Ergebnis für "battletech" in Space Opera

Die interstellare Forscherin und freie Schatzsucherin Dr. Brooklyn Stevens hat den Fund ihres Lebens gemacht – einen ganzen Planeten, der seit Jahrhunderten als verschollen gilt. Dem Anschein nach wurde Jardine im Verlaufe der Nachfolgekriege von den Karten der Inneren Sphäre getilgt, doch die üppig bewaldete Welt, auf der sie zusammen mit ihrem Gefährten gerade abgestürzt ist, erzählt da eine ganz andere Geschichte. Ebenso wie deren Bewohner. Dr. Stevens und ihr Partner finden sich schon bald zwischen zwei verschiedenen Gruppen wieder.

A PACK DIVIDED… The Succession Wars... The Marik Civil War... The War of 3039... The Clan Invasion... Wolf's Dragoons were victorious in them all. For fifty years, the five mercenary regiments of Wolf's Dragoons have been the toughest MechWarriors in the Inner Sphere. Whatever the job...

Die unabhängige Erkunderin und Schatzsucherin Dr. Brooklyn Stevens verdankt ihre Karriere dem Auffinden verschwundener Artefakte aus der Historie der Inneren Sphäre, doch in den letzten Tagen des VerCom-Bürgerkrieges bietet ihr das Angebot einer wissenschaftlichen Organisation, welche als Interstellar Expeditions bekannt ist, die Gelegenheit, den Fund ihres Lebens zu machen: Ein vermisster Planet, der in den Wirren der brutalen Nachfolgekriege verlorengegangen ist.

A Draconis Combine warrior struggles with immoral orders in the First Succession War. A House Davion MechWarrior participates in a risky heist as part of Operation Guerrero. A history buff battles the Word of Blake during the Liberation of Terra. What do these MechWarriors have in common? Each one pilots the same BattleMech, a survivor that has been repaired and rebuilt countless times throughout its long and bloody 300-year lifespan.......BATTLEMECHS ARE NOT.

Im Jahr 2456 steckt das Reich der Vereinigten Sonnen in der Klemme, zwischen der Terranischen Hegemonie und den von ihr eingesetzten BattleMechs auf der einen Seite und dem Lyranischen Commonwealth, das gerade die Pläne zum Bau seiner eigenen wandelnden Kriegsmaschinen ergattert hat, auf der anderen. Nachdem er auf allen Seiten von Feinden umgeben ist, was soll Prinz Simon Davion tun? Nun ja, er setzt seine hinterhältigste Waffe ein – einen diplomatischen Gesandten, den er mit dem expliziten Auftrag nach Tharkad schickt, sich Zugang zu den gestohlenen BattleMech-Plänen zu verschaffen.

Leading the newly-formed Gray Death Legion has been challenging for Grayson Death Carlyle, so when a job comes their way, he’s only too happy to take it. The mission: train the local resistance on the planet Verthandi to resist their Draconis Combine masters. But things do not go well almost from the moment the Legion arrives. Trapped on Verthandi and facing a superior force and a fractured populace, the men and women of the Legion find themselves in a situation that makes the campaign on Trellwan look like a walk in the park.

Bushido is the warrior code that governs all these concepts. As a MechWarrior of the Draconis Combine, Minobu Tetsuhara is bound by it, a code that demands loyal service to the devious Warlord Grieg Samsonov. When Minobu came upon a strange blue and gold Archer, the field littered with its vanquished opponents, and its weapons empty, bushido dictated that he not destroy an honorable but helpless warrior. For that, he became Dispossessed, stripped of his BattleMech—and his honor.

Weggebrochen ist die erste von sechs Erzählungen, die von den Auseinandersetzungen bei der Entwicklung der nächsten gewaltigen Waffe handeln, die das Schlachtfeld beherrschen wird - dem BattleMech. In der Mitte des 25. Jahrhunderts bemühen sich die Fraktionen der Menschheit verzweifelt darum, den nächsten Technologiesprung in der Kriegsführung zu erfinden - eine Maschine, die jeder Gruppe einen ungeheuren Vorteil auf dem Schlachtfeld gewähren würde...

