Forms of Betrayal is a short story by Randall N. Bills that was published online on BattleCorps on 1 March 2005 as the fourth and final installment in a loosely grouped series known as Highlander Chronicles.
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In this fourth installment of the HIGHLANDER CHRONICLES, Randall Bills takes a fresh look at one of the Northwind Highlanders' darker moments. A time when, pressed by treachery and disdain, at least one soldier chooses to strike out at the hand squeezing the life from his people, his comrades.
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Plot Summary[edit]
Chancellor Arden Baxter is assassinated by a member of Marion's Highlanders of the Northwind Highlanders as he walks through the streets of Capella Prime en route to a regular Thursday-night meeting at the House of Scions. A headshot with a needler ends the Capellan Confederation's first experiment with a chancellor who was not a Liao.
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- Intelligence Operations Handbook, p. 70 clarifies that the assassin was a mentally unbalanced individual recruited by Maskirovka agents posing as radicals, due both to persistent loyalty to House Liao and to Baxter's perceived mistreatment of the Capellan spy agency.
