Violent Inception

Violent Inception
Serialized novella by Russell Zimmerman
Publication
Published	12 June 2024 — 14 March 2025
Published in	Shrapnel Issue 17 Shrapnel Issue 18 Shrapnel Issue 19 Shrapnel Issue 20
Publisher	Catalyst Game Labs
Illustrator(s)	Marco Mazzoni Matt Plog
Pages	28 (part 1) 27 (part 2) 25 (part 3) 30 (part 4) 110 (total)
Chronology
Era	Succession Wars era Clan Invasion era
Timeline	10 August 3049 — 12 June 3050 (see notes)
Series
Mountain Wolf BattleMechs series
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Violent Inception is a serialized novella by Russell Zimmerman that was published in four consecutive parts in the seventeenth to twentieth issue of Shrapnel.

Featured Characters

• Major Rachel "Red" Fox
• Captain Almase Munene
• Leftenant Hannah Rippon-Hart
• Leftenant Thomas "Doc" Nolan
• Leftenant Yoshi Goodman
• Chief Technician Ash Kol
• Sergeant Ronayne "Brownpants" Esposito
• Corporal Shotaro Kanezaka
• Tomoko Oga
• Peter Burke
• Daveed Singh
• Hauptmann-Kommandant Archibald Frederick Uwe von Humboldt
• Duke Alexander Rippon-Hart
• Brandon O'Leary
• Dowager Duchess Olivia Rippon-Hart
• Star Captain Gabriel Furey
• Star Commander Monica Rippon
• Merchant Vanessa
• Cameron O'Leary (mentioned)
• Michael O'Leary (mentioned)
• Sebastian Rippon (mentioned)
• David Rippon (mentioned)
• Hauptmann Fatima Rippon-Hart (mentioned)
• Cassandra "Scarlet" Fox (mentioned)
• Tran Ky Bo (mentioned)
• Do-Hyun Adeoye (mentioned)
• Hauptmann General Gilda Felra (mentioned)
• Leftenant General Melissa Waverly (mentioned)
• ilKhan Leo Showers (mentioned)
• Point Commander Rita (mentioned)
• Natasha Kerensky (mentioned)
• Takashi Kurita (mentioned)
• Jaime Wolf (mentioned)

Featured Units

• Mountain Wolves
• Sixth Jaguar Dragoons Cluster
• Vendrellian Militia
• Alliance Grenadiers (mentioned)
• Alshain Regulars (mentioned)
• Concordat Commandos (mentioned)
• Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division (mentioned)
• Kell Hounds (mentioned)
• Third Lyran Regulars (mentioned)
• Twelfth Donegal Guards (mentioned)
• Twentieth Lyran Guards (mentioned)
• Twenty-fifth Arcturan Guards (mentioned)
• Wolf's Dragoons (mentioned)

Featured Places

• Engadin
• Last Frontier
• Nox
• Rock 32
• Solaris VII
• Vendrell
• Alpheratz (mentioned)
• Buena (mentioned)
• Dar-es-Salaam (mentioned)
• Hesperus (mentioned)
• Luthien (mentioned)
• Ryde (mentioned)
• Tarnby (mentioned)
• Turtle Bay (mentioned)

Featured BattleTech

BattleMechs

• ARC-2K Archer
• Dire Wolf
• Executioner
• DRG-1G Grand Dragon
• Locust
• MLN-1A Merlin
• Mist Lynx Prime
• SHD-2K Shadow Hawk
• Vindicator
• Warhammer
• Warhawk Prime
• Warhawk B
• Atlas (mentioned)
• BattleMaster (mentioned)
• Gargoyle (mentioned)
• Jenner (mentioned)
• Night Hawk (mentioned)
• Panther (mentioned)
• Stinger (mentioned)
• Wasp (mentioned)

Battle Armor

• Elemental (mentioned)

Vehicles

• Patton Tank (mentioned)
• Scorpion Light Tank (mentioned)
• Sherpa Mobile Canteen (mentioned)

DropShips

• Triumph-class troop carrier DropShip, Bonneville

Notes

• Parts 1 and 2 are both classified/labeled as Succession Wars era whereas parts 3 and 4 are both classified/labeled as Clan Invasion era. Hence, the full novella is correctly attributed to both eras.