Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents
Sarna News
Contents
Description
Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents is the followup to Jihad Conspiracies: Interstellar Players 2. While it is written "to" Chandrasekhar Kurita, this book has a more out-of-character feel to the beginning than many of the other Jihad-era sourcebooks. Jihad Secrets updates the Inner Sphere to early 3075, and provides a more detailed look at the early Jihad.
The book begins with a short story about the Bounty Hunter, then proceeds to tell a more complete-and less biased-story of the run-up to the Jihad than has been seen previously in print. It details some of the troop movements of the Inner Sphere powers in their struggles that did not involve the Word of Blake Militia during this period, then briefly updates them with some of the news reports a la Dawn of the Jihad. The fourth section has biographies of the some of the less-prominent, but still important, players. It follows that up with a look at the Blakist military units. While not as detailed as in the Field Manual series, there is significant information about the various units and their actions during the Jihad. The sixth section is selected excerpts from Victoria Parrdeau's journal, interspersed with other documents. Following that is another journal that seems to indicate the fate of Clan Wolverine.
The final section is a rules annex that provides players with construction rules for primitive BattleMechs and aerospace fighters, as well as five 'Mechs and a DropShip. Three of the 'Mechs are those described as new designs created by Clan Wolverine in Blaine Lee Pardoe's Betrayal of Ideas.
Contents
- "Just Business"
- How it Began
- Jihad: The Early Years
- Operation: "Sovereign Justice"
- Operation: "Thunderstrike"
- Operation: "Uberschatten/Broken Fist"
- Operation: "Steel Hammer"
- Operation: "Showtime"
- Operation: "Ice Storm"
- Around the Sphere
- Overview
- The Federated Suns
- The Lyran Alliance
- The Draconis Combine
- The Capellan Confederation
- The Blake Protectorate
- The Free Worlds League
- The Periphery
- The Clans
- ComStar and the Coalition
- Biographies
- Albert Benton
- Alex Keller
- Alys Rousset-Marik
- Janice Annapoulis
- Jocelyn "Joey" Myrianna Nichole
- Marcel Webb
- Ross McKinnon
- Stacy Church
- Bounty Hunter
- Gavin Dow
- Kiyomori Minamoto
- Shakir Jerrar
- "Thomas Marik"
- Titus Cameron-Jones
- David Lear
- Wolfgang Hansen
- Devlin Stone
- Apollyon
- Avitue
- Berith
- Cameron St. Jamais
- Geoffrey Zucker
- Lindon Ashley
- Kali Liao
- The Word of Blake Protectorate
- Through the Looking Glass
- The Not-Named
- Rules Annex
- Special Force Rules (Word of Blake)
- New Construction Option: RetroTech
- Primitive 'Mech Construction
- Primitive Aerospace Fighter Construction
- Primitive Weapons and Equipment
- Primitive Unit Cost and Battle Values
- Primitive Units in Combat (Optional)
- New 'Mechs
- MCY-100 Mercury II
- ST-14G Stag
- PUL-2V Pulverizer
- DV-1A "Primitive" Dervish
- RPT-2X Raptor II
- New DropShip: Trojan
Notes
- This book was kept ultra-secret by CGL, so that when white-robed men began ripping pages out of copies at GenCon 2008 and handing them out to people, it was a complete surprise. Three-hourly updates with preview pages on the CBT forums led up to the announcement.[1]
Errata
References
- ↑ CBT forums: "+++Breaking News+++ Important BattleTech Announcement!"
- ↑ CBT forums: "Sun Tzu's "Rebirth""