One Rabid Fox changes the Succession Wars [A Battletech Isekai]

[Bofors40mm]

Well methinks the dragoons are about to go get their naval cache early and hope everyone is too happy about having a counter to the RWR pretenders ships to ask too many questions

 

[Spectral Avatar]

If the clans even for a second seriously think there is an actual invasion by a revitalized RWR faction it will be war.


Not against the Inner Sphere…..yet.

They would probably cannonball thru the periphery to try and find/kill it first before turning their sights on everyone else.

 

[Bofors40mm]

Honestly depending on the circumstances and how Jamie phrases his report and to whom....could have clan wolf once again being clan plot armor and sending off a galaxy or 2 with the honor of dealing with the RWR stuff.

Also occurs to ms a HPG going offline doesn't have to be the result of a attack on it. Those things are pretty fickle due to limited parts production and people fully qualified to fix it running the thing non stop could have broken it down if it was scheduled for a overhaul sooner rather than later

 

[SChase]

I think this would be a great opportunity to mention collaboration of Kurita and Amaris. Even if it is just "concerning rumors".

 

[Imperator Pax]

I think this would be a great opportunity to mention collaboration of Kurita and Amaris. Even if it is just "concerning rumors".

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Yeah... especially since the RAC is about to have to fend off a Kuritan raid without much support since it coincides with the 19th attacking across the border and Robinson responding against them.

Because, well Sakhara is fully prepared to assume the worst, that the HPG station on Alpheratz has been destroyed that ComStar knows there are warships in play and that that news is going out, and overlooking the time it takes to actually distribute information so when that gets out, the immediate response after fighting it, is to call New Avalon, "Hey House Kurita showed up" with all implication.
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And now is as good of a time as any to mention the 'unified' campaign timeline where dates don't quite line up one to one here, since in Mountain its because they run off different outlines of the timeline which is closest to Ghost's Timeline of events.

 

[BlueRanger O-Doom]

That's…oh hell. If the Clans hear about this they'll send SOMETHING, if not a full invasion after this Amaris Pretender. On top of that this might only be the first wave of a full invasion, we just don't know yet.

 

[Imperator Pax]

Yeah in Rabid Fox proper the Clans contact with the Inner sphere in a public fashion starts much earlier than either Ghost or in Aurigan

like yes in both of those the Clans show up earlier than in canon but thats for obvious reasons or in Rabid FOx the clans as a whole have a much bigger drive to get involved in the Inner Sphere

 

[Omni]

It is a fanon clan mech, from the Fanon Clan Fox
https://www.clanfox.com/downloads

https://www.clanfox.com/product-page/rabid-fox-heavy-mecha

EDIT: That being said the Zorya is not only a canonical clan vehicle its already in production but only two of those were present at Halstead Station

on the other hand they were also in Hells Horses colors.

On the other other hand besides the Rabid Fox B configuration he also pilots a rifleman some times so unless the Dragoons show up or pay extra attention to the actual roms they probably wouldn't figure it out immediately

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Just thought you should know that these links are dead...

Any chance of a PDF in DM?

 

[Imperator Pax]

Yeah I'll try and get on that but it'll be a minute

 

[Spectral Avatar]

You know I just realized something amusing. Assuming the clans did invade the periphery in an attempt to find this new RWR the Great Houses likely wouldn't care.

After all, "SLDF invades the periphery" is just business as usual

 

[LamaofTrauma]

You know I just realized something amusing. Assuming the clans did invade the periphery in an attempt to find this new RWR the Great Houses likely wouldn't care.

After all, "SLDF invades the periphery" is just business as usual

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Come on man, the SLDF invading the periphery is actually pretty rare. It only happens on days ending in Y.

 

[IcarusAscending]

Isn't a naval battle really bad for the clans? They were still using star league warships right?

 

[Blasterbot]

Isn't a naval battle really bad for the clans? They were still using star league warships right?

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which is more than the great houses have. also more than what C* has stashed away.

 

[IcarusAscending]

which is more than the great houses have. also more than what C* has stashed away.

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Yeah but the problem is that the enemy might have experience in naval combat. Something no one has

 

[Bofors40mm]

Yeah but the problem is that the enemy might have experience in naval combat. Something no one has

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i mean the snow ravens for sure have the experience since they use simulated weapons fire for trials and training inside their clan's naval assets and I think everyone else does as well. Albeit proper live fire stuff between warships of opposing forces of other clans is pretty rare.

 

[IcarusAscending]

i mean the snow ravens for sure have the experience since they use simulated weapons fire for trials and training inside their clan's naval assets and I think everyone else does as well. Albeit proper live fire stuff between warships of opposing forces of other clans is pretty rare.

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I was on my phone before so I couldn't type much but these are my arguments:

- The neo-amaris are still producing ships (maybe) meaning they might have improved naval technology
- They might have actual naval experience... somehow
- they won't engage in mech on mech combat when they can do battleship on planet instead

Anyway, they might not have degenerated like the clans have. They might have active yards which can make ships. Simply put, this could be a Star League tier army with all the numbers that implies.

 

[Imperator Pax]

New Avalon

Henry had paced most of the time he had been able to... which was to say in the privacy of his own suite and the reality of the JumpShip circuit meant he hadn't had much time to do that given that transfer from JumpShip to JumpShip with each ready to make the next jump in sequence meant they had been in a hurry. It didn't matter that the news wasn't yet public... people weren't stupid, nobles and merchants alike realized that something was afoot... the problem was there wasn't enough information, they didn't know enough.

