BattleTech FanFiction Tribble Emporium 3: It's a Trilogy!

[Cannonshop]

#1000!!!

One THOUSAND!!!

Okay, stop me if you heard this one...  Alaric Ward went to bed last night the ilKhan of the ilClan, and woke up this morning a midwestern High School Student circa 1989, with all the memories of being Alaric Ward, only his mum Katherine (single mother, works two jobs) is alive.

Other caste members:

Principal Stone
Counselor "Doc" Lear
Anna 'Stasia' Kerensky (the hottest redhead in the volleyball team)

Who else? what other ghasts and ghosts are here, is this a hallucination? mind control? or did Alaric imagine it all in a dream? 

[Hazard Pay]

#1001

The Lights Go Out

When Amaris takes over the Terran Hegemony, something happens, Cameron Loyalists, faulty wiring, who knows but not long after the HPG network suddenly goes dark across the Inner Sphere and Periphery bringing a sudden, shocking stop to interstellar civilization.

Despite the best efforts, as the years go by no one can get the network back up again. As shipments continue to grow later and later, tensions rise and loyalties fray.

[Smegish]

#1000!!!

One THOUSAND!!!

Okay, stop me if you heard this one...  Alaric Ward went to bed last night the ilKhan of the ilClan, and woke up this morning a midwestern High School Student circa 1989, with all the memories of being Alaric Ward, only his mum Katherine (single mother, works two jobs) is alive.

Other caste members:

Principal Stone
Counselor "Doc" Lear
Anna 'Stasia' Kerensky (the hottest redhead in the volleyball team)

Who else? what other ghasts and ghosts are here, is this a hallucination? mind control? or did Alaric imagine it all in a dream?

Is this the return of Battletech 90210? 

[Tyler Jorgensson]

Is this the return of Battletech 90210? 

A play on that one about Daoshen Liao?

A spin-off series?

[drakensis]

#1002

When the Eridani Light Horse break off their contract with the Lyran Commonwealth in 2999, rather than take employment with House Davion they instead head back to the periphery, as they had after breaking ties with House Marik.

The same part of the periphery, in fact... a region currently being menaced by the Marian Hegemony which is just getting their feet under them. Incensed to find a pirate realm spreading slavery across a region of the periphery, the Eridani Light Horse smash House O'Reilly's organized resistance... and find themselves functionally in control of a small periphery state.

Can they find a better way to govern, living up to their Star League ideals... or will they fail and wind up another cancer on the Periphery?

[SulliMike23]

#1002

When the Eridani Light Horse break off their contract with the Lyran Commonwealth in 2999, rather than take employment with House Davion they instead head back to the periphery, as they had after breaking ties with House Marik.

The same part of the periphery, in fact... a region currently being menaced by the Marian Hegemony which is just getting their feet under them. Incensed to find a pirate realm spreading slavery across a region of the periphery, the Eridani Light Horse smash House O'Reilly's organized resistance... and find themselves functionally in control of a small periphery state.

Can they find a better way to govern, living up to their Star League ideals... or will they fail and wind up another cancer on the Periphery?

You may wanna change the number Drak.

[ckosacranoid]

#1003

In the lead up to before the fat man thinks about doing his deeds to cause the fall of the star league something weird happens to really set things going super weird.

All the house leaders end up with being visited every couple of years with a copy of the leaders from 3025 era in ghost form and not just them, but their wives and a couple of very close people can interact with the ghost. The first visit is random from the house expect they do not get their own at first. They end up seeing what happens as the years go from the different leaders...this also includes the three big perfi nations somehow. They change every other year for Visits to have their take and dealing with a very paranoid bull is never easy on anyone to say the least.
The worst visit.....The fat man gets all of them all at once from the get go and they are reallybdriving him and his family very mad right now.
Much less everyone having to deal with a bit insane lloia is every more screwed up.

[Daryk]

Drakensis: I'd be VERY interested to see how the ELH interact with the Lothians, who are more Taurian than the Taurians... ;)

[Giovanni Blasini]

Drakensis: I'd be VERY interested to see how the ELH interact with the Lothians, who are more Taurian than the Taurians... ;)

There's another small Periphery nation out there too, one that happens to have Star League ties as well...

