The Blood of Man
The Blood of Man | |||
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| Short story by Craig A. Reed, Jr. | |||
| Publication | |||
| Published | 22 December 2010 | ||
| Publisher | BattleCorps | ||
| Pages | 45 | ||
| Chronology | |||
| Era | Jihad era | ||
| Timeline | 13 August 3078 — 17 September 3078 | ||
| Series | |||
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The Blood of Man is a short story by Craig A. Reed, Jr. that was published online on BattleCorps on 22 December 2010. It is the fifth and final tie-in story published as part of the new release of Jihad Hot Spots: Terra.
Teaser Text
| “ | In our final Jihad Hot Spots: Terra-linked story, Craig Reed show us that the Jihad was one of those great conflicts, where one side was easily painted as evil and the other side painted as righteous. Even in such a tableau, of course, black and white are not so clearly cut... | ” |
Plot Summary
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Featured Characters
- Adept XXIII/Demi-Precentor Nigel Smyth, senior field commander of the five TerraSec task forces in the British Isles and spouse of Alicia Richmond
- Adept IX/Demi-Precentor Alicia Richmond, XO and commander of TerraSec's Beta task force in the British Isles and spouse of Nigel Smyth
- Adept V-Epsilon/Demi-Precentor Miranda Goodman, the persona of a Word of Blake ROM operative and commander of TerraSec's Epsilon task force
- Precentor XXI Graham Carswell, Head of TerraSec in the British Isles
- Adept VII/Demi-Precentor Gale Hoffman, commander of TerraSec's Gamma task force
- Adept VII/Demi-Precentor Don Bailey, commander of TerraSec's Delta task force
- General Alys Rousset-Marik, commander of Stone's Coalition forces in the British Isles
- Precentor Geryon, commander of the Fifty-first Shadow Division (mentioned)
- Devlin Stone (mentioned)
- Chief Notts, chief technician assigned to the TerraSec task forces
- "Dagget", hacker and trusted associate of Smyth and Richmond
- Precentor Yardly, an officer of the Word of Blake Militia
- Doc Vittner, a TerraSec doctor
Featured Units
- TerraSec
- Twelfth Atrean Dragoons
- ComStar Fifth Army
- Seventh Donegal Guards
- Devil's Brigade (mentioned)
- Second Division Word of Blake Militia (mentioned)
- Fifty-first Shadow Division (mentioned)
Featured Places
- Terra
- Tukayyid (mentioned)
- Campbelton (mentioned)
Featured BattleTech
BattleMechs
- Highlander
- Flashman
- BL-9-KNT Black Knight
- Orion
- Griffin
- Hermes II
- Spider
- Crab
- Shadow Hawk
- Crusader
- Champion
- Assassin
- Kintaro
- Thorn
- Trebuchet
- Lancelot
- Guillotine (mentioned)
- Uller (mentioned)
- Stalker (mentioned)
- Thunderbolt (mentioned)
- Archer (mentioned)