{"id":185,"date":"2024-04-13T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:20","slug":"wolfhound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Wolfhound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Originally posted to the CGL Battletech forum as a fanfic story seed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Casual familiarity and local recruiting had diluted Wolf&#8217;s Dragoons&#8217; exoticism by the time we as players first saw them in the 3020s, but when they burst upon the Inner Sphere in 3005, they were strange and foreign.&nbsp; Leaving aside their sheer strength and their equipment&#8217;s condition, the Dragoons themselves were mysterious and intriguing.&nbsp; Their accents and speech patterns were reminiscent of recordings of the vanished Star League (not even Clan Goliath Scorpion&#8217;s best linguists could completely prepare them to sound like Inner Sphere natives).&nbsp; Their attire, their hairstyles and personal grooming, their universally-superior physical condition, their foodways, their clear unfamiliarity with Inner Sphere conditions and customs&#8230; all of these factors, and more, troubled the Federated Suns&#8217; intelligence agencies but drew the attention of the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For their part, the Dragoons were part spies, part disaster tourists, and part social archaeologists.\u00a0 The Inner Sphere was not what they&#8217;d been briefed to expect.\u00a0 If they were to succeed in their mission, they had to learn to integrate &#8211; quickly, and at all levels of society.\u00a0 To this end, Colonel Wolf&#8217;s command staff and a select few <del>ristars<\/del> <em>ahem, rising stars<\/em> became fixtures of New Avalon&#8217;s court scene when not on mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Young, Bloodnamed, passionate, not yet hiding heartbreak behind her Black Widow persona&#8230; Natasha Kerensky was not immune to the grandeur and spectacle of the court.&nbsp; And First Prince Ian Davion was not immune to her legendary allure.&nbsp; Events proceeded as they often do in such circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 3009, as the mercenaries prepared to leave Federated Suns space for Capellan employ, Dragoon MedTechs implanted an anonymous embryo in an Iron Womb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted to the CGL Battletech forum as a fanfic story seed. Casual familiarity and local recruiting had diluted Wolf&#8217;s Dragoons&#8217; exoticism by the time we as players first saw them in the 3020s, but when they burst upon the Inner Sphere in 3005, they were strange and foreign.&nbsp; Leaving aside their sheer strength and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-btech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}