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| ISBN13 = 978-1942487791 | | ISBN13 = 978-1942487791 | ||
| − | | MSRP = | + | | MSRP = $13.95 (PoD) |
| content = | | content = | ||
| era = [[Dark Age Era]] | | era = [[Dark Age Era]] | ||
| − | | timeline = | + | | timeline = 5 - 8 April [[3150]] |
| − | | series = [[Rogue Academy | + | | series = [[Rogue Academy Trilogy]] |
| precededby = | | precededby = | ||
| followedby = [[Ghost Hour]] | | followedby = [[Ghost Hour]] | ||
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| − | '''''Iron Dawn''''' | + | '''''Iron Dawn''''', by [[Jennifer Brozek]], is the first installment of the [[Rogue Academy (series)|Rogue Academy Trilogy]]. It was published in electronic format and is also available in hardcopy as [[w:Print on Demand|Print-on-Demand]]. |
==From the back cover== | ==From the back cover== | ||
| − | {{quote|''GHOSTS IN THE DARK… | + | {{quote|''GHOSTS IN THE DARK…'' |
| − | Jasper and Nadine Roux are cadets at the [[Ritza MechWarrior Academy]]; a dream come true for the orphaned siblings from the war-torn planet of [[Hoff]]. For the last six years, [[Emporia]] has been their home. Sponsored to the academy by the powerful [[House Vogel|Vogel House]], both cadets are expected to excel in all tasks. | + | ''[[Jasper Roux|Jasper]] and [[Nadine Roux]] are cadets at the [[Ritza MechWarrior Academy]]; a dream come true for the orphaned siblings from the war-torn planet of [[Hoff]]. For the last six years, [[Emporia]] has been their home. Sponsored to the academy by the powerful [[House Vogel|Vogel House]], both cadets are expected to excel in all tasks.'' |
| − | Their dream becomes a nightmare when the [[Draconis Combine]] lands at their door. | + | ''Their dream becomes a nightmare when the [[Draconis Combine]] lands at their door.'' |
| − | It’s up to the siblings to stop a renegade [[Seventh Ghost Regiment]] warlord when he lays claim to a piece of the [[Inner Sphere]]—starting with the [[Federated Suns]]’ planet of Emporia. The border world looks like easy prey, but this warrior of the Dragon is about to learn how wrong he is. After the few MechWarriors on the planet are taken hostage, the Sponsored and Blooded cadets of the Ritza Academy fight like they have nothing left to lose. | + | ''It’s up to the siblings to stop a renegade [[Seventh Ghost Regiment]] warlord when he lays claim to a piece of the [[Inner Sphere]]—starting with the [[Federated Suns]]’ planet of Emporia. The border world looks like easy prey, but this warrior of the Dragon is about to learn how wrong he is. After the few [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] on the planet are taken hostage, the Sponsored and Blooded cadets of the Ritza Academy fight like they have nothing left to lose.'' |
| − | It’s a fight that will cost them more than they know.''}} | + | ''It’s a fight that will cost them more than they know.''}} |
==Plot summary== | ==Plot summary== | ||
| − | + | Unhappy about having to serve two masters (the [[Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery]] and the [[yakuza]] sponsoring his regiment), ''[[Tai-sa]]'' [[Takeji Yoshizawa]] of the Seventh Ghost Regiment feels his unit is a dumping ground for undesirables and criminals – in the Seventh, one does not have a past, only a future, as the adage goes, but others always only see the past sins and not the unit's achievements. Neglect, hurtful assignments and a disastrous pyrrhic victory on [[Sakhara V]] under Toshizawa's predecessor where mere cadets decimated the unit have thinned the ranks. Together with a council of his officers, Toshizawa has decided to go rogue and selected the agricultural world of Emporia as a base for his fledgling empire. They decide to go "all in" and bring their entire supply train along as they jump to Emporia just before midnight on 3 April [[3150]]. | |