[Giovanni Blasini]

I'm actually considering writing this one, but maybe Gio could write it BETTER.

I am not at all sure I could.

[Daryk]

That sounds like a collaboration waiting to happen! :)

[Cannonshop]

#1004

A thin drizzle seems appropriate, The news was not welcomed.

Katherine Morgan Steiner-Davion stood in the thin drizzle, as they unloaded the coffin, and faced an uncertain future.  In none of her imaginings could this have happened.

Victor was dead, and it wasn't even something she'd planned, or considered possible.  Her brother was dead, and so, some plans would have to change.

"How did it happen?" she asked.  "He wasn't even on the Front Line!!"

Her mother, distraught, shook her head and said nothing, at first.

"It...it was an accident.  A dropship on the route..."

After the funeral, Katherine used her contacts to make sure it was really an accident.  What she came across in doing so, well...

Katy was never one NOT to go into petty, insane rages. 

Someone in Transport Command had been dipping into the maintenance funds, along with all the other embezzlers driving up costs and prices, and the result of that, was a dropship with bad seals beteen decks, a random bit of space debris moving at 55 Meters/second, and her brother Victor being in the wrong passageway when these two things came together.

Maintenance had been signed off, but it had not been done, and a refurbished dropship sold to the realm at new prices killed her brother, the Heir...her personal rival, had been taken by someone else's rank incompetence.

her vindication was stolen for the price of a cheap roadster.

"Don't worry, Mother, I'll take care of it."

[SulliMike23]

#1004

A thin drizzle seems appropriate, The news was not welcomed.

Katherine Morgan Steiner-Davion stood in the thin drizzle, as they unloaded the coffin, and faced an uncertain future.  In none of her imaginings could this have happened.

Victor was dead, and it wasn't even something she'd planned, or considered possible.  Her brother was dead, and so, some plans would have to change.

"How did it happen?" she asked.  "He wasn't even on the Front Line!!"

Her mother, distraught, shook her head and said nothing, at first.

"It...it was an accident.  A dropship on the route..."

After the funeral, Katherine used her contacts to make sure it was really an accident.  What she came across in doing so, well...

Katy was never one NOT to go into petty, insane rages. 

Someone in Transport Command had been dipping into the maintenance funds, along with all the other embezzlers driving up costs and prices, and the result of that, was a dropship with bad seals beteen decks, a random bit of space debris moving at 55 Meters/second, and her brother Victor being in the wrong passageway when these two things came together.

Maintenance had been signed off, but it had not been done, and a refurbished dropship sold to the realm at new prices killed her brother, the Heir...her personal rival, had been taken by someone else's rank incompetence.

her vindication was stolen for the price of a cheap roadster.

"Don't worry, Mother, I'll take care of it."

Funny, I would think she'd be dancing and singing to Victor's death.

[Hazard Pay]

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou

[wolfgar]

yeah i can see mad-kat getting pissed because someone took her fun away. they would pay for that

[Starfox5]

And it could have been her. Realizing that shoddy maintenance is a threat to her is not a good feeling.

[Cannonshop]

#1005  "This was a baaad idea..."

Joshua, and Jeremiah, and Martha and Shoshanna.  Even when the Clans don't conquer a place, there's inevitably some form of collateral.  Joshua and Jeremiah went from the twin sons of an AFFC officer, to orphans overnight.  Martha lost hers on a jumpship 'sniped' by Clan forces at the jump point, Shoshanna? she never really remembered hers-she arrived with refugees from a world that did fall.

Pain can become hatred very easily, especially when you have an authority figure telling you that you SHOULD hate.  Joshua has a book.  It's something AFFC has kept classified since it was AFFS.

step by step instructions on how to make bathtub explosives, chemical weapons and how to employ them.

It's 3057, the kids are on Coventry, the Jade Falcons have come, and the kids are looking for some payback.

[Euphonium]

Joshua has a book. It's something AFFC has kept classified since it was AFFS.

is this better or worse than it being a middle-school textbook from Kowloon?

[Hazard Pay]

#1006

The expected SLDF invasion of the Rimworlds Republic never occurs as the fleets never arrive in the RWR borders.No one knows what happened to the SLDF that followed Kerensky, and none happier than Stefan Amaris himself. Things go okay the first couple years, the Great Lords paying lip service for now biding their time until Kerensky and his forces arrive… but as the years go by and Amaris’ despotism grows by leaps and bounds the Great Houses and Periphery must deal with the madman they’re locked in with.

