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The cache turns out to contain a [[Helm Memory Core|memory core]], plus very large amounts of mothballed military hardware, an invaluable treasure but worthless to the Legion in their current situation. Despite the useful transport system and repair facilities, the onslaught by an overall much larger force threatens to overwhelm the outnumbered and exhausted defenders. Anticipating defeat, Carlyle eventually orders King to make copies of the library core which he realizes is by far the most valuable content of the entire cache, and because the entire setup only makes sense if Precentor Rachan intends to suppress the find.
 
The cache turns out to contain a [[Helm Memory Core|memory core]], plus very large amounts of mothballed military hardware, an invaluable treasure but worthless to the Legion in their current situation. Despite the useful transport system and repair facilities, the onslaught by an overall much larger force threatens to overwhelm the outnumbered and exhausted defenders. Anticipating defeat, Carlyle eventually orders King to make copies of the library core which he realizes is by far the most valuable content of the entire cache, and because the entire setup only makes sense if Precentor Rachan intends to suppress the find.
  
Precentor Rachan has meanwhile seized overall command from the bumbling Duke of Irian. Together with a group of six [[ComStar]] adepts whom he intends to kill later, he wants to secure the memory core for himself and then destroy the facility and orders [[Colonel]] [[Julian Langsdorf (31st c.)|Julian Langsdorf]], the commander of the Marik ground forces, to break through the rock in the Vermillon valley even while King is still copying the library core in the room on the other side, with an infantry detachment to guard the entrance. Amidst a firefight, Rachan and King have a shouting match where Rachan all but admits to being behind the Tiantan massacre and intending to keep the library hidden from the public. King escapes with a copy of the memory core. One Adept Larabee from Rachan's entourage is shocked enough by the revelations to inform Langsdorf, an upright soldier who had misgivings about the mission all along. On Larabee's testimony Langsdorf arrests Duke Garth and General Kleider.
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Precentor Rachan has meanwhile seized overall command from the bumbling Duke of Irian. Together with a group of six [[ComStar]] adepts whom he intends to kill later, he wants to secure the memory core for himself and then destroy the facility and orders [[Colonel]] [[Julian Langsdorf]], the commander of the Marik ground forces, to break through the rock in the Vermillon valley even while King is still copying the library core in the room on the other side, with an infantry detachment to guard the entrance. Amidst a firefight, Rachan and King have a shouting match where Rachan all but admits to being behind the Tiantan massacre and intending to keep the library hidden from the public. King escapes with a copy of the memory core. One Adept Larabee from Rachan's entourage is shocked enough by the revelations to inform Langsdorf, an upright soldier who had misgivings about the mission all along. On Larabee's testimony Langsdorf arrests Duke Garth and General Kleider.
  
 
Blasting open the access doors to the cache has triggered an ancient safety mechanism that overloads the facility's huge reactor. Even as Langsdorf's forces are retreating and the Gray Death Legion is moving out with their own and Ricol's DropShips (to be carried on Ricol's [[JumpShip]]s), the entire facility self-destructs, killing Precentor Rachan in the process.
 
Blasting open the access doors to the cache has triggered an ancient safety mechanism that overloads the facility's huge reactor. Even as Langsdorf's forces are retreating and the Gray Death Legion is moving out with their own and Ricol's DropShips (to be carried on Ricol's [[JumpShip]]s), the entire facility self-destructs, killing Precentor Rachan in the process.
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* [[Hassid Ricol]]
 
* [[Hassid Ricol]]
 
* [[Jenton Moragen]]
 
* [[Jenton Moragen]]
* [[Julian Langsdorf (31st c.)|Julian Langsdorf]]
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* [[Julian Langsdorf]]
 
* [[Lori Kalmar]]
 
* [[Lori Kalmar]]
 
* [[Tracy Maxwell Kent]]
 
* [[Tracy Maxwell Kent]]
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== Featured BattleTech ==
 
== Featured BattleTech ==
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===BattleMechs===
 
===BattleMechs===
 
* ''[[Archer]]''
 
* ''[[Archer]]''
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* ''[[Wasp]]''
 
* ''[[Wasp]]''
 
* ''[[Wolverine]]''
 
* ''[[Wolverine]]''
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===Vehicles===
 
===Vehicles===
 
*[[Boomerang]] spotter plane
 
*[[Boomerang]] spotter plane
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===JumpShips===
 
===JumpShips===
* ''[[Merchant|Merchant]]''-class (''[[Invidious (Individual Merchant-class JumpShip)|Invidious]]'')
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* ''[[Merchant|Merchant]]''-class (''[[Invidious]]'')
 
* Unspecified class: ''[[Huntress (Individual JumpShip)|Huntress]]'', ''[[Mizar (Individual JumpShip)|Mizar]]'', ''[[Rapacious (Individual JumpShip)|Rapacious]]''
 
* Unspecified class: ''[[Huntress (Individual JumpShip)|Huntress]]'', ''[[Mizar (Individual JumpShip)|Mizar]]'', ''[[Rapacious (Individual JumpShip)|Rapacious]]''
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==Notes==
 
