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| pub_date = 27 November 2012<br />
| product = ''[[MechWarrior Online Legends]]''<br />
| type = Short story<br />
| publisher = [[Piranha Games Inc.]]<br />
| illustrations = [[Alex Iglesias]]<br />
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| era = [[Succession Wars era]]<br />
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| series = [[Hero 'Mech|MWO Hero 'Mech Lore series]]<br />
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'''''Upcoming Hero Mech: Ilya Muromets''''' is a short story published for [[MechWarrior Online]].<br />
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==Plot summary==<br />
The short story provides the background of mercenary [[Grigori Kovalenko]] and his personal BattleMech [[Ilya Muromets]].<br />
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==Canonicity==<br />
Although ''[[MechWarrior Online Legends]]'' as such does not fall under the current criteria for [[canon]], the fiction for the [[Hero 'Mech|Hero 'Mechs]] written by Randall N. Bills&mdash;who at the time was also the incumbent [[BattleTech Line Developer]] at [[Catalyst Game Labs]]&mdash;was expressly declared fully canonical. This ruling was however reversed in January 2025 by Bills' successor [[Ray Arrastia]]<ref name="LDR">[[:File:Hero Mech LD Ruling.png]] Ray Arrastia Line Developer Ruling, 29 January 2025, Sarna Discord</ref>, such that these short stories are not canonical, and can only be considered [[Apocryphal]]. <br />
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==Featured Characters==<br />
*[[Grigori Kovalenko]]<br />
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==Featured BattleTech==<br />
==='Mechs===<br />
*''[[Cataphract]]''<br />
*''[[Centurion (BattleMech)|Centurion]]''<br />
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== Featured planets ==<br />
*[[Hassad]]<br />
*[[Tikonov]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
* This apocryphal short story is posted on an archived copy of the MWO forums [https://web.archive.org/web/20210128090707/https://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/77941-upcoming-hero-mech-ilya-muromets/ here].<br />
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