| − | ==Featured | + | With the rank and file and also his yakuza liaison unaware that Yoshizawa is acting on his own authority, their assault [[DropShip]]s approach the planet under the guise of merchants and on 6 April secure the New Exeter Spaceport in a commando action, then proceed to capture the local MechWarriors and nobles, executing some to make a point. With the nobles captured and their households kept hostage, Toshizawa's forces use Baron [[Zachary Vogel]] and his [[Shannon Vogel|wife]] to record a message ordering the planet to surrender. They do not initially realize that the planetary rulers, [[House Ritza]], have gone to ground, nor that Baron Vogel's message contained secret language ordering the world to resist. |
| + | |||
| + | At the Ritza MechWarrior Academy, the cadets are ordered to stand down by the staff despite the Baron's orders, while the staff is divided over how to react. Cadets Jasper and Nadine Roux, orphaned in a Draconis Combine invasion on Hoff six years ago and now sponsored by House Vogel, harbor no illusions about a peaceful transfer of power. They witnessed mass executions of prisoners back on Hoff, and Nadine's network of short-wave radio contacts report and confirm that people are rounded up or executed. Realizing that the academy cadets will be pressed into service or killed by the attackers, and having been told by merchant [[Elijah Hughes]] where the captive nobles are held, they resolve to carry out a three-pronged rescue mission with some fellow cadets while their intel is still good, not entirely trusting Hughes's word that he will call for help once he has left the system: In the early morning hours of 8 April, Jasper assumes command over the academy's [[BattleMech]] [[lance]] to lead an attack on the starport, create a diversion and provide covering fire to Nadine's infantry contingent and vehicles while their friend and confidant, Sergeant Major [[Vale Auger]], embarks on a solo mission into New Exeter to reach and use a [[Black Box]] transmitter to call for help, followed by a broadcast to the general public calling them to rebel against the occupation forces. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Despite some setbacks including the deaths of Lady Shannon Vogel and several cadets over the course of the engagement, the unsanctioned missions are successful. Emporia MechWarriors even manage to extricate their 'Mechs, and all survivors return to the Ritza Academy. However, while the cadets are cheered by their fellows, they are at the same time chewed out for blatantly acting against orders; worse, there is no actual plan how to proceed now that the situation has escalated to open warfare. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Toshizawa is indeed furious. He orders his DropShips to launch into orbit and resolves to teach the planet a lesson that will involve public mass executions of the remaining prisoners, the destruction of New Exeter, and razing the Ritza Academy. He has since learned that the world is not quite the breadbasket world he thought, and may not be a top choice for a base after all, and thus has no qualms about turning it into a slave world... and his subordinates have worked out a devious plan. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Featured characters== | ||
| + | {{div col|colwidth=25em}} | ||
| + | * ''[[Chu-i]]'' [[Natsu Amago]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Chu-sa]]'' [[Fume Aoki]] | ||
| + | * Lady [[Ruth Atherton]] | ||
| + | * [[Vale Auger]] | ||
| + | * [[Esme Blanc]] | ||
| + | * [[Tilda Bohemain]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Go-cho]]'' [[Miri Burton]] | ||
| + | * [[Gemma Caron]] | ||
| + | * [[Baron (noble title)|Baron]] [[Louis Clements]] | ||
| + | * [[Michael Clements]] | ||
| + | * [[Henry Cobb]] | ||
| + | * [[Baroness]] [[Meredith Cole]] | ||
| + | * [[Pascal Cole]] | ||
