BattleTech: Shell Games

BattleTech: Shell Games
Author: Jason Schmetzer
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2020-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

STRENGTH VS. HONOR For more than a decade, the Republic of the Sphere’s army hid in silence behind the mysterious, impregnable Wall of Fortress Republic. But now the Wall has come down, and Paladin Max Ergen, commander of Operation Eruptio, has his sights set on an invaluable prize. His target: Dieron, a Draconis Combine military district capital, a former Republic world harboring secrets from past wars. His troops have spent years training in isolation behind the Wall, and they are hungry for battle, ready to remind the Inner Sphere that the wounded Republic is still a force to be reckoned with. But Dieron is also the fortress of Warlord Kambei Okamoto, one of the Combine’s top military officials, and he and his Dieron Regulars are committed to holding the line and defending their home against Republic aggression, no matter the cost. Although the Republic may have surprise and numbers on their side, the Combine troops boast the strength of an impregnable redoubt—and the keen edge of their own unimpeachable honor. And when these two forces clash, the battle for Dieron will be a titanic one indeed…

Battletech: Shell Games: A BattleTech Novella

Battletech: Shell Games: A BattleTech Novella
Author: Jason Schmetzer
Publisher: Battletech Novella
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2020-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781947335240

STRENGTH VS. HONOR For more than a decade, the Republic of the Sphere's army hid in silence behind the mysterious, impregnable Wall of Fortress Republic. But now the Wall has come down, and Paladin Max Ergen, commander of Operation Eruptio, has his sights set on an invaluable prize. His target: Dieron, a Draconis Combine military district capital, a former Republic world harboring secrets from past wars. His troops have spent years training in isolation behind the Wall, and they are hungry for battle, ready to remind the Inner Sphere that the wounded Republic is still a force to be reckoned with. But Dieron is also the fortress of Warlord Kambei Okamoto, one of the Combine's top military officials, and he and his Dieron Regulars are committed to holding the line and defending their home against Republic aggression, no matter the cost. Although the Republic may have surprise and numbers on their side, the Combine troops boast the strength of an impregnable redoubt-and the keen edge of their own unimpeachable honor. And when these two forces clash, the battle for Dieron will be a titanic one indeed...

BattleTech: Lethal Lessons

BattleTech: Lethal Lessons
Author: Daniel Isberner
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2023-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A PACK DIVIDED… Clan Wolf has gone to claim Terra to fulfill the promise made by Aleksandr Kerensky centuries ago. But for those left behind, their story is a very different one… Star Captain Jacinda of Clan Wolf Is one such warrior. Stuck on Campbelton in the Wolf Empire due to injury, she commands a sibko training facility while stewing over her lost chance to go with the Wolf touman to attain glory in the campaign for Terra. But heroism comes in many forms, and when a new invader targets Campbelton, Jacinda is able to unleash her primal warrior nature, and defend the Wolf’s pups against all comers…

BattleTech: The Price of Duty

BattleTech: The Price of Duty
Author: Jason Schmetzer
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2021-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE… Former hauptmann Ronan Carlyle is a man without a nation. After his former commanding officer declared herself governor-general of a reborn Tamar Pact, Ronan, a loyal Steiner officer, led a group of soldiers and techs including his sister, Isobel, back for Garrison for reassignment. But on Garrison, his troubles multiply. The senior Lyran officer brands the 26th Arcturan loyalists traitors and cashiers them, stranding nearly 200 former LCAF soldiers, technicians, and crewmen on a Lyran world with no way off-planet. Forced to scrounge up a way to survive, Ronan and Isobel hatch a plan to get the former LCAF members back to their homeworlds by salvaging ’Mechs. But when a Lyran scout battalion goes AWOL over an off-world mission squashed by their commanding officer, the LCAF is shocked to discover the Arcturan loyalists have built up the largest contingent of combat equipment outside the militia. Ronan’s people need cash. They have skills. And there’s history in his name… Thus, the Gray Death Legion is reborn. First as a way to get funds for his people to leave. But they fight the Lyran unit—winning by use of unorthodox tactics—and discover they don’t want to disband…instead, the reconstituted mercenary unit wants to find its next employer…

BattleTech: Let Slip the Dogs of War

BattleTech: Let Slip the Dogs of War
Author: Bryan Young
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2024-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

OUTNUMBERED AND ON THE RUN! As the Marian Hegemony works to expand its holdings and seize planets from the Free Worlds League, the Ghost Dogs—led by the redoubtable veteran Colonel Hank Mallory—have been hired to defend the world of Hammer. Outnumbered three to one against the superior forces of Legatus Quintus Liberalis, the Ghost Dogs will have to pull not one but four aces out of their sleeves to defend the capital and fulfill their contract without losing their lives…

BattleTech: Hour of the Wolf

BattleTech: Hour of the Wolf
Author: Blaine Lee Pardoe
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

MORE THAN A CENTURY IN THE MAKING… Since the Clan Invasion of 3050 ended in failure, there are those who have not forgotten Nicholas Kerensky’s ultimate goal: The conquering of Terra, and the rise of one Clan above all others…to become the ilClan, and rule over both the rest of the Clans and the Inner Sphere…regardless of what the Great Houses may say about it… THE BATTLE THAT WILL RESHAPE THE INNER SPHERE BEGINS… Now, in 3151, two Clans make the final jump into the shattered remains of the Republic of the Sphere. Their target: the cradle of humankind, and the ultimate symbol of the Inner Sphere…Terra. But Clans Jade Falcon and Wolf will face a powerful, tenacious enemy in the remaining forces of the Republic, led by their resurrected leader, Devlin Stone. The impending battle will engulf the entire planet, and when it is over, only one shall stand supreme...

