Part 794: Let's Read Warrior: En Garde - Part 4
Lets Read Warrior: En Garde (part 4)Book 1
Chapter 7
New Avalon
Crucis March, Federated Suns
27 December 3026
This is odd, compositionally. I never noticed that Chapter 7 took place before chapters 5 and 6 before. Its not a bad choice, Im just used to thinking of the events of a Stackpole novel as linear. Anyway, theyre waking up Justin Allard. He was sedated for the trip to New Avalon, apparently (thats a long time to keep someone sedated; especially on a JumpShip). We also get treated to Justins hallucinations as he wakes up, but theyre pretty tame honestly.
Justin wakes up to bandages over his eyes and immediately worries that hes blind. He asks the doctor to remove the bandages protecting his vision since the drugs hes on cause pupil dilation. We then learn that Justin thinks in excessively military terms [quote: Any problem I can see, I can defeat.].
Justin then learns his arm has been lost and replaced with a
Book 1
Chapter 8
New Avalon
Crucis March, Federated Suns
8 January 3027
Politics! In most other series, this chapter would be boring or wouldnt fit. In BattleTech? Its par for the course, and fits perfectly.
This chapter also takes place before chapters 5 and 6, although were narrowing the gap. Were introduced to Quintus Allard and Hanse Davion. Quintus nods at a guard and then Hanse comments that he looks worried. We find out hes got a message from Duke Michael Hasek-Davion, and that Duke Michael has sent representatives to New Avalon. Representatives whom Quintus Allard has detained for routine medical checks.
Anyway, Duke Michael then calls Justin Allard a traitor and has assembled a mountain of circumstantial evidence to prove it. He then threatens to pull the Capellan March out of the Federated Suns if Justin isnt tried for treason because
Anyway, Hanse then seriously considers whether or not Justin actually is a traitor, and consults Quintus about it. Hed rather be certain than not, and Hanse is many things but a fool isnt one of them. Hanse then decides to use Michael against Max Liao, but we dont learn his evil plan just yet. Moustache twirl. They decide to feed Michael some slightly inaccurate troop data, to see how Max Liao deploys his defensive forces and see if there really is a leak in the Capellan March (spoiler: there is). Chapter over.