| + | * Sir [[Robert Corbin]] | ||
| + | * [[Joseph Crusett]] | ||
| + | * [[Benjamin Delamere]] | ||
| + | * [[Mia Dencourt]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Heishi]]'' [[John Desoto]] | ||
* [[Baroness]] [[Charlotte Estbury]] | * [[Baroness]] [[Charlotte Estbury]] | ||
| − | * [[ | + | * [[Devon Estbury]] |
| − | * [[ | + | * [[Harper Estbury]] |
| + | * ''[[Sho-sa]]'' [[Trevon Fleetwood]] | ||
| + | * [[Baron (noble title)|Baron]] [[Gregory Frosig]] | ||
| + | * [[Kristen Frosig]] | ||
| + | * [[Mateo Gabrielli]] | ||
| + | * [[Ethan Goodryke]] | ||
| + | * [[Lyric Hayton]] | ||
| + | * [[Elijah Hughes]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Sho-sa]]'' [[Akimoro Kusunoki]] | ||
| + | * Sir [[Felix Lemaire]] | ||
* [[Elias Lang]] | * [[Elias Lang]] | ||
| + | * [[Jean Leconte]] (Franc) | ||
| + | * ''[[Chu-i]]'' [[Brian Lo]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Sho-i]]'' [[Tametake Matsura]] | ||
* [[Dame]] [[Emma Meier]] | * [[Dame]] [[Emma Meier]] | ||
| − | * [[ | + | * [[Delany Menard]] |
| + | * [[Nadeem Menard]] | ||
| + | * [[Zaman Misra]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Sho-sa]]'' [[Ona Nanba]] | ||
| + | * [[Noah Osborn]] | ||
| + | * [[Meeri Panula]] | ||
| + | * [[Theresa Patel]] | ||
| + | * [[Nathan Pease]] | ||
| + | * [[Marjorie Placket]] | ||
* [[Fynn Pohl]] | * [[Fynn Pohl]] | ||
| − | * [[Jasper Roux]] | + | * [[James Radcliff]] |
| − | * [[ | + | * [[Countess]] [[Catherine Ritza]] |
| − | * [[ | + | * [[Mason Ritza]] |
| − | * [[ | + | * [[Dame]] [[Ivy Ross]] |
| − | * [[Shannon Vogel]] | + | * [[Victor Ross]] |
| − | * [[Baron]] [[Zachary Vogel]] | + | * [[Jasper Roux]] (Bahamut) |
| + | * [[Nadine Roux]] (Tiamat) | ||
| + | * [[Hugh Salter]] | ||
| + | * [[Giselle Smith]] | ||
| + | * [[Nicole Tourneir]] | ||
| + | * [[Ruby Ufford]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Sho-sa]]'' [[Nagaaki Ukita]] | ||
| + | * [[Claire Vasseur]] | ||
| + | * [[Amma Vengalil]] (Opal) | ||
| + | * [[Baroness]] [[Shannon Vogel]] | ||
| + | * [[Baron (noble title)|Baron]] [[Zachary Vogel]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Chu-i]]'' [[Chima Wakizaka]] | ||
| + | * [[Darrell Winter]] | ||
| + | * [[Pontus Wolke]] | ||
| + | * Sir [[Michael Yaxley]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Dai-i]]'' [[Sumi Yoshida]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Tai-sa]]'' [[Takeji Yoshizawa]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Chu-sa]]'' [[Joji Yuuki]] | ||
| + | * Annabel (Garnet) | ||
| + | * Copper | ||
| + | * Lady Jane | ||
| + | * Klinemeier | ||
| + | * ''[[Shujin]]'' Nagano | ||
| + | * Niall | ||
| + | * Richard (Doubloon) | ||
| + | * ''[[Gunsho]]'' Rogard | ||
| + | * Satou | ||
| + | * Silver | ||
| + | * Sixpence | ||
| + | * Taka | ||
| + | * [[Marcus Estbury]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Lillian Frosig]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Sania Menard]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Count]] [[Aldric Ritza]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Liam Ritza]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Rowena Ritza]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * ''[[Tai-sho (rank)|Tai-sho]]'' [[Kyoshi Sunada]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * ''Kumicho'' [[Makoto Yoshida]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | {{div col end}} | ||
==Featured Systems== | ==Featured Systems== | ||
| + | {{div col|colwidth=25em}} | ||
* [[Emporia]] | * [[Emporia]] | ||
| + | * [[Allerton]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Capra]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Fellanin]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Franklin]] (mentioned) | ||
