Battletech The Mercenary Life

Author : Randall N. Bills
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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BattleTech: The Mercenary Life by Randall N. Bills Pdf

A COST IS ALWAYS PAID… Nikolai Reed is a trader on a Lyran JumpShip plying the space lanes… Chloe Mason is a hot-shot tech with the Hsien Hotheads mercenaries… Leaving the Northwind Highlanders, MechWarrior Ryana Nikol fills a billet with the Eridani Light Horse… Disparate lives, but a unified dream that will bring them all together on a fateful course that will span decades, cover hundreds of light years, and involve love, friendship, and loss across a dozen worlds. Each will pay a price along the way, as a cost always comes due. The Mercenary Life anthology is a compilation of stories written by Randall N. Bills. Including tales from several different characters as they cross paths, and the dream to found a new mercenary command is born. Their unique lives showcase the struggles and trials of the men and women who take up the mercenary mantle from a variety of angles, all bound around that central vision. The first eight stories of this anthology were originally posted for free alongside the release of MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, acting as the origin stories for the mercenary command within that computer game. This is the first time they have been compiled into a single volume to allow for a Print on Demand physical copy. Additionally, an all-new ninth story has been added—The Sun Will Rise—along with postscripts for every story that gives the reader insight into how stories are crafted within a shared universe between tabletop, computer games, and fiction that spans more than thirty years and tens of millions of words.

Author : Contemporary Books,Jill Lucas
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988-12-12
Category : BattleTech (Game)
ISBN : 1555600271

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Mercenary's Handbook by Contemporary Books,Jill Lucas Pdf

A BattleTech and MechWarrior supplement describing the mercenary way of life.

Author : Fanpro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1932564128

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Field Manual by Fanpro Pdf

Author : Catalyst Game Labs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942487509

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Battletech Combat Manual Mercenaries by Catalyst Game Labs Pdf

For over forty centuries, mercenaries have plied their trade and been instrumental in toppling empires or holding the tides of war at bay. And as mankind expanded to the stars, soldiers of fortune rose to new heights of power. Business is booming, yet along with those riches comes a dangerous life and the scorn of many who see only filthy lucre-warriors. Its a dangerous life, but as long as you keep your Mech intact and your bottom line balanced, the universe is yours!

Author : FASA Corporation,FASA Corporation Staff
Publisher : Fasa
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : BattleTech (Game)
ISBN : 1555603513

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Battletech Field Manual by FASA Corporation,FASA Corporation Staff Pdf

In the year 3050 the mysterious invaders known as the Clans struck without warning from beyond known space. Their advanced 'Mechs destroyed all opposition and captured planet after planet. Now the Clans' secrets are revealed in Field Manual: Warden Clans. The second of two volumes on the Clans, this BattleTech sourcebook describes the seven most noble Clans: Cloud Cobra, Coyote, Diamond Shark, Ghost Bear, Goliath Scorpion, Snow Raven, and Steel Viper. Each Clans tactics, uniforms and battle histories are described in detail, along with new Clan 'Mechs and equipment.

Author : William H. Keith, Jr.
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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BattleTech Legends: Mercenary's Star by William H. Keith, Jr. Pdf

BACKS AGAINST THE WALL… Galatea. The Mercenary's Star. Even the most down on their luck units can find work here. Leading the newly-formed Gray Death Legion has been challenging for Grayson Death Carlyle, so when a job comes their way, he’s only too happy to take it. The mission: train the local resistance on the planet Verthandi to resist their Draconis Combine masters. But things do not go well almost from the moment the Legion arrives. Trapped on Verthandi and facing a superior force and a fractured populace, the men and women of the Legion find themselves in a situation that makes the campaign on Trellwan look like a walk in the park. And Grayson quickly learns repeating his past successes may not be so easy this time…

Author : William H. Keith, Jr.,Andrew Keith
Publisher : New Amer Library
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451451848

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Decision at Thunder Rift by William H. Keith, Jr.,Andrew Keith Pdf

With his friends and family dead and his father's regiment destroyed, Grayson Death Carlyle, a MechWarrior, must learn to fight for justice in a world turned hostile. Original.

