It is the year 3027, and the Inner Sphere is at war. Centuries of near-constant warfare have left the feudal realms exhausted and near collapse, but none will surrender. National armies clash on hundreds of worlds, and hired proxiesтАФmercenariesтАФfight on countless more. Mighty MechWarriors lead their BattleMechs like the ancient knights of old, but they are not the only soldiers on these brutal battlefields.
Fusion-powered tanks, heavily armored and nearly as powerful as тАЩMechs, roam the battlefields, and few are as deadly as the ones in HalstenтАЩs Brigade, in the service of House SteinerтАЩs Lyran Commonwealth. Even fewer are as deadly as tank gunner Private Frederick тАЬSniperтАЭ Jones, the man even MechWarriors fear. Put him in a Schrek PPC Carrier, point him at the enemy, and he'll take them down. Leaving him with nothing but dreams of how things could have gone wrong, until the next enemy comes along...
Sniper collects two previously-published short stories: "Sniper" and "Panzer."