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Having installed Duke Michael Razza de Leon as (ostensibly) the rightful heir to the vacant throne on Cammal, his advisors—lawyer Richard Foster-Drake, colonel Lee, and medical advisor Dr. Anabel Faber, the true driving force behind the events—pass and enact a world-wide gun control law in Razza's name to disarm the various autonomous groups on the planet. As expected, this causes massive unrest and legal disputes about who could even install such a law, how, and where on Cammal, as various autonomous and semi-autonomous enclaves exist and the population has the right to bear arms bestowed on them from the Duke of New Syrtis directly. That the new new law was not yet ratified by the Duke of New Syrtis is only one of many points of contention.
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Having installed Duke Michael Razza de Leon as (ostensibly) the rightful heir to the vacant throne on Cammal, his advisors—lawyer Richard Foster-Drake, Colonel Lee, and medical advisor Dr. Anabel Faber, the true driving force behind the events—pass and enact a world-wide gun control law in Razza's name to disarm the various autonomous groups on the planet. As expected, this causes massive unrest and legal disputes about who could even install such a law, how, and where on Cammal, as various autonomous and semi-autonomous enclaves exist and the population has the right to bear arms bestowed on them from the Duke of New Syrtis directly. That the new new law was not yet ratified by the Duke of New Syrtis is only one of many points of contention.
  
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Besides the "Lionhearts", ducal forces who had become mercenaries when the throne became vacant but who have now returned to serve the new duke, the factions on Cammal include the Youngblood Renegades mercenaries, who hold a substantiual independent fief on the planet, and the world's megacorporation Winterland Enterprises who maintain their own army, in addition to several disgruntled local militias who receive weapons and support from an unknown agency. >et another mercenary unit, the [[Satillio-Füsiliere]], is inbound, having been hired by Razza's advisors.
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Besides the "Lionhearts", ducal forces who had become mercenaries when the throne became vacant but who have now returned to serve the new duke, the factions on Cammal include the Youngblood Renegades mercenaries under CO Jason Craig Youngblood, who hold a substantiual independent fief on the planet, and the world's megacorporation Winterland Enterprises who maintain their own army, in addition to several disgruntled local militias who receive weapons and support from an unknown agency. Yet another mercenary unit, the [[Satillio-Füsiliere]], is inbound, having been hired by Razza's advisors.
  
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The young and inexperienced Duke Razza meanwhile has to cope with his feelings for Robin Youngblood, and attempts to woo her with limited success (as Robin is already in a relationship with the rowdy Marco di Vega, a former periphery pirate now serving in the Youngblood Renegades). Following an awkward meeting with Robin, Razza is wounded by a gunman (Harker) and hospitalized. The surgeon who treated him dies in a suspicious traffic accident after inquiring about Razza's medical files, and the Youngblood Renegades attempt to track down the files in a race against time as tensions are mounting on Cammal, with attacks against police forces and firefights breaking out between various factions.
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The young and inexperienced Duke Razza meanwhile has to cope with his feelings for Robin Youngblood, daughter of the Youngblood Renegades' CO, and attempts to woo her with limited success (as Robin is already in a relationship with the rowdy Marco di Vega, a former periphery pirate now serving in the Youngblood Renegades). Following an awkward meeting with Robin, Razza is wounded by a gunman (Harker) and hospitalized. The surgeon who treated him dies in a suspicious traffic accident after inquiring about Razza's medical files, and the Youngblood Renegades attempt to track down the files in a race against time as tensions are mounting on Cammal, with attacks against police forces and firefights breaking out between various factions.
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The arrival of the Satillio-Füsiliere gives Razza's advisors a clear military advantage, and they move against the Youngblood Renegades in earnest, but the Renegades had already secretly relocated their assets and the Lionhearts have taken up positions between the Renegades and the Satillio-Füsiliere, hoping to achieve a bloodless surrender of the Renegades through having captured Robin Youngblood.
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Razza's advisors meanwhile begin rounding up the local government representatives and aim for a situation that will allow them to declare martial law. However, they have not yet realized that Winterland Enterprises used to control Cammal from behind the scenes. CEO Judy de Winter is not above cooperation with the [[Capellan Confederation]] to a degree some might consider treasonous, and she re-assumes the [[PA(L)]]-clad persona of the ''Schattenmann'' ("Shadow Man", a legendary local criminal) to openly offer support to the Renegades, citing her desire to return the status quo on Cammal to the stable situation prior to the current crisis. She is also supplying weapons to disgruntled local militias.
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By bombing the main spaceport (with two unspecified stealth-capable [[aerospace fighter]]s), Winterland Enterprises dupes the Santilio Füsiliere's aerospace fighters into landing at a Winterland airfield where they are captured on the ground, while artillery strikes forces their DropShips to surrender.  
  
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The arrival of the Satillio-Füsiliere gives Razza's advisors a clear military advantage, and they move against the Youngblood Renegades in earnest, but the Renegades had already secretly relocated their assets.
 
