BattleTech: Dying Dignity:

Eridani Light Horse Chronicles #3

by Chris Hussey

TRADITIONS RUN DEEP…Other mercenary units fly flags at two flagpoles at their headquarters, one with their unit’s flag, and other bearing the flag of their current employer. However, the Third Regimental Combat Team—a.k.a. the Eridani Light Horse—leaves one flagpole bare, as a reminder of the death of the Star League, and the other pole flies the Light Horse’s unit and regimental flags at half-mast.What triumphs and tragedies shaped the Eridani Light Horse and its traditions? What drove them to become a force to be reckoned with, an elite mercenary unit with one of the longest histories and the deepest traditions in the Inner Sphere? Witness the unit’s origins in the Star League and follow their evolution all the way through the Succession Wars and the Clan Invasion to their downfall in the Dark Age and their resurrection in the uncertain future of the ilClan era.Part Dying Dignity by Chris For a raid into the Lyran Commonwealth, the Eridani Light Horse teams up with the Black Warriors, a band of former Star League troops much like the Light Horse. But something about this mission does not add up…

Genres: Science Fiction

60 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 3, 2021

Reviews

[Faith McClosky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent depiction of the post-Star League Inner Sphere

This is another solid piece of the unfolding Eridani Light Horse Chronicles. This time we see the ELH struggling to come to grips with the realities of the Inner Sphere now that the Star League is gone. The story does a good job of conveying the emotional turmoil of the main character as he tries to find his way in the new cutthroat world post SLDF, as the ELH are finding their identity and their ideals.

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book tries to explore more of the Eridani Light Horse's sense of honor and how they try to hold onto that and to some degree the original Star League ideals despite how they're not a mercenary company. It is also another chapter in their larger efforts of finding as home or at least a House that they can work with honorably.