Ace Darwin and the Battle of the Beer Fridge
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| Ace Darwin and the Battle of the Beer Fridge | |||
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| Short story by James Bixby | |||
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| First Publication | |||
| Published | 15 March 2022 | ||
| Published in | Shrapnel Issue 8 | ||
| Publisher | Catalyst Game Labs | ||
| Illustrator(s) | David A. Kerber | ||
| Pages | 15 | ||
| Chronology | |||
| Era | Succession Wars era | ||
| Timeline | 30 September 3044 — 11 October 3044 | ||
| Series | |||
Ace Darwin series | |||
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Ace Darwin and the Battle of the Beer Fridge is a short story by James Bixby that was published in the eighth issue of Shrapnel.
Plot Summary[edit]
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The story starts on 29 August 3057 with Ace Darwin on Solaris VII, making a Tri-dee advertisment for the drink Coolant Flush. Ace is one of the founding partners of this drink, and begins to tell its origin story.
Ace skipped the War of 3039, but found good work: as the war keep busy most of the bigger units, the little ones, like his own, Ace Darwin's WhipIts, have more and better jobs available. In 3044, his unit was in one of these, in a Lyran Commonwealth world, Anywhere, where his lance, composed by himself, Mariza Frost and Allejandro Cortez, with one BattleMech each, were providing security to an Interstellar Expeditions which were digging on an abandoned Star League era city. The mercenary group watched around while the IE team dug up an office of the Bureau of Star League Affairs. After hearing they've made a finding of Lostech, Ace descended from his Panther to look it. Ace's technician, Andrew Sevrin, finds a fridge filled with Coolant Flush. Sevrin is a total fan of the drink, and as the IE personnel aren't interested in the drinks, let him take them all for himself.
Soon after, the local government heard about the Lostech finding and began demanding it to be given to them. The IE personnel refused, and days after, the government send police forces to attack the archaeological site, to seize it. Ace's people attempted to delay the attackers to buy time for IE's personnel to evacuate. A battle between their police and Ace Darwin's people followed. The cops SecurityMech was quickly disabled, but an attack of militia BattleMechs forced them to begin pulling back. After knowing than Sevrin had stay behind on the encampment, Ace, which was fighting a local Crusader, sent his three mates to fight some militia tanks, and went to rescue him. The technician insisted than Darwin's took also the fridge, which he did before escaping.
After successfully protecting the evacuation of IE personnel, while leaving the planet in their DropShip, Sevrin explained than the fridge was filled with Coolant Flush bottles and SLDF neurohelmets. He and Darwin's team tasted the drinks, which have turned bad, before giving Andrew a neurohelmet to every one of the Three MechWarriors. He said to be planning to use the drinks to reverse-engineer them and began producing them, as well as the neurohelmets.
After Ace finished telling his story, pointed than Sevrin succeeded, as he led the soda and tech conglomerate empire, which produced and sell Coolant Flush. Ace was his partner and also show man, making holovid advertising the drink. Darwin also explained that it was to carry the Coolant Flush that he had installed a fridge in his 'Mech's cockpit.
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- Union-class 'Mech carrier DropShip, Yu Huang Shangdi
- Mule-class cargo carrier DropShip, Guglielmo Marconi