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That was epic. Colony dropping is a time honored tradition, and of course the story is battletech, so problems must be solved with battlemechs. Hmm, for some reason the-sietch didn't want to notify my that this story had updated here, so I randomly saw it on SB. I just want to say, Seras...

I think Blake lucked out with the timing of his message (not even counting the heart attack), which will result in a lot more Comstar joining his faction / Vicky than one would expect. Any of the Comstar loyalists who want to verify the message will start by looking at the most obvious thing...

Vicky shouldn't have read in Eris to the nanoforge until after her report. Not to keep a secret, but because that report would have been hilariously lacking in detail anyways. Vicky comes back from the dead like mech jesus, turns on god-mode cheat codes for all friendly mechs in the bay, magic...

All three are capital class anti-ship missiles, which can also shoot fighters. Barracudas are the little ones, White Sharks are the medium ones, and Killer Whales are the big ones. Sarna says that Barricudas are better at shooting fighter craft, but I don't see anything that actually waives...

Err, neither of those are mentioned in the chapter? Vicky launches Killer Whales, which are the big anti-fighter missiles.

I was curious how far out the guns should actually shoot. A naval Gauss reaches extreme range at ~50 (space) hexes, which is 900km (in space). The distance/acceleration equation is "d = ½at^2" where we know 900km is the normal extreme distance, and the max safe acceleration is 2g, (where g is...

Doesn't this particular defensive war severely impact the use of WMDs? Traditionally, I think nukes are used either assaulting (war crimes/1&2SW style) or on planets you don't care about. A major House led offensive wants to grab every planet within a jump, so there's plenty of less useful...

Vicky is a Lyrian, and she has infinite production and a device that makes scouting irrelevant. I wouldn't be surprised if her line mechs are all assaults, and her scout mechs are all assaults with jumpjets.

Everything is heating up. Thanks for the chapter @Seras Early on in the story, Vicky thought about how she couldn't reveal the PA technology, because it would kick off the war to end all wars. Wars of the era involve trying to capture territory and useful tech bases, because spending blood to...

It's clear that Vicky's contract is generous, but I wonder exactly how generous it is. If she's giving away LosTech mechs (or even non-LosTech) that seems like a big problem in the future. It's practically a recipe for piracy once the fighting is done and you have a lot of unemployed mercs...

Do any of the Houses accept not being king? Kurita doesn't. Marik just didn't. Liao doesn't. But even Steiner and Davion don't accept anything but being king. Katrina's 'Peace Proposal' ends up as a plan for her kid/grandkids on the throne in the end.

My background knowledge of battletech makes me take the FedCom as a single entity as a given. But actually at this time, they're not all that close yet. I bet there was some real interesting messages passing between Hanse and Katrina trying to figure out the Biggest Stick. Hanse sending...

I wonder how much Vicky is going to get trolled by eldritch abominations. Cameron would be a huge troll. But it could also just change her lineage to YES. ------- Ardan Sortek seemed to stumble into the room, holding a printout in one hand. "Victoria Eisen-Blume's genetic results came back...

I was thinking about how FedCom is going to respond to her, but I realized that they're still in the dark about what's going on. I wonder what they think Vicky actually is. Previously her luck could be attributed to a lucky lostech find. The Helm core and Colossii in triplicate stretched that...

I love it. I think the warship part was pretty expected, but that it'd be used to save Melissa came out of left field for me, but makes perfect sense. Melissa and Vicky's character dynamics together is maybe my favorite interactions in the story, so seeing more is great. Also looking...

If I were Vicky, the thing I'd want is space supremacy. This arc has been about building up defenses. That means either a warship or some drones. The warship template should be easier to get, but good luck manning them. She already has dropship manning shortages (exacerbated by the colossi)...

Yep. All those Combine, CapCon, FWL people are brainwashed into mindlessly thinking that their form of government is superior and deserves to rule the inner sphere. Lyrians are different. They are educated into knowing that their form of government is superior and deserves to rule the inner...

For some reason, I'm not getting alerts here when this story has updated for the last few days. Ty for the chapter. Also, I'm slightly wondering if somehow Isabella Nash managed to escape Phecda. The planetary garrison had to ship off some mechs now that they had shiny new Royals, so she...

I feel sorry for Governor Kagemuchi. In retrospect, he was obviously forced into this action by the Coordinator. The planet clearly didn't have the defenses to withstand even one colossus worth of stuff, which is why they went into 'oh shit' mode with 3 colossus and tried to kill them when...

I'm looking forward to when the real Planetary Annihilation numbers start showing up.