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More than seventy full-length ''[[BattleTech]]'' or ''[[MechWarrior]]'' novels have been published (originally by [[FASA]], currently by [[Roc Books]]) and translated into at least fifteen languages. The last FASA novel was [[Loren L. Coleman]]'s ''[[Endgame]]'' in 2002, which wrapped up plot-lines and character arcs dating back to the original novels beginning in 1986. The novels then jumped ahead chronologically to accompany [[MechWarrior: Dark Age]], with [[Michael Stackpole]]'s ''[[Ghost War]]''.
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:''see also:'' [[:Category:Novels]]
  
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[[BattleTech Novels chronological order|* Interpreted list of the books in chronological order]]
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==FASA books==
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The twelve early BattleTech books published directly by [[FASA]] are often considered the bedrock of the universe. They portray the "classic" era set around the year [[3025]] (the late [[Succession Wars era]]) up until the beginning the [[Clan Invasion era]].
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==Classic BattleTech Novels==
 
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===''[[Decision at Thunder Rift]]''===
 
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* '''Author:''' [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 9/1986
 
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* ISBN 0-931787-69-6
 
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Book One of the [[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]]. [[Grayson Death Carlyle]] is the young son of the commander of ''Carlyle's Commandos'', a mercenary unit employed by the [[Lyran Commonwealth]]. When the Commandos are destroyed in a sneak attack on the planet [[Trell I]], Grayson must help the people of Trell throw off the invading forces while trying to live up to his father's legacy.
 
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===''[[The Sword and the Dagger]]''===
 
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* '''Author:''' [[Ardath Mayhar]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/1987
 
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* ISBN 0-931787-77-7
 
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[[Ardan Sortek]] stumbles upon a plot to replace [[Hanse Davion]], First Prince of the [[Federated Suns]], with a clever double under the control of [[Maximilian Liao]], Chancellor of the [[Capellan Confederation]] and sworn enemy of the Davion family.
 
  
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===''[[Mercenary's Star (novel)|Mercenary's Star]]''===
 
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* '''Author:''' [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' (1987)
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-030-1
 
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Book Two of the [[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]]. The fledgling Gray Death Legion, formed in the fighting on [[Trell I]], takes on their first assignment: train the inhabitants of [[Verthandi]] to fight their [[Draconis Combine]] overlords. But what starts as just a job for [[Grayson Carlyle]] and his unit soon becomes personal.
 
  
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===''[[The Price of Glory]]''===
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[[Image:Decision at Thunder Rift.jpg|left|70px|Decision at Thunder Rift]]'''''[[Decision at Thunder Rift]]''''' ([[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]] #1), by [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]. Published June 1986. Timeline: [[3024]]<br />On [[Trell I]], [[Grayson Death Carlyle]], the commander's son, must help the people of Trell throw off the invading forces while trying to live up to his father's legacy after ''[[Carlyle's Commandos]]'' are destroyed in a sneak attack.
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* '''Author:''' [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' (1987)
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-038-7
 
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Book Three of the [[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]]. [[Grayson Death Carlyle]] has gone from being the young son of a mercenary commander to the leader of his very own unit in just a few short years. Now under contract to the [[Free Worlds League]], the [[Gray Death Legion]] falls prey to political machinations and secret agreements between ambitious men and stands accused of a horrific crime. In a race against time, they must find a way off the planet [[Helm]] before they are utterly destroyed.
 
  
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===''[[Warrior: En Garde]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Sword and the Dagger.jpg|left|70px|The Sword and the Dagger]]'''''[[The Sword and the Dagger]]''''', by [[Ardath Mayhar]]. Published April 1987. Timeline: [[3025]]<br />[[Ardan Sortek]] stumbles upon a plot to replace [[Hanse Davion]], First Prince of the [[Federated Suns]], with a double under the control of [[Maximilian Liao]], Chancellor of the [[Capellan Confederation]] and sworn enemy of the Davion family.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/1988
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-046-8
 
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27 Nov [[3026]]-10 Jun [[3027]]
 
  
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Book One of the ''Warrior'' Trilogy. [[Justin Xiang Allard]] is exiled from the [[Federated Suns]] and makes his way to [[Solaris VII]], the Gaming World, where he catches the eye of agents from the [[Capellan Confederation]]. With his former life in ruins, Justin pledges himself to the Capellan Chancellor. Meanwhile, someone has kidnapped [[Melissa Steiner]], heir to the throne of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] and betrothed of [[Hanse Davion]], First Prince of the [[Federated Suns]]. [[Daniel Allard]] and the [[Kell Hounds]] mercenary unit must face a foe from their past to rescue her.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Mercenary's Star.jpg|left|70px|Mercenary's Star]]'''''[[Mercenary's Star]]''''' ([[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]] #2), by [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]. Published June 1987. Timeline: [[3025]]&mdash;[[3026]]<br />The fledgling [[Gray Death Legion]], formed in the fighting on Trell I, takes on their first [[mercenary]] contract: train the inhabitants of [[Verthandi]] to fight their [[Draconis Combine]] overlords.
  
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===''[[Warrior: Riposte]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Price of Glory.jpg|left|70px|The Price of Glory]]'''''[[The Price of Glory]]''''' ([[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]] #3), by [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]. Published October 1987. Timeline: [[3027]]&mdash;[[3028]]<br />Outlawed for an atrocious war crime that they did not commit, the [[Gray Death Legion]] find that they unknowingly held the key to an immeasurably valuable treasure.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/1988
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-068-9
 
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10 Oct [[3027]]-02 Feb [[3029]].
 
  
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Book Two of the ''Warrior'' Trilogy. The wedding of [[Hanse Davion]] and [[Melissa Steiner]] is fast approaching and tensions are rising throughout the [[Inner Sphere]]. [[Morgan Kell]], co-founder of the [[Kell Hounds]] mercenary unit, is recalled from his self-imposed exile to take up command once more as the Hounds gear up for war. At the climax of the wedding ceremony on [[Terra]], attended by dignitaries from across human space, [[Hanse Davion]] declares war on the [[Capellan Confederation]]. The [[Fourth Succession War]] begins.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Warrior - En Garde.jpg|left|70px|Warrior: En Garde]]'''''[[En Garde]]''''' ([[The Warrior Trilogy]] #1), by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published August 1988. Timeline: [[3026]]&mdash;[[3027]]<br />False accusations and a sham trial exile [[Justin Xiang Allard]] from the [[Federated Suns]]. The resourceful Warrior finds a new home in the [[Capellan Confederation]]. Meanwhile, someone has kidnapped [[Melissa Steiner]], heir to the throne of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] and betrothed of [[Hanse Davion]], First Prince of the Federated Suns. [[Daniel Allard]] and the [[Kell Hounds]] mercenary unit must face a foe from their past to rescue her.
  
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===''[[Wolves on the Border]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Warrior - Riposte (original).jpg|left|70px|Warrior: Riposte]]'''''[[Riposte]]''''' ([[The Warrior Trilogy]] #2), by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published October 1988. Timeline: [[3027]]&mdash;[[3029]]<br />On the eve of his wedding to [[Melissa Steiner]], [[Hanse Davion]] declares war on the [[Capellan Confederation]], launching the [[Fourth Succession War]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert N. Charrette]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' (1988)
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-087-5
 
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[[Wolf's Dragoons]] is one of the most feared and respected mercenary units in the entire [[Inner Sphere]]. Currently under contract to the [[Draconis Combine]], they become the target of a plot by an ambitious and devious Warlord to gain their services permanently. Their liaison with the Combine, [[Minobu Tetsuhara]], is an honest man and a friend to the Dragoons' leader, Colonel [[Jaime Wolf]], and is caught between duty and friendship as war looms.
 
  
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===''[[Warrior: Coupé]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Wolves on the Border.jpg|left|70px|Wolves on the Border]]'''''[[Wolves on the Border]]''''', by [[Robert N. Charrette]]. Published March 1989. Timeline: [[3023]]&mdash;[[3028]]<br />The famous [[Wolf's Dragoons]] become the target of a plot by an ambitious and devious [[Draconis Combine]] Warlord to gain their services permanently. Their liaison with the Combine, [[Minobu Tetsuhara]], is an honest man and a friend to the Dragoons' leader, Colonel [[Jaime Wolf]], and is caught between duty and friendship as war looms.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/1989
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-073-5
 
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03 Mar [[3029]]-15 Dec [[3029]].
 
  
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Book Three of the ''Warrior'' Trilogy. As the [[Fourth Succession War]] continues, [[Morgan Kell]] and his [[Kell Hounds]] race towards a final showdown with [[Yorinaga Kurita]]. [[Justin Xiang Allard]], now a high-ranking member of Capellan intelligence, tries to hold back the invading Davion forces but is hampered at every turn. And to make matters worse, he may have a spy within his office!
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Warrior - Coupé (original).jpg|left|70px|Warrior: Coupé]]'''''[[Coupé]]''''' ([[The Warrior Trilogy]] #2), by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published April 1989. Timeline: [[3029]]&mdash;[[3030]]<br />The Capellan Confederation, weakened from within by treason and a Davion agent, is shattered in the [[Fourth Succession War]] while the [[Kell Hounds]] prepare for a final showdown with [[Yorinaga Kurita]].
  
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===''[[Heir to the Dragon]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Heir to the Dragon.jpg|left|70px|Heir to the Dragon]]'''''[[Heir to the Dragon]]''''', by [[Robert N. Charrette]]. Published August 1989. Timeline: [[3018]]&mdash;[[3040]]<br />[[Theodore Kurita]], only son of the [[Draconis Combine]]'s reigning [[Coordinator]] [[Takashi Kurita]], has grandiose ideas about the future of his nation but he is hindered by his father's conservative nature and fear of change, and must prove himself on the battlefield as well as the treacherous waters of the Combine court.
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert N. Charrette]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/1989
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-095-6
 
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Honor and respect towards ones elders is an important part of the Japanese-influenced culture of the [[Draconis Combine]]. [[Theodore Kurita]], only son of the reigning Coordinator, has grandiose ideas about the future of his nation but he is hindered by his father's conservative nature and fear of change. During the chaos of the [[Fourth Succession War]] and the [[War of 3039]], Theodore not only must survive on the battlefield, he must also navigate the treacherous waters of the Combine court. Can father and son reconcile for the good of their people?
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Lethal Heritage (original).jpg|left|70px|Lethal Heritage]]'''''[[Lethal Heritage]]''''' ([[Blood of Kerensky Trilogy]] #1), by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published September 1989. Timeline: [[3049]]&mdash;[[3051]]<br />Two decades after the [[Fourth Succession War]] that forever altered the balance of power in the [[Inner Sphere]], a new generation of leaders faces an entirely new threat: Mysterious invaders from beyond the [[Periphery]] threaten everything they know and love.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 9/1989
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-091-3
 
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Book One of the [[Blood of Kerensky (series)|Blood of Kerensky]] Trilogy. A new generation of characters makes its debut in this series. [[Victor Steiner-Davion]], heir to the throne of the [[Federated Commonwealth]], is fresh from the academy and posted to the back end of nowhere. [[Kai Allard-Liao]], son of the great [[Justin Xiang Allard]] and [[Candace Liao]], fears he can never live up to the tremendous legacy of his parents. [[Shin Yodama]] is a yakuza soldier in the army of the [[Draconis Combine]], assigned to safeguard the grandson of Coordinator [[Takashi Kurita]]. [[Phelan Kell]] has followed in his father Morgan's footsteps and serves in the mercenary [[Kell Hounds]]. All four of these young men must face dangers both internal and external when a mysterious invader from beyond the [[Periphery]] threatens everything they know and love.
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Blood Legacy (original).jpg|left|70px|Blood Legacy]]'''''[[Blood Legacy]]''''' ([[Blood of Kerensky Trilogy]] #2), by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published December 1990. Timeline: [[3051]]&mdash;[[3052]]<br />The invading [[Clans]] have been stopped temporarily, but old prejudices and hatreds still stand in the way of a cooperative [[Inner Sphere]] defense. [[Luthien]], capital world of the [[Draconis Combine]], may fall, a risk the Inner Sphere cannot afford to take.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/1990
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-092-1
 
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Book Two of the ''Blood of Kerensky'' Trilogy. The [[Clans]] have been stopped temporarily through the sacrifice of a young pilot. [[Jaime Wolf]], commander of the mysterious and elite [[Wolf's Dragoons]] mercenary unit, takes the opportunity to reveal the origin of this new menace: they are the descendants of the [[Star League Defense Force]], which left the [[Inner Sphere]] over two hundred years ago after the collapse of the League. The Dragoons, themselves former Clanners, intend to train the heirs of the [[Successor States]] to fight and defeat the Clans, if old prejudices and hatreds don't tear the [[Inner Sphere]] apart first. The first real test of this new-found sense of cooperation is the defense of [[Luthien]], capital world of the [[Draconis Combine]]. But just what is the ultimate objective of the Clans?
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Lost Destiny (original).jpg|left|70px|Lost Destiny]]'''''[[Lost Destiny]]''''' ([[Blood of Kerensky Trilogy]] #3), by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published September 1991. Timeline: [[3052]]<br />Despite some small victories, the Inner Sphere seems helpless to stop the renewed onslaught of the Clan juggernaut. At the time of their greatest need, [[ComStar]] steps forward to fulfill their destiny as the saviors of humanity and reveals a hidden army that will duel with the Clans in a proxy fight for Terra on the backwater world of [[Tukayyid]]&mdash;the cataclysmic [[Battle of Tukayyid]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 9/1991
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-094-8
 
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Book Three of the ''Blood of Kerensky'' Trilogy. The man once known as [[Phelan Kell]] has risen through the ranks in [[Clan Wolf]] and now stands to win a coveted Bloodname, the highest honor the Clans can bestow. [[Kai Allard-Liao]] is missing and presumed dead in the wake of a [[Clan Jade Falcon]] attack. [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] must mount a rescue of a man who once would have been considered his mortal enemy: [[Hohiro Kurita II|Hohiro Kurita]]. And behind it all, [[ComStar]] lurks, ready to betray their Clan allies for the chance to fulfill their destiny as the saviors of humanity.
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Shrapnel.jpg|left|70px|Shrapnel]]'''''[[Shrapnel]]'''''. Published 1988. Timeline: ca. [[2980]]&mdash[[3025]]<br />Published by FASA as part of their line of BattleTech sourcebooks and game supplements (instead of novel format), the ''Shrapnel'' anthology contains a number of standalone short stories (including a [[Gray Death Legion]] story by [[William H. Keith, Jr.]] and a story about [[Kell Hounds]] co-founder [[Patrick Kell]] by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]) and graphic artwork.
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert Thurston]]
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/1991
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45101-5
 
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Book one of the [[Legend of the Jade Phoenix]] trilogy. Cadet [[Aidan Pryde|Aidan]] of [[Clan Jade Falcon]] dreams of one day being a Warrior and contributing his genetic material to his Clan's breeding program. But first he has to make it out of the [[sibko]], not an easy task when he has to compete against his fellow cadets and endure the scorn of [[Falconer]] [[Joanna]].
 
  
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===''[[Bloodname (novel)|Bloodname]]''===
 
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert Thurston]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 10/1991
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45117-1
 
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Book two of the [[Legend of the Jade Phoenix]] trilogy. [[Aidan Pryde|Aidan]] is a Warrior, though his path to this role was not one he ever would have imagined. Masquerading as a [[freeborn]] named Jorge, he has to hide his true self for fear of his Clan's reaction. When an opportunity to prove his value comes, Aidan leaps to take advantage of the glory he wins and claim his rightful place among the [[trueborn]] Warriors of [[Clan Jade Falcon]].
 
  
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==ROC books==
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert Thurston]]
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In 1991, [[Roc Books]] took over the novel line from FASA.
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/1991
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===BattleTech novels===
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* ISBN 0-451-45129-5
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Roc continued the FASA line of "BattleTech" novels and also reprinted all FASA novels (save for ''The Sword and the Dagger'', which had a different contract from all others) with new cover art. This line was concluded with novel #56, ''[[Endgame]]''.
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Book three of the [[Legend of the Jade Phoenix]] trilogy. [[Star Colonel]] [[Aidan Pryde]] has achieved many of the dreams he once had for himself. But the path he took to reach his goals has made him a pariah within the ranks of [[Clan Jade Falcon]], begrudgingly accepted because of the need for as many Warriors as possible to feed the progress of the [[Clans]]' invasion of the [[Inner Sphere]]. When [[ComStar]] challenges the Clans to one final decisive battle on the planet [[Tukayyid]], Aidan gets one last shot at redemption.
 