* [[Hoff]] (mentioned) | * [[Hoff]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Lucerne]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Maynard]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[New Avalon]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Sauk City]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Rochester]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Robinson]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Sakhara]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | * [[Tarkio]] (mentioned) | ||
| + | {{div col end}} | ||
==Featured BattleTech== | ==Featured BattleTech== | ||
| + | {{columns-start|num=3}} | ||
===BattleMechs=== | ===BattleMechs=== | ||
| − | * [[Awesome]] | + | * ''[[Awesome]]'' |
| − | * [[Griffin]] | + | * ''[[Commando]]'' |
| − | * [[Hatamoto-Suna]] | + | * ''[[Enforcer III]]'' |
| − | * [[Hitotsume Kozo | + | * ''[[Griffin]]'' |
| − | * [[Hollander]] | + | * ''[[Hatamoto-Suna]]'' |
| − | * [[Ostsol]] | + | * ''[[Hitotsume Kozo]]'' (HZK-1P variant) |
| − | * [[Quasimodo]] | + | * ''[[Hollander]]'' |
| − | * [[Shadow Hawk]] | + | * ''[[Ostsol]]'' |
| − | * [[Thunderbolt]] | + | * ''[[Quasimodo]]'' |
| − | * [[Venom]] | + | * ''[[Sagittaire]]'' |
| − | * [[Watchman]] | + | * ''[[Shadow Hawk]]'' |
| − | * [[Wolverine (BattleMech)|Wolverine]] | + | * ''[[Tenshi]]'' |
| − | + | * ''[[Thunderbolt]]'' | |
| + | * ''[[Venom]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Watchman]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Wolverine (BattleMech)|Wolverine]]'' | ||
| + | {{column}} | ||
===Vehicles=== | ===Vehicles=== | ||
* [[Cizin]] | * [[Cizin]] | ||
* [[Fox (Combat Vehicle)|Fox]] | * [[Fox (Combat Vehicle)|Fox]] | ||
* [[Goblin II]] | * [[Goblin II]] | ||
| + | * [[Mamono|Mamono IFV]] | ||
* [[Meretz Mountain Terrain Jeep]] | * [[Meretz Mountain Terrain Jeep]] | ||
* [[Saladin|Saladin HCV]] | * [[Saladin|Saladin HCV]] | ||
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===Battle Armor=== | ===Battle Armor=== | ||
* [[Kishi]] | * [[Kishi]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===Small Craft=== | ||
| + | * [[K-1]] DropShuttle (''[[Yanagi]]'') | ||
| + | {{column}} | ||
| + | ===DropShips=== | ||
| + | * ''[[Danais (DropShip class)|Danais]]'' (''[[Whatever It Takes]]'') | ||
| + | * ''[[Hannibal (DropShip class)|Hannibal]]'' (''[[Akikaze]]'') | ||
| + | * ''[[Nekohono'o]]'' (''[[Fujinami]]'', ''[[Tachikaze]]'') | ||
| + | * ''[[Mule]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Rose (DropShip class)|Rose]]'' (''[[Shinyo]]'') | ||
| + | * ''[[Union (DropShip class)|Union]]'' (''[[Inazuma (Individual Union-class DropShip)|Inazuma]]'') | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===JumpShips=== | ||
| + | * ''[[Chimeisho]] '' (''[[Amagi]]'') | ||
| + | * ''[[Invader]]'' (''[[Shirayuki]]'') | ||
| + | * ''[[Merchant]]'' (''[[Nowaki]]'') | ||
| + | * ''[[Scout (JumpShip class)|Scout]]'' (''[[Kiri (Individual Scout-class JumpShip)|Kiri]]'') | ||
| + | {{columns-end}} | ||
[[Category:Novels]] | [[Category:Novels]] | ||
[[Category:Works by Jennifer Brozek]] | [[Category:Works by Jennifer Brozek]] | ||
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| Iron Dawn | |
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| Product information | |
| Type | Novel |
| Author | Jennifer Brozek |
| Pages | 272 (PoD version) |
| Cover Artwork | Marco Mazzoni |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Catalyst Game Labs |
| Product code | 35827 |
| First published | 15 April 2019 |
| ISBN-10 | 1942487797 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1942487791 |
| MSRP | $13.95 (PoD) |
| Content | |
| Era | Dark Age Era |
| Timeline | 5 - 8 April 3150 |
| Series | Rogue Academy Trilogy |
| Followed by | Ghost Hour |
Iron Dawn, by Jennifer Brozek, is the first installment of the Rogue Academy Trilogy. It was published in electronic format and is also available in hardcopy as Print-on-Demand.