 
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*''[[Lucifer]]''
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*''[[Riever]]''
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*''[[Stuka]]''
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*unspecified "unusual" stealth technology aerospace fighters
 
===Vehicles===
 
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KalkuliertesChaosCover.jpg
Kalkuliertes Chaos
Product information
Type Novel
Author Jochen Hahn
Karsten Kaeb
Pages 300
Cover Artwork Karsten Schreurs
Publication information
Publisher Ulisses Spiele GmbH
Product code 41035
First published 23 January 2016
ISBN-13 978-3957526946
MSRP 11,50 €
Content
Era Clan Invasion era
Timeline 3-23 August 3053
Series Adel vernichtet
Preceded by Der Erbe

Kalkuliertes Chaos ("Calculated Chaos") is the 30th in the line of original German-language Classic BattleTech novels that was published originally by FanPro and then continued by Ulisses Spiele. Written by Jochen Hahn and Karsten Kaeb and published on 23 January 2016, it is the second book in the Adel vernichtet duology.

Canonicity

Written in German and exclusively published in that language so far, Kalkuliertes Chaos does not meet the current criteria for Canon in the BattleTech universe. As an official product published under a valid license, it should be regarded as apocryphal.

From the back cover (translated from German)

“ The reputation of Cammal's reinstated Duke as a white hope and savior has fundamentally changed within a few short weeks. Unrest that can barely be kept under control is spreading across the planet. The Youngblood Renegades mercenaries face the near-impossible task of defending their disputed fief while the greater share of their regiment is tied up in other battles light-years away.

And there are yet other forces who seem to play all parties against each other to further their opaque agenda.

”

Plot Summary

Having installed Duke Michael Razza de Leon as (ostensibly) the rightful heir to the vacant throne on Cammal, his advisors—lawyer Richard Foster-Drake, Colonel Lee, and medical advisor Dr. Anabel Faber, the true driving force behind the events—pass and enact a world-wide gun control law in Razza's name to disarm the various autonomous groups on the planet. As expected, this causes massive unrest and legal disputes about who could even install such a law, how, and where on Cammal, as various autonomous and semi-autonomous enclaves exist and the population has the right to bear arms bestowed on them from the Duke of New Syrtis directly. That the new new law was not yet ratified by the Duke of New Syrtis is only one of many points of contention.

Besides the "Lionhearts", ducal forces who had become mercenaries when the throne became vacant but who have now returned to serve the new duke, the factions on Cammal include the Youngblood Renegades mercenaries under CO Jason Craig Youngblood, who hold a substantiual independent fief on the planet, and the world's megacorporation Winterland Enterprises who maintain their own army, in addition to several disgruntled local militias who receive weapons and support from an unknown agency. Yet another mercenary unit, the Satillio-Füsiliere, is inbound, having been hired by Razza's advisors.

The young and inexperienced Duke Razza meanwhile has to cope with his feelings for Robin Youngblood, daughter of the Youngblood Renegades' CO, and attempts to woo her with limited success (as Robin is already in a relationship with the rowdy Marco di Vega, a former periphery pirate now serving in the Youngblood Renegades). Following an awkward meeting with Robin, Razza is wounded by a gunman (Harker) and hospitalized. The surgeon who treated him dies in a suspicious traffic accident after inquiring about Razza's medical files, and the Youngblood Renegades attempt to track down the files in a race against time as tensions are mounting on Cammal, with attacks against police forces and firefights breaking out between various factions.

The arrival of the Satillio-Füsiliere gives Razza's advisors a clear military advantage, and they move against the Youngblood Renegades in earnest, but the Renegades had already secretly relocated their assets and the Lionhearts have taken up positions between the Renegades and the Satillio-Füsiliere, hoping to achieve a bloodless surrender of the Renegades through having captured Robin Youngblood.

Razza's advisors meanwhile begin rounding up the local government representatives and aim for a situation that will allow them to declare martial law. However, they have not yet realized that Winterland Enterprises used to control Cammal from behind the scenes. CEO Judy de Winter is not above cooperation with the Capellan Confederation to a degree some might consider treasonous, and she re-assumes the PA(L)-clad persona of the Schattenmann ("Shadow Man", a legendary local criminal) to openly offer support to the Renegades, citing her desire to return the status quo on Cammal to the stable situation prior to the current crisis. She is also supplying weapons to disgruntled local militias.

By bombing the main spaceport (with two unspecified stealth-capable aerospace fighters), Winterland Enterprises dupes the Santilio Füsiliere's aerospace fighters into landing at a Winterland airfield where they are captured on the ground, while artillery strikes forces their DropShips to surrender.


Featured BattleTech

BattleMechs

Aerospace Fighters

Vehicles

DropShips

JumpShips

  • Scout (Santa Catalina))
  • Star Lord (Nuova Castilia)
  • unspecified JumpShip Black Eagle

References

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