  
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert N. Charrette]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/1992
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45224-0
 
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[[Wolf's Dragoons]] have seen and done it all. With their true identity and purpose revealed during the [[Clan Invasion]], they have begun to rebuild both their reputation and their forces. However, an overly-ambitious former Clanner and the insecure scion of [[Jaime Wolf]]'s own family threaten to undo everything the Dragoons have achieved in their half-century as mercenaries. [[Jaime Wolf]] and his Dragoons must decide once and for all if they belong to the [[Clans]] or the [[Inner Sphere]]... or perhaps are something different from either.
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Way of the Clans.jpg|left|70px|Way of the Clans]]'''''[[Way of the Clans]]''''' ([[Legend of the Jade Phoenix]] trilogy #1), by [[Robert Thurston]]. Published August 1991. Timeline: ca. [[3030]]s<br />[[Trueborn]] to [[Clan Jade Falcon]], Cadet [[Aidan Pryde|Aidan]] aspires to become a Warrior and contribute his genetic material to his Clan's breeding program. But [[sibko]] training is harsh and unforgiving.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 7/1992
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45172-4
 
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Raiders equipped with [[Clan]] weaponry are hitting worlds along the Clan Occupation Zone/[[Federated Commonwealth]] border. Archon-Prince Designate [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] and Khan [[Phelan Ward]] of [[Clan Wolf]] agree to jointly defeat the raiders despite their differences. [[Melissa Steiner]] is assassinated by a bomb blast, adding to the tension of the raids.
 
  
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===''[[Decision at Thunder Rift]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Bloodname.jpg|left|70px|Bloodname]]'''''[[Bloodname (novel)|Bloodname]]''''' ([[Legend of the Jade Phoenix]] trilogy #2), by [[Robert Thurston]]. Published October 1991. Timeline: ca. [[3040]]s<br />[[Aidan Pryde|Aidan]] only managed to attain Warrior status by unconventional means and under the assumed identity of [[freeborn]] Warrior Jorge. Though this should preclude him from ever earning a [[bloodname]], he gets a chance to set his record straight.
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* '''Author:''' [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 9/1992
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45184-8
 
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Book One of the ''Saga of the [[Gray Death Legion]]''. [[Grayson Death Carlyle]] is the young son of the commander of ''Carlyle's Commandos'', a mercenary unit employed by the [[Lyran Commonwealth]]. When the Commandos are destroyed in a sneak attack on the planet [[Trell I]], Grayson must help the people of Trell throw off the invading forces while trying to live up to his father's legacy.
 
  
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===''[[Mercenary's Star (novel)|Mercenary's Star]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Falcon Guard.jpg|left|70px|Falcon Guard]]'''''[[Falcon Guard (novel)|Falcon Guard]]''''' ([[Legend of the Jade Phoenix]] trilogy #3), by [[Robert Thurston]]. Published December 1991. Timeline: [[3051]]&mdash;[[3052]]<br />Considered a pariah among [[Clan Jade Falcon]] for his unconventional career, [[Star Colonel]] [[Aidan Pryde]] gets one last shot at redemption in the [[Battle of Tukayyid]].
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* '''Author:''' [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 11/1992
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45194-5
 
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Book Two of the ''Saga of the [[Gray Death Legion]]''. The fledgling Gray Death Legion, formed in the fighting on [[Trell I]], takes on their first assignment: train the inhabitants of [[Verthandi]] to fight their [[Draconis Combine]] overlords. But what starts as just a job for [[Grayson Carlyle]] and his unit soon becomes personal.
 
  
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===''[[The Price of Glory]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Wolf Pack.jpg|left|70px|Wolf Pack]]'''''[[Wolf Pack]]''''', by [[Robert N. Charrette]]. Published April 1992. Timeline: [[3053]]&mdash;[[3055]]<br />Over the course of half a century, [[Wolf's Dragoons]] have evolved from a topnotch mercenary unit to something resembling a small nation&mdash;too big to maintain coherence among their various subfactions. Torn between their [[Clan]] and [[Inner Sphere]] origins, they find themselves in what amounts to a civil war when an ambitious Clan faction attempts a coup against [[Jaime Wolf]].
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* '''Author:''' [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 1/1993
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45217-8
 
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Book Three of the ''Saga of the [[Gray Death Legion]]''. [[Grayson Death Carlyle]] has gone from being the young son of a mercenary commander to the leader of his very own unit in just a few short years. Now under contract to the [[Free Worlds League]], the [[Gray Death Legion]] falls prey to political machinations and secret agreements between ambitious men and stands accused of a horrific crime. In a race against time, they must find a way off the planet [[Helm]] before they are utterly destroyed.
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Natural Selection.jpg|left|70px|Natural Selection]]'''''[[Natural Selection]]''''', by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published July 1992. Timeline: [[3055]]<br />A marauding band of raiders equipped with [[Clan]] weaponry crosses borders into the Inner Sphere and threatens to undo the [[Truce of Tukayyid]]. To contain the threat, Archon-Prince Designate [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] and Khan [[Phelan Ward]] of [[Clan Wolf]] must cooperate despite their differences. The assassination of [[Melissa Steiner-Davion]] adds to the overall tension.
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* '''Author:''' [[Christopher Kubasik]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 3/1993
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45212-7
 
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Paul Masters is a [[MechWarrior]] of [[House Marik]], closely associated with Captain-General [[Thomas Marik]]. When Thomas gives him a copy of [[Le Morte d'Arthur]], he becomes part of the newly-formed [[Knights of the Inner Sphere]]. He is then dispatched to [[Gibson]], where he falls into a political trap between the noble ruler, the rebellious locals, and the [[Word of Blake]], all fighting a Vietnam-like counter insurgency, complete with body counts. The mounting fighting brings in Captain-General Marik, leading him to invade and settle the argument. The rebels bring in nuclear weapons at the climax and Masters is installed as the noble ruler.
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Decision at Thunder Rift (reprint).jpg|left|70px|Decision at Thunder Rift]]'''''[[Decision at Thunder Rift]]''''', reprint. Published September 1992.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Mercenary's Star (reprint).jpg|left|70px|Mercenary's Star]]'''''[[Mercenary's Star]]''''', reprint. Published November 1992.
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* '''Publication Date:''' 5/1993
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Price of Glory (reprint).jpg|left|70px|The Price of Glory]]'''''[[The Price of Glory]]''''', reprint. Published January 1993.
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* ISBN 0-451-45245-3
 
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The [[Black Thorns]], a newly minted mercenary company, accepts a garrison contract on the backwater world of [[Borghese]] after brutal fighting on the world of [[Galatea]]. What seems like a normal tour of duty is punctuated by political infighting and a [[Clan]] invasion. Will their charismatic leader lead them to victory against the Clans, or will he lose his command again?
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Ideal War.jpg|left|70px|Ideal War]]'''''[[Ideal War]]''''', by [[Christopher Kubasik]]. Published March 1993. Timeline: [[3054]]&mdash;[[3055]]<br />The [[Word of Blake]] sect has split from [[ComStar]] in the wake of the [[Battle of Tukayyid]] and the disparate group of religious zealots and shell-shocked soldiers were permitted to settle on the [[Free Worlds League]] planet of Gibson, where they end up embroiled in a guerilla war. Alarmed, [[Thomas Marik]] sends Sir [[Paul Masters]] of the [[Knigts of the Inner Sphere]] to Gibson to evaluate the situation.
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* '''Author:''' [[Andrew Keith]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 7/1993
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45259-3
 
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After an historic exhibition match between [[Grayson Death Carlyle]] and [[Jaime Wolf]], an assassination attempt almost takes the lives of the Gray Death command. Soon after, an enemy invasion force lands on their hold, and [[Alexander Carlyle]], the son of [[Lori Kalmar]] and Grayson Death Carlyle, must go into battle to save his homeworld. However, once the dust settles, there's an indication that this conflict may be a symptom of something larger in the [[Lyran Alliance]].
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Main Event.jpg|left|70px|Main Event]]'''''[[Main Event]]''''', by [[James D. Long]]. Published May 1993. Timeline: [[3054]]&mdash;[[3055]]<br />Hired for garrison duty on [[Borghese]], the [[Black Thorns]] mercenary company finds themselves fighting both [[Clan Jade Falcon]] invaders and a political movement that wants to surrender the planet.
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* '''Author:''' [[Peter Rice]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 10/1993
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45291-7
 
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A DEST ([[Draconis Elite Strike Team]]) group, accompanied by a small mercenary group, make a misjump from Kurita space and land on a planet inhabited by 500-year-old colonists and a mysterious alien lifeform. Amidst their battles to survive and return to the [[Inner Sphere]], they form a bond with the highly intelligent birds who see them as the fulfillment of their own prophecy.
 
  
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===''[[Assumption of Risk]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Blood of Heroes.jpg|left|70px|Blood of Heroes]]'''''[[Blood of Heroes]]''''' ([[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]] #4), by [[Andrew Keith]]. Published July 1993. Timeline: [[3056]]<br />While the unit's leaders are off-planet, secessionists attack the [[Gray Death Legion]] on [[Glengarry]], foreshadowing the [[FedCom Civil War]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' (1993)
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45283-6
 
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[[Kai Allard-Liao]] has returned to the world that made his father famous, the gaming planet of [[Solaris VII]]. But being the Gaming World's Champion is the least of his worries as conflicts abound, from the arrival of a former lover to the assassination plot of a political leader.
 
  
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===''[[D.R.T.]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Assumption of Risk.jpg|left|70px|Assumption of Risk]]'''''[[Assumption of Risk]]''''', by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published September 1993. Timeline: [[3055]]<br />[[Kai Allard-Liao]] has returned to the world that made his father famous, the gaming planet of [[Solaris VII]]. But being the Gaming World's Champion is the least of his worries as conflicts abound, from the arrival of a former lover to the assassination plot of a political leader.
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* '''Author:''' [[James D. Long]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 5/1994
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45366-2
 
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The [[Black Thorns]], fresh from their victory at [[Borghese]] (but lacking funds) take a high-profile contract on the world of [[Wolcott]], a [[Draconis Combine]] world deep within the holdings of [[Clan Nova Cat]] and [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]]. Prompted by their fiscal desperation, they take on a risky contract that will lead them deep into the [[Clans]]. Can they make it out alive, or will they be swallowed by a superior Clan force?
 
  
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===''[[Close Quarters]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Far Country.jpg|left|70px|Far Country]]'''''[[Far Country]]''''', by [[Peter Rice]]. Published October 1993. Timeline: [[3056]]<br />A [[Draconis Elite Strike Team]], accompanied by a [[Vost Lance|small mercenary group]], are stranded in an unknown star system by a misjump with no contact to the rest of humanity. They make landfall on a planet with [[Tetatae|intelligent flightless birds]] and find that another group of humans stranded here five centuries earlier, enslaving the birds and establishing nations that wage war on each other.
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* '''Author:''' [[Victor Milán]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' (09/1994)
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45378-6
 
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First of the [[Camacho's Caballeros]] novels. Hired to provide protection for [[Chandrasekhar Kurita]]'s business holdings on [[Hachiman]], Camacho's Cablleros and [[Cassie Suthorn]] begin to feel out a plot to take down the high-ranking noble. When an alliance between his foes threatens Chandrasekhar's interests, Cassie and the Caballeros face a tough battle between their friends in the [[9th Ghost|Ninth Ghost Regiment]] and [[Ninyu Kerai Indrahar]], the spymaster manipulating the whole conflict.
 
  
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===''[[I Am Jade Falcon]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:D.R.T..jpg|left|70px|D.R.T.]]'''''[[D.R.T.]]''''', by [[James D. Long]]. Published May 1994. Timeline: [[3056]]&mdash;[[3057]]<br />Having proven themselves a capable unit and equipped with [[Clan]] technology equipment, The [[Black Thorns]] accept a contract to [[Wolcott]], the [[Draconis Combine]]'s holding behind the Clan lines, and from there embark on a deep strike mission against the Clan-held system of [[Courchevel]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert Thurston]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 3/1995
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45380-8
 
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[[Star Commander]] [[Joanna]] and [[Khan]] [[Natasha Kerensky]] face off on the planet [[Twycross]] during the [[Refusal War]] between the [[Clan Jade Falcon|Jade Falcons]] and the [[Clan Wolf|Wolves]].  For Natasha Kerensky, it is an opportunity to bog down the Falcons while elements of the Wolves flee to the [[Inner Sphere]].  For Joanna, it may be her last opportunity to die in battle before being transferred back to the [[Clan]] homeworlds.
 
  
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===''[[Highlander Gambit]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Close Quarters.jpg|left|70px|Close Quarters]]'''''[[Close Quarters]]''''', by [[Victor Milán]]. Published September 1994. Timeline: [[3056]]<br />Hired to provide protection for [[Chandrasekhar Kurita]]'s business holdings on [[Hachiman]], [[Camacho's Caballeros]] and [[Cassie Suthorn]] begin to feel out a plot to take down the high-ranking noble. When an alliance between his foes threatens Chandrasekhar's interests, Cassie and the Caballeros face a tough battle between their friends in the [[9th Ghost|Ninth Ghost Regiment]] and [[Ninyu Kerai Indrahar]], the spymaster manipulating the whole conflict.
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/1995
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45381-6
 
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During the [[Fourth Succession War]], the famed [[Northwind Highlanders]] were granted their homeworld by the [[Federated Suns]] in return for breaking ties with their employer, the [[Capellan Confederation]]. Now thirty years later, an elite Death Commando and descendant of a Highlander is ordered by his ruler to sacrifice everything he is and everything he has to destroy the bonds between the [[Federated Commonwealth]] and the Highlanders, even if it means the Highlanders' destruction.
 
  
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===''[[Tactics of Duty]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:I Am Jade Falcon.jpg|left|70px|I Am Jade Falcon]]'''''[[I Am Jade Falcon]]''''', by [[Robert Thurston]]. Published March 1995. Timeline: [[3057]]<br />For aging and frustrated [[Star Commander]] [[Joanna]], the [[Refusal War]] between the [[Clan Jade Falcon]] and [[Clan Wolf]] is her last chance to earn some glory.
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* '''Author:''' [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/1995
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45382-4
 
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A [[Gray Death Legion]] novel.
 
  
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===''[[Lethal Heritage]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Highlander Gambit.jpg|left|70px|Highlander Gambit]]'''''[[Highlander Gambit]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published June 1995. Timeline: [[3057]]<br />Thirty years after the [[Northwind Highlanders]] switched sides in the [[Fourth Succession War]] from the [[Capellan Confederation]] to the [[Federated Suns]], the Capellan Chancellor orders an elite Death Commando and descendant of a Highlander to sacrifice everything he is and everything he has to destroy the bonds between the [[Federated Commonwealth]] and the Highlanders, even if it means the Highlanders' destruction.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 9/1995
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45383-2
 
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Book One of the Blood of Kerensky Trilogy. A new generation of characters makes its debut in this series. [[Victor Steiner-Davion]], heir to the throne of the [[Federated Commonwealth]], is fresh from the academy and posted to the back end of nowhere. [[Kai Allard-Liao]], son of the great [[Justin Xiang Allard]] and [[Candace Liao]], fears he can never live up to the tremendous legacy of his parents. Shin Yodama is a yakuza soldier in the army of the [[Draconis Combine]], assigned to safeguard the grandson of Coordinator [[Takashi Kurita]]. [[Phelan Kell]] has followed in his father Morgan's footsteps and serves in the mercenary [[Kell Hounds]]. All four of these young men must face dangers both internal and external when a mysterious invader from beyond the Periphery threatens everything they know and love.
 
  
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===''[[Blood Legacy]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Tactics of Duty.jpg|left|70px|Tactics of Duty]]'''''[[Tactics of Duty]]''''' ([[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]] #5), by [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]. Published August 1993. Timeline: [[3057]]<br />The [[Gray Death Legion]] gets entangled in the developing [[FedCom Civil War]] once more on [[Caledonia]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 11/1995
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45384-0
 
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Book Two of the Blood of Kerensky Trilogy. The Clans have been stopped temporarily through the sacrifice of a young pilot. [[Jaime Wolf]], commander of the mysterious and elite [[Wolf's Dragoons]] mercenary unit, takes the opportunity to reveal the origin of this new menace: they are the descendants of the [[Star League Defense Force]], which left the Inner Sphere over two hundred years ago after the collapse of the League. The Dragoons, themselves former Clanners, intend to train the heirs of the Successor States to fight and defeat the [[Clans]], if old prejudices and hatreds don't tear the [[Inner Sphere]] apart first. The first real test of this new-found sense of cooperation is the defense of Luthien, capital world of the [[Draconis Combine]]. But just what is the ultimate objective of the Clans?
 
  
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===''[[Lost Destiny]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Lethal Heritage.jpg|left|70px|Lethal Heritage]]'''''[[Lethal Heritage]]''''', reprint. Published September 1995.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Blood Legacy.jpg|left|70px|Blood Legacy]]'''''[[Blood Legacy]]''''', reprint. Published November 1995.
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/1995
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Lost Destiny.jpg|left|70px|Lost Destiny]]'''''[[Lost Destiny]]''''', reprint. Published December 1995.
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* ISBN 0-451-45385-9
 
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Book Three of the Blood of Kerensky Trilogy. The man once known as [[Phelan Kell]] has risen through the ranks in [[Clan Wolf]] and now stands to win a coveted Bloodname, the highest honor the Clans can bestow. [[Kai Allard-Liao]] is missing and presumed dead in the wake of a [[Clan Jade Falcon]] attack. [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] must mount a rescue of a man who once would have been considered his mortal enemy: [[Hohiro Kurita II|Hohiro Kurita]]. And behind it all, [[ComStar]] lurks, ready to betray their Clan allies for the chance to fulfill their destiny as the saviors of humanity.
 
