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[CDLord HHGD]

Sarna

Any Stackpole novel. I HIGHLY recommend the Warrior Trilogy and the Blood of Kerensky Trilogy. Just checked Amazon and they are available used.

For various other authors I recommend the Twilight of the Clans series.

Personally there isn't a BT novel that I don't like. Avoid the Dark Ages though (for now) as it's not pertinent to MWO.

[Nathan Foxbane]

Battletech. The extremely abridged version:

Humanity reaches the stars and eventually the Successor State houses we know today except the FRR begin to form along with the worlds centered around Terra being the Terran Hegemony. In 2439 the Terran Hegemony invents the Battlemech and it becomes the dominate force on the modern battlefield. Little more than 100 years later the Star League is formed in 2571 with the Hegemony dominating all else and a "Golden Age" begins. 2750 and Richard Cameron becomes First Lord of the Star League. He is incompetent and thus easily manipulated, then assassinated in 2766 a coup by his most trusted adviser, Stefan Amaris. The League's commanding general, Aleksander Kerensky lead the Star League's forces in a campaign to remove Amaris and the Golden Age came to an end in 2767 though the Star League itself did not officially dissolve until 2781. Kerensky called on his loyalists to leave the Inner Sphere and in 2784 Operation Exodus was launched, taking most of the surviving Star League Army and Navy with them. Thus began the Succession Wars where the various house lords vied to claim the title of First Lord and supremacy over the Inner Sphere. These four wars spanned a period of over 250 years and saw a rapid decline in technology. In 3028 the mercenary unit called the Gray Death Legion recovered the Helm Memory Core and managed to have it disseminated across the Inner Sphere leading to a technological revival and eventual restoration of all but the greatest technological achievements of the Star League. While this technology missed the Fourth Succession War, which also started in 3028 it cut its teeth as prototypes in the War of 3039. In 3034 the FRR was formed as part of a secret deal between Comstar and the Draconis Combine. Fifteen years after the formation of the FRR the first worlds in the periphery begin to lose contact with the rest of the Inner Sphere. The year is 3049, and the fires of war once again begin to burn in the Inner Sphere.

Edited by Nathan Foxbane, 26 September 2014 - 11:58 AM.