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BattleTech Universe #93
To Ride the Chimera
Negligent leadership has left the Marik-Stewart Commonwealth on the brink of collapse. If something isn't done soon, its implosion will leave many worlds and many lives vulnerable to factions eager to conquer and exploit them...
A MechWarrior without peer, Thaddeus Marik has become the figurehead for a new community of planets attempting to resurrect the Free Worlds League. After defeating a Lyran invasion on the successful alliance with the Protectorate Coalition, Marik must now ally himself with Jessica Halas-Hughes if the new League is to have a chance.
Having Marik and his forces at her side gives Jessica much-needed credibility and greater influence on Oriente. But old hatreds die hard and soon erupt into a war against enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the founding of a new League...
A MechWarrior without peer, Thaddeus Marik has become the figurehead for a new community of planets attempting to resurrect the Free Worlds League. After defeating a Lyran invasion on the successful alliance with the Protectorate Coalition, Marik must now ally himself with Jessica Halas-Hughes if the new League is to have a chance.
Having Marik and his forces at her side gives Jessica much-needed credibility and greater influence on Oriente. But old hatreds die hard and soon erupt into a war against enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the founding of a new League...
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336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 5, 2008
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December 31, 2019
This is the thirtieth book in the Mech Warrior Dark Age series. This series is a continuation of the Battletech series. The books in this series, like the books in the original Battletech series, are by various authors. This one is by Kevin Killiany. The Republic of the Sphere has known a long period of peace and prosperity. Then the interstellar communications network a.k.a. the HPG net is destroyed by terrorists and many planets in the Republic find themselves cut off from the rest of the galaxy with communications taking weeks or even months. Unrest leads to several factions on several planets trying to overthrow the local governments and seize power for themselves.
In this one the battle to reunite the Free Worlds League has begun in full force. The biggest problem is that several factions think they should lead the reunited League and are fighting separate battles to obtain this goal. Jessica Halas-Hughes Marik has decided to align herself with Thaddeus Marik a former Paladin and now leader of the Covenant Worlds. She will make this alignment a success even if it means divorcing her husband, to marry Thaddeus, and tearing her family apart. This book is a great addition to this series with many Mech battles and many more plot twists.
In this one the battle to reunite the Free Worlds League has begun in full force. The biggest problem is that several factions think they should lead the reunited League and are fighting separate battles to obtain this goal. Jessica Halas-Hughes Marik has decided to align herself with Thaddeus Marik a former Paladin and now leader of the Covenant Worlds. She will make this alignment a success even if it means divorcing her husband, to marry Thaddeus, and tearing her family apart. This book is a great addition to this series with many Mech battles and many more plot twists.
December 5, 2022
Great story
Great story about the power politics and Machiavellian machinations of recreating the Free Worlds League with an interesting cast of characters .
Great story about the power politics and Machiavellian machinations of recreating the Free Worlds League with an interesting cast of characters .
October 23, 2024
It’s a book about trying to restore the Free Worlds League with machiavellian politics, which in my book puts it above most BT literature. Purple Bird Stronger!!!
September 27, 2022
WTH is happening to this once great
Series!!!!????
Absolutely unreadable. Pages and pages of useless plotting.
Listen, just start a new series, leave Classic Battletech alone, go away.
Even after Microsoft and Gates failed to destroy the series with the "Disarming and neutering" of the Great Activision game there was still hope.
The new overly wordy new authors are boring the series to death. Just go write a series about ridiculous lawyers or detectives that uncover 6 way criss cross of plots and counterparts. Exactly why you don't back write stories.
Series!!!!????
Absolutely unreadable. Pages and pages of useless plotting.
Listen, just start a new series, leave Classic Battletech alone, go away.
Even after Microsoft and Gates failed to destroy the series with the "Disarming and neutering" of the Great Activision game there was still hope.
The new overly wordy new authors are boring the series to death. Just go write a series about ridiculous lawyers or detectives that uncover 6 way criss cross of plots and counterparts. Exactly why you don't back write stories.
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