Coordinator Restores Altair Dukedom

Altair, Al Na'ir Prefecture, Dieron Military District, Draconis Combine

To right a past wrong done to the Kyle family, Coordinator Takashi Kurita restored the Dukedom of Altair to the family. Selena Kyle will become the new Duchess of Altair. Current Duke Muirvald Cooke voluntarily stepped down and may be granted another Dukedom to replace this one. Altair had belonged to the Kyle family for over 100 years when the title was stripped from the family almost twenty-five years ago.

McCarron Strikes More Davion Worlds

Bristol, Achemar Combat Region, Crucis March, Federated Suns

McCarron's Armored Cavalry have landed on 3 more worlds of the Federated Suns. The Cavalry's five 'Mech regiments have struck the worlds of Bristol and Listowel in the Achemar Combat Region and the world of Beten Kaitos in the Kathil PDZ. The Liao mercenaries have been raiding in Davion space for almost one and a half years.

The Art of Vendetta

Many of the so-called mental peculiarities of the Japanese have their origins in the love of purity and its complementary hatred of defilement. But, pray, how could it be otherwise, being trained, as we actually are, to look upon the slights inflicted, either on our family honor or on the national pride, as so many defilements and wounds that would not be clean and heal up again, unless by a thorough washing through vindication? You may consider the cases of vendetta so often met with in the public and private life of Japan, merely as a kind of morning bath for a people in whom love of cleanliness has become a passion.

-- From Yoshisaburo Okakura, The Life and Thought of Japan, Terra, 1913.

In revenge, there is something that satisfies one's sense of justice. Our sense of revenge is as exact as our mathematical faculty, and until both terms of the equation are satisfied, we cannot get over the sense of something left undone.

-- From Inazo Nitobe, Bushido, The Soul of Japan, London, Terra, 1900.

Patience is a needed Art for vendetta. Haste makes the crop go sour. Vengeance, like fruits of the vine, requires time to sweeten.

-- Kevin McAbayashi, in Assassin's Handbook, Office of Reference Materials, Order of Five Pillars, Luthien, 2887.