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== History ==
'''Tanda Ho Jang''' was a warrior in the [[Clan Ice Hellion Touman|Clan Ice Hellion ''touman'']] during the late [[thirty-first century]]. During [[Operation ICE STORM]], the Ice Hellion invasion of the [[Clan Jade Falcon]] Occupation Zone launched in [[3071]], Tanda was serving in the Ice Hellion [[Delta Galaxy (Clan Ice Hellion)|Delta Galaxy]] under the command of [[Galaxy Commander]] [[Damon Hawkins]].<ref name="OISP1p51"/>

In September 3071, Damon launched a [[Trial of Possession]] for the planet [[Steelton]]. Delta Galaxy had expected the system to be controlled by the Jade Falcons, but when they arrived, they discovered that [[Clan Hell's Horses]] - notionally, allies of [[saKhan]] [[Connor Rood]] - were holding the world. Hawkins decided to launch the attack anyway, on the presumption that the Hell's Horses would accept the outcome, particularly as their agreement with Rood had been that the Horses would limit themselves to capturing worlds from [[Clan Wolf]]. Despite Hawkins' confidence in his decision, Tanda had serious doubts about the attack.<ref name="OISP1p51"/>

Tanda's fears proved justified; by the end of September, every [[Cluster]] from Delta Galaxy had seen combat and taken damage, including her command, the [[33rd Striker Irregulars (Clan Ice Hellion)|Thirty-third Striker Irregulars]]. Hawkins had been killed by a [[Point]] of [[Gnome]] [[battle armor]] in the opening skirmish, but his successor, Star Colonel [[Scott Moore]], had continued to press the trial.<ref name="OISP1p64">''Operation ICE STORM Part One: The Frost Advances'', p. 64-66</ref>

After two weeks, the Hell's Horses had been steadily pushed back until they held only the Cabletone spaceport, and on the 29th of September Moore ordered Tanda to attempt a Trial for the Hell's Horses [[DropShip]]s at the spaceport. While Tanda agreed, she and Moore both considered the battle for Steelton to have been an honorless victory.<ref name="OISP1p64"/>

The battle for Steelton contributed to the Hell's Horses breaking off their alliance with the Ice Hellions; worse still for the Hellions, the Hell's Horses formed a pact with the Jade Falcons, and began attacking Ice Hellion units. Rood would subsequently attempt to cancel the invasion, and recall as many Ice Hellion warriors from the [[Inner Sphere]] as possible in an attempt to forestall what he saw as the comprehensive defeat and likely end of the Ice Hellions as a [[Clan]]. Tanda was one of those who responded, and managed to escape from the Jade Falcon Occupation Zone with two [[Trinary|Trinaries]] of warriors - almost thirty in total - despite she and many others suffering from dangerous levels of radiation poisoning.<ref name="OISP2p82">''Operation ICE STORM Part Two: Winds of Spring'', p. 82-84</ref>

When Tanda caught up with Connor Rood's command aboard the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser [[Coterie]] in the [[Deep Periphery]] in the uninhabited system [[NGC-99382]], she was the first to be able to confirm to him that [[Khan]] [[Raina Montose]] was dead, and to give an account of just how bad the battles on [[Vantaa]] had been for the Ice Hellions. With her report given, Tanda collapsed.<ref name="OISP2p82"/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Operation ICE STORM (novel)|Operation ICE STORM Part One: The Frost Advances]]''
* ''[[Operation ICE STORM (novel)|Operation ICE STORM Part Two: Winds of Spring]]''

[[Category:Clan Ice Hellion Characters|Ho Jang, Tanda]]