The Blood of Man
Published 22 December 2010 Publisher BattleCorps Pages 45 Era Jihad era Timeline 13 August 3078 — 17 September 3078
The Blood of Man is a short story by Craig A. Reed, Jr. that was published online on BattleCorps on 22 December 2010. It is the fifth and final tie-in story published as part of the new release of Jihad Hot Spots: Terra .
Teaser Text
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In our final Jihad Hot Spots: Terra -linked story, Craig Reed show us that the Jihad was one of those great conflicts, where one side was easily painted as evil and the other side painted as righteous. Even in such a tableau, of course, black and white are not so clearly cut...
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Adept XXIII/Demi-Precentor Nigel Smyth , senior field commander of the five TerraSec task forces in the British Isles and spouse of Alicia Richmond
Adept IX/Demi-Precentor Alicia Richmond , XO and commander of TerraSec's Beta task force in the British Isles and spouse of Nigel Smyth
Adept V-Epsilon/Demi-Precentor Miranda Goodman , the persona of a Word of Blake ROM operative and commander of TerraSec's Epsilon task force
Precentor XXI Graham Carswell , Head of TerraSec in the British Isles
Adept VII/Demi-Precentor Gale Hoffman , commander of TerraSec's Gamma task force
Adept VII/Demi-Precentor Don Bailey , commander of TerraSec's Delta task force
General Alys Rousset-Marik , commander of Stone's Coalition forces in the British Isles
Precentor Geryon , commander of the Fifty-first Shadow Division (mentioned)
Devlin Stone (mentioned)
Chief Notts, chief technician assigned to the TerraSec task forces
"Dagget", hacker and trusted associate of Smyth and Richmond
Precentor Yardly, an officer of the Word of Blake Militia
Doc Vittner, a TerraSec doctor
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