  
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===''[[Bred for War]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Bred for War.jpg|left|70px|Bred for War]]'''''[[Bred for War]]''''', by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published December 1995. Timeline: [[3057]]<br />[[Victor Steiner-Davion]]'s [[Federated Commonwealth]] badly needs the war material provided by the [[Free Worlds League]] in exchange for treating [[Joshua Marik]], the [[Captain-General]]'s dying son. When the boy dies, he is replaced with a double, he is exchanged for a double but the ruse is discovered with desastrous consequences: Houses [[House Marik|Marik]] and [[House Liao|Liao]], along Victor's treacherous [[Katherine Steiner-Davion|sister]], use the deception as a pretext to tear the [[Federated Commonwealth]] apart. Just when Victor thinks things can get no worse, the [[Refusal War]] pits two entire Clans, the [[Clan Jade Falcon|Jade Falcons]] and the [[Clan Wolf|Wolves]], against each other in a fight to the death.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/1995
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45379-4
 
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Desperate to keep the [[Free Worlds League]] producing 'Mech upgrades for use against the [[Clan]] threat, inexperienced [[Archon-Prince|Prince]] [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] uses a double for the dying [[Joshua Marik]]. When the ruse is discovered, Houses [[Marik]] and [[Liao]], along Victor's treacherous [[Katherine Steiner-Davion|sister]], use the deception as a pretext to tear the [[Federated Commonwealth]] apart. Just when Victor thinks things can get no worse comes news that the entire might of two of the most fearsome Clans, the [[Clan Jade Falcon|Jade Falcons]] and the [[Clan Wolf|Wolves]], are fighting to the death.
 
  
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===''[[Star Lord (novel)|Star Lord]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Star Lord.jpg|left|70px|Star Lord]]'''''[[Star Lord (novel)|Star Lord]]''''', by [[Donald G. Phillips]]. Published February 1996. Timeline: [[3057]]<br />[[Stefan Amaris VII]], a distant heir of [[Stefan Amaris]], is building up a secret army in the [[Periphery]] and sows unrest by sending his units on terror attacks bearing false colors. A disparate group of operatives under the aegis of the [[Knights of the Inner Sphere]] is tasked with putting and end to his maraudings.
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* '''Author:''' [[Donald G. Phillips]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 2/1996
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45386-7
 
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An heir to the Usurper Stefan Amaris appears deep in the Periphery, and it's up to a crack team of [[Free Worlds League]] troops to infiltrate his operation and assassinate the would-be Star Lord. There's only one catch: between them and him lie hundreds of [[BattleMech]]s, with no way home!
 
  
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===''[[Malicious Intent]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Malicious Intent.jpg|left|70px|Malicious Intent]]'''''[[Malicious Intent]]''''', by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published March 1996. Timeline: [[3057]]&mdash;[[3058]]<br />Right after the [[Refusal War]], [[Clan Jade Falcon]] attacks [[Coventry]], which has the unintended side effect of uniting disparate elements of the [[Inner Sphere]]. [[Vladimir Ward|Vlad]] of Clan Wolf attempts to rebuild his clan with political intrigue.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 3/1996
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45531-2
 
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Set right after the refusal war between [[Clan Jade Falcon]] and [[Clan Wolf]], this novel focuses on Clan Jade Falcon's attack on Coventry, which has the unintended side effect of uniting disparate elements of the [[Inner Sphere]]. [[Vladimir Ward|Vlad]] of Clan Wolf attempts to rebuild his clan with political intrigue.
 
  
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===''[[Wolves on the Border]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Wolves on the Border (reprint).jpg|left|70px|Wolves on the Border]]'''''[[Wolves on the Border]]''''', reprint. Published May 1996.
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert N. Charrette]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 5/1996
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45388-3
 
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[[Wolf's Dragoons]] is one of the most feared and respected mercenary units in the entire [[Inner Sphere]]. Currently under contract to the [[Draconis Combine]], they become the target of a plot by an ambitious and devious Warlord to gain their services permanently. Their liaison with the Combine, [[Minobu Tetsuhara]], is an honest man and a friend to the Dragoons' leader, Colonel [[Jaime Wolf]], and is caught between duty and friendship as war looms.
 
  
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===''[[Hearts of Chaos]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Hearts of Chaos.jpg|left|70px|Hearts of Chaos]]'''''[[Hearts of Chaos]]''''', by [[Victor Milán]]. Published June 1996. Timeline: [[3056]]&mdash;[[3058]]<br />[[Camacho's Caballeros]] are sent to the planet [[Towne]], where they find the planet split between support for the local Davionists, and the desire for stability among the [[Draconis Combine]]. Behind the Combine troops, however, are the ''[[Kokuryu-kai]]'', a mysterious organization that wants to overthrow the Coordinator.
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* '''Author:''' [[Victor Milán]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/1996
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45523-1
 
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[[Camacho's Caballeros]] are sent to the planet [[Towne]], where hints of a plot against the Combine continue to surface. Once there, they find the planet split between support for the local Davionists, and the desire for stability among the [[Draconis Combine]]. Behind the Combine troops, however, lie the ''[[Kokuryu-kai]]'', a mysterious organization that wants to overthrow the Coordinator of the Combine. Can the Caballeros quell this rebellion, or will they be crushed under the tide of discontent?
 
  
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===''[[Operation Excalibur]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Operation Excalibur.jpg|left|70px|Operation Excalibur]]'''''[[Operation Excalibur]]''''' ([[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]] #6), by [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]. Published August 1996. Timeline: [[3057]]<br />The [[Gray Death Legion]] takes service with their erstwhile enemy, the rebellious governor of [[Hesperus II]]. Under the guise of turncoats, they play a dangerous game of brinkmanship to bring Hesperus back into the [[Lyran Alliance]] that culminates in a battle within the 'Mech factory itself.
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* '''Author:''' [[William H. Keith, Jr.]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/1996
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45526-6
 
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The [[Gray Death Legion]] detaches themselves from the planet [[Glengarry]], and takes service with their erstwhile enemy, the rebellious governor of [[Hesperus II]]. Under the guise of turncoats, they play a dangerous game of brinkmanship that culminates in a battle among the 'Mech factory itself. Can they bring Hesperus back into the [[Lyran Alliance]], or will they destroy the factory they swore to protect?
 
  
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===''[[Heir to the Dragon]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Heir to the Dragon (reprint).jpg|left|70px|Heir to the Dragon]]'''''[[Heir to the Dragon]]''''', reprint. Published September 1996.
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert N. Charrette]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 9/1996
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45527-4
 
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Honor and respect towards ones elders is an important part of the Japanese-influenced culture of the [[Draconis Combine]]. [[Theodore Kurita]], only son of the reigning Coordinator, has grandiose ideas about the future of his nation but he is hindered by his father's conservative nature and fear of change. During the chaos of the [[Fourth Succession War]] and the [[War of 3039]], Theodore not only must survive on the battlefield, he must also navigate the treacherous waters of the Combine court. Can father and son reconcile for the good of their people?
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Black Dragon.jpg|left|70px|Black Dragon]]'''''[[Black Dragon (novel)|Black Dragon]]''''', by [[Victor Milán]]. Published November 1996. Timeline: [[3058]]<br />To be honored for their work on [[Towne]], [[Camacho's Caballeros]] are invited to [[Luthien]] where they begin to unravel a plot to kill the Coordinator.
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* '''Author:''' [[Victor Milán]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 11/1996
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45528-2
 
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On the Coordinator's Birthday, [[Camacho's Caballeros]] are invited to [[Luthien]] to be honored for their work on the planet [[Towne]]. However, while they wait for their honors, Cassie Suthorn begins to unravel a plot to kill the coordinator. With [[Ninyu Kerai-Indrahar]]'s help, she finds the ''[[Kokuryu-kai]]'' plotting a nefarious scheme to kill the Coordinator with his own bodyguards. If they interfere, the Caballeros could be branded murderers, but if they don't, the future of the Combine could be in jeopardy.
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Impetus of War.jpg|left|70px|Impetus of War]]'''''[[Impetus of War]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published December 1996. Timeline: [[3058]]<br />The [[Draconis Combine]] hires out the famous [[Northwind Highlanders]] for a daring mission into clan space. 'Cat' Stirling and [[Loren Jaffray]] take the Stirling Fusilers to the planet of [[Wayside V]] deep behind Clan lines for a strike on the [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]]'s supply lines.
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/1996
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45529-0
 
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The [[Draconis Combine]] hires out the famous [[Northwind Highlanders]] for a daring mission into clan space. 'Cat' Stirling and [[Loren Jaffray]] take the Stirling Fusilers to the planet of [[Wayside V]] deep behind clan lines for a strike on the [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]]'s supply lines.
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Double-Blind.jpg|left|70px|Double-Blind]]'''''[[Double-Blind]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published April 1997. Timeline: [[[[3058]]<br />The [[mercenary unit]] [[Avanti's Angels]] is hired by the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] to defend against the [[Marian Hegemony]]&mdash;a conflict behind which lurks the [[Word of Blake]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/1997
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45597-5
 
  
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===''[[Binding Force]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Binding Force.jpg|left|70px|Binding Force]]'''''[[Binding Force]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published July 1997. Timeline: [[[[3058]]<br />The [[Capellan Confederation]], bent on recapturing their lost territories, sends [[Warrior House Hiritsu]] to conquer [[Kaifeng]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 7/1997
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45604-1
 
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February [[3058]] - The year of the Horse. The [[Capellan Confederation]] is trying to "pacify" the [[Chaos March]] - starting with the [[Sarna Supremacy]]. House Hiritsu is assigned to take [[Sarna]], but the House Master is assassinated at the time they arrive into the system. Aris Sung - a young [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] - fights his way trough the campaign, trying to find the killer of the House Master, survive the war - and prove that the will of the House Master is the will of the House.
 
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Exodus Road.jpg|left|70px|Exodus Road]]'''''[[Exodus Road (novel)|Exodus Road]]''''' ([[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] #1), by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published August 1997. Timeline: [[3052]]&mdash;[[3058]]<br />A disillusioned Warrior from [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] enables the [[Inner Sphere]] to strike at [[Huntress]], the Smoke Jaguar capital world.
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/1997
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45612-2
 
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Book I of the [[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] series.
 
  
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The [[Clan Smoke Jaguar|Smoke Jaguars]] are one of the the most powerful Clans, yet the most savage and demanding on their people. When one [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] Trent feels that his Clan has betrayed him, a captured [[ComStar]] agent convinces him to travel the Exodus Road not once, but twice, and returns with a prize worthy of the [[Inner Sphere]]: [[Huntress]], the capital of Clan Smoke Jaguar!.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Grave Covenant.jpg|left|70px|Grave Covenant]]'''''[[Grave Covenant]]''''' ([[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] #2), by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published September 1997. Timeline: [[3058]]&mdash;[[3059]]<br />The states of the [[Inner Sphere]] have reformed the [[Star League]], and [Task Force Serpent|a multinational coalition task force]] is created to utterly destroy [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] as a show of force.
  
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===''[[Grave Covenant]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Hunters.jpg|left|70px|The Hunters]]'''''[[The Hunters]]''''' ([[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] #3), by [[Thomas S. Gressman]]. Published December 1997. Timeline: [[3058]]&mdash;[[3059]]<br />Under the command of Marshal of the Armies [[Morgan Hasek-Davion]], [[Task Force Serpent]] sets out on the long voyage to [[Huntress]], hoping to surprise and overwhelm the distant homeworld of [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]], making the hunters become the hunted.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 9/1997
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45613-0
 
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Book II of the [[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] series.
 
  
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The states of the [[Inner Sphere]] have reformed the [[Star League]], and begin the campaign to destroy [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]], while the Clans plan to continue the invasion. Within the Clans, however, warden and crusader tensions may doom a resumption before it starts. Can [[Lincoln Osis]] lead the Smoke Jaguars to victory, or will they be annihilated, tooth and claw?
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Freebirth.jpg|left|70px|Freebirth]]'''''[[Freebirth (novel)|Freebirth]]''''' ([[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] #4), by [[Robert Thurston]]. Published February 1998. Timeline: [[3058]]&mdash;[[3059]]<br />Ordered to inspect a project of the science caste at a [[Clan Jade Falcon]] outpost on the [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] world of [[Huntress]], [[Star Captain]] [[Horse]] finds evidence of a secret cooperation between the Jade Falcon and Smoke Jaguar scientist castes.
  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Warrior - En Garde (anniversary).jpg|left|70px|Warrior: En Garde]]'''''[[Warrior: En Garde]]''''', reprint ("10th anniversary edition"). Published April 1998.
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* '''Author:''' [[Thomas S. Gressman]]
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Warrior - Riposte (anniversary).jpg|left|70px|Warrior: Riposte]]'''''[[Warrior: Riposte]]''''', reprint ("10th anniversary edition"). Published June 1998.
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/1997
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45624-6
 
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Book III of the [[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] series.
 
  
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Task Force Serpent has the [[Eridani Light Horse]], MacLeod's Regiment of the [[Northwind Highlanders]], 1st Kathil Uhlans, 11th Lyran Guards, ComGuards, Kingston's Rangers, 1st Knights of the [[Inner Sphere]], and two Special Forces teams. Not to mention its [[WarShip]]s, and Space Craft; all commanded by Marshal of the Armies [[Morgan Hasek-Davion]]. Its mission is to reduce [[Huntress]], homeworld of [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]], to rubble. But how can these once-rival forces combine, and are there enemies lurking amongst them?
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Sword and Fire.jpg|left|70px|Sword and Fire]]'''''[[Sword and Fire]]''''' ([[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] #5), by [[Thomas S. Gressman]]. Published August 1998. Timeline: [[3060]]<br />After the death of Marshal [[Morgan Hasek-Davion]], Ariana Winston, the General in charge of the [[Eridani Light Horse]], leads Task Force Serpent on. Even while they fight to neutralize [[Huntress]], however, a new wave of Smoke Jaguar Warriors is on its way back from the Inner Sphere, pushed out by [[Victor Steiner-Davion]]'s [[Operation Bulldog]].
  
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===''[[Freebirth (novel)|Freebirth]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Shadows of War.jpg|left|70px|Shadows of War]]'''''[[Shadows of War]]''''' ([[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] #6), by [[Thomas S. Gressman]]. Published September 1998. Timeline: [[3060]]<br />[[Task Force Serpent]] is fighting a desperate defense on [[Huntress]] while enraged [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] troops flood the field until Operation Hunter arrives and eradicates the last of the Smoke Jaguars. But in the wake of their victory, [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] reveals the true goal of their fight: [[Strana Mechty]], the homeworld of the Clans, itself.
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert Thurston]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 2/1998
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45665-3
 
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Book IV of the [[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] series.  
 
  
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[[Star Captain]] [[Horse]] arrives at [[Huntress]] to inspect the small [[Clan Jade Falcon]] outpost named Falcon's Eyrie. He and his troops are taken prisoners of [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]]. During the breakout, he finds evidence of a secret cooperation between the Jade Falcon and Smoke Jaguar scientist castes. He has to fight for Clan Smoke Jaguar against Jade Falcon warriors in a Mech-duell to regain his honor...
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Warrior - Coupé (anniversary).jpg|left|70px|Warrior: Coupé]]'''''[[Warrior: Coupé]]''''', reprint ("10th anniversary edition"). Published November 1998.
  
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===''[[Warrior: En Garde]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Prince of Havoc.jpg|left|70px|Prince of Havoc]]'''''[[Prince of Havoc]]''''' ([[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] #7), by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published December 1998. Timeline: [[3060]]&mdash;[[3061]]<br />[[Victor Steiner-Davion]] leads his battered forces to [[Strana Mechty]] and begins the bidding process for a Trial about the Clan invasion itself, to end it once and for all. His forces prevail, but Khan [[Vlad Ward]] of [[Clan Wolf]] lets off a parting shot as the coalition forces leave his homeworld: the [[Inner Sphere]] may not be as stable as when they left.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/1998
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45683-1
 
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27 Nov 3026-10 Jun 3027.
 
