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Why does Word of Blake have a pathological hatred of the Clans? Is it Tukkayid? Maybe. But maybe it's more. Much more.
We hate the clans because they've taken away
our technological superiority. And reduced technology to even more of a tool than before. And blown apart the grand plan. The ultimate plan was always vulnerable to one variable: the return of the descendants of the SLDF in force, because their mere presence would have meant an outside force beyond our control and manipulation. It would have been perfect for us if Kerensky and his Exodus had just died in the black, but alas. Alas.
Our exclusive HPG monopoly went poof when the clans invaded and made a mess of things, causing all sorts of things like technology proliferation and sharing between the Houses, which made their technological advances faster than if they had all remained at odds with one another, not to mention all those samples of clan technology that the Houses obtained.
There goes our chances of ruling humanity after it's blown itself to bits, because at the rate they're going, it's not gonna happen. If the FC Civil War(civil wars, aren't) couldn't do it, if the 1st and 2nd SW couldn't do it, then it's not gonna happen any time soon. So who's gonna do it? Why, us.
As for blowing apart the Inner Sphere? As a true follower of Blake(IC), I don't have any problems with it. Never cared much for the Star League anyway, not unless it was founded on Blake's Blessed precepts. Getting the others(idiots, hehe) to go along was easy...
I just wish we could have hit the clans at the same time, but we didn't have enough troops, and the Master said to concentrate on the Houses first, so I guess he knows best... After all, the Houses are our worst enemies. Always have been. The clans are, when all is said and done, only a nuisance. They will be dealt with soon enough!
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That said, the above perspective is from the fanatic's viewpoint. From all that has been written about the Wobblies from their perspective, the standard Blakist doesn't really believe in the 'let humanity crumble, then we pick up the pieces' bit, but they would rather eagerly get behind punishing the IS for letting down the Star League.
I don't have a problem with why the jihad occurred.
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Not utilizing the Manei Domini to kill Clanners prior to joining the Star League makes sense. Why spoil the surprise? After joining, the Manei Domini were going to be a complete shock to the Clanners. Something they had never seen before. Units that fought as well as the Clans, were as fanatical as the Clans, and in some regards, had advanced technology over the Clans. Why give it all away by hitting the clans with tiny pinpricks, that could have enticed the Clans to come boiling over into the Inner Sphere before the WoB or the Inner Sphere were ready?
I'd point out that it'd be all too easy to secrete MD teams in the clan OZ, then hit them from inside and outside during the jihad
if the clans were the true target. Or just innocuous attacks like messing up their supply lines, blowing up a warship or two due to 'accidents'(easy to arrange those!), spurring up the locals to increase their resistance, the Naamah ploy(a freebirth courtesan to a high ranking clan commander, if they go for such stuff).
Those pinpricks were something the clans would just chalk down to increased agitation from local partisans. The Manei Domini were never really caught in the Chaos March. I doubt they would have been caught in the OZ either. So your reasoning is bunk.
Others have pointed out, why not hit the clans at the very start? And so we apply Occam's Razor:
Because the clans were never the target from the beginning.
It was all about punishing the Inner Sphere. Right from the very start. Like I've said, the Star League issue was just a sop to the majority of the Word of Blake. There was no Plan A, at least, a Plan A that would be followed. Plan A was nothing more than a ruse to the rest of the Word, while Plan B, to punish and wreck the Houses, was always the true plan. And there were many, many ways to sabotage plan A and switch to plan B.
Personally, in character as a fanatic Blakist, maybe even a Sixth of June MD, I would be really offended if my faction's leaders had actually planned to hit the clans for the Star League, if it had not dissolved. We were storing up our strength for the past decade to serve the fu#%king Houses?!? For what?!? How does it serve Blake's Vision? At all?!?
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Think about it will you? I mean, would they REALLY want the Clans destroyed? It is the Clans and their threat to the Inner Sphere that kept the New Star League alive, but maybe the New Star League didn't have the hands on power that they wanted, so they chose to end it, hoping to preempt the WOB's move to hit the Clans. Then, during the Jihad, they supply a new leader to stand up tall and build a new, more powerful, better, central government akin to the old Terran Hegemony.
