Wahnsinn und Methode
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Template:InfoBoxNovel Wahnsinn und Methode ("Madness and Method"), by Michael Diel, is a German-language BattleTech novel published by FanPro in 2004. It is the 1st in their German "Classic BattleTech" line of novels.
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Overview
Canonicity
Written in German and exclusively published in that language so far, Wahnsinn und Methode does not technically 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 instead.
From the back cover (translated from German)
| “ | The year is 2598. After a series of long and blood wars, humanity is united under a single flag for the first time in its history as the Star League. The I. Company of 3rd Batallion of the Royal Black Watch BattleMech regiment, a SLDF elite unit and the First Lord's bodyguard under the command of Captain Jonathan MacNamara and his deputy, Lieutenant Matthew Carmichael, is redeployed to Icar in the Rim Worlds Republic. There, they are to carry out combined arms training with the aim to forge the different military branches into an efficient and well-rehearsed entity. But while MacNamara and Carmichael find that they have to cope with substantial internal problems on this assignment, a storm is rising on the Rim Worlds planet. Is the Star League's fragile military and political equilibrium in jeopardy? |
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Plot Summary
Prologue
On 21 January 3067, Misha Auburn lectures history students at the Nagelring academy on Tharkad about the creation of the Star League by Ian Cameron which was finazlized when House Kurita, the last ruling House of the Successor States, became a member through signing the Treaty of Vega on 15 August 2569.
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Notes
- The cover seems to portray the scene of Hauptmann Obadiah Jackson's Thug falling down with a disabled gyroscope in the face of enemy tanks during Delcord's initial conquest of Ludwigshafen.