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Stuff like this is why I love BT lore; it makes the universe feel far more real to have tales of ghost mechs and such the way there are tons of stories of haunted places and ghost ships IRL, even though they have quite literally no impact on the overarching story.
 
Packrat said:
Stuff like this is why I love BT lore; it makes the universe feel far more real to have tales of ghost mechs and such the way there are tons of stories of haunted places and ghost ships IRL, even though they have quite literally no impact on the overarching story.
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Just....don't mention the bird people else you'll get a rather aggressive response from part of the community...
 
Yankee Kitsune said:
Just....don't mention the bird people else you'll get a rather aggressive response from part of the community...
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The fact that they're indisputably canon and not just in-universe rumors and folk tales ruins the appeal for me. Incidentally, this is also why I find Clan Wolverine and the Minnesota Tribe far, far less interesting now that their story has been fleshed out.

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Didn't they toss that book out of the canon? Or was that just wishful thinking?
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Still fully canon, but it has been basically abandoned on its own little island, never to touch the rest of the setting or be revisited.
 
The book is 163 pages long. On page 164, an asteroid hits the planet and kills everything on the planet.
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There was much rejoicing
 
Terry Ford, the "luckiest MechWarrior alive", insisted that he must not allow anyone else to perform repairs on his 'Mech, a Charger called "Number Seven".
Ford was immensely lucky, surviving harrowing combat situations without as much as a scratch, but he wasn't a particularly skilled tech. In battle against Sorenson's Sabres the gyro locked and faceplanted Number Seven spectacularly, killing Terry Ford.
The Sabres salvaged the 'Mech but for them it was now cursed with no end of glitches and malfunctions, as if to prove Ford's superstitions right. It's implied they eventually got rid of it by "accidentally" jettisoning it from orbit.
 
Nothing on Sarna to cite it with, but in novel "Falcon Guard", Star Colonel Aidan Pryde piloted a "Cursed" Timber Wolf just previous and during Tukayyid after he lost his Summoner.
Horse, one of Aidans trusted pilots and friend ,despite his freeborn origins, had stated that several pilots had died while piloting the mech and though the Timber Wolf was continually repaired and returned to service, reports of strange glitches, anomalies and malfunctions would occur. In several instances while Aidan was in the cockpit, auxiliary systems would fail for no reason - then return to normal, data screens would flicker on and off, and he would feel rare, instant moments of instability as the mech walked under his command.

Many of the freeborn pilots felt it was cursed as Horse suggested, even Trueborn pilots avoided the mech without explanation.
I'll see if I cant go back and find pages from Falcon Guard that mentioned the mech and the "curse".
 
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There's a number of ghost 'Mechs, and a number of haunted 'Mechs. Other non-malevolent entries in the latter category would be "Thirteen" and the "Hikagemono", from Craig Reed's BattleCorps stories of the same name, respectively.
 
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The publisher of Games Unplugged, the magazine the above short story was to appear in, was arrested shortly before the issue, if it ever existed, was to ship for wire fraud. If any copies did exist they were seized as evidence. Presumably the author cannot republish the story.
 
kbs666 said:
The publisher of Games Unplugged, the magazine the above short story was to appear in, was arrested shortly before the issue, if it ever existed, was to ship for wire fraud. If any copies did exist they were seized as evidence. Presumably the author cannot republish the story.
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Now that makes an interesting oddity indeed.

Here is another one. Though not canon in any way, the voice of George Ledoux alone as he reads the piece makes it note-worthy. Those of you who are also from the MWO community may remember this from a couple years ago. For those who do not know George Ledoux, he is the voice actor who played Duncan Fisher in Meachwarrior 4 as the Solaris announcer. Which.... just as a side note... Duncan Fisher IS now canon to the universe.

Anyway, both links same piece:

https://soundcloud.com/cussingeorge/the-black-mad-cat-a-halloweenbattletech-treat

 
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