"Victor Milan - BattleTech - Mechwarrior - Dark Age 10 - Flight of the Falcon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Milan Victor)

Electronic edition: August, 2004



For the splendiferous Sauer family: Eric, Jeannie, Frank
and, of course, Michelle.
Just because.

An Enlightened One is an arrow aimed at Hell.

тАФJapanese proverb




PART ONE Maskirovka
тАЬA means of securing the combat operations and daily activity of forces; a complex of measures
designed to mislead the enemy as to the presence and disposition of forces and various military objects,
their condition, combat readiness and operations and also the plans of the commander.тАЭ

тАФSoviet Military Encyclopaedia, Terra, 1978




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Lyran Commonwealth Chartered JumpShipFaust von Himmel

Approaching Zenith Jump Point outbound

Summit

LyranCommonwealth

4 March 3134

тАЬThree hundred minutes to jump.тАЭ

As the automated warning rang through the bridge of the Lyran Commonwealth-chartered merchant
JumpShipFaust von Himmel, the tall, almost spectrally lean black captain turned and nodded to his
short, square executive officer.
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тАЬGive the order to begin securing for transition,Herr S├бnchez. Alert all DropShips to prepare to
departSummit system in five hours.тАЭ

тАЬJawohl, Kapit├дnGr├╝nblum!тАЭ The exec gave him a salute like an ax blow, then turned to relay the