"Blaine Lee Pardoe - Battletech - Battlecorps - Betrayal Of Ideals Part 3" - читать интересную книгу автора (Pardoe Blaine Lee)

the fleet, but they had been easily overcome by programs written
by the Scientist Caste. Technology could never replace ingenuity.
This Fleet was the origins of the Clans. They had begun as the
Star League Defense Force under Nicholas KerenskyтАЩs father,
Aleksandr. For nearly two years they had traveled from known
space into the vast, uncharted periphery to arrive at the Pentagon
Worlds. Franklin had been just a boy then, following his family in
the SLDF. The ships of the mothball fleet were a distant memory.
This was like a chapter out of the bible for him, an epic story. These
ships had been homes for the families that now made up the Clans
under AleksandrтАЩs son, though these people were vastly different
than the original settlers that had come on the Exodus.
Franklin had come with a small team of ship experts. Their
mission was to ready a handful of ships per the orders of Khan
McEvedy. The work was proving easier than he had expected. The
maintenance on the vessels had not been shabby. They were in
good condition, ready for action on relatively short notice. Franklin
had picked out three transports and two of the larger battleships.
They would have to suffice. He had a team scouring the San Diego
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Boneyard as well on a similar mission. Combined with the ships
already in the much-reduced fleet of the Wolverines, he hoped
that they would fit Khan McEvedyтАЩs needs.
Whatever those needs were.
He had seen a glimpse of her plans, and had reviewed his
role in them. Even with what he had seen, he realized that the
scope of what she was contemplating was massive in scale.
When he had been sent to the ships, Franklin had suspected
that Khan McEvedy was planning some sort of a move with the
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Wolverines. Sarah McEvedy had been one of the founders of
Clan Wolverine, and had been like a mother not just to Franklin,
but to almost everyone in the Clan. She was not an arrogant
and aloof Warrior. McEvedy was a woman of the people. Time
and time again she had taken measures to protect her people,
and had brought the Wolverines to the pinnacle of Clan life. Her
name was spoken with the same reverence as that of Nicholas
Kerensky. From what Franklin knew, that could prove danger-
ous.
He floated across the bridge and looked out of the armored ferro-
glas window to the fleet hovering in space around him. Somewhere
out there, on the massive jump transport Rawhide, a crew was
readying the vessel for a jump out of system just as he was doing
aboard the Bismark. The same was happening with other ships,
star-jumping vessels that had been idle for a generation. I have