I strongly recommend you at least know the basics of Battletech and have seen Terra Nova before reading this fic, some events might be different and some names WILL be different to fit my story better but I will try my best NOT to piss off too many BT fans.
This is obviously a crossover so many of my OC's will be following the actual TN characters.

Disclaimer: I do not own either Terra Nova or Battletech and I don't own any of the characters except my own, and if anyone want to sue me….TOUGH LUCK I don't have any fortune anyway!
And I write this for my own pleasure and no gain what so ever.
So read, review and enjoy.
And a big thanks to doctor Anthony for letting me borrow his OC's , you can read about them in his stories among them the excellent "New beginnings and reunions" which I strongly recommend you read.

Panpour system Federated Commonwealth late 3047

The old jumpship had seen better days, but it was all they really could afford, so here it was in orbit
around the Federated Commonwealth world of Panpour,
Jim Shannon had been the in planetary police force, high ranking too until he had arrested a crime lord that had one too many family ties in the planetary government, after that Jim lost his job and his family had been harassed and his grandfather had been murdered, the old man had taken care of him and his brother Ben since their parents died in an accident when Jim was only little over ten years old and Ben had been an infant, And the fact that Jim and his wife had decided to have a third child had further complicated matters since though the population laws had been loosened the tradition was still to have few children preferably no more than two and they had been ostracized.

With them was Jim's old partner Kono Lao and over a thousand more families were now preparing the old ship for travel, most were of welsh origin but some of Indian origin(Elisabeth were Indian and Jim and Ben were welsh) all of them had been on the receiving end of the mafia for years some had even been former slaves of some criminal or another in brothels and illegal shops and farms, all of which Jim and Kono had liberated during their police raids until they drew the wrath of the crime lord Henry Radcliff.
His wife Elisabeth and himself had decided to leave the Federated Commonwealth all together for the Taurian Concordat, Jim had sent for his younger brother Ben who was a member of a mercenary unit the Crescent Hawks under Jason Youngblood.

"It's been months since we heard from Ben, maybe he got held up somewhere?" Elisabeth asked worriedly,

"Don't worry Liz in his last message he said they were only a few jumps away, and if I know HIM he will want to take his beloved Axman with him, which means he will have to take a large jumpship to get here" Jim said reassuringly,

They had thanks to inheritance from Elisabeth's parents mostly managed to purchase an Invader class jumpship; despite its name it was NOT considered a military vessel, the crew of the ship had thanks to the respect they had for Jim and his family had elected him captain and the ship had been named the Pilgrim, they had even managed to procure two old Confederate class dropships one of which they had named Hope and had loaded with a few workmechs and two battlemechs; Jim's Banshee a 95 ton assault mech that he inherited from his father and Kono's old Urbanmech, a 30 ton mech for as its name suggested urban warfare, the other one they had named Refuge had been designated for the refugees, and in one of the hangar bays on the Pilgrim a Tigress patrol craft and a couple outdated Sparrowhawk aerospace fighters rested.

Jim was looking at the treasure map left by his grandfather of an old Star League cache that his son Josh had mistakenly found in the now former Shannon house, and according to his grandfather before he was murdered a few months earlier, led to an old Star league cache,

"This is deep in the wilderness, it's no wonder anyone hasn't found it yet" Kono said apprehensively,

"We'll wait until Ben arrives, then we'll make a play for it," Jim said sternly, then patted Kono on the shoulder,

"I agree Jimmyboy he is the only experienced mechwarrior of us, not to mention he's been serving with one of the most famous merc commands in the known universe" Kono said approvingly,

Belaire system
26.15 light years from Panpour

Ben Shannon had been with the Crescent Hawks ever since he left mechwarrior training at age twenty and had been serving with the Hawks for ten years now, he had been recruited by none other than Jason Youngblood himself both since he had known Ben's Grandfather when HE was at the Pacifica training school, AND because of Ben's outstanding performance at piloting Medium mechs and Assault mechs like his Axman and in the war of 3039 Ben had received three separate decorations one of whom by the Archon Katrina Steiner herself, and had been promoted to Lieutenant.

