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Line 23: | followedby = | followedby = }} }} − '''''A Smaller Sacrifice''''' (apparently named after the story's last words) is a short story by [[Christian Grainger]] that was published online on [[BattleCorps]] on 16 January 2008. It was also published in print in the fifth BattleCorps print anthology, ''[[Counterattack]]'', in 2014 as "The Smaller Sacrifice". + '''''A Smaller Sacrifice''''' is a short story by [[Christian Grainger]] that was published online on [[BattleCorps]] on 16 January 2008. It was also published in print in the fifth BattleCorps print anthology, ''[[Counterattack]]'', in 2014 as "The Smaller Sacrifice". ==Teaser text== ==Teaser text== − {{quote|''Every military action since the dawn of time has exacted a price from the civilian population nearest it, and [[ComStar]]'s attack upon the [[Word of Blake]]-controlled [[Terra]] is no exception. Sometimes the cost is paid in coin, sometimes in life... and sometimes in love.''}} + {{quote|''Every military action since the dawn of time has exacted a price from the civilian population nearest it, and [[ComStar]]’s attack upon the [[Word of Blake]]-controlled [[Terra]] is no exception. Sometimes the cost is paid in coin, sometimes in life... and sometimes in love.''}} ==Plot summary== ==Plot summary== − In Texas, [[Terra]], the ground fighting following [[Case White (event)|Case WHITE]] has caused collateral damage which, together with the current ban on all civilian air or space traffic while hidden [[Com Guards|Com Guard]] forces are ferreted out, threaten to put William Fence's transport firm Striker Shipping out of business and bankrupt him.+ {{sectionstub}} − By chance, William happens to find the enemy troops hidden in an old factory building nearby. Anxious to resolve the situation before it will ruin him, he reports their position to TerraSec. His wife is shocked, because this will result in combat very close by and also because she has little love for the [[Word of Blake]] for what they did to her brother. In the TerraSec attack on the Com Guards, the Com Guard [[BattleMech]] is indeed brought to battle directly at the apartment building in which William and his wife live. As she feared, the building suffers collateral damage and collapses. William is heavily injured and his wife is killed.+ [[Category:BattleCorps publications]] − + [[Category:Short Stories]] − In the aftermath, William is thanked by the victorious Word of Blake TerraSec forces and gets special permits that will save his business. Word of Blake also promise to reimburse him for his losses.+ [[Category:Works by Christian Grainger]] − − ==Featured BattleTech== − *''[[Sentinel]]'' − *unspecified other BattleMech and unspecified tank − − [[Category:BattleCorps publications|Smaller Sacrifice, A]] − [[Category:Short Stories|Smaller Sacrifice, A]] − [[Category:Works by Christian Grainger|Smaller Sacrifice, A]]
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