Dragon of the Reach

Coronation Day

Disclaimers: I do not own Battletech.

A/N: I do not own Battletech

So here's the next chapter and we finally see some development between Nico and Kamea.

So I brought the official Battletech book for House Arano: The Aurigan Coalition and I have to say there is a lot of stuff that in here that changes everything. But seeing how I have already started I have decided that I'm going to keep going with what I have while using the book to change a couple of things.

Coronation Day

It was one of the top stories on every newsfeed within the Coromodir system that day along with the coronation and would no doubt be one of the top stories in all the rest of the Reach soon enough. Nico and Kamea standing in front of the Argo at the docking yards shaking hands and looking into the camera with the entire senior staff of the Dragon's Raiders standing behind the ace mechwarrior and Lord Madeira standing behind the future High Lady cheering and clapping.

Nico Strong, also known as "The Dragon of the Reach" and hero of the Aurigan Civil War agrees to Lady Kamea's proposal and accepts the position as Commander of the revived Aurigan Coalition Special Forces, granting him the rank of Colonel!

Joining him will be the entirety of the Dragon's Raiders mercenary group, with such figures as:

The rampaging beauty of the battlefield, Behemoth!

The genius tech pilot who is also a native Aurigan, Medusa!

The phoenix of the cockpit who has survived over a dozen seemingly fatal wounds only to rise again, Dekker!

And the geeky yet lovely and deadly angel, Glitch!

Lady Kamea Arano followed up with these words:

"I am extremely grateful to Nico Strong and his mercenary company, The Dragon's Raiders, for accepting my offer and honored to have them protecting the good citizens of the Aurigan Reach! With their experience and insight, we will weed out the remaining Directorate pockets of resistances and strengthen our borders to ensure a stable rebirth of the Coalition!"

Already reports are coming in from recruitment stations across the system as young men and women flock to their doors and enlist in order to help Lady Kamea fulfill her goal as well as having the honor of serving alongside the legendary mechpilot!

A noblewoman from a branch of House Maderia had this to say:

"I was a prisoner at the "Icebox" on Weldry due to not supporting the Main Branch decision of joining the Directorate. On the day of liberation, I witness the Dragon's mech be the first one to burst through the walls of the prison and watch in awe as he began wiping out the guards in his mech. At that moment, I knew that Lady Kamea was going to win the war if she had pilots like that on her side."

A former sergeant of the 2nd Decimis Fusilliers also added his statement describing his encounter with the "Dragon" during the defense of Panzyr:

"I was pretty bang-up from earlier engagements but I was still manning a gun mount in defense of the barracks me and my boys were held up in. We were ready to fight to the death but even I'll admit that when I saw that Taurian Griffin mech show up along with three APC, I almost shit my pants. But it seemed that destiny was on our side when the goddamn "Dragon" himself show up on the other side of the compound and laid into the entire detachment. It was all over in like a minute and afterward, he jumped right back down into the main battle. Truly a sight to witness."