Dispatch

Dispatch
Short story by Elizabeth T. Danforth and Michael A. Stackpole
Publication
PublishedAugust 1988
Published inShrapnel: Fragments from the Inner Sphere
PublisherFASA
Illustrator(s)Jeff Laubenstein
Pages2
Chronology
EraSuccession Wars era
Timeline13 October 3020 — 27 November 3020

Dispatch is a short story by Elizabeth T. Danforth and Michael A. Stackpole that was published in the 1988 anthology Shrapnel: Fragments from the Inner Sphere.

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A sequence of military mail traffic consisting of orders and brief reports illustrates how Cranston Snord's Irregulars embarrassed the Second Free World Guards in 3020 through a successful objective raid on the Kincaid peninsula on the world of McAffe, despite being positively expected to raid the facility where a trap was set for them. In this raid they reclaimed a collection of various pieces of art previously lost to Free Worlds League forces. The last message is a sarcastic personal message to Captain-General Janos Marik from Cranston Snord, thanking him for the items on behalf of his daughter.

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