[Doc Chaos]

As far as material states I have access to at the moment, the Euro Wars ended sometime in 2037 with the end of the Great Dschihad. I guess they had to mop up a few resistance nests after that, but 2042 seems a bit stretched...

[BlackMyron]

  This was in the earliest material - the SR1 stuff.  I believe Secrets of Europe ended it in 2035, when the Alliance of Allah fell apart.

[FastJack]

According to the 6WA, the Euro Wars began Jan 17, 2031 with Russia invading Poland, then continued until the Nightwraith incident (1/23/2033), with the cease-fire and armistice being signed on Jan 24, 2033. It says that smaller battles continued to plague Eastern Europe, but doesn't give a date when they finally stopped.

The Great Jihad (is that what you meant, Doc? I think it wasn't translated), started on Oct 14th, 2034 when the Alliance for Allah attacked Israel, Russia, India, the Balkans, and the Iberian Peninsula. It doesn't list an end date for the Jihad...

[netviking]

'Runners of course.

Its the only theory that fits.....

[Doc Chaos]

The Great Jihad (is that what you meant, Doc? I think it wasn't translated)

Yeah, glitch in my "german-to-yankee" lingo-soft, I'll get that fixed right away. Thx

[Nath]

The war between Russia and the European allies was the First Eurowar. The Great Jihad was the Second Eurowar, even though Shadows of Asia says the Alliance also attacked Israel and in the Caucasus moutains. 2042 is seemingly the end of the Turkish civil war that followed, with Constantinople and Kuristan going independent around that time. Balkans states probably also kept on fighting for some time.

[BlackMyron]

  Trying to find the original sources here:

  "Just when it seemed the Alliance would make a breakthrough, however, news spread that Mullah Sayid Jazrir had been assassinated in Istanbul.  The Alliance crumbled as different factions and leaders claimed power; the unity of purpose vanished before petty bickering.  The war was effectively over, though the Balkans remained aflame." - Secrets of Europe

  No date given there, but Secrets of Asia places the assassination in 2035 in its Middle East timeline.

[Krypter]

I still don't see how anybody could assassinate all these world leaders and not leave a single clue as to who was behind it. It's so extremely unlikely my only explanation is "lol magic" and I try to put it out of my mind. The stealth bombers coming out of nowhere detected going to and fro by nobody is almost as bad, but I suppose in the middle of major war it's at least possible, even if unlikely.

[Doc Chaos]

Just means they had help from so high up, Zurich Orbital is their basement...

[bobo69]

Nightwraith....Corporate court strike force with support and consent from the UK, Germany, France Western Euro states.

[Nath]

I still don't see how anybody could assassinate all these world leaders and not leave a single clue as to who was behind it.

The target were not specifically heads of state. To make a comparison, that would have been like targeting Wolfowitz, Perl and Rumsfeld and a few key general officers to derail US administration policy in Iraq, instead of simply going after president Bush (okay, you'd probably have to go after Cheney as well). Your point is still valid though : that's a hell of a trick to pull off.

In my opinion, the "best" explanation would be that none of the governments really searched because they were all involved in the planning and execution of the operation.

[BlackMyron]

 Well, there's the mysterious assassinations of various world leaders in 2016 by "lone gunmen"...

[Doc Chaos]

Move to get more corporate friendly personel in some governments offices if you ask me...

[Frostriese]

Id say it were corporate interests seeing the European market threatened. I think theyre the only ones who could "temporarily lease" some government assets like the Nightwraiths (so it might well have been British military assets) AND pull off the assassinations at the same time. Maybe Lofwyr - hes always the one for moving chess pieces behind the scenes, after all, and very directly linked to Europe.

[Nath]

Note that in 2033, Lofwyr wasn't yet heading Saeder-Krupp. It was still Michel Beloit's widow, Wilhelmina Graff-Beloit.