By the Sword (2007)
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| By the Sword | |||
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| Short story by Jason Schmetzer | |||
| Publication | |||
| Published | 19 February 2007 | ||
| Publisher | BattleCorps | ||
| Pages | 17 | ||
| Chronology | |||
| Era | Jihad era | ||
| Timeline | 12 March 3068 — 15 March 3068 | ||
| Series | |||
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By the Sword is a short story by Jason Schmetzer that was first published online on BattleCorps on 19 February 2007 as the fifth installment of the Case White series. It was later republished in print in the fourth BattleCorps anthology Fire for Effect in 2013.
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| “ | Four years at the Sandhurst Military Academy have given Thomas Abbott a chance to shine. Top of his class, an able MechWarrior, and all without breaking a sweat. But when ComStar comes to Terra, Abbott realizes that not everything can be learned in a classroom— that that sometimes you can't just go by the book. That you need to go by the sword. | ” |
Plot Summary[edit]
As the ComStar fleet arrives in the Terran system and general alarm is sounded, a hooded figure who had visited Thomas Abbott's Advanced Tactics seminar orders Thomas to stay with him. The hooded man turns out to be Azrael and he takes Abbott along with the Fifty-first Shadow Division as they proceed to vanquish the attackers' 166th Com Guards Division in the Normandy, his shining white Watchman eerily standing out from the Shadow Division's colors.
The lessons to be learned by Abbott are those Azrael teaches him; but secretly, Abbott also understands that "even monsters fight for Blake".
Featured Characters[edit]
- Cadet Acolyte IV epsilon Thomas Abbott
- Precentor Azrael
- Precentor XIII Edward Revere
- Adept Stanislaus Branch
- Jaime Wolf (mentioned)
- Kai Allard-Liao (mentioned)
- Victor Steiner-Davion (mentioned)
- The Master (mentioned)