The Gulf of Reason

The Gulf of Reason
Product information
Type Short story
Author Jason Schmetzer
Pages 28
Illustrations Brad McDevitt
Publication information
Publisher BattleCorps
First published 2 May 2006
Content
Era Civil War era
Timeline 3 February 3067, plus ca. 2 days
Series The Edge of the Storm
Followed by Sound and Fury

The Gulf of Reason is a short story by Jason Schmetzer that was published online on BattleCorps on 2 May 2006. It was also published in print in the third BattleCorps print anthology, Weapons Free, in 2012.

As one of the stories dealing with the Lennox's Light Horse mercenary unit it was also included in The Edge of the Storm anthology.

Teaser text

Reason tells a commander that soldiers die in combat. But that's not good enough for Captain Andrew Lennox. Even when reason demands otherwise, if something--someone--threatens his men, then that becomes target number one.

Plot summary

The Lennox's Light Horse mercenary unit has taken service with the Calderon Protectorate. Fighting regular Taurian forces on Gaul in 3067, they are assigned a young liaison officer whose name Captain Lennox initially fails to remember, but who otherwise turns out a cold and efficient liaison who relentlessly drives the mercenaries forward over the course of the campaign. Subaltern Derek Levin, as it turns out, is in fact the son of Marshal Amanda Revin, commander of the Taurian V Corps (the commanding officer of the enemy forces).

Revin eventually forces a showdown between Lennox's Light Horse and his mother's unit and ends up disabling her 'Mech and demanding her surrender. When she refuses, he kills her.

Afterwards, as Lennox's Light Horse pack up and prepare to leave, Revin admits that his zeal was never about the Baron; he only wanted to counter his mother (for reasons unspecified) and asks Lennox to join his mercenary unit bound for the Inner Sphere.

Featured BattleTech

BattleMechs

DropShips

  • Caliban, the Union-class DropShip owned by Lennox's Light Horse