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Line 1: − {{InfoBoxStory + {{moratorium|15 November 2020}} − | image = Shrapnel-Issue-2-cover.jpg + {{InfoBoxProduct − | name = + | name = Tales from the Cracked Canopy: Giving Up + | type = Short story | author = [[Jason Schmetzer]] | author = [[Jason Schmetzer]] − | pages = 9 + | development = − | type = [[Short Story]] + | primarywriting = − | product = Shrapnel Issue 2 + | pages = + | cover = + | interiorart = | illustrations = | illustrations = + | publisher = [[Catalyst Game Labs]] + | productioncode = + | year = 15 September 2020 + | ISBN10 = + | ISBN13 = + | MSRP = + | content = | era = | era = − | agency =+ | timeline = 17 September [[3083]] − | universedate =+ | series = − | timeline = 19 March [[3068]] - 17 September [[3083]] + | precededby = − | scrollable timeline = [[Start date::]][[End date::]]+ | followedby = − | series = [[Tales from the Cracked Canopy]] − | precededby = [[Blind Arrogance]] − | followedby = [[Tales from the Cracked Canopy: The Razor's Edge of Opportunity|The Razor's Edge of Opportunity]] }} }} Line 20:
Line 27: ==Plot summary== ==Plot summary== − Barman Leo recounts to an unnamed party his encounter a week previous with a old and tired man named Ham, who drank nothing but water and tapped a shard of metal constantly against the table at which he sat. When Leo attempted to move the man on, he corners the barman to unburden himself on the liberating power of giving up. Not of surrender, but of giving up on any hope of surviving a battle... − :On Outreach during the [[Word of Blake]] [[Jihad]], Ham is the last survivor of his scratch [[company]] and its struggle against a battered two-bit [[mercenary]] [[lance]] he'd taken to calling the "Fat Boys", led by a fifth member - a female Blakist in a pristine white ''Buccaneer''. Tried, alone and tortured by the loss of his companions, Ham opts to go down fighting, not caring if he dies as long as he takes the Robe in the ''Buccaneer'' down with him. Broadcasting his position, Ham waits in his ''Marauder'' at Hill 17A overlooking the obliterated [[Hiring Hall]] for the arrival of the "Fat Boys". − :Despite being outnumbered, Ham holds his own against four 'Mechs of the "Fat Boys" as he uses obvious tensions within the group to provoke them into rash action and lure their elusive CO into battle. Surrounded but uncaring as he takes increasing damage, Ham skilfully defeats the "Fat Boys" and inflicts heavy damage on his hated opponent. Closing to point-blank range as the Blakist pilot cripples his weaponry, Ham slams his destroyed [[Heavy PPC]]'s housing through the ''Buccaneer''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s damaged torso armor, breaching its engine shielding. Despite his willingness to sacrifice himself, without thought he pulls the ejection handle as the ''Buccaneer''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s engine explodes destroying both 'Mechs.+ ==Featured characters== − Ham relates to Leo his survival, being picked up during the [[Clan Wolf-in-Exile]] evacuation of Outreach, but that nobody was able to confirm the existence of the "Fat Boys" nor that he ultimately killed the ''Buccaneer''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s pilot. Still tormented decades later by not knowing if he got her after all, the haunted Ham abruptly leaves once his story is told, leaving a [[Stone (currency)|50 ''stone'']] tip along with the piece of metal he'd been constantly tapping - a metal child's ''Buccaneer'' toy - which Leo places up on the "Memory Wall". − − ==Featured characters== − * [[Ham]] − * [[Leopold Sullivan|Leo]] − * Arredondo (mentioned) − * Wang (mentioned) − * Penrod (mentioned) == Featured BattleTech == == Featured BattleTech == ===BattleMechs=== ===BattleMechs=== − * ''[[Blackjack (BattleMech)|Blackjack]]''+ − * ''[[Buccaneer (BattleMech)|Buccaneer]]''+ − * ''[[Enforcer]]''+ ===Aerospace Fighters=== − * ''[[Hunchback]]''+ − * ''[[Lineholder]]'' − * ''[[Marauder]]'' − * ''[[Spider]]'' − * ''[[Wraith]]'' (mentioned) == Featured planets == == Featured planets == − * [[Outreach]] * [[Solaris VII]] * [[Solaris VII]] [[Category:Short Stories]] [[Category:Short Stories]] [[Category:Works by Jason Schmetzer]] [[Category:Works by Jason Schmetzer]]
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