For those of our readers who have missed the colorful history of the Kell Hounds, Battle Technology presents a brief timeline. For more about the Kell Hounds, consult The Kell Hounds, The Warrior Trilogy, and Lethal Heritage, and the upcoming Blood Legacy, published by the FASA Corporation.
3005 Morgan Kell, his cousin Arthur Luvon, and Arthur's fiancee Katrina Steiner flee to the Periphery near the Circinus Federation. When Katrina returns, she wins the Archonship of the Lyran Commonwealth from her cousin Alessandro Steiner.
3006 Megan Kell born, somewhere in the Periphery.
3010 Kell Hounds formed by brothers Morgan and Patrick Kell with legacy from Arthur Luvon. Unit begins as a full regiment.
3013 Unit with Prince Ian Davion on Mallory's World. Prince Ian killed.
3016 Morgan reduces Kell Hounds to one battalion, then retires suddenly following a one-to-one Mech fight with Yorinaga Kurita. Yorinaga also retires to a monastery. Remaining Kell Hounds officially disband into several smaller units. Patrick commands what is left of the Kell Hounds, under contract to the Lyran Commonwealth. Scott Bradley forms Bradley's Bravos, and contracts with the Federated Suns.
3026 Yorinaga Kurita forms the Genyosha and kills Patrick Kell who is defending the Kells' cousin, Archon -Designate Melissa Steiner. Patrick's son Christian born somewhere in the Draconis Combine. 3027 Morgan Kell comes out of retirement. Morgan resumes leadership of the Kell Hounds.
3028 Fourth Succession War begins. Kell Hounds and Genyosha seek a climactic battle. Bradley's Bravos in the long fight for Northwind; when Northwind Highlanders return to Northwind, they fight as comrades. Kell Hounds clash with Aldo Lestrade near Summer.
3029 Aldo Lestrade dies. Hanse Davion releases the Bravos to rejoin the Kell Hounds. Morgan Kell and Yorinaga Kuritafight aduel. Morgan proves the stronger, then gives up his advantage. The two units resolve their feud. Yorinaga realizes that this contradicts his oath to the Dragon.
3030 War ends. Morgan Finn Kell marries his executive officer Salome Ward. Kell Hounds, again one regiment strong, make their home base on Arc Royal.
After the seppuku of his father Yorinaga Kurita, Akira Brahe joins the Kell Hounds. He is a former member of the 11th Legion of Vega and the Genyosha. He has had to rise through the ranks on merit, not having his father's name or protection. He is from what is to become Rasalhague.
Cat Wilson marries Gywneth Murdoch. Ceremony does not mention the groom's first name.
3031 Phelan Patrick Kell, first of Morgan and Salome's three children, born on Arc Royal.
3033 Megan Kell, Morgan's daughter, arrives to meet with her father.
3034 Megan Kell marries Daniel Allard and remains on Arc-Royal. 3034 Rasalhague independence. Tor Miraborg, interviewed in BattleTechnology, criticizes mercenary units, especially the Kell Hounds. Daniel Allard, Morgan's second in command, writes an angry response, Letter on page 29.
3030-Present Close friendship between Morgan Kell and Jaime Wolf of Wolf's Dragoons. Certain of the Kell Hounds receive training on the Dragoon planet of Outreach. Phelan is later to say that he spent more time on Outreach than he did on Arc-Royal.
3040 Archon Emerita Katrina Steiner dies; leaves a legacy to Morgan Kell that that enables the Kell Hounds to form a second regiment.
3042 Christian Kell, son of Morgan's dead brother Patrick by a Kuritan citizen, appears with a verigraphed statement by Patrick attesting to his birth. Morgan turns over command of the Kell Hounds to Daniel Allard, and takes Christo Outreach, where he is tutored by Morgan and Jaime Wolf. Stanford Blake, the third of Christian Kell's instructors, must have something to teach in the way of endurance. Hewas severely wounded in Duke Anton Marik's massacre of Wolf's Dragoons, and severely wounded again in the pounding bloodbath that ended the Fourth Succession War for the Dragoons on Crossing. He is ten years or so older than Chris, but the two become close friends.
Daniel Allard refuses the title of Colonel, commands the Kell Hounds as Lieutenant Colonel. Lt. Col. Akira Brahe commands the first regiment, based on Summer, under contract to the Federated Commonwealth. Lt. Col. Scott Bradley commands the second regiment, based on Ambergrist, under contract to the St Ives Compact. 3046 Phelan Kell enters The Nagelring, elite Lyran military academy.
3048 Phelan Kell expelled from The Nagelring. Joins the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment as a mechwarrior.
3rd Battalion of the 1 st Kell Hounds accepts a contract from the Free Republic of Rasalhague. They are based on Outpost, fighting Periphery pirates. Contract is negotiated with Gen. Christian Mansdotter, head of the Kungsarmee, a former Lyran, then Tyr, mechwarrior, one of the few Rasalhaguians who have knowledge of and respect for mercenaries and their abilities.
3049 Kell Hound JumpShip Cucumalus is stranded near Ginzburg, Radstadt Province, Free Republic of Rasalhague. Tor Miraborg rules here, and he refuses cooperation with the mercenaries. They are confined to a mercenary reservation, and must wait three long months while liquid helium is shipped from the Federated Commonwealth to repair the ship. Waldherre Miraborg refuses them the right to buy and replace the needed supplies. Kell Hounds win the respect of much of the citizenry, although fights break out from time to time. A romance is rumored between Phelan Kell and Tor Miraborg's daughter Tyra. Nothing comes of it.
August 3049 Phelan's unit has finally arrived at their posting, eager for action. They are assigned to root out some elements of Ryan's Rebels, pirates from the Greater Valkyrate. They run the Rebels to ground just outside of the Periphery planet of Outreach. During the combat which follows, Phelan's Wolfhound is seen to take a critical cockpit hit. Both Mech and body are taken by victorious enemy.
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