  
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Book One of the Warrior Trilogy. [[Justin Allard|Justin Xiang Allard]] is exiled from the [[Federated Suns]] and makes his way to [[Solaris VII]], the Gaming World, where he catches the eye of agents from the [[Capellan Confederation]]. With his former life in ruins, Justin pledges himself to the Capellan Chancellor. Meanwhile, someone has kidnapped [[Melissa Steiner]], heir to the throne of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] and betrothed of [[Hanse Davion]], First Prince of the [[Federated Suns]]. Daniel Allard and the [[Kell Hounds]] mercenary unit must face a foe from their past to rescue her.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Falcon Rising.jpg|left|70px|Falcon Rising]]'''''[[Falcon Rising]]''''' ([[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] #8), by [[Robert Thurston]]. Published March 1999. Timeline: [[3059]]&mdash;[[3061]]<br />Following in the footsteps of her father [[Aidan Pryde|Aidan]], [[freeborn]] Warrior [[Diana Pryde|Diana]] of [[Clan Jade Falcon]] competes for a [[bloodname]]. This not only alienates many in her own Clan, but pushes the Jade Falcons on the brink of war with the conservative [[Clan Steel Viper]]. Meanwhile, the coalition forces arrive back in the [[Inner Sphere]], years after they left, and find it changed as Archon [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]] has ursurped the [[Federated Commonwealth]] and left her brother, [[Victor Steiner-Davion]], without a throne.
  
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===''[[Warrior: Riposte]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Threads of Ambition.jpg|left|70px|Threads of Ambition]]'''''[[Threads of Ambition]]''''' ([[The Capellan Solution (series)|The Capellan Solution duology]] #1), by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published May 1999. Timeline: [[3060]]&mdash;[[3061]]<br />Thirty years after his aunt [[Candace Liao|Candace]] split off from the [[Capellan Confederation]] and formed the [[St. Ives Compact]], Chancellor [[Sun-Tzu Liao]] uses his powerful position of [[First Lord]] of the resurrected [[Star League]] to set a plan in motion that will allow his Confederation to reclaim the Compact.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/1998
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45685-8
 
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10 Oct [[3027]]-14 Feb [[3029]].
 
  
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Book Two of the Warrior Trilogy. The wedding of [[Hanse Davion]] and [[Melissa Steiner]] is fast approaching and tensions are rising throughout the Inner Sphere. [[Morgan Kell]], co-founder of the [[Kell Hounds]] mercenary unit, is recalled from his self-imposed exile to take up command once more as the Hounds gear up for war. At the climax of the wedding ceremony on Terra, attended by dignitaries from across human space, [[Hanse Davion]] declares war on the [[Capellan Confederation]]. The [[Fourth Succession War]] begins.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Killing Fields.jpg|left|70px|The Killing Fields]]'''''[[The Killing Fields]]''''' ([[The Capellan Solution (series)|The Capellan Solution duology]] #2), by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published August 1999. Timeline: [[3062]]<br />The conclusion of the long and bloody struggle to re-absorb the [[St. Ives Compact]] back into the [[Capellan Confederation]].
  
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===''[[Sword and Fire]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Dagger Point.jpg|left|70px|Dagger Point]]'''''[[Dagger Point]]''''', by [[Thomas S. Gressman]]. Published April 2000. Timeline: [[3061]]&mdash;[[3062]]<br />The noble [[Eridani Light Horse]] are deployed to the [[St. Ives Compact]] as [[Star League]] peacekeepers in the small nation's ongoing conflict with the [[Capellan Confederation]]. But the mission is a sham; [[First Lord]] [[Sun-Tzu Liao]] is not really seeking peace, but rather wants his Confederation to recapture St. Ives.
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* '''Author:''' [[Thomas S. Gressman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/1998
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45676-9
 
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Book V of the [[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] series.
 
  
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[[Huntress]], the capital of the Smoke Jaguars. After the death of Marshal [[Morgan Hasek-Davion]], Ariana Winston, the General in charge of the [[Eridani Light Horse]], is chosen to lead Task Force Serpent. As they wind their way among the stars, they finally reach their goal and begin the pacification. However, a new wave of Jaguars is on its way from the Inner Sphere, pushed out by [[Victor Steiner-Davion]]'s [[Operation Bulldog]]. Can they survive this new influx of Clan troops, or has their task been doomed all along?
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Illusions of Victory.jpg|left|70px|Illusions of Victory]]'''''[[Illusions of Victory]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published May 2000. Timeline: [[3062]]<br />On the game world of [[Solaris VII]], the [[FedCom Civil War]] spills beyond grudge matches and out into the streets.
  
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===''[[Shadows of War]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Measure of a Hero.jpg|left|70px|Measure of a Hero]]'''''[[Measure of a Hero]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published July 2000. Timeline: [[3062]]&mdash;[[3063]]<br />In the [[FedCom Civil War]], decorated war hero [[Archer Christifori]] against [[Lyran Alliance|Lyran]] oppression on [[Thorin]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Thomas S. Gressman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 9/1998
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45707-2
 
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Book VI of the [[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] series.
 
  
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[[Morgan Hasek-Davion]] is dead. Arianna Winston is leading a desperate defensive on [[Huntress]] while enraged [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] troops flood the field. As the Serpent forces lose more and more men, death seems certain. But in the knick of time, Operation Hunter arrives and eradicates the last of the Smoke Jaguars. But in the wake of their victory, [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] reveals the true goal of their fight: [[Strana Mechty]], the homeworld of the Clans, itself!
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Path of Glory.jpg|left|70px|Path of Glory]]'''''[[Path of Glory]]''''', by [[Randall N. Bills]]. Published December 2000. Timeline: [[3061]]&mdash;[[3062]]<br />At the beginning of the [[FedCom Civil War]], [[Clan Nova Cat]] and the [[Draconis Combine]] forge an unlikely alliance.
  
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===''[[Warrior: Coupé]]'' (Reprint)===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Flashpoint.jpg|left|70px|Flashpoint]]'''''[[Flashpoint]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published April 2001. Timeline: [[3062]]<br />During the [[FedCom Civil War]], the planetary militia on [[Kathil]] rises against the Lyran [[8th FedCom RCT]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 11/1998
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45702-1
 
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03 Mar [[3029]]-15 Dec [[3029]].
 
  
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Book Three of the Warrior Trilogy. As the [[Fourth Succession War]] continues, [[Morgan Kell]] and his [[Kell Hounds]] race towards a final showdown with [[Yorinaga Kurita]]. [[Justin Xiang Allard]], now a high-ranking member of Capellan intelligence, tries to hold back the invading Davion forces but is hampered at every turn. And to make matters worse, he may have a spy within his office!
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Test of Vengeance.jpg|left|70px|Test of Vengeance]]'''''[[Test of Vengeance]]''''', by [[Bryan Nystul]]. Published June 2001. Timeline: [[3062]]&mdash;[[3064]]<br />[[Elemental]] Warrior [[Jake Kabrinski]] rises through the ranks of [[Clan Ghost Bear]] and fights in the [[Combine-Ghost Bear War]].
  
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===''[[Prince of Havoc]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Patriots and Tyrants.jpg|left|70px|Patriots and Tyrants]]'''''[[Patriots and Tyrants]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published September 2001. Timeline: [[3061]]&mdash;[[3063]]<br />The [[FedCom Civil War]] builds up as [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]] and her brother [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] maneuver against each other.
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/1998
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45706-4
 
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Book VII of the [[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] series.
 
  
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[[Victor Steiner-Davion]] leads his battered, but victorious forces to [[Strana Mechty]], and begins the bidding process for the Clan invasion itself. The [[Inner Sphere]] [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]]s fight for honor, for hope, and for their lives, and in the end emerge victorious. But [[Clan Wolf]] Khan [[Vlad Ward]] lets off a parting shot as the coalition forces leave his homeworld: the [[Inner Sphere]] may not be as stable as when they left.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Call of Duty.jpg|left|70px|Call of Duty]]'''''[[Call of Duty]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published October 2001. Timeline: [[3063]]<br />On [[Odessa]], treachery pits [[Archer's Avengers]] against [[Snord's Irregulars]] during the [[FedCom Civil War]].
  
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===''[[Falcon Rising]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Storms of Fate.jpg|left|70px|Storms of Fate]]'''''[[Storms of Fate]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published April 2002. Timeline: [[3064]]&mdash;[[3065]]<br />The [[FedCom Civil War]] gains momentum as [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] and [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]] continue their conflict.
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert Thurston]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 3/1999
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45738-2
 
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Book VIII of the [[Twilight of the Clans (series)|Twilight of the Clans]] series.
 
  
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The coalition forces arrive back in the [[Inner Sphere]], years after they left, and find a changed landscape. Archon [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]] has taken over the [[Federated Commonwealth]] and left her brother, [[Victor Steiner-Davion]], without a throne. Will Victor begin another bloody war to reclaim his birthright, or will he leave the [[Inner Sphere]] with a lasting peace?
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Operation Audacity.jpg|left|70px|Operation Audacity]]'''''[[Operation Audacity]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published June 2002. Timeline: [[3064]]&mdash;[[3065]]<br />During the [[FedCom Civil War]], [[Clan Jade Falcon]] attacks and seizes planets in the [[Lyran Alliance]]. Prince [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] sends Major General [[Archer Christifori]] to check the Clan advance by taking Clan worlds behind those recently captured.
  
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===''[[Threads of Ambition]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Endgame.jpg|left|70px|Endgame]]'''''[[Endgame]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published September 2002. Timeline: [[3065]]&mdash;[[3067]]<br />Prince [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] and his allies attempt to crush the Loyalists under Victor's sister, Katrina and bring an end to the [[FedCom Civil War]] which culminates in the attack on [[Tharkad]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 5/1999
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45745-5
 
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Book one of the Capellan Solution.
 
  
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===''[[The Killing Fields]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Legend of the Jade Phoenix.jpg|left|70px|The Legend of the Jade Phoenix]]'''''[[The Legend of the Jade Phoenix]]''''', by [[Robert Thurston]]. Published October 2003.<br />Omnibus reprint of ''[[Way of the Clans]]'', ''[[Bloodname (novel)|Bloodname]]'', and ''[[Falcon Guard (novel)|Falcon Guard]]''.
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/1999
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45754-4
 
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Book two of the Capellan Solution.
 
  
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===''[[Ghost of Winter]]''===
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===MechWarrior novels===
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* '''Author:''' [[Stephen Kenson]]
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Beginning with ''[[Ghost of Winter]]'' in 1999, Roc Books also launched a second novel line in the BattleTech universe under the "MechWarrior" moniker (not to be confused with the [[MechWarrior RPG]]). Unlike the core BattleTech novel line, the MechWarrior novels are standalone stories with a relatively small-scale setting and little to no impact on the universe at large.
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* '''Publication Date:''' 10/1999
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45760-9
 
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Set on a snowy backwater planet where raiders have discovered that a cache of Clan OmniMechs remains hidden. The nearly non-existent militia must not only find it first, but then figure out of a way to get the raiders off their planet.
 
  
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===''[[Roar of Honor]]''===
 
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 10/1999
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45761-7
 
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A novel about a conflict between [[Clan Ghost Bear]] and [[Clan Wolf]].
 
  
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===''[[By Blood Betrayed]]''===
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[[Image:Ghost of Winter.jpg|left|70px|Ghost of Winter]]'''''[[Ghost of Winter]]''''', by [[Stephen Kenson]]. Published October 1999. Timeline: [[3060]]<br />[[Kore]], a backwater mining world in the [[Periphery]], is attacke by raiders. The tiny militia force is defeated, but one Warrior escapes and stumbles across the treasure the raiders are after.
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]], [[Mel Odom]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 11/1999
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45766-8
 
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A MechWarrior series book focusing around a backwater planet in the [[Rim Collection]] and a young [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]]'s quest to find his brother's betrayer.
 
  
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===''[[Dagger Point]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Roar of Honor.jpg|left|70px|Roar of Honor]]'''''[[Roar of Honor]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published October 1999. Timeline: [[3062]]<br />The [[Stalking Bears]], a newly formed [[Trinary]], are sent to garrison the planet [[Toffen]] and defend it against an attack from [[Clan Wolf]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Thomas S. Gressman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/2000
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45783-8
 
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The [[Eridani Light Horse]] are deployed to the [[St. Ives Compact]] as [[Star League]] peacekeepers in the small nation's ongoing going conflict with the [[Capellan Confederation]]. What does the Compact hold for the ELH and do the citizens of the Compact what to be saved?
 
  
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===''[[Measure of a Hero]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:By Blood Betrayed.jpg|left|70px|By Blood Betrayed]]'''''[[By Blood Betrayed]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]] and [[Mel Odom]]. Published November 1999. Timeline: [[3059]]<br />After his brother was killed while fighting for [[Able's Aces]], farmboy [[Harley Rassor]] joins the [[mercenary unit]] to find out what really happened.
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 7/2000
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45794-3
 
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First [[Archer Christifori]] novel. A novel of the [[FedCom Civil War]].
 
  
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===''[[Path of Glory]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Initiation to War.jpg|left|70px|Initiation to War]]'''''[[Initiation to War]]''''', by [[Robert N. Charrette]]. Published November 2001. Timeline: [[3061]]&mdash;[[3063]]<br />A young militia warrior learns what it is to be a [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] on [[Epsilon Eridani]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Randall N. Bills]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/2000
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45807-9
 
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A novel about an alliance between [[Clan Nova Cat]] and the [[Draconis Combine]] at the beginning of the [[FedCom Civil War]].
 
  
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===''[[Illusions of Victory]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Dying Time.jpg|left|70px|The Dying Time]]'''''[[The Dying Time]]''''' ([[Saga of the Gray Death Legion]] #7), by [[Thomas S. Gressman]]. Published January 2002. Timeline: [[3065]]<br />[[Grayson Death Carlyle]], the famous founder of the [[Gray Death Legion]] passes away. His wife takes up the reins as the [[Gray Death Legion]] embark on their greatest challenge since their inception and return to [[Hesperus II]] to protect the facility during the ravages of the [[FedCom Civil War]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' (2000)
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45790-0
 
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A novel of the [[FedCom Civil War]] centering around a [[Solaris VII]] fighter.
 
  
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===''[[Flashpoint]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Imminent Crisis.jpg|left|70px|Imminent Crisis]]'''''[[Imminent Crisis]]''''', by [[Randall N. Bills]]. Published March 2002. Timeline: [[3065]]&mdash;[[3066]]<br />On [[New Syrtis]], the [[8th Syrtis Fusiliers]] become entangled in the [[FedCom Civil War]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/2001
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45824-9
 
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A novel of the [[FedCom Civil War]] set on [[Kathil]].
 
  
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===''[[Test of Vengeance]]''===
 
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* '''Author:''' [[Bryan Nystul]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/2001
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45836-2
 
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A book centering around [[Clan Ghost Bear]] and an Elemental's attempt to rise in rank within the Clan.
 
  
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===''[[Patriots and Tyrants]]''===
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===MechWarrior: Dark Age Novels===
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
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Following the creation of the [[MechWarrior: Dark Age]] line (and the subsequent renaming of the original line into "Classic BattleTech"), Roc Books continued to publish new novels in the Dark Age setting.
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* '''Publication Date:''' 9/2001
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45845-1
 
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A novel of the [[FedCom Civil War]].
 
  
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===''[[Call of Duty]]''===
 
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 10/2001
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45856-7
 
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Second [[Archer Christifori]] novel. A novel of the [[FedCom Civil War]] that dealt with Christifori's conflict with [[Snord's Irregulars]].
 
  
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===''[[Initiation to War]]''===
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[[Image:Ghost War.jpg|left|70px|Ghost War]]'''''[[Ghost War]]''''', by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published December 2002. Timeline: [[3132]]&mdash;[[3133]]<br />[[Sam Donnelly]] investigates a terrorist organization on the planets [[Helen]] and [[Basalt]].  
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert N. Charrette]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 11/2001
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45851-6
 
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Another novel in the MechWarrior series, this one dealing with a young militia warrior learning what it is to be a [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] on [[Epsilon Eridani]].
 
  
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===''[[The Dying Time]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:A Call to Arms.jpg|left|70px|A Call to Arms]]'''''[[A Call to Arms]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published February 2003. Timeline: [[3133]]<br />Customs officer [[Raul Ortega]] must deal with a [[Steel Wolves]] attack on the planet [[Achernar]], one of the few worlds with a working [[HPG]] station.
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* '''Author:''' [[Thomas S. Gressman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 1/2002
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45866-4
 
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[[Grayson Death Carlyle]] was the young son of the commander of Carlyle's Commandos, a mercenary unit employed by the [[Lyran Commonwealth]]. Now he goes on his death bed, after years of radiation and unimaginable wounds from the Mech cockpit. His wife takes up the reins as the [[Gray Death Legion]] embark on their greatest challenge since their birth.  The Gray Death Legion returned to [[Hesperus II]], but this time to protect the facility during the ravages of the [[FedCom Civil War]], once [[Skye]] Separatists launch a major assault, their survival, even as [[Katherine Steiner-Davion|Katherine]]’s most beloved merc unit comes into question.
 