Contents
From the back cover[edit]
| “ | GHOSTS IN THE DARK…
Jasper and Nadine Roux are cadets at the Ritza MechWarrior Academy; a dream come true for the orphaned siblings from the war-torn planet of Hoff. For the last six years, Emporia has been their home. Sponsored to the academy by the powerful Vogel House, both cadets are expected to excel in all tasks. Their dream becomes a nightmare when the Draconis Combine lands at their door. It’s up to the siblings to stop a renegade Seventh Ghost Regiment warlord when he lays claim to a piece of the Inner Sphere—starting with the Federated Suns’ planet of Emporia. The border world looks like easy prey, but this warrior of the Dragon is about to learn how wrong he is. After the few MechWarriors on the planet are taken hostage, the Sponsored and Blooded cadets of the Ritza Academy fight like they have nothing left to lose. It’s a fight that will cost them more than they know. |
” |
Plot summary[edit]
Unhappy about having to serve two masters (the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery and the yakuza sponsoring his regiment), Tai-sa Takeji Yoshizawa of the Seventh Ghost Regiment feels his unit is a dumping ground for undesirables and criminals – in the Seventh, one does not have a past, only a future, as the adage goes, but others always only see the past sins and not the unit's achievements. Neglect, hurtful assignments and a disastrous pyrrhic victory on Sakhara V under Toshizawa's predecessor where mere cadets decimated the unit have thinned the ranks. Together with a council of his officers, Toshizawa has decided to go rogue and selected the agricultural world of Emporia as a base for his fledgling empire. They decide to go "all in" and bring their entire supply train along as they jump to Emporia just before midnight on 3 April 3150.
With the rank and file and also his yakuza liaison unaware that Yoshizawa is acting on his own authority, their assault DropShips approach the planet under the guise of merchants and on 6 April secure the New Exeter Spaceport in a commando action, then proceed to capture the local MechWarriors and nobles, executing some to make a point. With the nobles captured and their households kept hostage, Toshizawa's forces use Baron Zachary Vogel and his wife to record a message ordering the planet to surrender. They do not initially realize that the planetary rulers, House Ritza, have gone to ground, nor that Baron Vogel's message contained secret language ordering the world to resist.
At the Ritza MechWarrior Academy, the cadets are ordered to stand down by the staff despite the Baron's orders, while the staff is divided over how to react. Cadets Jasper and Nadine Roux, orphaned in a Draconis Combine invasion on Hoff six years ago and now sponsored by House Vogel, harbor no illusions about a peaceful transfer of power. They witnessed mass executions of prisoners back on Hoff, and Nadine's network of short-wave radio contacts report and confirm that people are rounded up or executed. Realizing that the academy cadets will be pressed into service or killed by the attackers, and having been told by merchant Elijah Hughes where the captive nobles are held, they resolve to carry out a three-pronged rescue mission with some fellow cadets while their intel is still good, not entirely trusting Hughes's word that he will call for help once he has left the system: In the early morning hours of 8 April, Jasper assumes command over the academy's BattleMech lance to lead an attack on the starport, create a diversion and provide covering fire to Nadine's infantry contingent and vehicles while their friend and confidant, Sergeant Major Vale Auger, embarks on a solo mission into New Exeter to reach and use a Black Box transmitter to call for help, followed by a broadcast to the general public calling them to rebel against the occupation forces.
