(A/N this is a Prologue epilogue thing)
Sissy looked though the list of the dead, this was a conflict that had caused millions to die, she looked for one name, Karl Lupton, the man who had saved her life. She wanted to see him again, she knew if she couldn't find him on this list, she had already checked the list of those missing in action; she was at L already, only a little longer until she had her answer.
Cassandra stared at the looming machine. A mass of technology made and programmed over the war, sitting idle waiting for a power supply that would probably never come. She knew she would probably never see it function, but it was the only remaining symbol of her brother. A summoner, the Omnimech he had piloted, lay connected by many pipes and cables, hidden deep below the city. Soon it'd be moved to a new place, to leave this world, out of the hornets' nest.
Field Marshal Hugh Brown, lay motionless in the medical bed, somewhere between unconscious and asleep, even the clan's medical technology could have saved his leg. He may never pilot a 'Mech again. His mind was blank, a dreamless sleep, and a sad state for a man who had been so skilled and honourable. His urbanmech sat in the cargo hold of a dropship, in a couple of hours he would be leaving the world, not that he knew it now, if he couldn't pilot a 'Mech, he could teach, that was certain. If he wasn't needed to hunt HMS Clergy.
A plume of smoke rose high into the sky, a very tell tail sign of what was producing it as HMS Clergy steamed across the open sea. The ship was hunted by everything, aircraft prowled the skies, ships scoured the seas, and even dropships hunted them. But there was those places, U-boat pens, small coastal villages that supplied them. They would fight for however long it took. But they would eventually win, and they may never see this victory themselves but their grandchildren may.
The AXDR corp. Elemental production line began to produce again, only 7 days after production had halted as the war neared its end, the AXDR Elementals where while not fully capable of what true elementals they were excellent replicas they replaces the hargel system which they could not manufacture with extra battery space and Jump capacity. This made it popular with both sides due to its compatibility with jury-rigging and parts from actual elementals.
Karl's head hurt, the word 'shutdown override' printed mirrored into his forehead by the many times he had slammed his face into the console. He was looking out into the black void, in a few hours. They would met up with a Jump ship and lave this system. Probably forever. Over to his right was Nemesis Mk 2 looking over the bow of H–46, beside him Desmond Miles, an IDF MechWarrior, who seemed more interested in the book he was reading, which had a very suggestive cover, than the view, no doubt he'd have seen it before enough times. A number of industrialmechs went about tying down or stowing deck items for the jump.
The A60M1 zeke sat idle on the deck of HMS Andrew waiting for its next mission, this craft had chalked up a full 243 confirmed kills on enemy fighters, 32 Surface naval vessels, 2 dropships, 49 light 'Mech, 23 medium 'Mech, 102 heavy 'Mech, 7 assault 'Mech. Beside this impressive craft a group of suicidal A60M zeros. Along the horizon there was one sign of any life, a plume of smoke rising from beyond, in the blue yonder. The deck was ghostly silent.
The body of Banager lay still, while other people rushed about, there was the smell of death, so many bodies like him made him become one of many, the red stains, the cleaners tried their best to minimise the flow of blood, the unused marble slabs shone. Not to him did it matter. It didn't matter to him that he would burn, nothing mattered to him.
The city of San Fransipsco was in the midst of rebuilding entire sectors had been reduced to rubble in the fighting whilst normally the clans do not fight in cities, the position of San Fransipsco had forced them to fight within the confines of the city. While civilian casualties had been minimal, devastation was rampant. Entire sectors where rubble. Throughout the city there was re remains of 'Mech, vehicles, battle armour, aerospace units.
(A/N just a quick note on the name of San Fransipsco, when found the city was called New San Francisco, but a corruption of it caused it to become New San Fransipsco, the new was then dropped hence the name, San Fransipsco)