  
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===''[[Imminent Crisis]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Ruins of Power.jpg|left|70px|The Ruins of Power]]'''''[[The Ruins of Power]]''''', by [[Robert E. Vardeman]]. Published April 2003. Timeline: [[3133]]<br />War comes to [[Mirach]], and the pacifistic governor wants none of it. His son Austin must take up the sword instead.
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* '''Author:''' [[Randall N. Bills]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 3/2002
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45872-9
 
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A novel of the [[FedCom Civil War]] set around the [[Capellan March]] and its internal struggles.
 
  
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===''[[Storms of Fate]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:A Silence in the Heavens.jpg|left|70px|A Silence in the Heavens]]'''''[[A Silence in the Heavens]]''''' ([[The Proving Grounds (series)|The Proving Grounds trilogy]] #1), by [[Martin Delrio]]. Published June 2003. Timeline: [[3132]]&mdash;[[3133]]<br />The [[Steel Wolves]], led by [[Anastasia Kerensky]], assault [[Northwind]]. They are opposed by [[Tara Campbell]] and her Highlanders, as well as Paladin [[Ezekiel Crow]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/2002
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45876-1
 
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A novel of the [[FedCom Civil War]].
 
  
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===''[[Operation Audacity]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Truth and Shadows.jpg|left|70px|Truth and Shadows]]'''''[[Truth and Shadows]]''''' ([[The Proving Grounds (series)|The Proving Grounds trilogy]] #2), by [[Martin Delrio]]. Published August 2003. Timeline: [[3133]]&mdash;[[3134]]<br />While [[Tara Campbell]] and [[Ezekiel Crow]] grow closer, [[Anastasia Kerensky]] makes another attempt on [[Northwind]]. Meanwhile, a dark secret threatens to unravel the alliance against the [[Steel Wolves]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/2002
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45885-0
 
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Third [[Archer Christifori]] novel. During the [[FedCom Civil War]], [[Clan Jade Falcon]] attacks and seizes planets in the [[Lyran Alliance]]. Prince [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] sends Major General Archer Christifori to check the Clan advance by taking Clan worlds behind those recently captured.
 
  
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===''[[Endgame]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Service for the Dead.jpg|left|70px|Service for the Dead]]'''''[[Service for the Dead]]''''' ([[The Proving Grounds (series)|The Proving Grounds trilogy]] #3), by [[Martin Delrio]]. Published November 2003. Timeline: [[3134]]<br />Twice repulsed from [[Northwind]], [[Anastasia Kerensky]] leads her [[Steel Wolves]] to [[Terra]], the capital of the [[Republic of the Sphere]]. [[Tara Campbell]] must not only stop the Wolf leader, but also confront a traitor closer to home.
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/2002
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45831-9
 
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Prince [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] and his allies attempt to crush the Loyalists under Victor's sister, Katrina and bring an end to the [[FedCom Civil War]].
 
  
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===''[[The Legend of the Jade Phoenix]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:By Temptations and by War.jpg|left|70px|By Temptations and By War]]'''''[[By Temptations and By War]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published December 2003. Timeline: [[3134]]<br />The planet [[Liao]] holds special significance to the [[Capellan Confederation]] and its ruling [[House Liao]]. Chancellor [[Daoshen Liao]] sends an agent to regain the planet from the Republic and resurrect a long-dead Warrior House. The mystery of the Betrayer of Liao is resolved.
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert Thurston]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 10/2003
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45951-2
 
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A omnibus reprint of ''[[Way of the Clans]]'', ''[[Bloodname (novel)|Bloodname]]'', and ''[[Falcon Guard (novel)|Falcon Guard]]''.
 
  
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===''[[Shrapnel]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Fortress of Lies.jpg|left|70px|Fortress of Lies]]'''''[[Fortress of Lies]]''''', by [[J. Steven York]]. Published February 2004. Timeline: [[3134]]<br />Duke [[Aaron Sandoval]] uses his nephew Erik to make alliances and oppose the Capellan advance into the Republic.
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* '''Editorial staff:''' [[L. Ross Babcock]] (Editor-in-Chief), [[Donna Ippolito]] (Senior Editor), [[C.R. Green]] (Editor)
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 1988
 
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* ISBN 1-55560-082-4
 
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This is an anthology and not a proper novel. The book contains an introduction by [[Jordan K. Weisman]], 13 short stories from various authors and some graphic artwork, all set in the Classic BattleTech era of approximately 3025.
 
  
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==MechWarrior: Dark Age Novels==
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Patriot's Stand.jpg|left|70px|Patriot's Stand]]'''''[[Patriot's Stand]]''''', by [[Mike Moscoe]]. Published April 2004. Timeline: [[3134]]<br />When an unscrupulous businessman hires [[Hansen's Roughriders]] to help him conquer the planet [[Alkalurops]], the determined natives must put their fate in the hands of a rag-tag group of mercenaries.
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===''[[Ghost War]]''===
 
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* '''Author:''' [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/2002
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45905-9
 
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Sam Donnelly investigates a terrorist organization on the planets Helen and Basalt.  
 
  
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===''[[A Call to Arms]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Flight of the Falcon.jpg|left|70px|Flight of the Falcon]]'''''[[Flight of the Falcon]]''''', by [[Victor Milán]]. Published June 2004. Timeline: [[3134]]<br />[[Clan Jade Falcon]] enters the fray as the Hazen sibkin, [[Malvina Hazen|Malvina]] and Alex, lead an incursion into the Republic. Their target: [[Skye]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 2/2003
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45912-1
 
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Customs officer Raul Ortega must deal with a Steel Wolf attack on the planet Achernar, one of the few worlds with a working HPG station.
 
  
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===''[[The Ruins of Power]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Blood of the Isle.jpg|left|70px|Blood of the Isle]]'''''[[Blood of the Isle]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published August 2004. Timeline: [[3134]]&mdash;[[3135]]<br />An unlikely alliance has arisen between the loyal Highlanders, the secessionist [[Stormhammers]] and the predatory [[Steel Wolves]] to protect the planet [[Skye]] against [[Clan Jade Falcon]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Robert E. Vardeman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/2003
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45928-8
 
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War comes to Mirach, and the pacifistic governor wants none of it. His son Austin must take up the sword instead.
 
  
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===''[[A Silence in the Heavens]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Hunters of the Deep.jpg|left|70px|Hunters of the Deep]]'''''[[Hunters of the Deep]]''''', by [[Randall N. Bills]]. Published October 2004. Timeline: [[3134]]<br />[[Clan Sea Fox]] roams the spacelanes like interstellar gypsies, buying and selling at every world and living almost entirely on their enormous ArcShips and CargoShips. In the midst of his regular duties, ovKhan [[Petr Kalasa]] of Delta Aimag uncovers intrigue among his fellow merchants.
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* '''Author:''' [[Martin Delrio]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/2003
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45932-6
 
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Book One of The Proving Grounds Trilogy. The Steel Wolves, led by Anastasia Kerensky, assault Northwind. They are opposed by Tara Campbell and her Highlanders, as well as Paladin Ezekiel Crow.
 
  
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===''[[Truth and Shadows]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Scorpion Jar.jpg|left|70px|The Scorpion Jar]]'''''[[The Scorpion Jar]]''''', by [[Jason M. Hardy]]. Published December 2004. Timeline: [[3134]]&mdash;[[3135]]<br />The death of a legendary hero triggers further crisis in the [[Republic of the Sphere]]. With all of his fellow Paladins gathered on [[Terra]] to elect a new [[Exarch]], [[Jonah Levin]] investigates the mystery behind this tragic murder and uncovers a conspiracy that could bring the Republic to the brink of destruction.
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* '''Author:''' [[Martin Delrio]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/2003
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45938-5
 
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Book Two of The Proving Grounds Trilogy. While Tara Campbell and Ezekiel Crow grow closer, Anastasia Kerensky makes another attempt on Northwind. Meanwhile, a dark secret threatens to unravel the alliance against the Steel Wolves.
 
  
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===''[[Service for the Dead]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Target of Opportunity.jpg|left|70px|Target of Opportunity]]'''''[[Target of Opportunity]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published February 2005. Timeline: [[3135]]<br />[[ComStar]] once ruled the realm of interstellar communications throughout the [[Inner Sphere]]. Then came the [[Jihad]], launched by a fanatical splinter group. The organization rebuilt, but the crash of the [[Hyperpulse Generator]] net nearly three years ago may just be the fatal blow for ComStar. One young Adept thinks he may have the answer to restoring communications, but will he be allowed to test his theory or will he become the pawn of warring factions?
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* '''Author:''' [[Martin Delrio]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 11/2003
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45943-1
 
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Book Three of The Proving Grounds Trilogy. Twice repulsed from Northwind, Anastasia Kerensky leads her Steel Wolves to Terra, the capital of the Republic of the Sphere. Tara Campbell not only must stop the Wolf leader, but also confront a traitor closer to home.
 
  
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===''[[By Temptations and By War]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Sword of Sedition.jpg|left|70px|Sword of Sedition]]'''''[[Sword of Sedition]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published April 2005. Timeline: [[3134]]&mdash;[[3135]]<br />Strife continues to build in the Republic government and the new [[Exarch]] struggles to repair the damage. With dignitaries from across human space arriving to honor a fallen hero, [[Terra]] becomes a pressure cooker that may just explode and bring devastation to everyone.
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/2003
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45947-3
 
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The planet Liao holds special significance to the [[Capellan Confederation]] and its ruling House Liao. Chancellor Daoshen Liao sends an agent to regain the planet from the Republic and resurrect a long-dead Warrior House. The mystery of the Betrayer of Liao is resolved.
 
  
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===''[[Fortress of Lies]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Daughter of the Dragon.jpg|left|70px|Daughter of the Dragon]]'''''[[Daughter of the Dragon]]''''', by [[Ilsa J. Bick]]. Published June 2005. Timeline: [[3134]]&mdash;[[3136]]<br />[[Katana Tormark]] was once a powerful figure in the Republic until the crash of the HPG system brought out her true allegiance. Now she conquers in the name of the [[Draconis Combine]]. But does Coordinator [[Vincent Kurita]] support or despise her?
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* '''Author:''' [[J. Steven York]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 2/2004
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45963-6
 
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Duke Aaron Sandoval uses his nephew Erik to make alliances and oppose the Capellan advance into the Republic.
 
  
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===''[[Patriot's Stand]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Heretic's Faith.jpg|left|70px|Heretic's Faith]]'''''[[Heretic's Faith]]''''', by [[Randall N. Bills]]. Published August 2005. Timeline: [[3135]]&mdash;[[3137]]<br />[[Clan Nova Cat]] is known for following their mystical visions, even when the path appears strange to outsiders. Led by the visions of the Mystic Caste, the Nova Cats take up an offer of alliance extended to them by [[Katana Tormark]], now Warlord of [[Dieron]]. Will they take the opportunity to reconnect with their sundered brethren in the Republic? Or destroy them?
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* '''Author:''' [[Mike Moscoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/2004
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45970-9
 
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When an unscrupulous businessman hires Hansen's Roughriders to help him conquer the planer Alkalurops, the determined natives must put their fate in the hands of a rag-tag group of mercenaries.
 
  
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===''[[Flight of the Falcon]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Fortress Republic.jpg|left|70px|Fortress Republic]]'''''[[Fortress Republic (novel)|Fortress Republic]]''''', by [[Loren L. Coleman]]. Published October 2005. Timeline: [[3135]]<br />With more and more threats appearing on his doorstep, [[Exarch]] [[Jonah Levin]] has a tough decision to make. Will his attempts to save the Republic doom it instead? Meanwhile, [[Julian Davion]], stripped of his position as Prince's Champion, leads a multinational force against the Senatorial rebellion and [[Caleb Davion]] assumes control of the [[Federated Suns]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Victor Milán]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/2004
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45983-0
 
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[[Clan Jade Falcon]] enters the fray as the Hazen sibkin, Malvina and Alex, lead an incursion into the Republic. Their target: Skye.
 
  
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===''[[Blood of the Isle]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Blood Avatar.jpg|left|70px|Blood Avatar]]'''''[[Blood Avatar]]''''', by [[Ilsa J. Bick]]. Published December 2005. Timeline: [[3135]]&mdash;[[3136]]<br />The first body that turns up in Farway, a secluded town on the planet [[Denebola]], is from out of town. When the Denebola Bureau of Investigation and the legate’s office from half the planet away decide to help identify the murder victim, Sheriff [[Hank Ketchum]] knows he’s in over his head. Enter the infamous Detective [[Jack Ramsey]]. With the help of the talented and beautiful local medical examiner, Amanda Slade, Ramsey digs into the case and discovers evidence that puts Farway at the heart of a conspiracy. But who’s the greater threat—the [[Clans]], the [[Word of Blake]] or the legate’s intelligence operative?
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/2004
 
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* ISBN 0-451-45988-1
 
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An unlikely alliance has arisen between the loyal Highlanders, the secessionist Stormhammers and the predatory Steel Wolves to protect the planet Skye against [[Clan Jade Falcon]].
 
  
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===''[[Hunters of the Deep]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Trial by Chaos.jpg|left|70px|Trial by Chaos]]'''''[[Trial by Chaos]]''''', by [[J. Steven York]]. Published June 2006. Timeline: [[3136]]<br />The Raging Bears have begun their occupation of the planet [[Vega]] with the hope of restoring order on a planet beset by violence and civil ruin. But their bold move to stabilize [[Prefecture I]] for the [[Republic of the Sphere]] may prove to be the chance their enemies have waited for...
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* '''Author:''' [[Randall N. Bills]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 10/2004
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46005-7
 
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Clan Sea Fox roams the spacelanes like interstellar gypsies, buying and selling at every world and living almost entirely on their enormous ArcShips and CargoShips. In the midst of his regular duties, ovKhan Petr Kalasa of Delta Aimag uncovers intrigue among his fellow merchants.
 
  
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===''[[The Scorpion Jar]]''===
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While the military takeover of [[Vega]] was no great challenge, setting up a new planetary government and restoring the infrastructure of civilization has proven to be far more difficult for the peacekeeping forces of the [[Rasalhague Dominion]]. There remains an underground resistance that refuses to cease fire, and the Bears suspect that the [[Draconis Combine]] is secretly supporting the rebellion. As the Combine threatens them from without, the Bears also find themselves plagued by betrayal and deception from within. Unless they can expose the rival elements in their Clan, they may end up as fodder for destruction…
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* '''Author:''' [[Jason M. Hardy]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/2004
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46020-0
 
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The death of a legendary hero triggers further crisis in the Republic of the Sphere. With all of his fellow Paladins gathered on Terra to elect a new Exarch, Jonah Levin investigates the mystery behind this tragic murder and uncovers a conspiracy that could bring the Republic to the brink of destruction.
 
  
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===''[[Target of Opportunity]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Principles of Desolation.jpg|left|70px|Principles of Desolation]]'''''[[Principles of Desolation]]''''', by [[Jason M. Hardy]] and [[Randall N. Bills]]. Published August 2006. Timeline: [[3135]]&mdash;[[3136]]<br />For more than a year, "divine leader" [[Daoshen Liao]] has relentlessly pushed his [[Capellan Confederation]] forces in their invasion of the [[Republic of the Sphere|Republic]]. Now the time has come for the next stage of his conquest&ndash;a conquest that will begin not with an enemy, but with his own family....
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 2/2005
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46016-2
 
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ComStar once ruled the realm of interstellar communications throughout the Inner Sphere. Then came the Jihad, launched by a fanatical splinter group. The organization rebuilt, but the crash of the Hyperpulse Generator net nearly three years ago may just be the fatal blow for ComStar. One young Adept thinks he may have the answer to restoring communications, but will he be allowed to test his theory or will he become the pawn of warring factions?
 
  
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===''[[Sword of Sedition]]''===
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Raised among royalty in the [[Magistracy of Canopus]], where the superiority of women is a cultural axiom, [[Danai Liao-Centrella]] possesses all the confidence necessary for her to ascend through the confederacy ranks, despite having to contend with the constant machinations of her maniacal brother, Daoshen.
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 4/2005
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46022-7
 
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Book One of the Fortress Republic duology. Strife continues to build in the Republic government and the new Exarch struggles to repair the damage. With dignitaries from across human space arriving to honor a fallen hero, Terra becomes a pressure cooker that may just explode and bring devastation to everyone.
 
  
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===''[[Daughter of the Dragon]]''===
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But when her latest mission ends in defeat and personal disgrace, Danai will face the greatest challenge of her life. Chancellor Daoshen rewards her failure by giving her a battalion of her own and a brand-new battlefield. And Danai is about to learn that in service to the state, even family comes second to safeguarding the [[Capellan Confederation]].
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* '''Author:''' [[Ilsa J. Bick]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/2005
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46034-0
 
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Katana Tormark was once a powerful figure in the Republic until the crash of the HPG system brought out her true allegiance. Now she conquers in the name of the [[BattleTech:Successor States#Draconis Combine|Draconis Combine]]. But does Coordinator Vincent Kurita support or despise her?
 
