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Tales of the Jihad: the Last Day of Zeta

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Tales of the Jihad: the Last Day of Zeta
Product information
Type Short story
Author Jason Schmetzer
Pages 19
Publication information
Publisher BattleCorps
First published 23 September 2006
Content
Era Civil War era
Jihad era
Timeline 9 December 3067

Tales of the Jihad: the Last Day of Zeta is a short story by Jason Schmetzer that was published online on BattleCorps on 19 September 2006. It narrates how Wolf's Dragoons' famous Zeta Battalion is lost in the ill-fated attack on Mars. This story was also published in the third BattleCorps anthology, Weapons Free.

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Zeta Battalion, Wolf's Dragoons (3000-3067). In the sixty-odd years since Zeta's first Inner Sphere deployment on Halloran V, only a handful of units had ever stood against the Battalion's full fury. On 9 December 3067 they issued their final test, to the Word of Blake forces on Mars. Colonel J. Elliot Jamison proudly led Zeta Battalion across the plains of Chryse Planitia in what ended up as the last day of Zeta Battalion...

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