BattleTech: The Hand That Feeds

Book excerpt: TRADITIONS RUN DEEP… Other mercenary units fly flags at two flagpoles at their headquarters, one with their unit’s flag, and other bearing the flag of their current employer. However, the Third Regimental Combat Team—a.k.a. the Eridani Light Horse—leaves one flagpole bare, as a reminder of the death of the Star League, and the other pole flies the Light Horse’s unit and regimental flags at half-mast. What triumphs and tragedies shaped the Eridani Light Horse and its traditions? What drove them to become a force to be reckoned with, an elite mercenary unit with one of the longest histories and the deepest traditions in the Inner Sphere? Witness the unit’s origins in the Star League and follow their evolution all the way through the Succession Wars and the Clan Invasion to their downfall in the Dark Age and their resurrection in the uncertain future of the ilClan era. Part Four: The Hand That Feeds by Randall N. Bills: During the Third Succession War, the Eridani Light Horse undertakes a recon-in-force to the planet Benet for their new employer, House Davion. But when a Draconis Combine ambush threatens the entire operation, it is up to a group of brave Light Horsemen MechWarriors to cover the retreat…no matter the cost.