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Hark, children of the Clans,
to the wisdom of Kerensky and your forebears.
Know what has come before;
remember it and you strive toward the future.
- The Rememberance
Passage 1, Verse 1, Lines 1-4



Clan Ice Hellion was founded by Stephan Cage, a former battalion commander in the SLDF. His specialty was reconnaissance and he was quite adept at using light forces to defeat numerically larger forces. Khan Cage was so inspired by Nicholas Kerensky's fondness about the ice hellion that he quickly built our Clan around the same hunting technique: speed and maneuverability. Though many called this a weakness, we would soon prove everyone wrong.

The Pentagon campaign tested Clan Ice Hellion dearly. Our early touman was extremely lightweight and Nicholas Kerensky originally relegated the Hellions to a recon and support role. Angered at being forced to wait, Khan Cage awaited the opportunity to prove his Clan's worth. We were soon called to assist Clan Cloud Cobra with a rebel uprising in a recently captured city on Babylon. Though outgunned and outmassed, our forefather's speed and maneuverability allowed them to wear down and defeat the rebels with minimal losses.

In the years following the Pentagon campaign, our Clan quickly set about proving that our supposedly unorthodox techniques were viable and combat tested. Hellion Trinaries and Clusters repeated fought and bested foes more than double their weight. While other Clans developed the current Clan battle tactics, the Hellions practiced flexibility and maneuverability.

Ice Hellion's successes soon turned to defeats as the other Clans learned how to counter Hellion tactics. Quickly, we started losing more than winning, something to which no Clan is accustomed. The only bright spot at the time was saKhan Lucius Moore's Beta Galaxy. Beta enjoyed a much higher success ratio than Alpha Galaxy, a situation that left Khan Cage puzzled. Khan Cage began an investigation into Beta Galaxy, which soon took a lesser role when the Clans joined together against the Not-Named Clan. Though he had close personal ties to the Not-Named Clan's leadership, Khan Cage was forced to side with the Grand Council's decision for Annihilation.

Khan Cage was stunned when he finally learned the truth behind Beta Galaxy's string of victories. For some time, saKhan Lucius Moore had been giving his warriors performance enhancing drugs. Enraged at the perfidy of his saKhan, Khan Cage took the evidence before the Grand Kuraltai and demanded a Trial of Grievance against saKhan Moore. Matters took a turn for the worse when several Khans suggested that Clan Ice Hellion as a whole be Annihilated. However, Khan Cage made an eloquent plea to the Council. He stated that only a small part of our Clan was tainted and only that section needed to be excised from the whole. ilKhan Nicholas Kerensky half-heartily agreed to grant Khan Cage's Trial of Grievance. Some Khans, indeed, saw this as an opportunity to be rid of the Ice Hellions permanently. If Khan Cage's forces lost, then the Hellions would be Annihilated. If he won, then the Hellion Clan would be so crippled as to be easy prey for another Clan to Absorb.

For three months, Khan Cage's forces battled saKhan Moore's forces. The battles were brutal as Moore's forces continued to use enhancement drugs. In the end, Khan Stephan Cage's troops were victorious, however, over half our Touman had been decimated and many of our best scientists lost in the purge that followed. The years following the death of saKhan Moore were the darkest for Clan Ice Hellion. Khan Cage soon retired, relinquishing control to Mia Taney. Khan Taney moved quickly to remove the stain from our Clan's honor and rebuild our shattered Touman. Though we were constantly scrutinized and raided by other Clans, Khan Taney kept the Clan from wallowing in despair.

The death of ilKhan Nicholas Kerensky in battle against the Clan Widowmakers opened the door to a golden era of prosperity. Our Clan was amongst the first to develop OmniMechs after winning the technology from Clan Coyote. Our Clan's scientists were also responsible for the development of the advanced endo steel and ferro-fibrous compounds. We also built several new 'mech and fighter manufacturing facilities. Our Clan's early attempts to build lighter, faster Elemental armor met with little success. Not all projects met with acceptable results, however. Early Elemental warriors were freeborns as our Clan was unsuccessful in our attempts to gain the needed bloodlines from Clan Hell's Horses. Elementals were held in low regard for many years, until finally they proved themselves a vital asset in battle.

