Gladiator Gazette

Gladiator Gazette was a monthly periodical active in the 3140s.

Columns[edit]

Gladiator Gazette featured a series of columns on a number of topics.

Assassination Protocol[edit]

An ongoing series of columns covering various assassins and murderers, exploring their deeds with some original reporting.

  • Assassination Protocol: Dancing Joker - Published May 3143, this entry covered the mysterious Dancing Joker, the assassin who killed Melissa Steiner-Davion in 3055 and Omiko Kurita in 3064.[1]
  • Assassination Protocol: Sniper Killer - Published May 3144, this entry covered Brian Fargol, the so-called "Sniper Killer".[2]
  • Assassination Protocol: Kafka - Published June 3144, this entry discussed Kafka, a shared-identity assassin or assassin group utilizing the name since 3052 up until at least 3136.[2]
  • Assassination Protocol: Katherine Steiner-Davion - Published July 3144, this entry covered Katherine Steiner-Davion, unusually one of the few subjects in the series with a heavily known background, but with the column instead focusing on the little known history of her rumoured actions after the FedCom Civil War to expand her influence within Clan Wolf.[1]

11 Good Ways to...[edit]

An ongoing series of columns related to eleven notes, advisories or facts about a specific topic:

  • 11 Good Ways to... Ruin Your Mercenary Company - Published November 3151, this entry covered eleven topics on how to destroy a mercenary unit's career: accepting obscure post-C-bill collapse currencies, not properly reviewing "too good to be true" contracts, ignoring orders, overembellishing the size of your unit, following suicidal orders, failing to ensure contracts will cover costs, lack of unit cohesion, refusing to perform reconnaissance, blindly trusting your employer, skimping on ammunition and replacement parts with a clear bias towards the commander, and accepting contracts for blatantly crazy and anti-mercenary House Lords.[3]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shrapnel Issue #3 - "Assassination Protocol: Katherine Steiner-Davion"
  2. 2.0 2.1 Shrapnel Issue #2 - "Assassination Protocol: Kafka"
  3. Shrapnel Issue #15 - "11 Good Ways to... Ruin Your Mercenary Company"

Bibliography[edit]