The She Wolf

The She Wolf
Author: T. L. Needham
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1478737700

A Mind-Expanding Novella By Award-Winning Author T. L. Needham. A tale of a young man whose dog chases a wolf into the woods. As he pursues his beloved dog into the woods, he discovers a world beyond this realm and reality. INTRODUCTION: There is a time, just after sundown, when the full moon rises in direct opposition to the setting sun. A time before the sunlight surrenders to the darkness . . . and the full moon’s glow asserts it’s will against the dark . . . and the sky is no longer blue, but not yet black . . . and hovers in an electric glow of deep indigo. But only on the most rare of nights, the night of the Blue Moon, the Indigo Blue Moon. During this time, deep in the woods, there is a realm where we are no longer here . . . we are there. We can find ourselves in a space between day and night, between light and dark, between today and tomorrow . . . between this realm and another. And, perhaps in that time, and that place, we will come upon those who are not from here . . . but from there.

BattleTech: Rock of the Republic

BattleTech: Rock of the Republic
Author: Blaine Lee Pardoe
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

FAR FROM HOME… Exarch Devlin Stone, hero of the Word of Blake Jihad and architect of the Republic of the Sphere, has returned to Terra only to find his beloved nation under siege and in danger of breaking apart. As threats bear down on the Republic from all sides, Stone and his inner circle must move fast to bolster Terra’s defenses from all who seek to conquer the birthplace of humanity. However, not all of his allies have heeded Stone’s call to arms. Former Exarch Damien Redburn, who left Terra to defend the Republic’s borders from the rapacious Clan Wolf, was cut off when the walls of Fortress Republic rose. Without support or reinforcements, Redburn, the Fidelis, and Countess Tara Campbell’s Highlanders have held the line against the Wolves for years, but the never-ending campaign has pushed all of them to their breaking points. Is Stone’s return genuine, or a carefully crafted hoax? Can Redburn be brought back into the fold, or has he gone rogue for good? In the end, Stone, Redburn, and their allies must each decide their path before tensions can erupt in a clash that could shake the very foundation of the Republic.

BattleTech: Children of Kerensky

BattleTech: Children of Kerensky
Author: Blaine Lee Pardoe
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2020-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A RACE TO VICTORY… Terra. Birthplace of humankind. Cradle of the Inner Sphere. For centuries, it has been the Clans’ ultimate prize. As prophesied by their founder, Nicholas Kerensky, the Clan that conquers Terra shall ascend above all others to become the ilClan, ruler over the rest of the Clans. And its leader shall become the ilKhan, and will lead the Inner Sphere into a new era. And now, nearly a century after the Clan Invasion, two Clans race to be the first to reach Terra and the ultimate prize. On one side is Alaric Ward, Khan of Clan Wolf, a brilliant warrior and complex mix of the best of the Clans and the Inner Sphere. He comes to save the Inner Sphere from itself, intending to construct a new empire among the stars. His main adversary is Chingis Khan Malvina Hazen, the brutal, ruthless leader of Clan Jade Falcon. Forged in a tradition where only the strong survive, she leads her touman not to save the Inner Sphere, but to raze it to ashes and rebuild it according to her own twisted vision. All that stands between them and a decisive victory that will reshape the Inner Sphere forever is the impenetrable barrier shielding Terra from invasion, not to mention the forces of the once-mighty Republic, which has no plans to surrender without a vicious fight…the only question is, who will reach Terra first?

BattleTech: Embers of War

BattleTech: Embers of War
Author: Jason Schmetzer
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1942487231

ONE WAR ENDS...AND ANOTHER BEGINS... For Ezra Payne and the Stealthy Tiger mercenaries, professionalism is everything. Hired to assist in the bitter, bloody fighting on the planet Hall, they quickly earn a decisive victory for their employer. They settle afterward in for a needed period of rebuilding, and a few months’ peace before moving on to the next contract. But their respite does not last. More mercenaries, hired by the Allied Mercenary Command itself, land on Hall. They believe the Tigers’ employer to be league with the Word of Blake, a shadowy interstellar organization that worships technology, and which has been building its own empire among the worlds around Terra. The Tigers want nothing of this battle, but war rages across the Inner Sphere. The hard-fought cease-fire cannot last, even on Hall, and when every faction is embittered and fueled by fervor, peace has no chance at all. As a new conflict erupts, will the Stealthy Tigers’ BattleMechs be enough to save them? Or will the looming threat of renewed war engulf them in its fiery embrace?