Stories by @bugga17

Battletech: Restoration (Miniseries)

The year is 3025. Out in the Periphery stands the Aurigan Coalition neighboring the Taurian Concordat and the Capella Confederation. On the day of her coronation, Princess Kamea Arano is ousted from her throne by her uncle Santiago Espinosa. Undeterred, she hires a mercenary unit to reclaim her throne and her birthright.

Mechwarrior: Clans

It is the year 3049. Nearly 300 years since General Aleksandr Kerensky took the remnants of the Star League to the deep, unknown reaches of space outward of the Inner Sphere, the Clans have waited for their time to return to the Inner Sphere and reform the Star League in their image of their great founder. The moment arrived when a ComStar explorator vessel the "Outbound Light" inadvertently jumped into space belonging to Clan Smoke Jaguar, most aggressive of the Clans. Seeing this as an opportunity to launch the invasion, Khan Leo Showers uses the Outbound Light incident as casus belli to break the stalemate between the Wardens and the Crusaders in the Grand Council. Enter Jayden, a ristar in the 362nd Assault Cluster. He and his Star embark upon a grand invasion of the Inner Sphere to wrest it from the barbarians who despoil it. But, as the invasion degrades into a slog, reality sets in and some in the Clans begin to question their cause, and loyalties will be tested...

Alien: Destroyer of Worlds

The year is 2194. The arctic wasteland of the oil-rich Ariarcus Colony sits on the edge of the United Americas and the Union of Progressive Peoples in the Kruger-60 system. As the Oil Wars rage on, the UA and the UPP fight to secure resources across the known galaxy. An emergency quarantine order incenses a population already feeling abandoned after the colony's profitability dries up, leaving behind many colonists to turn to appeal to the UPP to ferment an insurgency that threatens to tear apart what's left of the colony. Amidst the chaos, four Colonial Marines of the "Sin Eaters" detachment go AWOL with intentions to defect to the UPP. A squad of CBRN marines is sent to track down the Sin Eaters with orders to kill or capture. But another threat lurks in the cold wasteland of Ariarcus. Something alien...

Marathon

The year is 2494. Humanity is finally making their first steps beyond the Solar System by way of the UESC "Marathon", hollowed out from Deimos, one of the moons of Mars. Three hundred years later, the Marathon reaches Tau Ceti IV and a colony is established. Not long after, a conglomerate of alien slavers and their thralls known as the Pfhor attack the Marathon and the colony with stunning surprise and savagery. A lone security officer, known for being the best marksman and the colony's troubleshooter must stop the alien menace. All the while being torn between the whims of the Marathon's functioning Artificial Intelligences, and discovering his own strange and nefarious origins...

World in Conflict (2024 Miniseries)

In our timeline, the Soviet Union collapsed under its own weight in 1989 bringing an end to the Cold War. In this timeline, it didn't. Instead, in an alternate 1989, in a last-ditch effort to save itself, the Soviet Union thunders over the Fulda Gap sparking World War 3. After making rapid gains in Western Europe, the Soviets falter after a concentrated push by NATO forces grinds the war down to a stalemate. Desperate to regain the initiative, the Soviets invade the Western Seaboard of the United States taking Seattle and the surrounding countryside. Enter First Lieutenant Parker: a soldier coming back from the intense fighting in Europe. Joined by CPT Mark Bannon, a foolhardy tank commander, the cool and unflappable CPT James Webb and kept under the wing of COL Jeremiah Sawyer. They must fight to break the Soviet hold on Seattle before the war escalates to the unthinkable...

BattleTech (Miniseries) (2024)

It is the 28th Century. Humankind has forged civilization among the stars. Across light years of known space called the Inner Sphere, humanity unites under the banner of the Star League by their conquest of the stars. That conquest is fueled by a great new weapon: The BattleMech, a metal titan standing between 20-30ft tall and bristling with enough firepower to level a city block. For 300 years, the Cameron Family sat at the head of the Star League as they led humanity into a cultural and technological golden age. Five Great Houses stand as member states alongside the Star League. It is 2870 and the cracks are beginning to show. Rebellion in the wild Periphery of the Inner Sphere and bubbling discontent among the Great Houses build a powder keg that will send the Inner Sphere into a whirlwind of chaos and destruction like never seen before.

System Shock (TV miniseries) (2023)

The Year is 2072: A hacker is caught trying to break into the secured network of the Trioptimum Corporation regarding secrets aboard its space station: Citadel. Corporate VP Edward Diego gives the hacker a deal: Remove the ethical constraints on SHODAN, the onboard AI in exchange for a military-grade neural interface and a clean slate. The hacker agrees and is put in a 6-month healing coma after the surgery for the implant is complete. Diego then wipes all records of his and the hacker's involvement. The hacker wakes up to a nightmare: Most of the crew are dead, mutated, or turned into cyborgs. The station's security systems now serve the maniacal SHODAN, who is now Hell-bent on destroying humanity and rebuilding it in her image. Now the hacker must undo the horror they created, if they can survive...