[SulliMike23]

#1006

The expected SLDF invasion of the Rimworlds Republic never occurs as the fleets never arrive in the RWR borders.No one knows what happened to the SLDF that followed Kerensky, and none happier than Stefan Amaris himself. Things go okay the first couple years, the Great Lords paying lip service for now biding their time until Kerensky and his forces arrive… but as the years go by and Amaris’ despotism grows by leaps and bounds the Great Houses and Periphery must deal with the madman they’re locked in with.

Now this I would love to see!

[Daryk]

is this better or worse than it being a middle-school textbook from Kowloon?

Honestly, I expect the kids cribbed from one of those textbooks... ;D

[Tegyrius]

It's 3057, the kids are on Coventry, the Jade Falcons have come, and the kids are looking for some payback.

The only acceptable title for this is Jade Dawn.

WOLVERINES!

*Clanner pants-shitting hysteria commences*

[Hazard Pay]

"Nuke the whole planet until the very bedrock is exposed and glows. It is the only way to be sure we get them all."

"Aff Star Admiral."

[Cannonshop]

1007: "I don't think you understand;  The Inner Sphere isn't YOURS to conquer."

Omniman vs. The Clans.  I guess the Wardens had a good argument...

[idea weenie]

And it could have been her. Realizing that shoddy maintenance is a threat to her is not a good feeling.

Cue Katherine doing a full forensic audit of the Lyran military, and authorizing death sentences for the worst offenders?  At the very least she would have the maintenance people have to travel on the craft that they maintain.

1007: "I don't think you understand;  The Inner Sphere isn't YOURS to conquer."

Omniman vs. The Clans.  I guess the Wardens had a good argument...

1008: On a backwards planet, a Commander builds a Metal Extractor.

[Cannonshop]

Cue Katherine doing a full forensic audit of the Lyran military, and authorizing death sentences for the worst offenders?  At the very least she would have the maintenance people have to travel on the craft that they maintain.


1008: On a backwards planet, a Commander builds a Metal Extractor.

YOu must build more pylons!! (wrong game)

[Tyler Jorgensson]

#1009 (probably been done before)

The SLDF has turned into the Clans. The Golden Century is upon them. Suddenly one of the colony worlds goes dark. And then reports come in. Feral creature things…. Huge seams of them. Fangs, claws, talons, spines, bone blades on monstrosities four times the size of mechs. Growths that cover the ground and biological buildings.

The Zerg have appeared.

(No Protoss only Zerg lol)

[Hazard Pay]

#1010

A few lines of wording in ComStar’s agreement with the Successor States only allowed C* around a century of stewardship of the HPG Network, along the way they were obligated to train the (now former) Star league Members in the construction and maintenance of the HPG network with their borders.

Because of the sheer destruction (and Holy Shroud) this took the backseat until the latter days of the 3rd SW that the States began to call up this Obligation… with interest.

[paulobrito]

#1010

A few lines of wording in ComStar’s agreement with the Successor States only allowed C* around a century of stewardship of the HPG Network, along the way they were obligated to train the (now former) Star league Members in the construction and maintenance of the HPG network with their borders.

Because of the sheer destruction (and Holy Shroud) this took the backseat until the latter days of the 3rd SW that the States began to call up this Obligation… with interest.

Oh boy... i really want to see this one. In particular the reaction of the First Circuit when they received the missives.

[Hazard Pay]

ComStar’s main issue isn’t their Upper Echelons who are recalcitrant in giving up their power of course, but rather here it’s the lower levels who truly believe the public creed.

They’ve been making moves, public and private, to sway both the rest of C* and the public’s of the various states to pressure C*’s First Circuit to acquiesce to their obligations.

ComStar’s says their must be a mistake, presenting ”evidence ” of tampering over a century ago that the copies the Successor Lords have do not count… which causes Kurtis and Davion to come to a rare agreement that C* is trying to weasel their way out of this. The rest soon follow suit.

The 5th Succession War began in the courtrooms in the 2990s and erupted into fire in the mid 3040s.