BattleTech Legends: Trial By Chaos by J. Steven York

Author:J. Steven York
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs

CHAPTER 10

FROM THE GREAT WORK OF GALAXY COMMANDER ISIS BEKKER:

I will never see Strana Mechty, where our Clan was born. That world was lost to us in the horror that was the Wars of Reaving.

This saddens me, not only that I will never see this place, but that none of our warriors will.

I cannot help but feel our Clan has lost something, something more important than land or territory, and I am not even sure what it is.

The life spans of warriors are traditionally short. It has been more than eighty years, almost two average warrior lifetimes, since the Ghost Bears abandoned their worlds in the Kerensky Cluster and moved nearly all their people and possessions to the Inner Sphere.

For the young warriors under my command, the time in the old Clan Homeworlds is ancient history.

Though we have struggled to maintain our traditions and ways, we are not the same people as the Ghost Bears who traveled back along the Exodus Road. I wonder if they would recognize us now, if they would look at us as our Clan brothers back in the Kerensky Cluster now look at us and wonder if we can still be of the same body.

As I see it, two great forces have reshaped us in those eighty-plus years. The first is that we have lived among non-Clan people all this time. The natives of the occupied worlds far outnumber our people, and though our Clan’s population has continued to grow, even our laborer caste remains a minority on the worlds we call our own.

We have struggled to keep ourselves above and apart, to maintain our rigid traditions and our warrior-bound honor.

But every day our young Clansmen see people around them who do not share their discipline and, more importantly, do not labor under their responsibility. It is not the way of the Clans to believe the quality of one’s life is measured in material possessions or in hedonistic pursuits, but these things are seductive, and we have been exposed to them for a very long time.

And along with those things comes a lifestyle of free— some would say lax—thinking and independent action.

In retrospect, it hardly seems surprising that many of the lower castes, especially the laborers, succumbed to those temptations. They did not have the benefit of a warrior’s rigorous training, the fellowship of the lifelong bonds of the sibko, or the release of the rituals and trials of blood. And it is also not surprising that we, as warriors, increasingly isolated from those other castes, did not see what was happening until it was too late.

But the warriors had their own problems, and their true crisis arrived in slightly more recent times. In the 3080s, the Republic of the Sphere was formed under the leadership of Devlin Stone. So shining was his vision for his new nation that many factions within our Clan began to believe he held the key to forming a new union that would be the rightful successor of the Star League.

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