==Notes==
* No dates are provided in the novel, but the ''[[Gray Death Legion (scenario pack)|Gray Death Legion]]'' scenario pack established that the first battle with the Hammerstrike Company in the ruins of Durandel, immediately after landing on Helm, occurred on March 24 ("Thirst for Vengeance" scenario epigraph, p. 33 top header) and the final battles and the recovery of the memory core occurred on 1 April 3028 ("Betrayal at Helm" scenarios, p. 35 top header).
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*No dates are provided in the novel, but the ''[[Gray Death Legion (scenario pack)|Gray Death Legion]]'' scenario pack established that the first battle with the Hammerstrike Company in the ruins of Durandel, immediately after landing on Helm, occurred on March 24 ("Thirst for Vengeance" scenario epigraph, p. 33 top header) and the final battles and the recovery of the memory core occurred on 1 April 3028 ("Betrayal at Helm" scenarios, p. 35 top header).
* The Gray Death Legion being hired specifically to conduct aggressive campaigns into [[Capellan Confederation]] space demonstrates that the [[Concord of Kapteyn]], which had been signed for over five years, did not cause much of a détente between Houses Marik and Liao after all. The scenario pack notes (in the unit history section on p. 7) that the unit was hired to keep the Confederation off-balance, and for over one standard year enacted a series of hit-and-run strikes against communication centers, fleet depots, 'Mech assembly plants, mines and industrial worlds. The write-up for Grayson Carlyle notes on p. 9 that the offensive took place (or began) in 3026.
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*The Gray Death Legion being hired specifically to conduct aggressive campaigns into [[Capellan Confederation]] space demonstrates that the [[Concord of Kapteyn]], which had been signed for over five years, did not cause much of a détente between Houses Marik and Liao after all. The scenario pack notes (in the unit history section on p. 7) that the unit was hired to keep the Confederation off-balance, and for over one standard year enacted a series of hit-and-run strikes against communication centers, fleet depots, 'Mech assembly plants, mines and industrial worlds. The write-up for Grayson Carlyle notes on p. 9 that the offensive took place (or began) in 3026.
* While it is explicitly mentioned on pp. 17–18 that the ''Invidious'' and its two DropShips, "merchanters converted to troop transports", have become the Gray Death Legion's Transport Division, from this book onwards the Gray Death Legion's DropShips ''Phobos'' and ''Deimos'' are consistently described as ''[[Union]]''-class (pp. 29, 60, 78) whereas it had previously been established that they are refitted freighters outwardly resembling ''Union''-class vessels. (The original ''Phobos'' was confirmed to be a ''[[Danais]]''/''[[Trojan]]''-class vessel, strongly implying its sister ship ''Deimos'' was of the same class.) Both the ''Phobos'' and the ''Deimos'' are firing [[autocannons]] on p. 89, a weapon system not found on ''Danais''/''Trojan'' vessels but part of a ''Union'''s standard loadout. To explain this apparent inconsistency it can be assumed that two ''Union''-class DropShips also named ''Phobos'' and ''Deimos'' are serving with the Gray Death Legion as of the Sirius campaign in addition to the original refitted freighters (which are not deployed at Sirius, and may have remained at the staging point at [[Graham IV]]).
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*While it is explicitly mentioned on pp. 17-18 that the ''Invidious'' and its two DropShips, "merchanters converted to troop transports", have become the Gray Death Legion's Transport Division, from this book onwards the Gray Death Legion's DropShips ''Phobos'' and ''Deimos'' are consistently described as ''[[Union]]''-class (pp. 29, 60, 78) whereas it had previously been established that they are refitted freighters outwardly resembling ''Union''-class vessels. (The original ''Phobos'' was confirmed to be a ''[[Danais]]''/''[[Trojan]]''-class vessel, strongly implying its sister ship ''Deimos'' was of the same class.) Both the ''Phobos'' and the ''Deimos'' are firing [[autocannons]] on p. 89, a weapon system not found on ''Danais''/''Trojan'' vessels but part of a ''Union'''s standard loadout. To explain this apparent inconsistency it can be assumed that two ''Union''-class DropShips also named ''Phobos'' and ''Deimos'' are serving with the Gray Death Legion as of the Sirius campaign in addition to the original refitted freighters (which are not deployed at Sirius, and may have remained at the staging point at [[Graham IV]]).
* Both DropShips are mentioned to approach Helm with 4 Gs of thrust. However, neither the ''Danais/Trojan'' class nor the ''Union'' class can produce this much thrust. In fact, of all commonplace contemporary spheroid DropShips only the ''[[Seeker]]'' has this much thrust. The number is thus likely in error.
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*Both DropShips are mentioned to approach Helm with 4 Gs of thrust. However, neither the ''Danais/Trojan'' class nor the ''Union'' class can produce this much thrust. In fact, of all commonplace contemporary spheroid DropShips only the ''[[Seeker]]'' has this much thrust. The number is thus likely in error.
 
