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My wife's grandmother passed away recently so the story will be on a little bit of a break while I figure out how I want to write this out. I am having trouble figuring out how to show Ian's last stand because it is important to Hanse and David and Thomas's...
Federated Suns Reforged
Chapter Twenty-Four - 3012
The Enemy Answers
January - What Strength Costs
The first argument of 3012 concerned a number that did not exist.
Personnel Command had one.
Training Command had another.
Logistics had three.
Finance had seven, although two of those were...
FEDERATED SUNS REFORGED
Chapter Twenty-Three - 3011
The Shape of Motion
Readthrough Revision 4
The first order Brigadier General David Davion received in 3011 was to go to sleep. He did not trust it. He was correct. The order arrived shortly after sunset on the first day of January and...
Chapter Twenty-Two
3010: The Shape of Strength
Strength had always been easier to count than to understand.
BattleMechs could be counted.
Regiments could be counted.
Factories could be counted.
DropShips, fighters, artillery pieces, tanks, tons of ammunition and graduates from military...
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
3009: THE LONG MEMORY
Federated Suns Reforged
The Federated Suns had spent twenty years trying to remember how to do ordinary things well.
Build a road before it was needed. Train the technician before the machine broke. Put the ammunition beside the unit before the first...
CHAPTER TWENTY
3008: THE LONG REACH
Federated Suns Reforged
A military could possess strength and still be unable to reach. That was one of the lessons the Federated Suns had spent nineteen years learning.
A BattleMech on New Avalon did not defend Crossing. An ammunition factory on Kathil did...
CHAPTER NINETEEN
3007: THE CASCADE
Federated Suns Reforged
A federation was not strengthened by owning more machines.
It was strengthened when the machines were where they were needed, when the people assigned to them knew what to do, when the ammunition arrived before the guns went silent...
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
3006: THE FEDERATION
Federated Suns Reforged
Chapter Eighteen - 3006: The Federation
A federation was easy to draw.
Lines around worlds.
Lines between worlds.
Lines dividing Marches, Combat Regions, Political Districts, military jurisdictions, noble holdings, customs...
Hello everyone I should be able to get the next chapter up in a few days. I just had surgery so am on some heavy meds. But I should be able to devote some more time to writing while recovering
Threadmarks: 3005 will be the last chapter for a while
Thank you everyone who encouraged me and contributed to this story. Right now im not good mentally so will be taking a break for a bit. Again thanks everyone. If you have any questions feel free to reach out here our discord. You can find me under docwade
Chapter Seventeen
3005: Plans Meet Reality
By the beginning of 3005, the Federated Suns had been reforming for fifteen years.
Long enough for emergency measures to become offices, for provisional depots to become infrastructure, and for officers who had once resisted Andrew Davion's...
I had to deep in the weeds because the only thing I ever found was Tsamma had a Capellan sympathetic government and Warrior House Ijori defeated the Dry River Devils on Tsamma because of Michael Hasek-Davion's political machinations
Book Sixteen
3004: A Year of Planning
A plan was a promise written in the future tense.
Ships would be assigned.
Regiments would be ready.
Supplies would arrive.
The enemy would behave.
The people would understand.
In 3003, the Federated Suns had learned how many different kinds of death...
Chapter Fifteen
3003: Never Break Faith
Trust was not praise.
Trust was weight deliberately placed.
A MechWarrior trusted the technician who signed a machine safe. A mercenary commander trusted the reinforcement timetable carried beneath a Federated Suns seal. A First Prince trusted that the...