Author : Jason Schmetzer
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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BattleTech: The Price of Duty by Jason Schmetzer Pdf

A STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE… Former hauptmann Ronan Carlyle is a man without a nation. After his former commanding officer declared herself governor-general of a reborn Tamar Pact, Ronan, a loyal Steiner officer, led a group of soldiers and techs including his sister, Isobel, back for Garrison for reassignment. But on Garrison, his troubles multiply. The senior Lyran officer brands the 26th Arcturan loyalists traitors and cashiers them, stranding nearly 200 former LCAF soldiers, technicians, and crewmen on a Lyran world with no way off-planet. Forced to scrounge up a way to survive, Ronan and Isobel hatch a plan to get the former LCAF members back to their homeworlds by salvaging ’Mechs. But when a Lyran scout battalion goes AWOL over an off-world mission squashed by their commanding officer, the LCAF is shocked to discover the Arcturan loyalists have built up the largest contingent of combat equipment outside the militia. Ronan’s people need cash. They have skills. And there’s history in his name… Thus, the Gray Death Legion is reborn. First as a way to get funds for his people to leave. But they fight the Lyran unit—winning by use of unorthodox tactics—and discover they don’t want to disband…instead, the reconstituted mercenary unit wants to find its next employer…

Author : Randall N. Bills
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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BattleTech: Fall From Glory by Randall N. Bills Pdf

FLIGHT INTO THE UNKNOWN… 100 million dead. 500 million wounded. One billion homeless. The worst war in human history is over—and has left the Star League shattered. Jealousy and infighting from the five Great House Lords over who will be the next First Lord has the entire Inner Sphere already teetering on the brink of all-out conflict again. Against this grim backdrop, Aleksandr Kerensky, commanding general of the Star League Defense Force, faces a terrible choice. Stay, and see the mightiest military ever known subsumed into the Great Houses, lighting a conflagration that may burn even brighter than the terrible Amaris Coup. Or do the unthinkable… To save the Inner Sphere, Aleksander—along with his sons, Nicholas and Andery—must leave it behind. He marshals the largest fleet ever assembled to carry millions of people on thousands of JumpShips to head into the unknown. Exodus! But though the Great General strives to make a fresh start for his people far from the Inner Sphere, old habits and allegiances are difficult to leave behind. Soon the Kerenskys and their followers face threats both external and internal as they search the endless black for a new world upon which they can forge a Star League-in-Exile…or die trying.

Author : Jason Schmetzer
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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BattleTech: Mercenary's Honor by Jason Schmetzer Pdf

CONTRACTS MAKE STRANGE ALLIES… For new mercenary groups just starting out, one of the primary rules is “Follow the money.” Even when it’s being paid by the same people who forced you to become a mercenary unit in the first place. Ronan and Isobel Carlyle are experiencing this right now, having accepted a contract from the newly-formed Tamar Pact, the cluster of planets that recently seceded from the Lyran Commonwealth—and got the once loyal-Carlyle siblings cashiered as turncoats. Now the Pact wants the Legion’s help with one of their newer planets, Crimond. But murky mission parameters and an unhelpful liaison officer leaves Ronan and Bel wondering who’s a friend and who’s a foe. And when the Legion splits up to handle two different missions, Bel finds herself an entire continent away, on a mission to scout an abandoned Star League base. But she soon discovers the base—and the nearby community—is anything but abandoned…and if she doesn’t act fast, she and her GDL commandos will receive a welcome they won’t walk away from…

Author : Jason Schmetzer
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942487234

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BattleTech: Embers of War by Jason Schmetzer Pdf

ONE WAR ENDS...AND ANOTHER BEGINS... For Ezra Payne and the Stealthy Tiger mercenaries, professionalism is everything. Hired to assist in the bitter, bloody fighting on the planet Hall, they quickly earn a decisive victory for their employer. They settle afterward in for a needed period of rebuilding, and a few months’ peace before moving on to the next contract. But their respite does not last. More mercenaries, hired by the Allied Mercenary Command itself, land on Hall. They believe the Tigers’ employer to be league with the Word of Blake, a shadowy interstellar organization that worships technology, and which has been building its own empire among the worlds around Terra. The Tigers want nothing of this battle, but war rages across the Inner Sphere. The hard-fought cease-fire cannot last, even on Hall, and when every faction is embittered and fueled by fervor, peace has no chance at all. As a new conflict erupts, will the Stealthy Tigers’ BattleMechs be enough to save them? Or will the looming threat of renewed war engulf them in its fiery embrace?

