Blood Legacy

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Blood Legacy
Product information
Type Novel
Author Michael A. Stackpole
Pages 368
Cover Artwork Les Dorscheid (original)
Roger Loveless (reprint)
Alex Iglesias (2022 reprint)
Publication information
Publisher FASA (original)
Roc Books (reprint)
First published December 1990 (original)
November 1995 (reprint)
January 2022 (reprint)
ISBN-10 0451453840
ISBN-13 978-0451453846
Content
Era Clan Invasion era
Timeline 30513052
15 January, 305117 March, 3052
Series Blood of Kerensky Trilogy
Preceded by Lethal Heritage
Followed by Lost Destiny

Blood Legacy, by Michael A. Stackpole, is the second book in the Blood of Kerensky trilogy.

From the back cover (1995 edition)

Jaime Wolf has brought all the key leaders of the Inner Sphere together at his base on Outreach in an attempt to put to rest old blood feuds and power struggles. For only if all the Successor States unite their forces do they have any hope of defeating this invasion by warriors equipped with BattleMechs far superior to their own.

But old hatreds and suspicions are hard to put aside, and mutual trust even harder to attain. Especially when the very man who asks for that trust has freely admitted to being a former Clansman himself. And even if the Houses should agree to stand together, another threat as fully dangerous lurks within their very midst—ComStar, the sect controlling interstellar communication which is determined to rule all of the Inner Sphere by any means at its disposal...

Summary

The leaders of the various Inner Sphere nations gather on Outreach to learn the origins of the Clans and train to defeat them. Meanwhile, in Clan space, Phelan Wolf, now adopted into the warrior caste of Clan Wolf, learns more of the Clans firsthand and trains for his Trial of Position. The Clan grand council elects Ulric Kerensky as the new ilKhan, and the invasion resumes. The Wolves take several key worlds, including Radstadt, which Phelan captures single-handedly. Combined Smoke Jaguar and Nova Cat forces invade Luthien, to be repelled in the largest battle to date in the Clan invasion. Forces under Victor Steiner-Davion's command strike back against the Jade Falcons, though a disastrous raid leaves Kai Allard-Liao apparently dead. An assassin in Romano Liao's employ strikes at the St. Ives Compact, apparently killing both Justin Allard and Candace Allard-Liao.


Featured characters

Featured places

Featured BattleTech

BattleMechs

Battle Armor

Aerospace Fighters

DropShips

WarShips

Foreign-Language Editions

German

A German edition, translated by Reinhold H. Mai, was published by Heyne in 1992 as Blutiges Vermächtnis (ISBN 9783453053977).[1] The book had several printings, including a seventh printing in 1995 under the same ISBN.[2] This was republished as an EPUB by Ulisses Spiele in 2017 as BattleTech Legenden 11 - Das Blut der Kerensky : Blutiges Vermächtnis (ISBN 9783957526106).[3]

Hungarian

A Hungarian edition, translated by Tóth Judit, was published by Beholder in 1997 as A vér szava.[4] A second edition was published in 2005.[5]

Spanish

A Spanish edition, translated by Jaime de Marcos Andreu, was published by Timun Mas in 1997 as Asalto a la ciudad imperial.

Covers

References

  1. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Catalog, https://d-nb.info/921087675
  2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Catalog, https://d-nb.info/945145675
  3. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Catalog, https://d-nb.info/1137467797
  4. Beholder Product Page for A vér szava, 1e, http://beholder.hu/?m=bolt&cikk=204
  5. Beholder Product Page for A vér szava, 2e, http://beholder.hu/?m=bolt&cikk=6276