Now Ben was on his way back home to his birthplace….to his family he hadn't seen them for almost seven years, the contents of the message still burned in his heart, his family had been threatened by some criminal and their grandfather Joshua had been murdered four months earlier, Ben had asked for resignation, Captain Youngblood had reluctantly accepted and had even offered to give him a ride there as the unit had business in that direction anyway, so he had sent a reply to Jim that he was coming home, actually he was furious and had even entertained the thought of invading the planet alone if he had to but had been calmed down by his friends in the unit,

"I wonder if Josh and Maddy even remember me and Zoe have never even met me. It has been seven years after all" he thought as he was staring out the porthole and down at the planet below they had been there for 6 days recharging the jump drive and resupplying, he heard foot steppes behind him and turned around to see Lieutenant Jen Pearce daughter of former member Rex Pearce and Captain Jason Youngblood smiling at him,

"Looking forward to see your family again hon?" Jen said as she came up to him,

"Is it THAT obvious?" Ben asked, Jason and Jen chuckled

"Hon you've been doing little else but moping around for months since ya got that message, though I DO understand your feelings about your old pops" Jen said

"Sad that it have to be under such circumstances Ben" Jason said with empathy in his voice,

Ben smiled at him, "Thanks sir thanks Jen, I'll miss the Hawks and I won't forget what you've done for me….all of you" he said,

"Your family needs you Ben, when it all comes down to it family is the most important thing in the universe" Jason replied and turned to check on the preparations, the jump drive was almost fully charged and they had already resupplied so they were ready to leave whenever the drive was ready,

A few hours later Jason's voice could be heard over the intercom,

"All hands this is the Captain prepare for hyperspace jump sequence" Ben sat down, hyperspace jumps were usually no problem but once in a while they could get somewhat turbulent, Ben remembered when he had experienced his first jump, he puked all over the com officer, he smirked at the memory,

"Jump sequence in 5….4….3….2….1" in a bright flash of light the massive ship blinked out of existence and was gone.

Panpour system high orbit

Jim and Kono had dinner with Jim's family in the galley of the Pilgrim, they had been supplying all they thought they would need for the series of jumps that would take them to the Hyades cluster, all they needed was to take a trip down to that cache and see what they could find, though Jim didn't have much hope of finding much but he wanted to wait until Ben arrived to maximize their chances of success if they should run into more of Radcliff's thugs, they were leisurely chatting or rather listening to Maddy as she rambled on about facts of the Taurian Concordat, understandably Maddy was excited to go there since the school system was far more advanced than in the inner Sphere in most cases when suddenly the intercom crackled to life,

"Captain Shannon, Lieutenant Lao, you are needed on the bridge there's a jump point opening in the system" Ensign Vaishnavi reported, Jim ran over to the intercom and punched the transmit button,

"We'll be right there" he said and turned to his family, "gotta go" he said and together with Kono ran for the bridge.

At the jump point a bright flash signaled the arrival of a jumpship, and the Crescent Talon belonging to the Crescent Hawks appeared as the typical lightshow abated,

"Welcome to the Panpour system, or should I say welcome home in your case Lieutenant Shannon" Lieutenant Pearce proclaimed,

As the ship neared the planet Ben could see another ship in high orbit he walked up to the communications console and tapped a few buttons,

"Sir the ship is identified as the Pilgrim; it's my family's ship" he said to Jason,

On the bridge of the Pilgrim Jim received the identification signal as the Crescent Talon broadcasted a haling frequency, Jim hit the com unit and stared as the screen lazily came to life,

"Told you we should have demanded a tour of the ship BEFORE we agreed to pay that extortionist price" Kono blurted out annoyed,

"BZZZZ….you read?" all the screen showed was static until Jim punched the console and it finally cleared up, the technician in charge of it glared at him,

"I repeat civilian vessel Pilgrim, DO you read? This is the Crescent Talon of the Crescent Hawks" a woman with green hair asked,

"This is Captain Jim Shannon, of the Pilgrim receiving you loud and ….almost clear" Jim answered

"Finally we almost started to think you were a derelict, this is Lieutenant Jen Pearce of the Crescent Hawks, and I've got someone that wish to talk to ya" the woman said haughtily and moved away from the screen and a face Jim hadn't seen in seven long years showed up,