''See Also: [[Home is the Regiment]]''
 
''See Also: [[Home is the Regiment]]''
  
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===Japanese===
 
===Japanese===
A Japanese edition was published by 富士見書房 (Fujimi Shobo) in 1993 as two volumes: ''バトルテック. 5, 偽りの報酬'' (''Batorutekku. 5, Itsuwari no hōshū'') (ISBN 4829141735) <ref>WorldCat entry for [https://www.worldcat.org/title/673675325 ''バトルテック. 5, 偽りの報酬'']</ref> and ''バトルテック. 6, 栄光のグレイ・デス軍団''  
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A Japanese edition was published by 富士見書房 (Fujimi Shobo) in 1993 as two volumes: ''バトルテック. 5, 偽りの報酬'' (''Batorutekku. 5, Itsuwari no hōshū'')<ref>WorldCat entry for [https://www.worldcat.org/title/673675325 ''バトルテック. 5, 偽りの報酬'']</ref> and ''バトルテック. 6, 栄光のグレイ・デス軍団''  
(''Batorutekku. 6, Eikō no gureidesu gundan'') (ISBN 4829141743).<ref>WorldCat entry for [https://www.worldcat.org/title/674375413 ''バトルテック. 6, 栄光のグレイ・デス軍団'']</ref>
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(''Batorutekku. 6, Eikō no gureidesu gundan'').<ref>WorldCat entry for [https://www.worldcat.org/title/674375413 ''バトルテック. 6, 栄光のグレイ・デス軍団'']</ref>
  
 
===Russian===
 
===Russian===
A Russian edition, translated by Y. Chernyakhovskaya, was published by [[Армада]] (Armada) in 1995 as ''Цена славы'' (ISBN 5763201027). <ref> Science Fiction Lab Book description for [http://fantlab.ru/edition28084 Цена славы]</ref><ref> National Library of Russia description for [https://webservices.nlr.ru/util/?method=recordFormat&vid=07NLR_VU1&sysid=005412386&format=037&base=NLR01 Цена славы]</ref>  A reprint was published in 2002 (ISBN 5309003061) by [[Армада-пресс]] (Armada-Press) as part of a different series produced in collaboration with [[Дрофа]] (Drofa).  <ref> Science Fiction Lab Book description for [http://fantlab.ru/edition12513 Цена славы]</ref><ref> National Library of Russia description for [https://webservices.nlr.ru/util/?method=recordFormat&vid=07NLR_VU1&sysid=000253761&format=037&base=NLR01 Цена славы]</ref>  An additional edition, this time using a translation by A. Vetrova, was published by [[Hobby World]] in 2019 (ISBN 9785907170193). <ref> Science Fiction Lab Book description for [http://fantlab.ru/edition263668 Цена славы]</ref><ref> Hobby Games product page for [https://hobbygames.ru/battletech-cena-slavi Цена славы]</ref>
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A Russian edition, translated by Y. Chernyakhovskaya, was published by [[Армада]] (Armada) in 1995 as ''Цена славы'' (ISBN 5763201027). <ref> Science Fiction Lab Book description for [http://fantlab.ru/edition28084 Цена славы]</ref><ref> National Library of Russia description for [https://webservices.nlr.ru/util/?method=recordFormat&vid=07NLR_VU1&sysid=005412386&format=037&base=NLR01 Цена славы]</ref>  A reprint was published in 2002 (ISBN 5309003061) by [[Армада-пресс]] (Armada-Press) as part of a different series produced in collaboration with [[Дрофа]] (Drofa).  <ref> Science Fiction Lab Book description for [http://fantlab.ru/edition12513 Цена славы]</ref><ref> National Library of Russia description for [https://webservices.nlr.ru/util/?method=recordFormat&vid=07NLR_VU1&sysid=000253761&format=037&base=NLR01 Цена славы]</ref>
  
 
== Covers ==
 
== Covers ==
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Image:BattleTech Legenden 03 - Gray Death 3 - Der Preis des Ruhms.jpg|2017 German edition (reprint).
 
Image:BattleTech Legenden 03 - Gray Death 3 - Der Preis des Ruhms.jpg|2017 German edition (reprint).
 
Image:A dicsőség ára - A Szürke Halál Légió - 2006.jpg|2006 Hungarian edition.
 
Image:A dicsőség ára - A Szürke Halál Légió - 2006.jpg|2006 Hungarian edition.
Image:バトルテック 5.jpg|1993 Japanese edition, volume one.
 
Image:バトルテック 6.jpg|1993 Japanese edition, volume two.
 
 
Image:Цена славы.jpg|1995 Russian edition.
 
Image:Цена славы.jpg|1995 Russian edition.
 
Image:Цена славы-2002.jpg|2002 Russian edition (reprint).
 
Image:Цена славы-2002.jpg|2002 Russian edition (reprint).
Image:Цена славы-2019.jpg|2019 Russian edition.
 
 
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