Jeremiah Rose and the Black Thorns, flush with their success against the Jade Falcons on Borghese, head to Harlech to draw a new assignment. Their only requirement: Their new job must let them face off against the Clans. They find more than they bargained for. Their assignment: Garrison duty on Wolcott—a Kurita planet deep in the heart of the Clan Smoke Jaguar occupation zone. Wolcott is besieged, but protected from further Clan aggression by the Clan code of honor.

Thirty meters tall, 70 tons of quick-striding death and destruction, the armored war machines called BattleMechs are the frontline 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.

The Gray Death Legion is in the employ of the Free Worlds League and has even been given a landhold on the planet Helm. But dark forces conspire against them, and the Legion soon finds themselves declared renegade war criminals, fair game for anyone to attack. Now, they are on the run on their home planet, trying desperately to reach safety before the might of House Marik falls upon them. They are about to discover the true motives of those who engineered their downfall. And what they discover will change the Inner Sphere forever....

DER KAMPF UM DIE VORHERRSCHAFT DER BATTLEMECHS GEHT WEITER. Fünfzehn Jahre, nachdem die Terranische Hegemonie erstmals den Mackie, den allerersten BattleMech zum Einsatz brachte, hat dieses Große Haus die anderen Häuser der Inneren Sphäre nach Belieben vor sich hergetrieben. Jeder, der den Versuch unternahm, gegen die Terraner und ihre Todesmaschinen anzugehen, wurde komplett besiegt. Doch es gibt andere Wege, das Schlachtenglück auszugleichen.

As the last Bloodnamed Warrior left in the former Jade Falcon Occupation Zone, newly-elected Khan Jiyi Chistu has ’Mechs, but no MechWarriors—making it impossible to rebuild his Clan after the disaster on Terra. Meanwhile, despite being riven by the Dominion-wide vote on whether to join the new Star League or not, Star Colonel Emilio Hall’s Ghost Bears have a planet full of talented sibkos ready to graduate.

The Clan War has ended in an uneasy peace. Sporadic Clan incursions into Inner Sphere territory supply mercenaries like the Kell Hounds with more work than they can handle... border raids sharply divide the Federated Commonwealth's political factions, bringing further instability to the realm standing between Clan's goals and anarchy. And while secret ambitions drive plans to rip the Commonwealth apart, Khan Phelan Ward and Prince Victor Davion—cousins, rulers, and enemies—must decide if maintaining the peace justifies the actions they will take to preserve it.

In the year 3060, the reborn Star League has destroyed Clan Smoke Jaguar, conquered their home world Huntress, and scattered the few remaining Jaguar warriors to the winds. Now the League seeks to end the Clan invasion for good by using former Smoke Jaguars against their own people.

The great Star League general, Aleksandr Kerensky. Colonel Archer Christifori, a man with a score to settle. Nelson Geist, on Christmas patrol. MechWarrior Joanna of Clan Jade Falcon. A Sandoval scion. An eleven-year-old girl. Northwind Highlanders. A prisoner of war. They all have two things in common: A universe torn apart by unending warfare. A mission to stand up against the darkness.

It is the Dark Age—3139—and the famed mercenary regiments of Wolf's Dragoons have returned to the employ of House Kurita after a century of bitter enmity. Somehow, mercenaries and Kuritans must find a way to work together in a combined invasion of the Dragon’s oldest enemy, House Davion. Thrust into the middle of this new conflict, Colonel Henry Kincaid is surprised by the commonalities—duty, honor, expediency—the Wolves and Combine forces share.

Theodore Kurita is the son of Takashi Kurita, and heir apparent to the Draconis Combine, one of the most powerful realms of the Inner Sphere. But the Draconis Combine has never been a place of smooth transitions. Historically, a Kurita proves himself a fit leader by a successful bid for power, political or...otherwise. Theodore's perilous journey to power is a twenty-year odyssey, beginning with his graduation from Sun Zhang Military Academy.

TO REFORGE A NATION… The once-mighty Federated Suns has been weakened by years of conflict on both sides of its border. Its proud capitol, New Avalon, has been held by its mortal enemies, the Draconis Combine, for years, forcing First Prince Julian Davion to rule his fractious nation on the run. But at long last, the time to liberate New Avalon from the Dragon is at hand.

100 million dead. 500 million wounded. One billion homeless. The worst war in human history is over—and has left the Star League shattered. Jealousy and infighting from the five Great House Lords over who will be the next First Lord has the entire Inner Sphere already teetering on the brink of all-out conflict again.