By the end of the Golden Century, Clan Ice Hellion was once again a deadly force to be reckoned with. The remaining seventeen Clans had split into two philosophical camps: the Crusaders, who pushed for an invasion of the Inner Sphere, and the Wardens, who either believed the time was not right or that the Clans should be unseen protectors of the Inner Sphere from any outside threats. Clan Ice Hellion was one of the most vocal members of the Crusader cause. Though the Khans had the votes to call for invasion in 3000, they were stymied by Wolf Khan Kerlin Ward, who suggested an alternative to invasion. The Clans knew very little about the current state of the Inner Sphere; Khan Ward's compromise was to send a force, in the guise of mercenaries, to gather intelligence about the Inner Sphere. The Grand Council voted in favor of Khan Ward's proposal. Hellion Khan Jena Norizuchi vehemently protested the measure, but to no avail.

Later, Khan Norizuchi told saKhan Ernest Wick of her plan to invade the Inner Sphere anyway. saKhan Wick tried to convince her of the folly of her ways, but she would not listen. Fearing that the other Clans would move against us as they had against the Not-Named Clan, saKhan Wick called his commanders together and informed them of Khan Norizuchi's plans. Swearing them all to secrecy, saKhan Wick launched a Trial of Annihilation against Khan Norizuchi and her forces. The Secret Trial, as it is now called, completely destroyed Khan Norizuchi's Alpha Galaxy and left saKhan Wick's Beta Galaxy with only a single surviving Cluster. saKhan Wick moved quickly and issued a statement to the Grand Council that Khan Norizuchi had been killed in a bandit raid and that he would now be replacing her as senior Khan. Khan Wick stripped Gamma and Epsilon Galaxies to rebuild Alpha and Beta Galaxy's strengths before our enemies could take advantage of our temporary weakness.

The last quarter century has seen as much internal conflict amongst Clan Ice Hellion as ever. The ever confident and thoughtful Khan Wick led the Clan for seventeen years, the longest single stretch in our Clan's glorious history, during which time the Blinding Fury campaign was carried out with much success, gaining us territories on Foster and Hoard at the expense of Clans Ghost Bear and Hell's Horses. It was during this period that our three-way fued with Clans Diamond Shark and Fire Mandrill escalated to numerous Trials on Atreus, Foster, and Tathis. Clan Ice Hellion was on the road to recovery and was once again proving to be a formidable Crusader Clan. But in 3017, Khan Wick was killed in action. He was succeeded by saKhan Tyler, the leading Warden in the Clan, who appointed the Warden commander of Gamma Galaxy, Blackmon Rood, as new saKhan. Now led by two ardent Wardens, our historically Crusader Clan had lost favor with many of our Crusader-minded allies. Much of the territory won in the Blinding Fury campaign was lost again, to Warden and Crusader Clans alike. Clan Hell's Horses regained most of the land taken a dozen years earlier while Clans Fire Mandrill and Smoke Jaguar devestated Beta and Gamma Galaxies. The entire Atreus enclave was lost to the combined might of Clans Ghost Bear and Diamond Shark. All that Khan Wick had worked for had been dashed in four years by his follower. This chain of events did not sit well with the Crusader Star Colonels, who were secretly pleased when Khan Tyler died in Trial in late 3023. Blackmon Rood, now the senior Khan, knew of the weakening support for his Warden-minded leadership and seeked to appease the overwhelming Crusader majority by appointing Crusaders James Lienet and Tracy Cage to the posts of saKhan and Loremaster, respectively. However, he negated his initial support by relagating many elder Warriors, Warden and Crusader alike, to solahma status. It was Khan Rood's intention to replace the aging Warriors, who had served under Crusader Khans with younger personnel, more suited to following the ways he and Khan Tyler before him had preached. The Crusaders saw through the ploy, and on May 8, 3024, the diminuative Loremaster and Aerospace pilot Tracy Cage challenged Khan Rood to a Circle of Equals for leadership of the Clan. Loremaster Cage won convincingly, snapping Khan Rood's neck with a spinning heel kick. However, Tracy Cage had incurred fatal wounds of her own, and died in the infirmary several days later.

James Lienet, the only remaning member of the Hellion's prior leadership, was unanimously voted in as Khan during the next Clan Council, with ristar Jonathan Wick selected as saKhan.

What is to come shall be decided by honorous battle. Such is the way of the Clans.