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

[Daryk]

Cue the Cameron sisters rapidly trying to step back faster than each other... :D

[Dave Talley]

#1269

Hilton Head,
3028, the day after the wedding, as the first circuit assembled at Precentor Dierons insistence yet again ,
Primus Teipolo raised his bloodshot eyes as she stormed into the room
He waited for the doors to close, and as she started her latest tirade, he turned to Precentor ROM and and nodded, out comes a stun stick and zap down she goes
It's a shame she broke down like this, arranged a long medical leave for her and contact whoever our new Preventer for Deiron is and have them come to Terra

[Hazard Pay]

#1270

When Jacob Cameron rose to the position of Director General of the Terran Hegemony, he was brought up to date of many state secrets: most notably a discovery in the Arctic during his father's time of what appeared to be a bipedal alien machine. The THAF quickly took control of security around the machine, now called NBE-1 (Non-Biological Entity One) and began to learn from it, leading to many advancement in those years since.

Jacob Cameron realized his boyhood dream of giant, pilotable robots was closer than ever.

Battletech x Transformers!AU (semi-new continuity)

[Daryk]

LAMs for all my friends! ;D

[Hazard Pay]

#1270.1 (Continuation)

in 2766, Stefan Amaris slew Richard Cameron and the rest of the core Cameron Dynasty and declared himself Emperor... in 2767 he was in turn slain by a revived Megatron (formerly known as NBE-1) after Megatron was awakened by his Decepticon subordinates who finally found him on Terra. With enough Decepticons and control of the SDS through superior Cybertronian Hacking, Megatron quickly took over the Sol System and declared the formation of the New Decepticon Empire. He quickly took to using the recovered All Spark and converted Mech Factories to produce more Vehicons and Mechs given life to crush all opposition in the solar stystem, wiping out close to 1/10th of human life in Humanities' cradle over the next few years and keeping the cowed remnants as slaves. Not long after Megatron began the rapid conquest of much of the core Terran Hegemony terriotry.

By this time, Kerensky and the SLDF were preparing to strike at the newly revelaed Decepticons when they were approached by a new group of Transformers calling themsleves Autobots, led by the charismatic and empathic Optimus Prime. Optimus expressed great regret fo what had befallen Terra nd the people of the Hegemony, and offered his Autobots' services to Kerensky to put an end to Megatron and the senseless bloodshed for good.

[Daryk]

HILARIOUS! :D

[Tyler Jorgensson]

Doesn’t one of those Halloween/ April Fools products have Autobots? Nebula California?

[Daryk]

Nebula California has them in spades! :)

[Hazard Pay]

Yes they were in Nebula California, but that runs into the problem of the whole issue of leaving the California Nebula once you enter. This is a fusion fic idea. It would take from IDW's All Hail Megaton stoylin and the subsequent followups.

[Vehrec]

#1260.2

"Freedom and autonomy are the rights of all sentient beings.  These words, I spoke nine million years ago.  These principle, are why we are the Autobots. And no better future can be built upon oppression, force and absolute dictates.

Therefore, the Autobots are withdrawing from all embassies within the Star League except for the Unity City complex, which will be reduced to minimal staffing.  We are ending our program of technological exchange and industrial development.  Should The Stare League attempt to enforce the Pollux Proclamation, I will regard this as an act of war and be forced to conclude that the Star League is more interested in control than in culture, in power than in prosperity.  The freedom to choose must include the freedom to refuse,  and the solemn responsibilities of the First Lord end at the edge of his realm.  The Autobots stand alongside any, and all, who seek freedom.  It is not an easy or a joyful path we tread now, but it is necessary.  I have seen one brother turn to darkness, and I will not hesitate to raise my hand now if this is the path you seek to walk.

I am Optimus Prime, and I hereby declare my ultimatum against the Star League, as Leader of the Autobots.  Return to your lands, and do not seek conquest.  Reunification can never come via force, and attempting to do so will only sew the seeds of your destruction."

#1271
"Attention, Periphery world, I am Star Captain Kelteos of the Scorpion Empire!  My Trinary stands ready to seize your world in it's pincers!  Who dares stand before me?  Will no one answer my Batchall?"
"Star Captain Kelteos, I am Defense Minister Ríchathaoir.  I'm an old naval man, but our last aircraft carrier sank under my boots in the Exchange.  But I will make you the offer that Four Million soldiers stand ready to defend Danaan.  I can increase that to twelve million, if you give me six months to draft in new recruits."
..."Your planet is ravaged by nuclear war, surely you do not mean to truly fight me, Quineg?"
"Our planet is ravaged by nuclear war.  You stand ready to invade it."

[Tyler Jorgensson]

Is 1271 in reference to something else or just random names/idea?

I like the idea in theory because it works on the whole ‘how many billion live on the planet and your militia is only 12 Battlemechs?’

While the casualties would be tremendous I don’t think the Scorpions could stand up to 4 million angry soldiers, let alone twelve.

[Vehrec]

The name of the defense minister and his origin (Noble class-traitor with loads of trauma, genetic engineering, and paranoia about honeypots that will keep him from every having a romantic relationship), as well as the planet were taken from the story of Ad Astra Ex Lutum.  Broadly speaking though, if the situation from that story is ported over, there's a significant element of bluff to the 4 million angry soldiers.  They only have one Armored Division for the entire planet, their wet-navy's newest hull is 40 years old and Pre-nuclear exchange, their anti-mech weaponry is limited to rifles, and while they *did* have a space-force, it has only one jumpship that has a 5% chance to kill any of it's crew any time it jumps.  The non-jumping parts of the space military included an entire regiment worth of special ops madmen who were just left in the moon-mines to make things hard, with a 1 gigaton nuke to use when their position was overrun.