Despite some setbacks including the deaths of Lady Shannon Vogel and several cadets over the course of the engagement, the unsanctioned missions are successful. Emporia MechWarriors even manage to extricate their 'Mechs, and all survivors return to the Ritza Academy. However, while the cadets are cheered by their fellows, they are at the same time chewed out for blatantly acting against orders; worse, there is no actual plan how to proceed now that the situation has escalated to open warfare.
Toshizawa is indeed furious. He orders his DropShips to launch into orbit and resolves to teach the planet a lesson that will involve public mass executions of the remaining prisoners, the destruction of New Exeter, and razing the Ritza Academy. He has since learned that the world is not quite the breadbasket world he thought, and may not be a top choice for a base after all, and thus has no qualms about turning it into a slave world... and his subordinates have worked out a devious plan.
Featured characters[edit]
- Chu-i Natsu Amago
- Chu-sa Fume Aoki
- Lady Ruth Atherton
- Vale Auger
- Esme Blanc
- Tilda Bohemain
- Go-cho Miri Burton
- Gemma Caron
- Baron Louis Clements
- Michael Clements
- Henry Cobb
- Baroness Meredith Cole
- Pascal Cole
- Sir Robert Corbin
- Joseph Crusett
- Benjamin Delamere
- Mia Dencourt
- Heishi John Desoto
- Baroness Charlotte Estbury
- Devon Estbury
- Harper Estbury
- Sho-sa Trevon Fleetwood
- Baron Gregory Frosig
- Kristen Frosig
- Mateo Gabrielli
- Ethan Goodryke
- Lyric Hayton
- Elijah Hughes
- Sho-sa Akimoro Kusunoki
- Sir Felix Lemaire
- Elias Lang
- Jean Leconte (Franc)
- Chu-i Brian Lo
- Sho-i Tametake Matsura
- Dame Emma Meier
- Delany Menard
- Nadeem Menard
- Zaman Misra
- Sho-sa Ona Nanba
- Noah Osborn
- Meeri Panula
- Theresa Patel
- Nathan Pease
- Marjorie Placket
- Fynn Pohl
- James Radcliff
- Countess Catherine Ritza
- Mason Ritza
- Dame Ivy Ross
- Victor Ross
- Jasper Roux (Bahamut)
- Nadine Roux (Tiamat)
- Hugh Salter
- Giselle Smith
- Nicole Tourneir
- Ruby Ufford
- Sho-sa Nagaaki Ukita
- Claire Vasseur
- Amma Vengalil (Opal)
- Baroness Shannon Vogel
- Baron Zachary Vogel
- Chu-i Chima Wakizaka
- Darrell Winter
- Pontus Wolke
- Sir Michael Yaxley
- Dai-i Sumi Yoshida
- Tai-sa Takeji Yoshizawa
- Chu-sa Joji Yuuki
- Annabel (Garnet)
- Copper
- Lady Jane
- Klinemeier
- Shujin Nagano
- Niall
- Richard (Doubloon)
- Gunsho Rogard
- Satou
- Silver
- Sixpence
- Taka
- Marcus Estbury (mentioned)
- Lillian Frosig (mentioned)
- Sania Menard (mentioned)
- Count Aldric Ritza (mentioned)
- Liam Ritza (mentioned)
- Rowena Ritza (mentioned)
- Tai-sho Kyoshi Sunada (mentioned)
- Kumicho Makoto Yoshida (mentioned)
Featured Systems[edit]
Featured BattleTech[edit]
BattleMechs[edit]
Vehicles[edit]
- Cizin
- Fox
- Goblin II
- Mamono IFV
- Meretz Mountain Terrain Jeep
- Saladin HCV
- Scimitar Mk.II HCV
- Vedette V7