Author : Randall N. Bills
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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BattleTech: Land of Dreams by Randall N. Bills Pdf

RETURN IN TRIUMPH…OR NOT AT ALL… Two thousand light years from Terra, two brothers leave behind the shattered dreams of their father, the great General Aleksandr Kerensky. For a second time, war drives them into the dark and cold of the void, as the raging conflict engulfs the Pentagon Worlds and the nascent Star League-in-Exile. For nearly fifteen years on the world of Strana Mechty—the land of dreams—Andery Kerensky has watched his elder brother Nicholas shape an all-new society of warriors that follows their ilKhan with near religious fanaticism. And despite the costs already paid in blood for that transformation, Andery knows the worst is yet to come. For Nicholas will stop at nothing to mold his followers into something never-before-seen in human history. And all with one singular goal: to return to the Pentagon Worlds and punish those that destroyed their father’s dream. Can Andery continue to be his brother’s conscience, even as Nicholas’ final hammer blows forge the Clans into the great and terrible society it is poised to become? Or will the titanic assault of Operation Klondike, and the Clans’ return to the Pentagon Worlds, shatter what Nicholas has built entirely? And just how far will Andery let Nicholas go to pursue his zealous quest of a united Clan Homeworlds…

Author : Michael A. Stackpole
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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BattleTech Legends: Warrior: En Garde by Michael A. Stackpole Pdf

’MECHS AT THE READY… Betrayed by his own House and stripped of his rank, exiled Mechwarrior Justin Allard is given one last chance to save his honor—by risking his life in the gladiatorial arenas of Solaris VII. But his newest Game World opponent—more skilled at 'Mech-to-'Mech combat than any other rival—raises the stakes even higher. It's Philip Capet, former mechwarrior in the Davion military—until he was kicked out by none other than Justin Allard before his own unfortunate fall from grace. Both Justin and Philip face fierce battles, but in the Inner Sphere, where nobles have schemed for centuries to win the ultimate power, those who interfere with the Successor Lords are sometimes called heroes. And sometimes called victims…

Author : Randall N. Bills
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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BattleTech: Visions of Rebirth by Randall N. Bills Pdf

THE DREAM DESTROYED… General Aleksandr Kerensky is dead. The Pentagon Worlds are in flames. The dream of a Star League-in-Exile is over, shattered by civil war. Amid the chaos, Nicholas Kerensky leads those who will follow him into a second exodus to the world of Strana Mechty. Yet unlike his father, Nicholas Kerensky must choose a different path: He wants to do away with all that was, and create an entirely new order. However, the bounds of society that go back millennia cannot be shed so easily. Resistance must be overcome, and blood must be spilled before Nicholas' dream can be achieved. But without his brother Andery's help, the entire venture is doomed before it even begins. Brothers, however, don't always share the same goals. And as more aspects of civilization are purged in the relentless forging of this new society, Andery fears the worst of human nature will arise. Can he find a way forward and stay by his brother’s side… or will Nicholas’ ultimate vision be realized as everything Andery stands against?

Author : FASA Corporation Staff,Loren L. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : BattleTech (Game)
ISBN : 1555602894

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Battletech Field Manual by FASA Corporation Staff,Loren L. Coleman Pdf

Field Manual: Mercenaries plungers players into the deadly world of cash-and-carry warfare in the 31st century and includes the secrets of more than forty of the most famous mercenary units in the BattleTech universe, including their histories, troop strengths, and favored tactics. The extensive game rules section gives players the tools to easily create their own mercenary units from scratch, and rules for maintaining their unit from one battle to the next.