TIES THAT BIND… Danai Liao-Centrella is many things: Solaris gladiator; proud military commander; successful diplomat. All of those roles pale beneath perhaps the heaviest responsibility of anyone in...

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH… Former hauptmann Ronan Carlyle and his sister Isobel are soldiers without a nation. After their commanding officer left the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces entirely, the pair...

DANGER AT EVERY TURN...It is 3072, and holy Jihad rages in the Inner Sphere. Soon after they launched their war in 3067, the mystical Word of Blake sprung out from their base on Terra and claimed dozens...

ALL OR NOTHING...It is 3071, and holy Jihad rages in the Inner Sphere. Safe on worlds claimed two decades earlier, Clan Jade Falcon watches its enemies tear themselves apart. But a new threat is bearing...

WHEN AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE...Since their appearance in the Inner Sphere in 3005, the mercenary regiments known as Wolf’s Dragoons have proven themselves the masters of the battlefield, the equal of any...

A UNIVERSE AT WAR...It is the year 3027, and the Inner Sphere is at war. Centuries of near-constant warfare have left the feudal realms exhausted and near collapse, but none will surrender. National armies...

BETWEEN HAMMER AND ANVIL...For Ezra Payne and the Stealthy Tiger mercenaries, professionalism is everything. Hired to assist in the bitter, bloody fighting on the planet Hall, they quickly earn a decisive...

STRENGTH VS. HONOR For more than a decade, the Republic of the Sphere's army hid in silence behind the mysterious, impregnable Wall of Fortress Republic. But now the Wall has come down, and Paladin Max...

PART FIVE OF THE ORIGINAL SHADOWRUN SIXTH WORLD EDITION NOVELLA SERIES!FIVE RUNNERS. ONE JOB. AND A WHOLE LOT OF TROUBLE...After being double-crossed by one of the largest megacorps in the Sixth World,...

THEIR MISSION: ACQUIRE BATTLEMECH PLANS, NO MATTER THE COST...The Spider Dances is the sixth of six BattleTech novellas detailing the struggle to create the next awesome weapon to rule the battlefield—the...

A PATH TO REVENGE...When the armies of the Draconis Combine killed his parents, Galen Cox swore vengeance. Now an elite MechWarrior with the Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth, Galen will have...

STORM CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON...The Inner Sphere is a realm of constant combat, as the Successor States to the mighty Star League vie for the ancient and conflicted First Lord's throne. Their ancient feuds...

BESEIGED ON ALL SIDES...It is 3071, and holy Jihad rages in the Inner Sphere. Safe on worlds claimed two decades earlier, Clan Jade Falcon watches its enemies tear themselves apart. But a new threat is...

ON THE HUNT AGAIN…It is the Dark Age—3139—and the famed mercenary regiments of Wolf's Dragoons have returned to the employ of House Kurita after a century of bitter enmity. Somehow, mercenaries and Kuritans...

OUT FOR BLOOD…Wolf's Dragoons, the most storied and elite mercenary unit in the Inner Sphere, has been utterly shattered for the first time in its centuries-long history.In 3151, most of the Dragoons...

TRADITIONS RUN DEEP… Other mercenary units fly flags at two flagpoles at their headquarters, one with their unit's flag, and other bearing the flag of their current employer. However, the Third Regimental...

A STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE… Former hauptmann Ronan Carlyle is a man without a nation. After his former commanding officer declared herself governor-general of a reborn Tamar Pact, Ronan, a loyal Steiner officer,...

CONTRACTS MAKE STRANGE ALLIES…For new mercenary groups just starting out, one of the primary rules is "Follow the money." Even when it's being paid by the same people who forced you to become a mercenary...

STRONGER THAN STEEL…In the samurai-steeped culture of the Draconis Combine, no concept holds more power and strength than honor. It can topple monarchs, defy warlords, even stop mighty BattleMechs in...

FIVE RUNNERS. ONE JOB.And a Whole Lot of Trouble...It should have been a simple walk in the corp. Stroll into a mid-level corporation disguised as a nameless mid-level manager in a suit, deliver an unknown...

A RELENTLESS, IMPLACABLE ENEMY...In 1990, Michael A. Stackpole's novel Lethal Heritage introduced readers to the Clans, genetically enhanced MechWarriors from beyond the Periphery who returned to the...

ALL OR NOTHING... On 1 May 3052, twenty-five Galaxies from seven Clans clashed with twelve armies of ComStar's Com Guards on the pastoral planet of Tukayyid. For twenty-one days, one of the largest campaigns...

THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE… In the 25th century, humankind is locked in a seemingly endless cycle of warfare as each of the Great Houses seeks to expand their holdings at the cost of the others. But in 2438,...

LOYALTY. VALOR. DESPAIR. JIHAD.A massive invasion fleet is destroyed almost to a man. Legions of soldiers, confident of victory, are cut down before they even reach the ground. Those that do make landfall...

REDEMPTION. RESISTANCE. RESOLVE.A young Davion MechWarrior seeks to repay a debt incurred by the misfortunes of the Fourth Succession War. A tightly-knit farming community bands together to repel vicious...

TRADITIONS RUN DEEP…Most mercenary units fly flags on two flagpoles at their headquarters: one with their unit's flag, and other bearing the flag of their current employer. However, the Third Regimental...

MAN AND MACHINE AT WAR IN THE 31ST CENTURY...A Star League Gunslinger fights against overwhelming odds during a rebellion. A dauntless warrior faces his most painful trial yet, far from home and all but...

COMBAT, HONOR, BETRAYAL, DEATHA man scrabbles to find the BattleMech that will make his fortune. A deadly tank gunner ponders the cost of his calling. An iconic battalion fights its last battle. And in...

WELCOME TO THE YEAR 2072… …And a world unlike anything you've ever imagined.A world where magic and machines exist side-by-side.Where cybernetics can replace organs or entire limbs with ease, and arcane...

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE! Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine surges onward, waging wars that will decide the fate of the BattleMech-dominated future of the 31st century and beyond! Follow a quest...