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== Featured characters == | == Featured characters == | ||
* [[Arden Baxter]] | * [[Arden Baxter]] | ||
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* [[Capella]] | * [[Capella]] | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == |
Latest revision as of 11:23, 6 May 2024
Forms of Betrayal | |
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Product information | |
Type | Short story |
Author | Randall N. Bills |
Pages | 7 |
Publication information | |
Publisher | BattleCorps |
First published | 01 March 2005 |
Content | |
Era | Star League era (Age of War) |
Timeline | 07 July 2425 |
Series | Highlander Chronicles |
Preceded by | Occum's Choice |
Forms of Betrayal, written by Randall N. Bills, is a short story published on BattleCorps as the fourth and last in a loosely grouped series known as the Highlander Chronicles.
Contents
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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. | ” |
Plot summary[edit]
A member of the Marion's Highlanders regiment of the Northwind Highlanders assassinates Chancellor Arden Baxter as he walks the streets of Capella Prime en route to a regular Thursday-night meeting at the House of Scions. A needler blast to the face ends the Confederation’s first experiment with a non-Liao Chancellor.
Featured characters[edit]
- Arden Baxter
- Collin
Featured places[edit]
Featured BattleTech[edit]
Notes[edit]
The Intelligence Operations Handbook p. 70 clarifies that the mercenary 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.