Operation ICE STORM (novel)

Operation ICE STORM (novel)
Product information
Type	Novella (two parts)
Author	Jason Schmetzer
Pages	78 (part I) 97 (part II)
Cover Artwork	?
Publication information
Publisher	Catalyst Game Labs
Product code	E-CAT35NV02 (part I) E-CAT35NV04 (part II)
First published	15 February 2012 (part I) 1 August 2012 (part II)
MSRP	2.99 US $ per part
Content
Era	Clan Invasion era (part I) Jihad era (part II)
Timeline	13 June-3 October 3071 (part I) 2 October 3071-12 May 3072
Series	Blitzkrieg (fiction)

Operation ICE STORM is a two-part story by Jason Schmetzer that follows the exploits of Clan Ice Hellion saKhan Connor Rood during the increasingly desperate Operation ICE STORM which overextended his Clan to the breaking point.

The first part (subtitled The Frost Advances) was put up for sale through BattleShop in EPUB and MOBI (Amazon Kindle) format with the opening of the new Blitzkrieg fiction format by Catalyst Game Labs. It was also published via BattleCorps on 15 Februars 2012; like all BattleCorps publication, this was a PDF file offered for download free of cost to subscribers.

The second part (subtitled The Winds of Spring) was published as a PDF via BattleCorps on 1 August 2012 and as EPUB on 23 August 2012, in the same fashion as part I.

Teaser text

Part I on BattleCorps

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Khan Connor Rood of the Ice Hellions knows his Clan is taking a desperate risk. Victory over the Jade Falcons will give the Hellions a place in the Inner Sphere, new worlds to conquer and exploit. It will place them among those rarified Clans who are not trapped in the distant Clan homeworlds. It is a bold plan. It could easily fail.

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Part I on BattleShop

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It is 3071, and holy Jihad rages in the Inner Sphere. Safe on worlds claimed two decades earlier, Clan Jade Falcon watches its enemies tear themselves apart. But a new threat is bearing down on the Falcons. Clan Ice Hellion, another of Kerensky's Clans, has traveled the winding Exodus Road to attack its warrior brethren--for while the Clans hunger to conquer the Inner Sphere, they are warriors--and they have little qualm warring amongst themselves for advantage. Khan Connor Rood of the Ice Hellions knows his Clan is taking a desperate risk. Victory over the Jade Falcons will give the Hellions a place in the Inner Sphere, new worlds to conquer and exploit. It will place them among those rarified Clans who are not trapped in the distant Clan homeworlds. It is a bold plan. It could easily fail. For the Jade Falcons have been warned of the Ice Hellions' approach, and powerful and veteran Jade Falcon BattleMechs are turning to meet them. Can Rood and his Hellions defeat the forewarned Falcons? With Jihad raging in front of them and genocidal wars of reaving consuming the Clan homeworlds behind them, can the Hellions survive? Read The Frost Advances, Part One of the two-part Operation: ICE STORM saga now, and find out.

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Part II on BattleCorps

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As Connor Rood and his Ice Hellions fight to survive in the Jade Falcon Occupation Zone, it seems more and more failures turn against them. Will they be able to escape?

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Part II on BattleShop

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It is 3071, and holy Jihad rages in the Inner Sphere. Safe on worlds claimed two decades earlier, Clan Jade Falcon watches its enemies tear themselves apart. But a new threat is bearing down on the Falcons. Clan Ice Hellion, another of Kerensky's Clans, has traveled the winding Exodus Road to attack its warrior brethren--for while the Clans hunger to conquer the Inner Sphere, they are warriors--and they have little qualm warring amongst themselves for advantage. Khan Connor Rood of the Ice Hellions knows his Clan is taking a desperate risk. Victory over the Jade Falcons will give the Hellions a place in the Inner Sphere, new worlds to conquer and exploit. It will place them among those rarified Clans who are not trapped in the distant Clan homeworlds. It is a bold plan. It has failed. The battle-proven Jade Falcon Clusters have shattered the Ice Hellion assault. The worlds the Hellions captured are being lost to the Falcon reconquest, and Hellion MechWarriors are dying in the loss. Khan Connor Rood knows he must find a way to save what is left of his Clan. He knows he has to bring the Falcons to one final, decisive battle and earn a chance at escape. But the legacy of Khan Raina Montose's bad decisions linger... and the the circling Jade Falcon forces have been joined by the hungry herds of the Hell's Horses Clan. Is Rood's desperate plan to rescue the Hellions he has left doomed to fail? Read The Winds of Spring, Part Two of the two-part Operation: ICE STORM saga now, and find out.

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