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Forever Faithful

par Blaine Lee Pardoe

Séries: BattleTech Novel Reading Order (98), BattleTech (CAT35824)

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SEMPER FIDELIS In the year 3060, the reborn Star League has destroyed Clan Smoke Jaguar, conquered their home world Huntress, and scattered the few remaining Jaguar warriors to the winds. Now the League seeks to end the Clan invasion for good by using former Smoke Jaguars against their own people. Meanwhile, two bitter enemies seek to salvage a future for the last Jaguars in existence: Trent, who betrayed his wayward Clan to help them regain their honor, and Paul Moon, a disgraced warrior torn between his pledged loyalty to the Star League and a duty to the Smoke Jaguar civilization he was born to protect. But power-hungry predators lurk in Clan space, waiting for the right time to strike the vulnerable Star League forces. And to the victor will go the spoils: the priceless artifacts of a destroyed Clan and the sacred genetics of the final generation of Smoke Jaguar warriors. Trent and Paul Moon must fight tooth and nail against would-be conquerors to save the soul of the surviving Jaguar people before they are consigned to the annals of history. But will their divergent plans tear the survivors apart, or lead them toward freedom?… (plus d'informations)
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I really enjoyed Exodus Road (first Trent book) and how it kicked off Twilight of the Clans. I really think it was Pardoe at top form. So I was really looking forward to this book and getting a better send off to Trent and the original Clan Invasion era in general.

But the entire premise of Trent and Paul Moon's conflict gets more creepy the deeper you go. Pardoe seems to take it as a given that saving the "spirit" of the CSJ has a self-evident merit. It's not a subversive take, like a WOBie justifying his zealotry, but rather a real "heritage not hate" style of rhetoric that motivates the whole book.

Honestly, it's messed up the more you think about it and you don't even have to reduce the book to allegory yourself when Pardoe does it explicitly for you:

"This is part of the League’s problem. They do not understand that defacing or destroying a monument or destroying other ones does not change history. In fact, it often ends up reinforcing that history. Rewriting the history books to impose a new social order rarely works in the long term."


Yikes.

Pardoe has always had a troubling tendency to allude to and valourize "the Lost Cause" sentiment in his BT books (just look at the preface to the Archer Christifori book!). But this is gross coming from Catalyst in 2019. It's even more troubling that no one in Battletech's creative or editorial side was able to note and reel this in either. ( )
  Kavinay | Jan 2, 2023 |
Fun read. It is a character driven story, so there isn't alot plot wise or acton wise, but the characters are interesting to follow. I'm not well versed in the Battletech universe, having only read 5 or 6 books(but I keep current on the timeline every years or so) but I had no problem following the what's-what and who's-who, so kudos to the author!

The mech battle scenes were boring as usual(to me), but I hold no grudge to the author, it's difficult to make Mech battles interesting.(they are fun to play, boring to read)Thankfully, there were only 2 battles described in the book :P

The last few chapters were interesting too, since they give the impression that the Battletech storyline/timeline will once again move forward.

3.5 stars! ( )
  kinwolf | Feb 27, 2019 |
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SEMPER FIDELIS In the year 3060, the reborn Star League has destroyed Clan Smoke Jaguar, conquered their home world Huntress, and scattered the few remaining Jaguar warriors to the winds. Now the League seeks to end the Clan invasion for good by using former Smoke Jaguars against their own people. Meanwhile, two bitter enemies seek to salvage a future for the last Jaguars in existence: Trent, who betrayed his wayward Clan to help them regain their honor, and Paul Moon, a disgraced warrior torn between his pledged loyalty to the Star League and a duty to the Smoke Jaguar civilization he was born to protect. But power-hungry predators lurk in Clan space, waiting for the right time to strike the vulnerable Star League forces. And to the victor will go the spoils: the priceless artifacts of a destroyed Clan and the sacred genetics of the final generation of Smoke Jaguar warriors. Trent and Paul Moon must fight tooth and nail against would-be conquerors to save the soul of the surviving Jaguar people before they are consigned to the annals of history. But will their divergent plans tear the survivors apart, or lead them toward freedom?

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