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===''[[Heretic's Faith]]''===
 
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* '''Author:''' [[Randall N. Bills]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/2005
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46040-5
 
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Clan Nova Cat is known for following their mystical visions, even when the path appears strange to outsiders. Led by the visions of the Mystic Caste, the Nova Cats take up an offer of alliance extended to them by Katana Tormark, now Warlord of Dieron. Will they take the opportunity to reconnect with their sundered brethren in the Republic? Or destroy them?
 
  
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===''[[Fortress Republic (novel)|Fortress Republic]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Wolf Hunters.jpg|left|70px|Wolf Hunters]]'''''[[Wolf Hunters (novel)|Wolf Hunters]]''''', by [[Kevin Killiany]]. Published November 2006. Timeline: [[3135]]&mdash;[[3136]]<br />[[Anastasia Kerensky]] has declared the Steel Wolf Clan to be mercenaries, re-christening them [[Wolf Hunters]]. The combination of autonomy and wealth will make them more than a match for any MechWarrior battalion suicidal enough to challenge them.<br />But the real challenge comes from within the Clan. Star Colonel Varnoff believes Kerensky has betrayed them all-and with a loyal faction of Steel Wolves at his side vows to destroy all the Wolf Hunters.
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* '''Author:''' [[Loren L. Coleman]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 10/2005
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46053-7
 
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Book Two of the Fortress Republic duology. With more and more threats appearing on his doorstep, Exarch Jonah Levin has a tough decision to make. Will his attempts to save the Republic doom it instead? Meanwhile, Julian Davion, stripped of his position as Prince's Champion, leads a multinational force against the Senatorial rebellion and Caleb Davion assumes control of the [[BattleTech:Successor States#Federated Suns|Federated Suns]].
 
  
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===''[[Blood Avatar]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Surrender Your Dreams.jpg|left|70px|Surrender Your Dreams]]'''''[[Surrender Your Dreams]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published December 2006. Timeline: [[3135]]&mdash;[[3138]]<br />They are the [[Fidelis]], a brotherhood of warriors whose devotion to honor and courage on the battlefield is unmatched. Their existence known only to a former [[exarch]], they are a fighting force to be reckoned with&mdash;a force three knights must consider as they undertake missions that could save the Republic... or cripple it. 
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* '''Author:''' [[Ilsa J. Bick]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/2005
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46074-X
 
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The first body that turns up in Farway, a secluded town on the planet Denebola, is from out of town. When the Denebola Bureau of Investigation and the legate’s office from half the planet away decide to help identify the murder victim, Sheriff Hank Ketchum knows he’s in over his head. Enter the infamous Detective Jack Ramsey. With the help of the talented and beautiful local medical examiner, Amanda Slade, Ramsey digs into the case and discovers evidence that puts Farway at the heart of a conspiracy. But who’s the greater threat—the Clans, the Word of Blake or the legate’s intelligence operative?
 
  
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===''[[Trial by Chaos]]''===
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[[Land Synd]] embodied the vision of the knight-errant. Devoted wholeheartedly to the Republic and its citizens, she believes in her mission. But what she must do to accomplish it will test her mettle as a knight&mdash;and as a human being.
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* '''Author:''' [[J. Steven York]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 6/2006
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46072-3
 
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The Raging Bears have begun their occupation of the planet Vega with the hope of restoring order on a planet beset by violence and civil ruin. But their bold move to stabilize Prefecture I for the Republic of the Sphere may prove to be the chance their enemies have waited for...
 
  
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While the military takeover of Vega was no great challenge, setting up a new planetary government and restoring the infrastructure of civilization has proven to be far more difficult for the peacekeeping forces of the Rasalhague Dominion. There remains an underground resistance that refuses to cease fire, and the Bears suspect that the [[BattleTech:Successor States#Draconis Combine|Draconis Combine]] is secretly supporting the rebellion. As the Combine threatens them from without, the Bears also find themselves plagued by betrayal and deception from within. Unless they can expose the rival elements in their Clan, they may end up as fodder for destruction…
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[[Hunter Mannheim]] is descended from a long line of military leaders and feels he must continue the tradition of excellence in service and sacrifice in battle. But what he must sacrifice in the name of duty may be more than he can bear. 
  
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===''[[Principles of Desolation]]''===
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[[Kristoff Erbe]] is a man burdened by shame. His grandfather was a collaborator who served as a commander of a "reeducation camp" for those that defied the fanatical [[Word of Blake]]. To this day Kristoff searches for a way to redeem his family honor.
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* '''Author:''' [[Jason M. Hardy]] and [[Randall N. Bills]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 8/2006
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46081-2
 
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For more than a year, "divine leader" [[Daoshen Liao]] has relentlessly pushed his [[Capellan Confederation]] forces in their invasion of the [[Republic of the Sphere|Republic]]. Now the time has come for the next stage of his conquest &ndash; a conquest that will begin not with an enemy, but with his own family....
 
  
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Raised among royalty in the [[Magistracy of Canopus]], where the superiority of women is a cultural axiom, [[Danai Liao-Centrella]] possesses all the confidence necessary for her to ascend through the confederacy ranks, despite having to contend with the constant machinations of her maniacal brother, Daoshen.
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Three knights. Three dreams. For each, one chance lies outside the walls of the [[Fortress Republic]].
  
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But when her latest mission ends in defeat and personal disgrace, Danai will face the greatest challenge of her life. Chancellor Daoshen rewards her failure by giving her a battalion of her own and a brand-new battlefield. And Danai is about to learn that in service to the state, even family comes second to safeguarding the [[Capellan Confederation]].
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Dragon Rising.jpg|left|70px|Dragon Rising]]'''''[[Dragon Rising]]''''', by [[Ilsa J. Bick]]. Published February 2007. Timeline: [[3136]]&mdash;[[3137]]<br />When several planets are left to fend for themselves, becoming pawns in a deadly game of territorial sovereignty, [[Katana Tormark]], a warlord of [[Dieron]], must join forces with the [[Draconis Combine|Combine]]'s [[Vincent Kurita|coordinator]] to gain control of these worlds and reestablish the historic [[Dieron Military District|Dieron Military district]].
  
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===''[[Wolf Hunters (novel)|Wolf Hunters]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Masters of War.jpg|left|70px|Masters of War]]'''''[[Masters of War]]''''', by [[Michael A. Stackpole]]. Published April 2007. Timeline: [[3136]]&mdash;[[3137]]<br />[[Clan Wolf]] decides to pick up and move halfway across the [[Inner Sphere]]. How will this decision affect [[Alaric Wolf]] (an adopted warrior whose parentage is surprising), [[Anastasia Kerensky]] (one-time leader of the [[Steel Wolves]], now commander of the [[mercenary]] [[Wolf Hunters]]), and [[Verena]] (a [[Clan Wolf-in-Exile]] warrior who was tossed out of the Steel Wolves by Anastasia)?
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* '''Author:''' [[Kevin Killiany]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 11/2006
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46095-2
 
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LONE WOLVES DIE ALONE.
 
  
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BUT THE PACK LIVES FOREVER.  
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:A Rending of Falcons.jpg|left|70px|A Rending of Falcons]]'''''[[A Rending of Falcons]]''''', by [[Victor Milán]]. Published June 2007. Timeline: [[3135]]&mdash;[[3136]]<br />Within [[Clan Jade Falcon]], [[Malvina Hazen]] begins a civil war against Khan [[Jana Pryde]].
  
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Anastasia Kerensky has declared the Steel Wolf Clan to be mercenaries, re-christening them Wolf Hunters. The combination of autonomy and wealth will make them more than a match for any MechWarrior battalion suicidal enough to challenge them.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Pandora's Gambit.jpg|left|70px|Pandora's Gambit]]'''''[[Pandora's Gambit]]''''', by [[Randall N. Bills]]. Published August 2007. Timeline: [[3135]]&mdash;[[3137]]<br />Following the sundering of the [[Free Worlds League]] in [[3069]], three contenders for the throne of the [[Captain-General]] vie for supremacy.
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But the real challenge comes from within the Clan. Star Colonel Varnoff believes Kerensky has betrayed them all-and with a loyal faction of Steel Wolves at his side vows to destroy all the Wolf Hunters.
 
  
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===''[[Surrender Your Dreams]]''===
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:Fire at Will.jpg|left|70px|Fire at Will]]'''''[[Fire at Will]]''''', by [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]. Published October 2007. Timeline: [[3136]]&mdash;[[3138]]<br />For too long, the people of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] have only reacted to attacks by their enemies. Now, [[Archon]] [[Melissa Steiner II|Melissa Steiner]] launches an intricate [[Operation Hammerfall|gambit]] that will secure the safety of her subjects&mdash;and secure her own power against those who wish to take it...
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* '''Author:''' [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]]
 
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* '''Publication Date:''' 12/2006
 
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* ISBN 0-451-46120-7
 
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Beyond the Walls...
 
  
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They are the Fidelis, a brotherhood of warriors whose devotion to honor and courage on the battlefield is unmatched.  Their existence known only to a former exarch, they are a fighting force to be reckoned with – a force three knights must consider as they undertake missions that could save the Republic…or cripple it.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:The Last Charge.jpg|left|70px|The Last Charge]]'''''[[The Last Charge]]''''', by [[Jason M. Hardy]]. Published December 2007. Timeline: [[3138]]<br />[[Anson Marik]] is at his wit's end. The [[Lyran Commonwealth|Lyrans]] are pressing on his borders. His [[Cole Daggert|chief tactician]] has resigned. And his abilities as a leader are failing him. Now his enemies are on the move, taking the [[Marik-Stewart Commonwealth|Commonwealth]] planet by planet, forcing Marik to pull his forces back in a bravely-fought running retreat. And if Marik cannot gather his strength to stop the invasion, his people will be doomed...
  
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Land Synd embodied the vision of the knight-errant. Devoted wholeheartedly to the Republic and its citizens, she believes in her mission.  But what she must do to accomplish it will test her mettle as a knight – and as a human being.
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<div style="clear:both"></div>[[Image:To Ride the Chimera.jpg|left|70px|To Ride the Chimera]]'''''[[To Ride the Chimera]]''''', by [[Kevin Killiany]]. Published February 2008. Timeline: [[3138]]&mdash;[[3139]]<br />A [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] without peer, [[Thaddeus Marik III|Thaddeus Marik]] has become the figurehead for a new community of worlds attempting to resurrect the [[Free Worlds League]]. After defeating a Lyran invasion on the planet of [[Savannah]] and negotiating a successful alliance with the [[Protectorate Coalition]], Marik must now ally himself with [[Jessica Marik|Jessica Halas-Hughes Marik]] if the new league is to have a chance.
  
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Hunter Mannheim is descended from a long line of military leaders and feels he must continue the tradition of excellence in service and sacrifice in battle. But what he must sacrifice in the name of duty may be more than he can bear.
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see also: Category:Novels

FASA books

The twelve early BattleTech books published directly by FASA are often considered the bedrock of the universe. They portray the "classic" era set around the year 3025 (the late Succession Wars era) up until the beginning the Clan Invasion era.


Decision at Thunder Rift

Decision at Thunder Rift (Saga of the Gray Death Legion #1), by William H. Keith, Jr.. Published June 1986. Timeline: 3024
On Trell I, Grayson Death Carlyle, the commander's son, must help the people of Trell throw off the invading forces while trying to live up to his father's legacy after Carlyle's Commandos are destroyed in a sneak attack.

The Sword and the Dagger

The Sword and the Dagger, by Ardath Mayhar. Published April 1987. Timeline: 3025
Ardan Sortek stumbles upon a plot to replace Hanse Davion, First Prince of the Federated Suns, with a double under the control of Maximilian Liao, Chancellor of the Capellan Confederation and sworn enemy of the Davion family.

Mercenary's Star

Mercenary's Star (Saga of the Gray Death Legion #2), by William H. Keith, Jr.. Published June 1987. Timeline: 3025—3026
The fledgling Gray Death Legion, formed in the fighting on Trell I, takes on their first mercenary contract: train the inhabitants of Verthandi to fight their Draconis Combine overlords.

The Price of Glory

The Price of Glory (Saga of the Gray Death Legion #3), by William H. Keith, Jr.. Published October 1987. Timeline: 3027—3028
Outlawed for an atrocious war crime that they did not commit, the Gray Death Legion find that they unknowingly held the key to an immeasurably valuable treasure.

Warrior: En Garde

En Garde (The Warrior Trilogy #1), by Michael A. Stackpole. Published August 1988. Timeline: 3026—3027
False accusations and a sham trial exile Justin Xiang Allard from the Federated Suns. The resourceful Warrior finds a new home in the Capellan Confederation. Meanwhile, someone has kidnapped Melissa Steiner, heir to the throne of the Lyran Commonwealth and betrothed of Hanse Davion, First Prince of the Federated Suns. Daniel Allard and the Kell Hounds mercenary unit must face a foe from their past to rescue her.

Warrior: Riposte

Riposte (The Warrior Trilogy #2), by Michael A. Stackpole. Published October 1988. Timeline: 3027—3029
On the eve of his wedding to Melissa Steiner, Hanse Davion declares war on the Capellan Confederation, launching the Fourth Succession War.

Wolves on the Border

Wolves on the Border, by Robert N. Charrette. Published March 1989. Timeline: 3023—3028
The famous Wolf's Dragoons become the target of a plot by an ambitious and devious Draconis Combine Warlord to gain their services permanently. Their liaison with the Combine, Minobu Tetsuhara, is an honest man and a friend to the Dragoons' leader, Colonel Jaime Wolf, and is caught between duty and friendship as war looms.

Warrior: Coupé

Coupé (The Warrior Trilogy #2), by Michael A. Stackpole. Published April 1989. Timeline: 3029—3030
The Capellan Confederation, weakened from within by treason and a Davion agent, is shattered in the Fourth Succession War while the Kell Hounds prepare for a final showdown with Yorinaga Kurita.

Heir to the Dragon

Heir to the Dragon, by Robert N. Charrette. Published August 1989. Timeline: 3018—3040
Theodore Kurita, only son of the Draconis Combine's reigning Coordinator Takashi Kurita, has grandiose ideas about the future of his nation but he is hindered by his father's conservative nature and fear of change, and must prove himself on the battlefield as well as the treacherous waters of the Combine court.

Lethal Heritage

Lethal Heritage (Blood of Kerensky Trilogy #1), by Michael A. Stackpole. Published September 1989. Timeline: 3049—3051
Two decades after the Fourth Succession War that forever altered the balance of power in the Inner Sphere, a new generation of leaders faces an entirely new threat: Mysterious invaders from beyond the Periphery threaten everything they know and love.

Blood Legacy

Blood Legacy (Blood of Kerensky Trilogy #2), by Michael A. Stackpole. Published December 1990. Timeline: 3051—3052
The invading Clans have been stopped temporarily, but old prejudices and hatreds still stand in the way of a cooperative Inner Sphere defense. Luthien, capital world of the Draconis Combine, may fall, a risk the Inner Sphere cannot afford to take.

Lost Destiny

Lost Destiny (Blood of Kerensky Trilogy #3), by Michael A. Stackpole. Published September 1991. Timeline: 3052
Despite some small victories, the Inner Sphere seems helpless to stop the renewed onslaught of the Clan juggernaut. At the time of their greatest need, ComStar steps forward to fulfill their destiny as the saviors of humanity and reveals a hidden army that will duel with the Clans in a proxy fight for Terra on the backwater world of Tukayyid—the cataclysmic Battle of Tukayyid.

Shrapnel

Shrapnel. Published 1988. Timeline: ca. 2980&mdash3025
Published by FASA as part of their line of BattleTech sourcebooks and game supplements (instead of novel format), the Shrapnel anthology contains a number of standalone short stories (including a Gray Death Legion story by William H. Keith, Jr. and a story about Kell Hounds co-founder Patrick Kell by Michael A. Stackpole) and graphic artwork.


ROC books

In 1991, Roc Books took over the novel line from FASA.

BattleTech novels

Roc continued the FASA line of "BattleTech" novels and also reprinted all FASA novels (save for The Sword and the Dagger, which had a different contract from all others) with new cover art. This line was concluded with novel #56, Endgame.


Way of the Clans

Way of the Clans (Legend of the Jade Phoenix trilogy #1), by Robert Thurston. Published August 1991. Timeline: ca. 3030s
Trueborn to Clan Jade Falcon, Cadet Aidan aspires to become a Warrior and contribute his genetic material to his Clan's breeding program. But sibko training is harsh and unforgiving.

Bloodname

Bloodname (Legend of the Jade Phoenix trilogy #2), by Robert Thurston. Published October 1991. Timeline: ca. 3040s
Aidan only managed to attain Warrior status by unconventional means and under the assumed identity of freeborn Warrior Jorge. Though this should preclude him from ever earning a bloodname, he gets a chance to set his record straight.

Falcon Guard

Falcon Guard (Legend of the Jade Phoenix trilogy #3), by Robert Thurston. Published December 1991. Timeline: 3051—3052
Considered a pariah among Clan Jade Falcon for his unconventional career, Star Colonel Aidan Pryde gets one last shot at redemption in the Battle of Tukayyid.

