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Balikçi and Schlüter are then transferred to Mahone with their unit aboard the ''Gazelle''-class DropShip ''Friedensengel'' ("''Angel of Peace''"), traveling via the uninhabited [[Orathon]] system. Just before their ''[[Merchant]]''-class [[JumpShip]] ''Almerya'' has finished the recharging process, a [[Draconis Combine]] vessel jumps in and deploys fighters. Balikçi volunteers to pilot a ''[[Spad]]'' aerospace fighter as a stand-in for its injured pilot. They narrowly manage to hold off the enemy fighters before they can destroy the ''Almerya'''s [[jump sail]], but Balikçi cannot return to the hangar in time when the ''Almerya'' prepares for emergency jump out of the combat zone. Hoping to ride shotgun, he moves his ''Spad'' very close to the JumpShip's drive coil and manages to be carried along in the jump, although the fighter is mauled the process and Balikçi suffers injuries. He and Schlüter become heroes aboard the ships, and Balikçi is treated in the medbay of the accompanying ''[[Intruder]]''-class DropShip ''Freiheitstaube'' ("''Dove of Freedom''").
 
Balikçi and Schlüter are then transferred to Mahone with their unit aboard the ''Gazelle''-class DropShip ''Friedensengel'' ("''Angel of Peace''"), traveling via the uninhabited [[Orathon]] system. Just before their ''[[Merchant]]''-class [[JumpShip]] ''Almerya'' has finished the recharging process, a [[Draconis Combine]] vessel jumps in and deploys fighters. Balikçi volunteers to pilot a ''[[Spad]]'' aerospace fighter as a stand-in for its injured pilot. They narrowly manage to hold off the enemy fighters before they can destroy the ''Almerya'''s [[jump sail]], but Balikçi cannot return to the hangar in time when the ''Almerya'' prepares for emergency jump out of the combat zone. Hoping to ride shotgun, he moves his ''Spad'' very close to the JumpShip's drive coil and manages to be carried along in the jump, although the fighter is mauled the process and Balikçi suffers injuries. He and Schlüter become heroes aboard the ships, and Balikçi is treated in the medbay of the accompanying ''[[Intruder]]''-class DropShip ''Freiheitstaube'' ("''Dove of Freedom''").
  
Meanwhile on Mahone, Sonnenschein takes up work in a news agency. She learns that Christian Delcord's son and heir was killed on [[Kessel]] in 2835 when [[Inferno (Missile)|Inferno]] missiles hit the cockpit of his 'Mech as he was ejecting. The Duke withdrew from the public for half a year before he was made Archonet by [[Archon]] [[Marcus Steiner]]. Apparently, Delcord has become ultra-reactionary and wants to go back to the "good old times" before the invention of the BattleMech. She also learns that Helmer Mackenzie, the disgruntled anchorman of the news network, has access to military intelligence files. She manages to recruit him for her mission, starting an affair with him on the sidelines.
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Meanwhile on Mahone, Sonnenschein takes up work in a news agency. She learns that Christian Delcord's son and heir was killed on [[Kessel]] in 2835 when [[Inferno]] missiles hit the cockpit of his 'Mech as he was ejecting. The Duke withdrew from the public for half a year before he was made Archonet by [[Archon]] [[Marcus Steiner]]. Apparently, Delcord has become ultra-reactionary and wants to go back to the "good old times" before the invention of the BattleMech. She also learns that Helmer Mackenzie, the disgruntled anchorman of the news network, has access to military intelligence files. She manages to recruit him for her mission, starting an affair with him on the sidelines.
  
 
Krause is contacted by Jim Fitzpatrick, another military intelligence officer. Fitzpatrick remained loyal to House Steiner when Mahone went independent and jumps at the opportunity to help Krause once he recognizes him: they had met eight years earlier on [[Tharkad]] during training. Fitzpatrick can provide complete security codes for the ducal residence on Mahone. They prepare to infiltrate the residence during an interview by Sonnenschein's employer with Archonet Delcord, but the plan fails when Mackenzie slips on a bar of soap mere days before the interview and is replaced by another interviewer who insists on bringing her own team instead. By coincidence, Sonnenschein finds out that a garden party is planned at the residence where Alec Rosin is invited. Pretending to prepare a news story, Krause and Sonnenschein convince Rosin to pass Sonnenschein as his niece and bring her to the party. She manages to disable the security system and approach a security door in the basement but has to return when her time runs out. She also feels that she was being followed. From her findings and his own knowledge, Mackenzie deducts that Delcord has created a laboratory in one of the ancient bunkers of the ducal residence. He also traces the Z-4 to a brilliant young scientist named Scott Uhden who was researching into BattleMech controls, but reportedly died of unknown causes in 2837.
 
Krause is contacted by Jim Fitzpatrick, another military intelligence officer. Fitzpatrick remained loyal to House Steiner when Mahone went independent and jumps at the opportunity to help Krause once he recognizes him: they had met eight years earlier on [[Tharkad]] during training. Fitzpatrick can provide complete security codes for the ducal residence on Mahone. They prepare to infiltrate the residence during an interview by Sonnenschein's employer with Archonet Delcord, but the plan fails when Mackenzie slips on a bar of soap mere days before the interview and is replaced by another interviewer who insists on bringing her own team instead. By coincidence, Sonnenschein finds out that a garden party is planned at the residence where Alec Rosin is invited. Pretending to prepare a news story, Krause and Sonnenschein convince Rosin to pass Sonnenschein as his niece and bring her to the party. She manages to disable the security system and approach a security door in the basement but has to return when her time runs out. She also feels that she was being followed. From her findings and his own knowledge, Mackenzie deducts that Delcord has created a laboratory in one of the ancient bunkers of the ducal residence. He also traces the Z-4 to a brilliant young scientist named Scott Uhden who was researching into BattleMech controls, but reportedly died of unknown causes in 2837.

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