| Title | : | BattleTech: Prometheus Unbound: The Proliferation Cycle #2 |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 66 |
| Publication | : | Published September 20, 2019 |
THE STRUGGLE FOR BATTLEMECH SUPREMACY CONTINUES...
Fifteen years after the Terran Hegemony first fielded the Mackie, the very first BattleMech, the Great House has been running rampant over the other Houses in the Inner Sphere. Any who try to fight the Terrans and their death machines are utterly defeated. but there are other ways to level the battlefield...
And the Lyran Commonwealth is about to employ one of the oldest strategies in the book: if you can't beat 'em, steal from 'em. A crack commando unit is assigned their most perilous mission yet: infiltrate a heavily-defended Terran world and steal the plans for the Terran BattleMechs. Besides the odds being stacked against the, the leader of this team has his own demon to deal with—one that stands twelve meters tall, and shakes the ground when it walks...
BattleTech: Prometheus Unbound: The Proliferation Cycle #2 Reviews
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Author Herbert A. Beas II brings us the second tale in the Battletech Proliferation Cycle with Prometheus Unbound. Fifteen years have passed since the Hermogy let lose their BattleMech the Mackie on the universe and now an infiltration team from the Lyran Commonwealth are sent in to get the deigns. During the mission they run into a Mackie but they have to high tale it back to their dust off point. Most of the team doesn't make, two of them do and it is those two who will even the odds for the Commonwealth. The one survivor Krikpatrick made sure to come out alive and tell his tale. I'm looking forward to the next chapter in this cycle. I highly recommend this novella to all science fiction Mech fans.
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This book focused on a more intriguing aspect to the early days of BattleMechs versus the first book in this Proliferation Cycle of novellas. And that was the fact that the BattleMech, or at least the Mackie, was first created by a particular faction. So how did the rest of the factions of the Inner Sphere get their hands on it?
This short story features one heck of a corporate espionage mission as these Lyran agents set about liberating the Terran Hegemony of their BattleTech research data in order to acquire the technology for themselves. And of course, this lets the proverbial genie out of the bottle - or in this case gives man FIRE. -
It’s interesting to read this and other stories from the early (pre-?) mech days. This and the previous story are fairly light, and short. They describe the action and try to draw you in but I only got halfway in. It’s good enough I’ll read the next story in the series but I’m not sure I’d enjoy full sized novels like this unless they developed more characters and background to support the action.
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13/20.
