable" status against others.