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Line 18: ==Notes== ==Notes== − *In the vessel's very first appearance in fiction in ''Highlander Gambit'', it combat-dropped its 'Mechs into the city of Tara on Northwind. This is told from the point-of-view of the character [[Loren Jaffray]] as he reads its name on the hull as "''The Bull Run''". This is the sole instance in the novel where the ship's name is mentioned, though it is expressly mentioned to be ''Overlord''-class.<br />The later novel by the same author, ''Impetus of War'', is set shortly afterwards in the timeline. It prominently features the ''Overlord''-class vessel ''Bull Run'' with the same unit, clearly intending to be the same vessel. Jaffray might simply have misread or misinterpreted the name on the hull (he was involved in active combat at the time). + *In the vessel's very first appearance in fiction in ''Highlander Gambit'', it combat-dropped its 'Mechs into the city of Tara on Northwind. This is told from the point-of-view of the character [[Loren Jaffray]] as he reads its name on the hull as "''The Bull Run''". This is the sole instance in the novel where the ship's name is mentioned, though it is expressly mentioned to be ''Overlord''-class. The later novel, ''Impetus of War'', is set shortly afterwards in the timeline, prominently features the ''Overlord''-class vessel ''Bull Run'' with the same unit, clearly intending to be the same vessel. Jaffray might simply have misread or misinterpreted the name on the hull (he was involved in active combat at the time). *In the "About the Author" section at the end of the novel ''Impetus of War'', author [[Blaine Pardoe]] mentions that he lives in Manassas, Virginia, just outside the Bull Run battlefields which thus seem to have inspired the ship's name in the novels. *In the "About the Author" section at the end of the novel ''Impetus of War'', author [[Blaine Pardoe]] mentions that he lives in Manassas, Virginia, just outside the Bull Run battlefields which thus seem to have inspired the ship's name in the novels.
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| − | *In the vessel's very first appearance in fiction in ''Highlander Gambit'', it combat-dropped its 'Mechs into the city of Tara on Northwind. This is told from the point-of-view of the character [[Loren Jaffray]] as he reads its name on the hull as "''The Bull Run''". This is the sole instance in the novel where the ship's name is mentioned, though it is expressly mentioned to be ''Overlord''-class. | + | *In the vessel's very first appearance in fiction in ''Highlander Gambit'', it combat-dropped its 'Mechs into the city of Tara on Northwind. This is told from the point-of-view of the character [[Loren Jaffray]] as he reads its name on the hull as "''The Bull Run''". This is the sole instance in the novel where the ship's name is mentioned, though it is expressly mentioned to be ''Overlord''-class. The later novel, ''Impetus of War'', is set shortly afterwards in the timeline, prominently features the ''Overlord''-class vessel ''Bull Run'' with the same unit, clearly intending to be the same vessel. Jaffray might simply have misread or misinterpreted the name on the hull (he was involved in active combat at the time). |
*In the "About the Author" section at the end of the novel ''Impetus of War'', author [[Blaine Pardoe]] mentions that he lives in Manassas, Virginia, just outside the Bull Run battlefields which thus seem to have inspired the ship's name in the novels. | *In the "About the Author" section at the end of the novel ''Impetus of War'', author [[Blaine Pardoe]] mentions that he lives in Manassas, Virginia, just outside the Bull Run battlefields which thus seem to have inspired the ship's name in the novels. | ||