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Tales of the Jihad: the Last Day of Zeta

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Tales of the Jihad: The Last Day of Zeta
Short story by Jason Schmetzer
Publication
Published23 September 2006
PublisherBattleCorps
illustrator(s)Robert Atkinson
Pages19
Chronology
EraCivil War era
Timeline9 December 3067

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Tales of the Jihad: The Last Day of Zeta is a short story by Jason Schmetzer that was first published online on BattleCorps on 23 September 2006. It was later republished in print as The Last Day of Zeta in the third BattleCorps anthology Weapons Free in 2012.

Teaser Text

“ Zeta Battalion, Wolf's Dragoons (3000-3067). In the sixty-odd years since Zeta's first Inner Sphere deployment on Halloran V, only a handful of units had ever stood against the Battalion's full fury. On 9 December 3067 they issued their final test, to the Word of Blake forces on Mars. Colonel J. Elliot Jamison proudly led Zeta Battalion across the plains of Chryse Planitia in what ended up as the last day of Zeta Battalion... ”

Plot Summary

Told from the viewpoint of Major Tara Lucas, the story narrates how Wolf's Dragoons' famous Zeta Battalion is lost in the Allied Mercenary Command's ill-fated attack on Mars. Weakened from losses during planetfall and against hostile environmental conditions, strong enemy forces, and even orbital bombardment from enemy WarShips, Zeta Battalion nevertheless relentlessly and stubbornly continues the attack, knowing that they cannot turn back. In command after the death of Colonel J. Elliot Jamison, Tara Lucas rallies the troops for a last frontal assault.

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