They knew enough to cause a panic, not enough to meaningfully plan what to do... and it was infuriating. They were going to be stuck waiting for more information, interstellar distances the limitations of jump drives, and the hpg network all came together to make courier travel the most reliable, but slowest method he felt he could trust. It was why he was going in person to New Avalon... or rather why he had come so quickly to the capital.

The ordinary expense of such a rush was offset by the circuit belonging to him... and the scope of the potential emergency... but that just infuriatingly fed back into they didn't know enough... and the ride over with Yvonne Davion didn't help matters. She'd been waiting at the star port... apparently it would have been unseemly for Hanse to be there waiting which had been the original plan... in so far as plans had been drawn up.

Henry still wanted to pace, but the sitting room was no place to do it... especially not in a room full of Field Marshals, and lesser generals. Most were from the Crucis March, or the Military Intelligence Commands, there was a smattering from the Draconis March, but Aaron Sandoval was noticeable in his absence which made the Duke of New Syrtis's presence, continued presence on the capital, all the more noticeable. It was the circumstances of the meeting not the company, these were or at least most of them would have been the officers who would likely have been present for BattleMech, Armor, and Air talks. In fact, most of them could have been assembled for that very reason when the news had broken... but why they had been here wasn't as important.

Ian Davion was wearing an uncharacteristically somber, bordering on gaunt, expression. The First Prince took a breath, "What is the worst case scenario?" There was a sudden commotion, and he scowled, "Henry what is the worst that we could be looking at?"

The room went silent.

Henry Clay took a breath realizing the weight of the room had shifted, "The worst case? A portion of the Rim World Army has had two hundred odd years to build up after having fled the Inner Sphere after the defeat of Amaris," Give or take some time, "Have an industrial base that never backslid may have even continued to produce Hegemony level technology, never lost the ability to construct warships," He paused, "We know they have warships, we should expect them to use..."

Silence reasserted itself.

"What are the chances of the combine collaborating?"

"Realistically?" Well he had no way to make an informed...to make anything better than a wild ass guess, "But I'd say low... but that doesn't make us friends with them."

"No it most certainly doesn't," Ian agreed sharpishly with a nod, "I'm giving you nuclear command authorization if an attack is mounted against Sakhara, its the only option we feasibly have against warships." He declared in sweeping gesture, "Find me other options if you can, but its the only one I can off you at this time. To reflect that, I am brevetting you to the rank of Colonel in the Armed Forces of the Federates Suns with special dispensation." Ian stopped, "Sorry, continue with what you were saying before I asked about the Kuritans probably not throwing in with Amaris for a second go round."

"That's the problem, the feasible worst case scenario is that its an RWA," A rim world army, "with Star League era numbers, I don't think the evidence supports that, but its the worse case scenario. If they left the Inner Sphere or at the time of the collapse of the league with several million people we could be looking at a population base of a billion without having sustained a major war in two centuries...total forces is potentially measured in divisions, something along the lines of what the Rim World brought against the SLDF... and probably with the same equipment"

Which in contemporary terms would mean a great deal since on the fringe of the periphery even a few hundred million people on a planet was a large population, and there were worlds were even a few battlemechs were enough to give the local militia hell... it was why BattleMechs were favored when you only needed one good pilot to make a difference on a small battlefield.

The Combine had been going around kicking the OWA whenever the fancy had struck them for centuries really, but sending as had become Takashi Kurita's MO sending a company of BattleMechs to run around and cause havoc... 'raid'... and having to consider the possibility of a warship getting to orbit and simply bombarding the planet like it was the age of war.... the carnage of the war against Amaris had entailed all the horrors which would be unleashed in the first succession war against the other great houses... the free use of strategic level firepower against unprotected cities.

"I understand," Ian replied, "I also understand that in addition to the business people you brought along a couple of the Dragoons with your retinue?" It was a comment, for it wasn't really a question, that caused the generals to start to stir again ,"We need the dragoons more than ever I think watch the border with the Combine, keep House Kurita on its toes I'll need you along for that Henry." More stirring, "We've got a lot to do, a lot of work to be done for everyone, this is the greatest threat in generations." Ian declared to the room of assembled officers loud though not shouting but the temporary address was the only bone to which Ian paid the other men. "You had said previously there is an Amaris pretender yes?"

"Yes, but my best guess was he had fled to the rimward periphery.... but as I mentioned before leaving Sakhara," And as he had told the Dragoons, it was very possible that there were other pretenders, "Stefan Amaris the third was a nephew not a direct descendant of the Usurper, from what I understand one of the other pretenders that popped up on the Lyran frontier a few decades later was a direct descendant or claimed to be but..." But he hadn't expected this, he thought given the distances involved the news coming in from the Rimward periphery were far far from him, and thus too far to be his primary concern.

A part of him worried about the miscalculation, but there was nothing he could have seen as doing any different... he had kept eye on news of the Rimward periphery, but there was nothing to suggest it had anything to do with this. Nothing at all, "Is there something else? "

"The dragoons,"

Ian waved slightly, "Yes, now Yvonne has told me that they've taken up with House Marik after their civil war, but I want to speak with Colonel Wolf sooner rather than later. More so now than ever, but even without this we have the proof that Kurita collaborated with Amaris."