Wolf Pack

Wolf Pack, by Robert N. Charrette. Published April 1992. Timeline: 3053—3055
Over the course of half a century, Wolf's Dragoons have evolved from a topnotch mercenary unit to something resembling a small nation—too big to maintain coherence among their various subfactions. Torn between their Clan and Inner Sphere origins, they find themselves in what amounts to a civil war when an ambitious Clan faction attempts a coup against Jaime Wolf.

Natural Selection

Natural Selection, by Michael A. Stackpole. Published July 1992. Timeline: 3055
A marauding band of raiders equipped with Clan weaponry crosses borders into the Inner Sphere and threatens to undo the Truce of Tukayyid. To contain the threat, Archon-Prince Designate Victor Steiner-Davion and Khan Phelan Ward of Clan Wolf must cooperate despite their differences. The assassination of Melissa Steiner-Davion adds to the overall tension.

Decision at Thunder Rift

Decision at Thunder Rift, reprint. Published September 1992.

Mercenary's Star

Mercenary's Star, reprint. Published November 1992.

The Price of Glory

The Price of Glory, reprint. Published January 1993.

Ideal War

Ideal War, by Christopher Kubasik. Published March 1993. Timeline: 3054—3055
The Word of Blake sect has split from ComStar in the wake of the Battle of Tukayyid and the disparate group of religious zealots and shell-shocked soldiers were permitted to settle on the Free Worlds League planet of Gibson, where they end up embroiled in a guerilla war. Alarmed, Thomas Marik sends Sir Paul Masters of the Knigts of the Inner Sphere to Gibson to evaluate the situation.

Main Event

Main Event, by James D. Long. Published May 1993. Timeline: 3054—3055
Hired for garrison duty on Borghese, the Black Thorns mercenary company finds themselves fighting both Clan Jade Falcon invaders and a political movement that wants to surrender the planet.

Blood of Heroes

Blood of Heroes (Saga of the Gray Death Legion #4), by Andrew Keith. Published July 1993. Timeline: 3056
While the unit's leaders are off-planet, secessionists attack the Gray Death Legion on Glengarry, foreshadowing the FedCom Civil War.

Assumption of Risk

Assumption of Risk, by Michael A. Stackpole. Published September 1993. Timeline: 3055
Kai Allard-Liao has returned to the world that made his father famous, the gaming planet of Solaris VII. But being the Gaming World's Champion is the least of his worries as conflicts abound, from the arrival of a former lover to the assassination plot of a political leader.

Far Country

Far Country, by Peter Rice. Published October 1993. Timeline: 3056
A Draconis Elite Strike Team, accompanied by a small mercenary group, are stranded in an unknown star system by a misjump with no contact to the rest of humanity. They make landfall on a planet with intelligent flightless birds and find that another group of humans stranded here five centuries earlier, enslaving the birds and establishing nations that wage war on each other.

D.R.T.

D.R.T., by James D. Long. Published May 1994. Timeline: 3056—3057
Having proven themselves a capable unit and equipped with Clan technology equipment, The Black Thorns accept a contract to Wolcott, the Draconis Combine's holding behind the Clan lines, and from there embark on a deep strike mission against the Clan-held system of Courchevel.

Close Quarters

Close Quarters, by Victor Milán. Published September 1994. Timeline: 3056
Hired to provide protection for Chandrasekhar Kurita's business holdings on Hachiman, Camacho's Caballeros and Cassie Suthorn begin to feel out a plot to take down the high-ranking noble. When an alliance between his foes threatens Chandrasekhar's interests, Cassie and the Caballeros face a tough battle between their friends in the Ninth Ghost Regiment and Ninyu Kerai Indrahar, the spymaster manipulating the whole conflict.

I Am Jade Falcon

I Am Jade Falcon, by Robert Thurston. Published March 1995. Timeline: 3057
For aging and frustrated Star Commander Joanna, the Refusal War between the Clan Jade Falcon and Clan Wolf is her last chance to earn some glory.

Highlander Gambit

Highlander Gambit, by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published June 1995. Timeline: 3057
Thirty years after the Northwind Highlanders switched sides in the Fourth Succession War from the Capellan Confederation to the Federated Suns, the Capellan Chancellor orders an elite Death Commando and descendant of a Highlander to sacrifice everything he is and everything he has to destroy the bonds between the Federated Commonwealth and the Highlanders, even if it means the Highlanders' destruction.

Tactics of Duty

Tactics of Duty (Saga of the Gray Death Legion #5), by William H. Keith, Jr.. Published August 1993. Timeline: 3057
The Gray Death Legion gets entangled in the developing FedCom Civil War once more on Caledonia.

Lethal Heritage

Lethal Heritage, reprint. Published September 1995.

Blood Legacy

Blood Legacy, reprint. Published November 1995.

Lost Destiny

Lost Destiny, reprint. Published December 1995.

Bred for War

Bred for War, by Michael A. Stackpole. Published December 1995. Timeline: 3057
Victor Steiner-Davion's Federated Commonwealth badly needs the war material provided by the Free Worlds League in exchange for treating Joshua Marik, the Captain-General's dying son. When the boy dies, he is replaced with a double, he is exchanged for a double but the ruse is discovered with desastrous consequences: Houses Marik and Liao, along Victor's treacherous sister, use the deception as a pretext to tear the Federated Commonwealth apart. Just when Victor thinks things can get no worse, the Refusal War pits two entire Clans, the Jade Falcons and the Wolves, against each other in a fight to the death.

Star Lord

Star Lord, by Donald G. Phillips. Published February 1996. Timeline: 3057
Stefan Amaris VII, a distant heir of Stefan Amaris, is building up a secret army in the Periphery and sows unrest by sending his units on terror attacks bearing false colors. A disparate group of operatives under the aegis of the Knights of the Inner Sphere is tasked with putting and end to his maraudings.

Malicious Intent

Malicious Intent, by Michael A. Stackpole. Published March 1996. Timeline: 3057—3058
Right after the Refusal War, Clan Jade Falcon attacks Coventry, which has the unintended side effect of uniting disparate elements of the Inner Sphere. Vlad of Clan Wolf attempts to rebuild his clan with political intrigue.

Wolves on the Border

Wolves on the Border, reprint. Published May 1996.

Hearts of Chaos

Hearts of Chaos, by Victor Milán. Published June 1996. Timeline: 3056—3058
Camacho's Caballeros are sent to the planet Towne, where they find the planet split between support for the local Davionists, and the desire for stability among the Draconis Combine. Behind the Combine troops, however, are the Kokuryu-kai, a mysterious organization that wants to overthrow the Coordinator.

Operation Excalibur

Operation Excalibur (Saga of the Gray Death Legion #6), by William H. Keith, Jr.. Published August 1996. Timeline: 3057
The Gray Death Legion takes service with their erstwhile enemy, the rebellious governor of Hesperus II. Under the guise of turncoats, they play a dangerous game of brinkmanship to bring Hesperus back into the Lyran Alliance that culminates in a battle within the 'Mech factory itself.

Heir to the Dragon

Heir to the Dragon, reprint. Published September 1996.

Black Dragon

Black Dragon, by Victor Milán. Published November 1996. Timeline: 3058
To be honored for their work on Towne, Camacho's Caballeros are invited to Luthien where they begin to unravel a plot to kill the Coordinator.

Impetus of War

Impetus of War, by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published December 1996. Timeline: 3058
The Draconis Combine hires out the famous Northwind Highlanders for a daring mission into clan space. 'Cat' Stirling and Loren Jaffray take the Stirling Fusilers to the planet of Wayside V deep behind Clan lines for a strike on the Clan Smoke Jaguar's supply lines.

Double-Blind

Double-Blind, by Loren L. Coleman. Published April 1997. Timeline: [[3058
The mercenary unit Avanti's Angels is hired by the Magistracy of Canopus to defend against the Marian Hegemony—a conflict behind which lurks the Word of Blake.

Binding Force

Binding Force, by Loren L. Coleman. Published July 1997. Timeline: [[3058
The Capellan Confederation, bent on recapturing their lost territories, sends Warrior House Hiritsu to conquer Kaifeng.

Exodus Road

Exodus Road (Twilight of the Clans #1), by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published August 1997. Timeline: 3052—3058
A disillusioned Warrior from Clan Smoke Jaguar enables the Inner Sphere to strike at Huntress, the Smoke Jaguar capital world.

Grave Covenant

Grave Covenant (Twilight of the Clans #2), by Michael A. Stackpole. Published September 1997. Timeline: 3058—3059
The states of the Inner Sphere have reformed the Star League, and [Task Force Serpent|a multinational coalition task force]] is created to utterly destroy Clan Smoke Jaguar as a show of force.

The Hunters

The Hunters (Twilight of the Clans #3), by Thomas S. Gressman. Published December 1997. Timeline: 3058—3059
Under the command of Marshal of the Armies Morgan Hasek-Davion, Task Force Serpent sets out on the long voyage to Huntress, hoping to surprise and overwhelm the distant homeworld of Clan Smoke Jaguar, making the hunters become the hunted.

Freebirth

Freebirth (Twilight of the Clans #4), by Robert Thurston. Published February 1998. Timeline: 3058—3059
Ordered to inspect a project of the science caste at a Clan Jade Falcon outpost on the Clan Smoke Jaguar world of Huntress, Star Captain Horse finds evidence of a secret cooperation between the Jade Falcon and Smoke Jaguar scientist castes.

Warrior: En Garde

Warrior: En Garde, reprint ("10th anniversary edition"). Published April 1998.

Warrior: Riposte

Warrior: Riposte, reprint ("10th anniversary edition"). Published June 1998.

Sword and Fire

Sword and Fire (Twilight of the Clans #5), by Thomas S. Gressman. Published August 1998. Timeline: 3060
After the death of Marshal Morgan Hasek-Davion, Ariana Winston, the General in charge of the Eridani Light Horse, leads Task Force Serpent on. Even while they fight to neutralize Huntress, however, a new wave of Smoke Jaguar Warriors is on its way back from the Inner Sphere, pushed out by Victor Steiner-Davion's Operation Bulldog.

Shadows of War

Shadows of War (Twilight of the Clans #6), by Thomas S. Gressman. Published September 1998. Timeline: 3060
Task Force Serpent is fighting a desperate defense on Huntress while enraged Clan Smoke Jaguar troops flood the field until Operation Hunter arrives and eradicates the last of the Smoke Jaguars. But in the wake of their victory, Victor Steiner-Davion reveals the true goal of their fight: Strana Mechty, the homeworld of the Clans, itself.

Warrior: Coupé

Warrior: Coupé, reprint ("10th anniversary edition"). Published November 1998.

Prince of Havoc

Prince of Havoc (Twilight of the Clans #7), by Michael A. Stackpole. Published December 1998. Timeline: 3060—3061
Victor Steiner-Davion leads his battered forces to Strana Mechty and begins the bidding process for a Trial about the Clan invasion itself, to end it once and for all. His forces prevail, but Khan Vlad Ward of Clan Wolf lets off a parting shot as the coalition forces leave his homeworld: the Inner Sphere may not be as stable as when they left.

Falcon Rising

Falcon Rising (Twilight of the Clans #8), by Robert Thurston. Published March 1999. Timeline: 3059—3061
Following in the footsteps of her father Aidan, freeborn Warrior Diana of Clan Jade Falcon competes for a bloodname. This not only alienates many in her own Clan, but pushes the Jade Falcons on the brink of war with the conservative Clan Steel Viper. Meanwhile, the coalition forces arrive back in the Inner Sphere, years after they left, and find it changed as Archon Katherine Steiner-Davion has ursurped the Federated Commonwealth and left her brother, Victor Steiner-Davion, without a throne.

Threads of Ambition

Threads of Ambition (The Capellan Solution duology #1), by Loren L. Coleman. Published May 1999. Timeline: 3060—3061
Thirty years after his aunt Candace split off from the Capellan Confederation and formed the St. Ives Compact, Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao uses his powerful position of First Lord of the resurrected Star League to set a plan in motion that will allow his Confederation to reclaim the Compact.

The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields (The Capellan Solution duology #2), by Loren L. Coleman. Published August 1999. Timeline: 3062
The conclusion of the long and bloody struggle to re-absorb the St. Ives Compact back into the Capellan Confederation.

Dagger Point

Dagger Point, by Thomas S. Gressman. Published April 2000. Timeline: 3061—3062
The noble Eridani Light Horse are deployed to the St. Ives Compact as Star League peacekeepers in the small nation's ongoing conflict with the Capellan Confederation. But the mission is a sham; First Lord Sun-Tzu Liao is not really seeking peace, but rather wants his Confederation to recapture St. Ives.

Illusions of Victory

Illusions of Victory, by Loren L. Coleman. Published May 2000. Timeline: 3062
On the game world of Solaris VII, the FedCom Civil War spills beyond grudge matches and out into the streets.

Measure of a Hero

Measure of a Hero, by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published July 2000. Timeline: 3062—3063
In the FedCom Civil War, decorated war hero Archer Christifori against Lyran oppression on Thorin.

Path of Glory

Path of Glory, by Randall N. Bills. Published December 2000. Timeline: 3061—3062
At the beginning of the FedCom Civil War, Clan Nova Cat and the Draconis Combine forge an unlikely alliance.

Flashpoint

Flashpoint, by Loren L. Coleman. Published April 2001. Timeline: 3062
During the FedCom Civil War, the planetary militia on Kathil rises against the Lyran 8th FedCom RCT.

Test of Vengeance

Test of Vengeance, by Bryan Nystul. Published June 2001. Timeline: 3062—3064
Elemental Warrior Jake Kabrinski rises through the ranks of Clan Ghost Bear and fights in the Combine-Ghost Bear War.

Patriots and Tyrants

Patriots and Tyrants, by Loren L. Coleman. Published September 2001. Timeline: 3061—3063
The FedCom Civil War builds up as Katherine Steiner-Davion and her brother Victor Steiner-Davion maneuver against each other.

Call of Duty

Call of Duty, by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published October 2001. Timeline: 3063
On Odessa, treachery pits Archer's Avengers against Snord's Irregulars during the FedCom Civil War.

Storms of Fate

Storms of Fate, by Loren L. Coleman. Published April 2002. Timeline: 3064—3065
The FedCom Civil War gains momentum as Victor Steiner-Davion and Katherine Steiner-Davion continue their conflict.

Operation Audacity

Operation Audacity, by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published June 2002. Timeline: 3064—3065
During the FedCom Civil War, Clan Jade Falcon attacks and seizes planets in the Lyran Alliance. Prince Victor Steiner-Davion sends Major General Archer Christifori to check the Clan advance by taking Clan worlds behind those recently captured.

Endgame

Endgame, by Loren L. Coleman. Published September 2002. Timeline: 3065—3067
Prince Victor Steiner-Davion and his allies attempt to crush the Loyalists under Victor's sister, Katrina and bring an end to the FedCom Civil War which culminates in the attack on Tharkad.

The Legend of the Jade Phoenix

The Legend of the Jade Phoenix, by Robert Thurston. Published October 2003.
Omnibus reprint of Way of the Clans, Bloodname, and Falcon Guard.

MechWarrior novels

Beginning with Ghost of Winter in 1999, Roc Books also launched a second novel line in the BattleTech universe under the "MechWarrior" moniker (not to be confused with the MechWarrior RPG). Unlike the core BattleTech novel line, the MechWarrior novels are standalone stories with a relatively small-scale setting and little to no impact on the universe at large.


Ghost of Winter

Ghost of Winter, by Stephen Kenson. Published October 1999. Timeline: 3060
Kore, a backwater mining world in the Periphery, is attacke by raiders. The tiny militia force is defeated, but one Warrior escapes and stumbles across the treasure the raiders are after.

Roar of Honor

Roar of Honor, by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published October 1999. Timeline: 3062
The Stalking Bears, a newly formed Trinary, are sent to garrison the planet Toffen and defend it against an attack from Clan Wolf.

By Blood Betrayed

By Blood Betrayed, by Blaine Lee Pardoe and Mel Odom. Published November 1999. Timeline: 3059
After his brother was killed while fighting for Able's Aces, farmboy Harley Rassor joins the mercenary unit to find out what really happened.

Initiation to War

Initiation to War, by Robert N. Charrette. Published November 2001. Timeline: 3061—3063
A young militia warrior learns what it is to be a MechWarrior on Epsilon Eridani.

The Dying Time

The Dying Time (Saga of the Gray Death Legion #7), by Thomas S. Gressman. Published January 2002. Timeline: 3065
Grayson Death Carlyle, the famous founder of the Gray Death Legion passes away. His wife takes up the reins as the Gray Death Legion embark on their greatest challenge since their inception and return to Hesperus II to protect the facility during the ravages of the FedCom Civil War.

Imminent Crisis

Imminent Crisis, by Randall N. Bills. Published March 2002. Timeline: 3065—3066
On New Syrtis, the 8th Syrtis Fusiliers become entangled in the FedCom Civil War.


