Other Powers
The Great Houses, the Clans and the Periphery States are not the only entities who have played a role in the Inner Sphere’s past, present and future.
Though not exactly political organizations per se, both ComStar and its splinter groups the Word of Blake have influenced the Inner Sphere for several centuries. Their policy of neutrality has enabled them to interact with all parties while maintaining the interstellar communications network that makes a greater human society possible.
Not every state has a long or particularly happy life. The Free Rasalhague Republic, though no longer around by 3075, was an important small state during the years prior to the Clan invasion. Its recent absorption into the Ghost Bear Dominion is seen by many as the lesser of available evils.
The history of the Inner Sphere extends centuries into the past and will continue beyond the Jihad era. The Republic of the Sphere is a state that will come into being after the end of the war in 3081 and represents a fundamental shift in the balance of power among the older states.
In the pages that follow, you can read about the various other powers of the Inner Sphere, their trials and tribulations, the movers and shakers who drive them to glory or tragedy, the fabled military units and powerful corporations who provide the backdrop against which so many stories are told. Each page contains profiles of important personalities, units and companies, as well as suggested readings to give you a feel for the flavor and history of that faction.
BattleTech is a science-fiction “space opera”: a factional, militarized universe set in the thirty-first century, a future where humanity has spread to the stars and spawned titanic interstellar empires, each nation controlling hundreds of worlds across a region of space stretching a thousand light years and beyond.
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Continuing the celebration of 35 years of Battletech, we're thrilled to announce that two Print on Demand novels are available now that represent the earliest days of Battletech fiction and done of the latest fiction to come out.
First, going back to the early days of Battletech, we present "Decision at Thunder Rift" by William H. Keith
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE EPIC SAGA OF FUTURE WAR...
Thirty meters tall, seventy tons of quick-striding death and destruction, the armored war machines called BattleMechs are the front-line forces of the crumbling star empire locked in the horror of the endless Succession Wars. Their pilots are MechWarriors, 31st-Century knights riding armored machines powerful enough to take a city apart.
Grayson Death Carlyle had been training to be a MechWarrior since he was 10 years old, but his graduation came sooner than expected. With his friends and family dead and his father's regiment destroyed, young Grayson finds himself stranded on a world turned hostile. Now he must learn the hardest lesson of all: it takes more than a BattleMech to make a MechWarrior...
But to claim that title, all Grayson has to do is go out and capture one of those giant killing machines...if it doesn't kill him first.
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Next, at the other end of the spectrum, we have the Omnibus of "The Anvil" by Blaine Lee Pardoe "A Splinter of Hope" by Philip Lee!
VICTORY AT ANY COST…
Jump into your BattleMech cockpit, fire up your fusion engine, and charge into the fray with two all-new BattleTech novellas from Philip A. Lee and BattleTech veteran Blaine Lee Pardoe.
A Splinter of Hope: Violent expansion of the Capellan Confederation and the Draconis Combine has cost recently crowned First Prince Julian Davion both his mentor and countless Federated Suns worlds. To rally his people, he funnels the fires of justice into an ambitious yet risky campaign to retake a vital system: New Syrtis, the occupied capital of the Capellan March. However, the Capellan people have fought dearly for their prize and will do anything in their power to hold onto it. Will Julian’s gamble preserve the future of the Federated Suns, or is the invasion doomed before it even begins?
The Anvil: Khan Malvina Hazen of Clan Jade Falcon is known throughout the Inner Sphere as a merciless, bloodthirsty tyrant. The next target for her scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners tactics is the Lyran Commonwealth world of Coventry: a persistent stain on the Jade Falcons’ history. But not all Falcons follow Malvina’s lead. Ordered to take Coventry at any cost, Galaxy Commander Stephanie Chistu wishes to see her Clan victorious, but no victory is worth the Jade Falcons losing their very soul. To stand up to tyranny and find an honorable path forward for her Clan, she must balance the razor’s edge between duty and honor—or die trying.
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