History Fanfic / Fragmentation

---> ''Janos'': Rumors that [=ComStar=] is experimenting with [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul drugs to pacify entire populations]], that [=ComStar=] intends to recreate the Terran Hegemony with itself as the ruling party, that it was responsible for [[MythologyGag that recent nasty pirate affair between the Lyrans and the Combine]], and, of course, the deeply disturbing slander that [=ComStar=] is [[CallForward conducting human experimentation to produce]] SuperSoldiers for the [=ComGuard=]. That the Primus intends to recreate the Star League with himself as the First Lord. And, of course, the usual age-old accusations that [=ComStar=] reads the mail we send that they might profit from private communications. Such base rumors about the [[BlatantLies noble couriers]] who carry our mail never seem to die. Human nature, I suppose.

---> '''Broker''': Seriously? The idiot had the audacity to try to molest a member of the Kurita family? [[LampshadeHanging I was aware Kneiss was stupid from your briefings, but I was under the impression the genetrash still had some basic survival instincts.]]
* TransHuman: The Kyphon dove straight into this, originally out of necessity to weed out genetic flaws due to their relatively low population and solar radiation, and only continued on from there.

** The Kyphon's philosophies contain shoutouts to UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} and UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}}, the former even lampshaded by an Executive Outcomes jumpship named the AynRand.

* OutsideContextHero: Executive Outcomes comes across as this to the various factions of the Inner Sphere due to them supposedly being a security firm, yet producing enough jumpships and military vehicles to sell across the entire Inner Sphere, as well as their unusual philosophies.

** The Kyphon's philosophies contain shoutouts to {{Objectivism}} and {{Discordianism}}, the former even lampshaded by an Executive Outcomes jumpship named the AynRand.

** One loudmouth once challenged procurement to make [[SchlockMercenary Ovalkwik]]. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He asked for it,]] [[GargleBlaster he got it.]]

* TransHuman: The Kyphon dove straight into this, originally out of necessity to weed out genetic flaws due to their relatively low population and solar radiation, and only continued on from there.

* [[OutsideContextVillain Outside Context Protagonist]]: Executive Outcomes comes across as this to the various factions of the Inner Sphere due to them supposedly being a security firm, yet producing enough jumpships and military vehicles to sell across the entire Inner Sphere, as well as their unusual philosophies.

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** Executive Outcomes creates a diversion for [=ComStar=] by attacking their [[SubspaceAnsible Hyperpulse Generators]] on several worlds in the guise of [[ThePrincessBride the Dread Pirate Roberts]], demanding [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the return of Princess Buttercup]].

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4639786/1/Fragmentation Fragmentation]] by Kickaha is a BattleTech fanfiction that starts during the Marik Civil War (circa 3014), wherein Cranston Snord of Snord's Irregulars gets an offer that sounds TooGoodToBeTrue, from a mysterious businessman who knows far too much about [[TheMole The Irregulars and Wolf's Dragoons]]. But Mr. Broker's motivations may fall in line with the Irregulars' and Dragoons' own mission against a common enemy to the entire Inner Sphere. And Broker's backers, Executive Outcomes, have some intentions that may make business very interesting very quickly.

Unlike many BattleTech stories, Fragmentation focuses more on the politics of the Inner Sphere than the warfare aspect, while doing a good job at keeping everything in character.