MechWarrior: Dark Age Novels

Following the creation of the MechWarrior: Dark Age line (and the subsequent renaming of the original line into "Classic BattleTech"), Roc Books continued to publish new novels in the Dark Age setting.


Ghost War

Ghost War, by Michael A. Stackpole. Published December 2002. Timeline: 3132—3133
Sam Donnelly investigates a terrorist organization on the planets Helen and Basalt.

A Call to Arms

A Call to Arms, by Loren L. Coleman. Published February 2003. Timeline: 3133
Customs officer Raul Ortega must deal with a Steel Wolves attack on the planet Achernar, one of the few worlds with a working HPG station.

The Ruins of Power

The Ruins of Power, by Robert E. Vardeman. Published April 2003. Timeline: 3133
War comes to Mirach, and the pacifistic governor wants none of it. His son Austin must take up the sword instead.

A Silence in the Heavens

A Silence in the Heavens (The Proving Grounds trilogy #1), by Martin Delrio. Published June 2003. Timeline: 3132—3133
The Steel Wolves, led by Anastasia Kerensky, assault Northwind. They are opposed by Tara Campbell and her Highlanders, as well as Paladin Ezekiel Crow.

Truth and Shadows

Truth and Shadows (The Proving Grounds trilogy #2), by Martin Delrio. Published August 2003. Timeline: 3133—3134
While Tara Campbell and Ezekiel Crow grow closer, Anastasia Kerensky makes another attempt on Northwind. Meanwhile, a dark secret threatens to unravel the alliance against the Steel Wolves.

Service for the Dead

Service for the Dead (The Proving Grounds trilogy #3), by Martin Delrio. Published November 2003. Timeline: 3134
Twice repulsed from Northwind, Anastasia Kerensky leads her Steel Wolves to Terra, the capital of the Republic of the Sphere. Tara Campbell must not only stop the Wolf leader, but also confront a traitor closer to home.

By Temptations and By War

By Temptations and By War, by Loren L. Coleman. Published December 2003. Timeline: 3134
The planet Liao holds special significance to the Capellan Confederation and its ruling House Liao. Chancellor Daoshen Liao sends an agent to regain the planet from the Republic and resurrect a long-dead Warrior House. The mystery of the Betrayer of Liao is resolved.

Fortress of Lies

Fortress of Lies, by J. Steven York. Published February 2004. Timeline: 3134
Duke Aaron Sandoval uses his nephew Erik to make alliances and oppose the Capellan advance into the Republic.

Patriot's Stand

Patriot's Stand, by Mike Moscoe. Published April 2004. Timeline: 3134
When an unscrupulous businessman hires Hansen's Roughriders to help him conquer the planet Alkalurops, the determined natives must put their fate in the hands of a rag-tag group of mercenaries.

Flight of the Falcon

Flight of the Falcon, by Victor Milán. Published June 2004. Timeline: 3134
Clan Jade Falcon enters the fray as the Hazen sibkin, Malvina and Alex, lead an incursion into the Republic. Their target: Skye.

Blood of the Isle

Blood of the Isle, by Loren L. Coleman. Published August 2004. Timeline: 3134—3135
An unlikely alliance has arisen between the loyal Highlanders, the secessionist Stormhammers and the predatory Steel Wolves to protect the planet Skye against Clan Jade Falcon.

Hunters of the Deep

Hunters of the Deep, by Randall N. Bills. Published October 2004. Timeline: 3134
Clan Sea Fox roams the spacelanes like interstellar gypsies, buying and selling at every world and living almost entirely on their enormous ArcShips and CargoShips. In the midst of his regular duties, ovKhan Petr Kalasa of Delta Aimag uncovers intrigue among his fellow merchants.

The Scorpion Jar

The Scorpion Jar, by Jason M. Hardy. Published December 2004. Timeline: 3134—3135
The death of a legendary hero triggers further crisis in the Republic of the Sphere. With all of his fellow Paladins gathered on Terra to elect a new Exarch, Jonah Levin investigates the mystery behind this tragic murder and uncovers a conspiracy that could bring the Republic to the brink of destruction.

Target of Opportunity

Target of Opportunity, by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published February 2005. Timeline: 3135
ComStar once ruled the realm of interstellar communications throughout the Inner Sphere. Then came the Jihad, launched by a fanatical splinter group. The organization rebuilt, but the crash of the Hyperpulse Generator net nearly three years ago may just be the fatal blow for ComStar. One young Adept thinks he may have the answer to restoring communications, but will he be allowed to test his theory or will he become the pawn of warring factions?

Sword of Sedition

Sword of Sedition, by Loren L. Coleman. Published April 2005. Timeline: 3134—3135
Strife continues to build in the Republic government and the new Exarch struggles to repair the damage. With dignitaries from across human space arriving to honor a fallen hero, Terra becomes a pressure cooker that may just explode and bring devastation to everyone.

Daughter of the Dragon

Daughter of the Dragon, by Ilsa J. Bick. Published June 2005. Timeline: 3134—3136
Katana Tormark was once a powerful figure in the Republic until the crash of the HPG system brought out her true allegiance. Now she conquers in the name of the Draconis Combine. But does Coordinator Vincent Kurita support or despise her?

Heretic's Faith

Heretic's Faith, by Randall N. Bills. Published August 2005. Timeline: 3135—3137
Clan Nova Cat is known for following their mystical visions, even when the path appears strange to outsiders. Led by the visions of the Mystic Caste, the Nova Cats take up an offer of alliance extended to them by Katana Tormark, now Warlord of Dieron. Will they take the opportunity to reconnect with their sundered brethren in the Republic? Or destroy them?

Fortress Republic

Fortress Republic, by Loren L. Coleman. Published October 2005. Timeline: 3135
With more and more threats appearing on his doorstep, Exarch Jonah Levin has a tough decision to make. Will his attempts to save the Republic doom it instead? Meanwhile, Julian Davion, stripped of his position as Prince's Champion, leads a multinational force against the Senatorial rebellion and Caleb Davion assumes control of the Federated Suns.

Blood Avatar

Blood Avatar, by Ilsa J. Bick. Published December 2005. Timeline: 3135—3136
The first body that turns up in Farway, a secluded town on the planet Denebola, is from out of town. When the Denebola Bureau of Investigation and the legate’s office from half the planet away decide to help identify the murder victim, Sheriff Hank Ketchum knows he’s in over his head. Enter the infamous Detective Jack Ramsey. With the help of the talented and beautiful local medical examiner, Amanda Slade, Ramsey digs into the case and discovers evidence that puts Farway at the heart of a conspiracy. But who’s the greater threat—the Clans, the Word of Blake or the legate’s intelligence operative?

Trial by Chaos

Trial by Chaos, by J. Steven York. Published June 2006. Timeline: 3136
The Raging Bears have begun their occupation of the planet Vega with the hope of restoring order on a planet beset by violence and civil ruin. But their bold move to stabilize Prefecture I for the Republic of the Sphere may prove to be the chance their enemies have waited for...

While the military takeover of Vega was no great challenge, setting up a new planetary government and restoring the infrastructure of civilization has proven to be far more difficult for the peacekeeping forces of the Rasalhague Dominion. There remains an underground resistance that refuses to cease fire, and the Bears suspect that the Draconis Combine is secretly supporting the rebellion. As the Combine threatens them from without, the Bears also find themselves plagued by betrayal and deception from within. Unless they can expose the rival elements in their Clan, they may end up as fodder for destruction…

Principles of Desolation

Principles of Desolation, by Jason M. Hardy and Randall N. Bills. Published August 2006. Timeline: 3135—3136
For more than a year, "divine leader" Daoshen Liao has relentlessly pushed his Capellan Confederation forces in their invasion of the Republic. Now the time has come for the next stage of his conquest–a conquest that will begin not with an enemy, but with his own family....

Raised among royalty in the Magistracy of Canopus, where the superiority of women is a cultural axiom, Danai Liao-Centrella possesses all the confidence necessary for her to ascend through the confederacy ranks, despite having to contend with the constant machinations of her maniacal brother, Daoshen.

But when her latest mission ends in defeat and personal disgrace, Danai will face the greatest challenge of her life. Chancellor Daoshen rewards her failure by giving her a battalion of her own and a brand-new battlefield. And Danai is about to learn that in service to the state, even family comes second to safeguarding the Capellan Confederation.

Wolf Hunters

Wolf Hunters, by Kevin Killiany. Published November 2006. Timeline: 3135—3136
Anastasia Kerensky has declared the Steel Wolf Clan to be mercenaries, re-christening them Wolf Hunters. The combination of autonomy and wealth will make them more than a match for any MechWarrior battalion suicidal enough to challenge them.
But the real challenge comes from within the Clan. Star Colonel Varnoff believes Kerensky has betrayed them all-and with a loyal faction of Steel Wolves at his side vows to destroy all the Wolf Hunters.

Surrender Your Dreams

Surrender Your Dreams, by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published December 2006. Timeline: 3135—3138
They are the Fidelis, a brotherhood of warriors whose devotion to honor and courage on the battlefield is unmatched. Their existence known only to a former exarch, they are a fighting force to be reckoned with—a force three knights must consider as they undertake missions that could save the Republic... or cripple it.

Land Synd embodied the vision of the knight-errant. Devoted wholeheartedly to the Republic and its citizens, she believes in her mission. But what she must do to accomplish it will test her mettle as a knight—and as a human being.

Hunter Mannheim is descended from a long line of military leaders and feels he must continue the tradition of excellence in service and sacrifice in battle. But what he must sacrifice in the name of duty may be more than he can bear.

Kristoff Erbe is a man burdened by shame. His grandfather was a collaborator who served as a commander of a "reeducation camp" for those that defied the fanatical Word of Blake. To this day Kristoff searches for a way to redeem his family honor.

Three knights. Three dreams. For each, one chance lies outside the walls of the Fortress Republic.

Dragon Rising

Dragon Rising, by Ilsa J. Bick. Published February 2007. Timeline: 3136—3137
When several planets are left to fend for themselves, becoming pawns in a deadly game of territorial sovereignty, Katana Tormark, a warlord of Dieron, must join forces with the Combine's coordinator to gain control of these worlds and reestablish the historic Dieron Military district.

Masters of War

Masters of War, by Michael A. Stackpole. Published April 2007. Timeline: 3136—3137
Clan Wolf decides to pick up and move halfway across the Inner Sphere. How will this decision affect Alaric Wolf (an adopted warrior whose parentage is surprising), Anastasia Kerensky (one-time leader of the Steel Wolves, now commander of the mercenary Wolf Hunters), and Verena (a Clan Wolf-in-Exile warrior who was tossed out of the Steel Wolves by Anastasia)?

A Rending of Falcons

A Rending of Falcons, by Victor Milán. Published June 2007. Timeline: 3135—3136
Within Clan Jade Falcon, Malvina Hazen begins a civil war against Khan Jana Pryde.

Pandora's Gambit

Pandora's Gambit, by Randall N. Bills. Published August 2007. Timeline: 3135—3137
Following the sundering of the Free Worlds League in 3069, three contenders for the throne of the Captain-General vie for supremacy.

Fire at Will

Fire at Will, by Blaine Lee Pardoe. Published October 2007. Timeline: 3136—3138
For too long, the people of the Lyran Commonwealth have only reacted to attacks by their enemies. Now, Archon Melissa Steiner launches an intricate gambit that will secure the safety of her subjects—and secure her own power against those who wish to take it...

The Last Charge

The Last Charge, by Jason M. Hardy. Published December 2007. Timeline: 3138
Anson Marik is at his wit's end. The Lyrans are pressing on his borders. His chief tactician has resigned. And his abilities as a leader are failing him. Now his enemies are on the move, taking the Commonwealth planet by planet, forcing Marik to pull his forces back in a bravely-fought running retreat. And if Marik cannot gather his strength to stop the invasion, his people will be doomed...

To Ride the Chimera

To Ride the Chimera, by Kevin Killiany. Published February 2008. Timeline: 3138—3139
A MechWarrior without peer, Thaddeus Marik has become the figurehead for a new community of worlds attempting to resurrect the Free Worlds League. After defeating a Lyran invasion on the planet of Savannah and negotiating a successful alliance with the Protectorate Coalition, Marik must now ally himself with Jessica Halas-Hughes Marik if the new league is to have a chance.

Having Marik and his forces at her side gives Jessica much-needed credibility and greater influence on Oriente. But old hatreds die hard, erupting in a war against enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the founding of a new league...

Other

No Limits

No Limits, by Nigel Findley. Published May 1996. A non-canonical crossover novel.
Travelling to virtual worlds with a secret technology, Samantha Dooley ends up in the BattleTech universe.


Catalyst Game Labs

Catalyst Game Labs, the current holder of the BattleTech IP, has published two anthologies with stories from BattleCorps in print and also continued the Dark Age line in digital format:

The Corps

The Corps (BattleCorps Anthology 1). Published May 2008.

First Strike

First Strike (BattleCorps Compilation vol 2). Published December 2010.

A Bonfire of Worlds

A Bonfire of Worlds, by Steven Mohan Jr.. Published March—October 2009. Timeline: 3139—3143
The failure of interstellar communications threatens civilization across the breadth of the Inner Sphere. Risking everything on one last chance for survival, ComStar kidnaps engineering genius Tucker Harwell who unravels the Blackout’s greatest mystery. Among the Clans, Khan Malvina Hazen of the Jade Falcons hunts for the next enemy to crush beneath her brutal Mongol Doctrine, and the warrior Alaric Wolf makes his move into the halls of power.

Plans years in the making come together across hundreds of star systems. Secrets hidden for decades will finally be revealed.

While an empire goes up in flames.


Original German Language BattleTech books

German editions of all classic BattleTech novels (up to Endgame) were published by Heyne, a major publishing house in Germany. A number of novels were published in Germany. Except for the Clangründer series, which was translated into German and published there before the original english text was published, they are original German novels and have not been translated into English.

According to Herbert A. Beas II, the BattleTech line developer, the German novels sometimes violate established canon and have continuity issues within the universe; it is therefore unlikely that they will be made available in English.

BattleTech Cycle

Phoenix

  • Author: Peter Heid
  • Publication Date: (2001)
  • ISBN 3-453-18790-3

52th book of the BattleTech Cycle.


Classic BattleTech Cycle

The 4th(Das Schwert und der Dolch) and 7th-9th(En Garde, Riposte & Coupé) books are German reprints of old original English books.

Wahnsinn und Methode

  • Author: Michael Diel
  • Publication Date: (2004)
  • ISBN 3-89064-592-5
(Title translates as "Madness and method".)

1st book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Clangründer: Abkehr

(Title translates as "Clan founder: Breakaway".)

Book One of the Clangründer Trilogy. The english title is announced as "Fall From Glory".

2nd book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Über dem Gesetz

  • Author: Michael Diel
  • Publication Date: (01/2005)
  • ISBN 3-89064-517-8
(Title translates as "Above the law".)

4th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Clangründer: Traum

(Title translates as "Clanfounder: Dream".)

Book Two of the Clangründer Trilogy. The english title is announced as "Visions of Rebirth".

5th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Die Albatros-Akte

(Title translates as "The Albatross file".)

6th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Früchte voll Bitterkeit

(Title translates as "Fruits full (of) Bitterness".)

10th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Katze unter Bären

(Title translates as "Cat under Bears".)

Book One of the Bear-Cycle. 11th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Clanwächter

  • Author: Arous Brocken
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • ISBN 978-3-89064-491-2
(Title translates as "Clanguard".)

Book Two of the Bear-Cycle. 12th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

In Ungnade

(Title translates as "In disgrace".) Titled "Fall From Grace" in English; a Marik story set during the early Star League (2571-2616) 13th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Mission Kiamba

  • Author: Arous Brocken
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • ISBN 978-3-89064-493-6
(Title translates as "Mission Kiamba".)

Book Three of the Bear-Cycle. 14th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

En Passant Schattenkrieg I

  • Author: Michael Diel
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • ISBN 978-3-89064-479-0
(Title translates as "En Passant Shadowwar I".)

Book One of the Shadowwar Trilogy. 15th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Duo Infernale

16th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Karma

  • Author: Bernard Craw
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • ISBN 978-3-89064-454-7

Describes a raid of the Defenders of Andurien on the Capellan vacuum world Niomede

17th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.

Royal Flush

18th book of the Classic BattleTech Cycle.


Classic BattleTech Cycle(unpublished)

Clangründer: Bande

  • Author: Randall N. Bills
  • Publication Date: (announced, but not published)
  • ISBN 3-89064-598-4
(Title translates as "Clan founder: Bonds".)

Book Three of the Clangründer Trilogy. The english title is announced as "Forging of Blood".

Wiege der Basilisken

  • Author: Reinhold H. Mai
  • Publication Date: (announced for 2006, but not published)
  • ISBN 3-8906-4471-6
(Title translates as "Cradle of the Basilisks".)


* Interpreted list of the books in chronological order

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