HEROES OF ALL STRIPESShrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine celebrates bravery in all its forms on the triumphant, BattleMech-dominated battlefields of 31st century and beyond! Witness the birth of a new mercenary command in the late Third Succession War, follow a combat medic tackling a precarious injury, learn the true meaning of loyalty during the FedCom Civil War, and track down pirates on a forgotten world in the Periphery. Then don your neurohelmet and push back against the enemy with technical readouts, ghost ship sightings, in-depth technology articles, unit digests, playable scenarios, and more-all from BattleTech veterans and a squad of new authors: Jason SchmetzerHarper BrandFaith McCloskyGiles GammageCharles GideonDavid RaziMarc FollinJames LeeAaron CahallMichael J. CiaravellaMatthew CrossKen' HornerCraig A. Reed, Jr.Eric SalzmanJoel SteversonStephen Toropov