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Falcon Rising (Battletech: Twilight of the Clans)

Series: Battletech: Twilight of the Clans
Volume: 8
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0451457382
Publisher: FASA
Price: $5.99
Reader Rating: Not rated

Falcon Rising by Robert Thurston

Description: As the Khans of the Clans gather on Strana Mechty to plan a new invasion of the Inner Sphere, Jade Falcon Khan Marthe Pryde strives to rebuild her Clan to its former glory. She bloods new warriors and wins others in trials from other Clans, but she cannot waste any fine warrior - even those who are freeborn. She gives a Trinary composed entirely of freeborns to a freeborn Star Captain and allows Diana, the freeborn daughter of a Jade Falcon hero, to compete for a bloodname.

The Khans of the Steel Vipers - long-standing rivals of the Falcons - use these radical moves against Marthe, attacking her in the Grand Council. In the midst of this war of intimidation, the Inner Sphere accomplishes the unthinkable - an invasion of Clan space. But even that cannot stop Marthe Pryde or the Steel Vipers as their repening conflict explodes into war...