Forms of Betrayal
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| Forms of Betrayal | |
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| Product information | |
| Type | Short story |
| Author | Randall N. Bills |
| Pages | 7 |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | BattleCorps |
| First published | 01 March 2005 |
| Content | |
| Era | Star League era (Age of War) |
| Timeline | 07 July 2425 |
| Series | Highlander Chronicles |
| Preceded by | Occum's Choice |
Forms of Betrayal, written by Randall N. Bills, is a short story published on BattleCorps as the fourth and last in a loosely grouped series known as the Highlander Chronicles.
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| “ | In this fourth installment of the HIGHLANDER CHRONICLES, Randall Bills takes a fresh look at one of the Northwind Highlanders' darker moments. A time when, pressed by treachery and disdain, at least one soldier chooses to strike out at the hand squeezing the life from his people, his comrades. | ” |
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A member of the Marion's Highlanders regiment of the Northwind Highlanders assassinates Chancellor Arden Baxter as he walks the streets of Capella Prime en route to a regular Thursday-night meeting at the House of Scions. A needler blast to the face ends the Confederation’s first experiment with a non-Liao Chancellor.
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The Intelligence Operations Handbook p. 70 clarifies that the mercenary assassin was a mentally unbalanced individual recruited by Maskirovka agents posing as radicals, due both to persistent loyalty to House Liao and to Baxter's perceived mistreatment of the Capellan spy agency.