"Jim is that what you call a ship?" was the first thing Ben said, which made Jim chuckle

"I've missed you too little brother, looks like you came in style" Jim answered

"Could you come over?" he continued

"Sure thing we're already preparing to move my things over" Ben answered

After about an hour when Ben's possessions including his battlemech had been brought over,
Ben stepped out of the airlock connecting the two jumpships as they were docked together, he was accosted by his brother and sister in law as well as Kono, who almost crushed him in a group hug,

Maddy, Josh and Zoe was walking towards the airlock with Maddy and Zoe almost running Josh was still angry with their father for screwing things up and getting fired so they would have to leave, even though he was glad his girlfriend Kara and her family were going with them which soothed things over significantly, Maddy had been only eight years old last time she saw her Uncle Ben and was happy they would all be together now and Zoe had only heard of him and seen some pictures and holo-vids of him and was anxious to see him,

When they got to the airlock that linked their ship to the other one they saw a man in a jump suit designed for mechwarriors with some unit insignia of a hawks head and officers insignias on the shoulders,

"UNCLE BEN!" Maddy squealed and ran for him, as he turned around and smiled at her as she ran right into him and tried crushing him in a hug,

"Easy there girl" Ben said perplexed and smiling then he took a look at her

"Wait a minute or two, THIS can't be little Maddy who played with dolls last time I saw her?" Ben said with a wide smile,

"And if she gets any prettier she'll be dangerous!" he stated, which made Maddy blush and giggle, Ben then turned to Zoe and kneeled down to her level as she stared at him apprehensively,

"Are you my Uncle Ben?" she asked timidly,

"I suppose I am" Ben answered smiling at her, he didn't want to push too fast and decided she would have to get used to him, he rose to look at Josh,

"I'm guessing a hug for your old Uncle is out off the question for a guy your age?" Ben asked and smirked,

"You guessed right Uncle Ben" Josh said trying to sound cool,

"How about a man hug then?" Ben asked playing along with the notion that had stalked the male half of humanity for thousands of years,

Josh gave him a quick hug and backed away as Kara also came forward to greet Ben in a less awkward manner,

"So folks why don't we get this thing ready for jump so we can leave this dump?" Ben asked after all the questions and heartfelt greetings,

"Come with us, we need to show you something that May be of importance" Jim said and gestured for Ben and Kono to join him Elisabeth and Josh followed too while Maddy went to put Zoe to sleep,

"Always the dutiful girl, hope that doesn't haunt her later in life" Ben thought as Maddy led Zoe away to her family's quarters.

Later in the officers lounge, it wasn't too shabby, they were all sitting around the small conference table as Vince Cronkite the ships chief engineer took the data crystal and put it into the holo viewer on the wall and the screen flickered to life, and showed first the planet from orbit and then zoomed in over the northern continent into the mountain region there, and then over what looked like some bunker,

"Is that what I think it is?" Ben exclaimed

"This is one of the caches used by the SLDF as a depot when they were preparing to invade the Taurian Concordat in the reunification war" Kono stated as the data of the cache was shown, Panpour had been a major staging area for the SLDF and AFFS as they prepared to invade the Taurian Concordat,

"And according to this data it was never used as the data on this crystal was made AFTER the war, it was apparently used as a depot until after the fall of the Star League when it must have been forgotten like so many others" he continued, now Ben was beginning to smile and stood up walked up to the screen and pointed at a large more or less clear area apart for some bushes and trees

"This must be where they landed their dropships" he stated and then turned to face the others around the table

"So what are our assets for this mission?" Ben queried,

"Dad's old Banshee and Kono's Urban plus a couple of Sparrowhawk fighters and a Tigress" Jim replied,

"Not the best, but we're raiding the place not occupying it" Ben declared deadpan

"Sorry it took some time but Zoe is asleep now, and Kara is looking after her" Maddy said

Everyone turned as Maddy came in through the door,

"It's alright sweetheart" Elisabeth said, and Maddy took a chair beside her mother and looked at the screen and used her plexpad to hook up to the system so she could view the data more accurately.