The planet Galatea with its numerous Hiring Halls became the " Mercenary's Star", the greatest center of the mercenary trade in the Inner Sphere where mercenaries could train, rest, repair and negotiate their contracts. History The Mercenary Review Board įormed in 2789 by ComStar founder Jerome Blake, the Mercenary Review Board allowed ComStar agents to serve as brokers for all mercenaries and their employers in the Inner Sphere. The MRBC still offers all these functions but to a lesser degree, due to being a separate organization from ComStar. As the reputations of mercenary units and their employers have a bearing on subsequent negotiations involving other units or Houses, violating contractual terms offered little profit to any concerned. Upon reaching a verdict, the panel broadcast its findings throughout the Inner Sphere. To ensure fair dealings on the part of employers as well as those they hired, the MRB provided for a panel of ComStar administrators to hear claims concerning breaches of faith and to judge the veracity of complaints. ComStar informed other potential employers of a rogue unit's actions and had the power to threaten an Interdiction against any House employing such a unit. Arbitration of contracts by ComStar's Mercenary Review Board provided a valuable safeguard on both sides, as any unit failing to perform contracted services after taking an advance found itself unable to evade ComStar's almost universal reach. While operated by ComStar as the MRB, it was at the same time also a criminal extradition service, a prisoner exchange and ransoming service, and a banking house. If a mercenary unit is not registered with the MRB/MRBC then it is usually not considered to be a legitimate mercenary command, and therefore not subject to POW rights, among other drawbacks, though there are exceptions. Apart from registering mercenaries and providing a ranking system to gauge performance and reliability, the MRBC also serves as a court of arbitration in contract disputes for both employers and mercenaries. The MRBC functions as a mercenary guild, brokering and arbitrating mercenary contracts through the endless wars of the Inner Sphere and the Periphery.
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