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Future Shadows: Chapter 1

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Pirate Point
Kolovraty, Lyran Commonwealth
17 August 3039

The door to his quarters slid open with a faint hiss, and Garadun stepped inside with his cat carrier in his arms. After the door closed he set the carrier on the floor and opened it. His two kittens, Wasp and Stinger, hesitated for a moment and then slowly crept out, looking around and sniffing.
“It’s okay, sweeties, it’s our old room,” he said and reached down and stroked them. This eased their anxiety and they began exploring. Garadun glanced around the cabin and sighed. His luggage hadn’t been delivered yet, but he wasn’t in a rush. Plent

Future Shadows: Chapter 22

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Zenith Jump Point
Helm, Free Worlds League
1 October 3040

With shore leave over and Garadun’s match in the Factory behind them, Cera and Sayuki regretfully (and with no small amount of tears) said farewell to their families and the Fighting Fusiliers lifted off Solaris VII on the twenty-third of September. It took them a little over five days to reach the jump point where Distant Memory was waiting for them, and they were welcomed aboard by the crew.
Everyone was given a half-hour to settle in and relax, and then Captain Hamilton gave the order for Distant Memory to jump out of the system and begin her long journey to Gambilon.

Future Shadows: Chapter 23

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Nadir Jump Point
Olafsvik, Free Worlds League
31 October 3040

Travelling through the Free Worlds League presented new challenges for the Fusiliers; or at least for Alexandra and Captain Hamilton. Distant Memory was a Lyran JumpShip, and the Lyran Commonwealth and Free Worlds League had fought each other numerous times over the centuries. Relations were peaceful at the moment, but they were still travelling through foreign territory.
To make things even more complicated, the League itself was often in conflict with itself. There had been numerous rebellions and civil wars ever since its creation. When they left Solaris and crossed int

Future Shadows: Chapter 20

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Solaris City
Solaris VII, Lyran Commonwealth
12 September 3040

The Factory was an abandoned industrial complex that had been converted into a combat arena. There was general seating for up to thirty thousand people, which made the place very crowded and uncomfortable when full. The audience watched the matches on huge, high resolution holoscreens. The box seats could handle a further six thousand spectators who watched the Games on closed-circuit holovid, enjoying the privacy and comfort the boxes provided. Compared to other Solaris arenas the facilities were limited, but this hadn’t diminished the Factory’s popularity with th

Future Shadows: Chapter 16

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Nadir Jump Point
Gacrux, Lyran Commonwealth
14 August 3040

The garrison contract between Lady Adele Jansen, Countess of Gambilon, and Baroness Alexandra Grosvenor’s Fighting Fusiliers mercenary company, was worked out that night in Alexandra’s Suite and then ratified the following day by ComStar at the Hiring Hall. It was very straightforward. The Fusiliers were to protect Gambilon from all raiders for a period of one standard year, starting the day they touched down on the planet, with an option to renew.
Alexandra had negotiated sixty-five percent straight support for general maintenance, and fifteen percent for battle

Future Shadows: Chapter 15

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Galatean City
Galatea, Lyran Commonwealth
24 July 3040

One week later the Fighting Fusiliers swapped swimwear for evening wear and dress uniforms. Alexandra had received an invitation for her and her team to attend a party held at the Bellagio Galatea, another of Galatean City’s impressive luxury hotels on the main strip. The party was hosted by Lady Sophia Johansen, the Duchess of Sarpsborg, a wealthy Lyran noblewoman who was vacationing on Galatea. Her world was located in the Tamarind March only two jumps away from Solaris. She was a big fan of the Games and spent a lot of her time there. She enjoyed the company of MechWarriors,

Future Shadows: Chapter 12

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Harlech
Outreach, Federated Suns
22 June 3040

Colonel Jaime Wolf looked up as the door to the conference room opened with a bang, and everyone at the table watched as Colonel Natasha Kerensky crossed the floor to stand by her commander. Despite her sixty-seven years of age the leader of the infamous Black Widow Battalion was still beautiful, with an athletic and shapely figure which was clad in her trademark black leathers. A laser pistol was holstered on her curvaceous hip and there was a holodisk in her hand.
“Clear the room,” Natasha ordered.
“Colonel Kerensky, we’re in the middle of important business

Future Shadows: Chapter 11

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Galatean City
Galatea, Lyran Commonwealth
14 June 3040

It had taken over two months – sixty-seven days to be exact – to get from the desolate desert world in the Deep Periphery to Kolovraty, including the travel time to and from jump points. For Garadun it seemed even longer because it had taken three damn months to get out to that frozen dirtball in the first place, and the month or so they spent on planet getting the Overlord spaceworthy again hadn’t been much of a break. So by his reckoning he’d spent half a bloody year in deep space, most of it cooped up on either a JumpShip or DropShip. He’d been this cl

Future Shadows: Chapter 9

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Salvage Site
Unnamed Desert Planet, Deep Periphery
6 December 3039

The conference room aboard Shearling wasn’t as luxuriously appointed as the one on Distant Memory, nor were its holosystems nearly as advanced, but it was still a far cry above most everything else found in the Inner Sphere. Alexandra’s late father had wanted only the best for his new DropShip, and money had seen that he got it. Top quality technology was always available for those who could afford it, and the late Baron Grosvenor had been a firm believer in you get what you pay for.
Alexandra shared her father’s values, which explained why she spared

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Future Shadows: Coverby *DrOfDemonology

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©2013 *DrOfDemonology

This is the cover of Future Shadows, the second book in my BattleTech series. A simple and straightforward layout, but I think it works. The BattleMech is a Spartan, piloted by one of the lead characters, Garadun Morr.

Hope you like it

This is commissioned art by the incredibly talented Leonardo M. Giron ~s2ka who did a truly amazing job.

BattleTech is of course copyright by Catalyst Game Labs, although this story and all characters within, as well as the cover art, are copyright by me.

You can find all the chapters of the book here [link]

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~BattleHamsterReturns Feb 7, 2013

I do like the cover .

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*DrOfDemonology Feb 7, 2013 Professional Writer

Thanks very much!

I hope you give the story a try, too

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~BattleHamsterReturns Feb 8, 2013

I will .

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*Colourbrand Feb 1, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Now that is a cover!!! Excellent backdrop details too!

And nice to see a DIFFERENT MECH for once!

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*DrOfDemonology Feb 1, 2013 Professional Writer

Thanks, glad you like it! Yeah, the background is pretty damn awesome. Leonardo is a freaking genius artist (very worth watching)

Yes, the Spartan is definitely not a common 'Mech, that's for sure

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~Nuclear-Fridge Feb 1, 2013

Weird. I was looking at this 'Mech's details just this morning!

Good to see Garadun is going to get a worthy replacement for Igor. A Stinger felt just a bit flimsy...

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*DrOfDemonology Feb 1, 2013 Professional Writer

Well, when you're Disposessed, you take what you can get

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~The-Colonel-382 Jan 31, 2013

THIS IS A SPARTAN!!!!!!

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*DrOfDemonology Jan 31, 2013 Professional Writer

It is indeed

Thanks for the fave

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~The-Colonel-382 Jan 31, 2013

Hopefully it gave you a snicker.

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