Colonel Renard agrees, seeing as both houses have a mutual enemy, the Davions, on one condition - the mercenaries must die.
However, it seems that Jason Cho is an incompetent commander, as Liao forces still get badly beaten and are forced to negotiate a truce with House Steiner. Also, during the campaign Liao succeeds in getting Davion forces to join the war as well. In the following missions, player is tasked with various covert ops missions, including even an encounter with a few Davion ClanWarrior Bondsmen on Carver V's moon on a mission to destroy the HyperPulse Generators (HPGs), the only means of communication to other worlds. The mission starts with Renard saying "So, you betrayed me too." and giving orders to destroy the camp, a fact that disgusts even normally-indifferent Lieutenant Diaz, player's tactical advisor.
The campaign starts with liberating a Steiner prison camp containing political prisoners, the Gulag (a reference of Soviet Gulag labor camp system). Mandrissa is seemingly ill with a terminal disease, and before she dies, she wants the planet for Jason. This time, the player is under the command of Mandrissa Anita Cho, widow of Mandarin Cho and her son, Captain Jason Cho. In Campaign 2 however it is revealed that player's merc team is far from leaving the planet, as they have already found a new contract - with House Liao. I've got plans for Carver V and you don't want to be part of them." Colonel Renard is getting suspicious when he says "Do this and get out. The final mission of the campaign ends in destruction of bandit HQ and their leader. However, a chase of the bandit convoy results in the player getting into a firefight with Liao units, the fact that bandit leader is an ex-Liao officer also doesn't help the situation, and Renard (despite the protests from Steiner Ambassador Yee, political representative of Archon on the planet), authorizes full-scale attacks on Liao forces. In Campaign 1, player is under command of Steiner Colonel David Renard, and starts with quite easy tasks of destroying minor bandit forces. Player takes the role of their commander. A suspiciously well-equipped bandit force is threatening Steiner territory, and the House uses a quite unusual countermeasure - a mercenary team. All the Houses on Carver V are avoiding any military action that could endanger the peace. The Federated Commonwealth have claimed a few territories in Carver V, killing Mandarin Cho, Liao ruler of the planet in combat. At the time of the storyline's start House Steiner and House Davion, tenuously united as a single state in 3063 as the Federated Commonwealth, is now breaking apart due to Archon Katrina Steiner's controversial seizure of power. The single-player takes place on Carver V, a planet previously held by House Liao.