An Ear to the Sky

I sometimes forget that Ten Years on Terra is taking place during a turbulent time for the Inner Sphere in general, so I thought it might be useful to take a quick survey of what's been happening in the rest of the Sphere while our party has been on Terra.  Most of this is from the timeline in Jihad Hot Spots: 3070.

March 3068 - The Blakist hit a number of Lyran Industrial worlds, including Hesperus II.  Skye and the Bolan Province of the Lyran Alliance actively begin attacks across the Free Worlds League Border.  Clan Wolf-in-Exile sends a taskforce to rescue survivors from Outreach.

April 3068 - Hohiro Kurita leads a DCMS force to counter the Blakists on Dieron.

June 3068 - Blakists take Solaris VII.  Hohiro Kurita is captured by the Word on Dieron.  Kai Allard-Liao vanishes, and Duke George Hasek of the Capellan March launches an unauthorized invasion of the Capellan Confederation.

August 3068 - The ComStar WarShip Bordeaux rescues Primus Mori off of besieged Tukkayid.

October 3068 - Orbital strike on Sian.  Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao reported missing.  New Earth (site of Clark's contact) falls to the Word of Blake.  Contact with Canopus is lost.  Knights of the Inner Sphere killed in a chemical weapons attack on Atreus as massive naval engagement breaks out in-system as Word of Blake asserts control over FWL.  HPG network jammed with "white noise."  Primus Mori assassinated.  Anastasius Focht goes into hiding.  Gavin Dow ascends to the Primacy.

November 3068 - Orestes (ComStar's de facto headquarters) are attacked by the Word of Blake.  Bordeaux is badly damaged.  Northwind falls silent.

December 3068 - Columbus falls to the Word of Blake, with the 151st Eridani Light Horse.  Sun-Tzu Liao is rescued from the rubble of the Forbidden City.

January 3069 - Hohiro Kurita is liberated on Dieron.

That just about brings us up the Session 10. About this time, extrasolar communications will be restored, so the party should get a briefing on what's been happening in the Inner Sphere while they've been under effective interdiction.