[Daryk]

I'm pretty sure a mere Star Captain is going to decline that battle, dreams of glory notwithstanding.

[Vehrec]

I'm pretty sure a mere Star Captain is going to decline that battle, dreams of glory notwithstanding.

What, why, you gonna be a coward, gonna say that you *can't* conquer a 21st century tech level planet with only about 500 million people?  Come on, smaller forces rolled bigger inner sphere planets, just load up on machine guns and ammo and BRRRT every infantry formation you see, come on.  They've got Light Rifles on their 'mbt' this will be a cakewalk, in and out, look there's their command bunker.

Twenty-four months later, bogged down on the approaches to Athluas, the first super-heavy rifle tanks were reaching the 7th Armored corps, the infantry had been re-equipped with 12mm hypervelocity rifles that give Elementals pause, and the nuclear-winter is really getting bad enough to dampen the constant hurricanes after at least 50000 nukes have been deployed. Mostly Davy Crocket sized, but a fair number of bomb-pumped lasers going off against the last wave of Clan reinforcements.  Of course, it's not all a one-way street, as the lasers are kept at their limit fending off the bombardment from the mass-drivers the Claners built on the moon...

[drakensis]

#1272

By the 31st century, humanity has spread to thousands of worlds, while a handful of powerful empires wage continual war for the right to rule the stars. Foremost among the weapons used in that struggle are BattleBeasts. Loaded with autocannon, missile launchers, lasers and charged-particle beam weapons, these mammoth creatures covered in armor plating stand tens of metres tall. Riding them are BeastWarriors, the best, most intensively trained men and women available. Like the armored knights of an earlier age, BeastWarriors are popular heroes, and their exploids are the stuff of legends.

[DOC_Agren]

#1272

By the 31st century, humanity has spread to thousands of worlds, while a handful of powerful empires wage continual war for the right to rule the stars. Foremost among the weapons used in that struggle are BattleBeasts. Loaded with autocannon, missile launchers, lasers and charged-particle beam weapons, these mammoth creatures covered in armor plating stand tens of metres tall. Riding them are BeastWarriors, the best, most intensively trained men and women available. Like the armored knights of an earlier age, BeastWarriors are popular heroes, and their exploids are the stuff of legends.

[drakensis]

#1273

Dear Father,

If you are reading this then I got too close and I have been eliminated by our enemies.

I imagine that they will make it look like an accident or some embarrassing error on my part. The one thing I cannot deny is their professionalism.

I am sorry to drop this on you, but I firmly believe that you are the best person to act on the information attached. You are the best Captain-General in a century and that makes you a threat to factions who want to keep the Great Houses balanced against each other.

A strong Free Worlds League is a threat to that and you, more than anyone else, are a target. Of the other House Lords, Liao already has the weakest state. Davion is focused on frontlines and Kurita's warrior obsessions blind him. Steiner is too inexperienced to say, but if she reforms the LCAF then she may be a similar threat to the balance of power.

ComStar has always benefitted from playing the Great Houses off against each other, but until now it has been political brinksmanship and they have remained conscious of the consequences of a mis-step. Unfortunately, they are slipping into the hands of 'true believers' who are convinced they are infalliable, by virtue of Blake's vision. Blake vult, if you would.

Thomas may be in their hands already. I hope we still have time, their Blessed Order are not in total control.

I have attached details of my findings, as well as strong leads for SLDF caches they are looking for or are keeping hidden for their own use. If I had more time, I would try to follow these up, but my hand has been forced. ComStar's First Circuit have been driven into a fit of paranoia by the arrival of the Wolf Dragoons, citing some 'land of dreams' - possibly a prophecy. I believe they intend to kill two birds with one stone by convincing Liao to transfer the Dragoon's service to a rebel faction within the League: we destroy the Dragoons, but not before they destroy the prosperity and unity you have worked so hard for.

I've narrowed the potential leaders of this rebellion to cousin Garth, Gerald or uncle Anton. Garth is most likely so I will investigate Anton's inner circle first, if you can rely on him then I have faith we can prevail. My apologies for the pun. If this letter reaches you then I am wrong and you may not have much time.

Your loving daughter,
Faith Marik

P.S. Look to Martin's security. A strong heir is almost as bad for ComStar as a strong Captain-General.

[Daryk]

But would Janos have taken action on such a letter?  I could see things still playing out exactly as they did in canon...

[drakensis]

I'd expect it doesn't change anything until the Marik Civil War begins but may lead to some better decisions at that point.

[Daryk]

One can only hope! :)

[Gorgon]

Sounds intriguing! I wouldn't mind a thriller centered around Faith Marik, either. It's an intereting time in League History.

[namar13766]

#1274: The Terran Alliance expands wider and longer than expected, so when the Outer Reaches Rebellion finally kicks off in full (pay no attention to the many, many simmering tensions and incidents beforehand), it's circa 2750, and the Inner Sphere has a diameter of 90,000 lightyears.

[Hazard Pay]

Did they unlock way better KF Drives?

[PsihoKekec]

Yeah, 1500 jumps to get from Terra to a settlement is a bit much.
I like the idea of hyperspace anomalies that cropped up several times, there would be places where jumping would throw you much further than just 30 light years, making for an uneven colonization effort and adding another set of strategic worlds to manufacturing and administrative centers.