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Revision as of 15:05, 19 February 2010
Decision at Thunder Rift, by William H. Keith, Jr., is the first book of the Saga of the Gray Death Legion, and the first Battletech novel published.
Contents
From the back cover (1986 edition)
| “ | "Thirty meters tall, 70 tons of quick-striding death and destruction, the armored war machines called BattleMechs are the fighting arms of the crumbling star empire locked in the horror of the Succession Wars. Their pilots are MechWarriors, 31st-Century knights riding armored machines powerful enough to take a city apart."
Grayson Death Carlyle had been training to be a MechWarrior since he was 10 years old, but his graduation came sooner than expected. With his friends and family dead and his father's regiment destroyed, young Grayson finds himself stranded on a world turned hostile. And now he must learn the hardest lesson of all: it takes more than a BattleMech to make a MechWarrior... To claim the title of MechWarrior all he has to do is capture one of those giant killing machines by himself... If it doesn't kill him first. |
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From the back cover (1992 edition)
| “ | 30 years before the Clan invasion, the crumbling empires of the Inner Sphere were locked in the horror of the Third Succession War. The great Houses, whose territories spanned the stars, used BattleMechs to smash each other into rubble...
Grayson Death Carlyle had been training to be a MechWarrior since he was 10 years old, but his graduation came sooner than expected. With his friends and family dead and his father's regiment destroyed, young Grayson finds himself stranded on a world turned hostile. And now he must learn the hardest lesson of all: it takes more than a BattleMech to make a MechWarrior... To claim the title of MechWarrior all he has to do is capture one of those giant killing machines by himself... If it doesn't kill him first. |
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Summary
Formation of the Gray Death Legion from population of Trellwan, a planet near the periphery in the Lyran Commonwealth. Grayson's father and teachers are killed in an invasion by DC forces, made to look like an attack by the bandit king of Oberon. Grayson foils the plan eventually, and in the end leaves the planet with his new forces. 1st appearance of Duke Ricol.
Featured characters
Featured places
Featured BattleTech
Covers
Original 1986 cover. Art by Jim Holloway.
1992 reprint. Art by Bruce Jensen.
1999 German translation.
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