In the early spring of 2900, a Fury class Dropship, trailing smoke and fire, dropped a single person into the Macachee Swamp on the FWL planet Hamilton, fully expecting said person to die on impact. Luckily for him, he didn't, and so began a quest t...
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Carlson's Cavaliers
{A Battle Tech Adventure Series}
Ever wonder where the Clans got their hands on genetics and eugenics programs? Why, they took it with them, so that the Inner Sphere wouldn't screw up the human genome like they screwed the pooch on everything else. But, one rogue scientist at ComStar is determined to bring about real change to the human condition, regardless of the cost.
Using information gleaned from files long thought lost to Kerensky's Exodus, she begins putting the pieces together. 200 children are birthed in the first wave of genetic experimentation, part of her "Diablo Project". It's 2883, and she's sure that even if the Great Houses found out what it was ComStar was doing out on a lonely Periphery world, they'd likely turn a blind eye, since no House wants an HPG Interdiction.
But find out is exactly what House Davion does, and quickly dispatches an RCT to find out just how far ComStar has gone.
Lightly defended by basically green troops of the newly minted ComGuards, the Davions overwhelm the defenders and capture a great portion of the research, copies mostly, along with all of the children, some still infants, but others as old as 3. These little ones bear no 'apparent' threat to anyone, and are quickly dispersed amongst families both in Federated Suns space, as well as the old Terran Hegemony.
One such family, headed by General Robert Austin Carlson, of Earth, and co-founder of the defense contractor 'Carlson Dynamics', is given a son by one of these MIIO agents. He is forewarned that his new child may have certain, 'attributes' and to watch over him carefully.
By his son's 16th year, Robert soon learns that his son isn't simply brilliant and gifted, but that he is a force to be reckoned with even at the dinner table.
This is his son's story. His name is Alex Carlson...
Chapter One: "You gotta start somewhere..."
Act-1: "With money comes Avarice...and a calling."
Collingswood Keep, Hamilton, FWL
12-June-2901
FWL Commander Benjamin Davies III looked out among the parade grounds as Mechs and Vehicles passed in review. His unit, the 3rd Hamilton Regulars, assigned to Hamilton now 65 long years, looked as spit & polished as ever.
Locals can't recall the last time their world was targeted by either a major House or by raiding mercs, apparently due to Commander Davies' reputation, or maybe just because they didn't have anything worth taking, unless you needed willing bodies. Then they had a lot to offer.
With a relatively large population on such a small world, (Hamilton is 6500mi in diameter) with 1.4 billion souls inhabiting, it really made neighbors rub elbows. But, everytime a call went out for young, glory-hungry youths to join the militia or the Regulars, the recruiting hall always seemed a lot emptier.
