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Revision as of 18:31, 23 June 2011

The Spider Dances
Product information
Type Short story
Author Jason Schmetzer
Pages 70
Publication information
Publisher BattleCorps
First published 18 May 2011
Content
Era Star League era (Age of War)
Timeline 2466
Series Proliferation Cycle
Preceded by A Dish Served Cold
Followed by (none)

The Spider Dances (Proliferation, Part VI) (full title), by Jason Schmetzer, is the sixth and final story in the Proliferation Cycle and narrates how the Capellan Confederation first obtained BattleMech technology. It was released together with a BattleCorps Exclusive bonus, a Technical Readout for the Dragonfire aerospace fighter featured in the story.

The original sixth story, Machine Nations, was submitted by Loren Coleman but it fell through due to a factchecking problem and could not be salvaged. The story had already been announced as the final installment of the series and became one of the more prominent cases of BattleTech vaporware until it was replaced by The Spider Dances after six years.

Teaser text

Alone of the Great Houses, House Liao lacks BattleMech technology. The Maskirovka is willing to expend any sum--any asset--to secure the war machines for the Chancellor's armies.

Plot summary


Featured characters

  • Senior Technician Robert Esterhazy
  • Inspectorate (NIA) Colonel Parsifal Nehru
  • General Vocaine (section commander)
  • General Reginald Bangs (base commander)
  • Halle Ostend
  • Hector Little
  • Nicholas Drake
  • Sasha Feodoreyva
  • Ned Reyes
  • Fyodor Danilov
  • Edgar Tibbetts
  • Ssu-ma Kane
  • Quinn

Featured BattleTech

Featured planets