Dispatch
Dispatch | |
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Story information | |
Author | Elizabeth T. Danforth Michael A. Stackpole |
Pages | 2 |
Type | Short story |
Product | Shrapnel (anthology) |
Illustrations | Jeff Laubenstein |
Content | |
Era | Succession Wars era |
Timeline | 13 October-17 November 3020 |
Dispatch is a BattleTech short story by Elizabeth T. Danforth and Michael A. Stackpole. It was published in the 1988 anthology Shrapnel.
Plot summary[edit]
A sequence of military mail traffic consisting of orders and brief reports illustrates how Snord's Irregulars embarrassed the Second Free World Guards in 3020 through a successful objective raid on the Kincaid peninsula on the world of McAffe, despite being positively expected to raid the facility where a trap was set for them. In this raid they reclaimed a collection of various pieces of art previously lost to House Marik forces. The last message is a sarcastic message to Janos Marik himself by Cranston Snord, thanking him for the items on behalf of his daughter.