The Killing Fields
by Loren Coleman
BattleTech: The Capellan Solution (book 2), BattleTech Novel Reading Order (46), BattleTech (DE) (46), BattleTech (CAT36020)
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With the hope of reuniting the renegade St. Ives Compact with his own Capellan Federation. Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao has gone to war for control of the Compact. But as months of battle turn to years of war, the growing list of the dead has begun to darken his brightest dream.Tags
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BattleTech: The Capellan Solution
2 works (book 2)
BattleTech Novel Reading Order
101 works (46)
BattleTech (DE)
62 works (46)
BattleTech
123 works (CAT36020)
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- Canonical title
- The Killing Fields
- Original title
- The Killing Fields
- Alternate titles
- Battletech: The Killing Fields
- Original publication date
- 1999-08
- People/Characters
- Sun-Tzu Liao; Candace Liao; Isis Marik; Aris Sung; Kali Liao; Talon Zahn (show all 79); Ion Rush; Kai Allard-Liao; Warner Doles; Romano Liao; Trisha Smithson (Zhong-shao Daqing); Cassandra Allard-Liao; Samuel Fang; Sun-Tzu; Maximilian Liao; Hanse Davion; Demona Aziz; Petyr Oravey; Tsen Shang; Marcus Baxter; Kuan-Yin Allard-Liao; Tormano Liao; Katherine Steiner-Davion; Ty Wu Non; Li Wynn; Maurice Fitzgerald; Cameron Long; Danielle Singh; Caroline Seng; Victor Steiner-Davion; George Hasek (31st c.); Simone Devon; Quintus Allard-Liao; Theodore Kurita; Aleisha Liao; Sasha Wanli; Thomas Marik (False); Sherryl Halas; Raven Clearwater; Richard Smith; Ni Tehn Dho; Daniel Evans; David Sherman; Tamas Rubinsky; Marko Rubinsky; Treyhang Liao; Confucius (Kung-fu-tzu); Jene Silvers; Justin Allard; Petyr Andreyvich; Jasmine Troy; Trahn Soo Lee; Leonid Perrin; Timothy Seiser; Naomi Centrella; Melissa Steiner-Davion; Arthur Steiner-Davion; Morgan Hasek-Davion; Ilsa Liao; Grover Shraplen; Jason James; Jahna Castillian; Amanda Gahn-Skeeng; Michael Hyung-Tsei; Nancy Bao Lee; Cameron St. Jamais; Mikhail Chess; Emma Centrella; Haakon Magnusson; Jeffrey Calderon; Sherman Maltin; Samuel Raymond; Lao Tzu; Jill McDaniels; Ehn Wa'Tíng; Torri Hughes; Darryl Burns; George Relant; Anya Trovich
- Important places
- Denbar (Xin Sheng Commonality, Capellan Confederation); Sian (Sian Commonality, Capellan Confederation); St. Loris (St. Ives Compact); Nashuar (St. Ives Compact); St. Ives (St. Ives Compact); Indicass (Xin Sheng Commonality, Capellan Confederation) (show all 48); Taga (Xin Sheng Commonality, Capellan Confederation); Ambergrist (St. Ives Compact); Tantara (St. Ives Compact); Brighton (Capellan Confederation); Teng (St. Ives Compact); Wei (Chaos March); Terra; Necromo (Capellan Confederation); Capella (Capellan Confederation); Tikonov (Federated Commonwealth); Solaris VII (Lyran Alliance); New Avalon (Federated Commonwealth); Rasalhague (Free Rasalhague Republic); Hustaing (Capellan Confederation); Sarna (Sarna Supremacy); Chesterton (Federated Commonwealth); Marlette (Federated Commonwealth); Second Try (Capellan Confederation); Styk (Capellan Confederation); Kaifeng (Capellan Confederation); Kentares IV (Federated Suns); Turtle Bay (Draconis Combine); Kittery (Federated Commonwealth); Atreus (Free Worlds League); Luthien (Draconis Combine); Spica (St. Ives Compact); Milos (Capellan Confederation); Victoria (Capellan Confederation); Menke (Capellan Confederation); Rollis (Capellan Confederation); Castrovia (Capellan Confederation); Texlos (St. Ives Compact); Warlock (St. Ives Compact); Canopus IV (Magistracy of Canopus); Donegal (Lyran Alliance); MacLeod's Land (Taurian Concordat); Detroit (New Colony Region); Larsha (Capellan Confederation); Zanzibar (Capellan Confederation); Outreach (Federated Commonwealth); Highspire (Capellan Confederation); Armaxa (St. Ives Compact)
- Important events
- Capellan-St. Ives War
- Epigraph
- Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.
—Sun-Tzu, The Art of War
If it is not possible to be victorious, what is left but to lose? Mankind has yet to see a war in which a draw did not demand a similar price as a defeat.
With these options laid before you, then, it is always better to be... (show all) on the attack.
—Sun-Tzu Liao, in a speech to the Sian War College, 21 February 3062, Sian
Your aim must be to take All-under-Heaven intact. Thus your troops are not worn out and your gains will be complete. This is the art of offensive strategy.
-Sun-Tzu, The Art of War
When it appears impossible to gain the military advantages once so easily apparent, a ruler must ask two hard questions of himself or forever be ill at ease. What is the goal? Is it worth the price that will be paid?
For m... (show all)yself, I sleep well at nights, able to answer both.
—Sun-Tzu Liao, journal entry, 8 October 3062, Sian - Dedication
- This book is dedicate to my editor at FASA, Donna Ippolito. For her patience and support.
- First words
- The blue-white arc of particle projection cannon fire snaked into the thick stand of trees and sliced low into a large elm.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The Capellan Confederation has returned.
- Publisher's editor
- Ippolito, Donna
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.5
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