LOYALTY. VALOR. DESPAIR. JIHAD.A massive invasion fleet is destroyed almost to a man. Legions of soldiers, confident of victory, are cut down before they even reach the ground. Those that survive to make landfall are bombarded and shattered and rained with nuclear fire. Elsewhere, veterans long retired from combat are called back to duty by desperate times. Meanwhile, interstellar explorers comb unknown worlds for clues to explain deadly evils that threaten the entire Inner Sphere.Seventeen stories of combat, honor, betrayal, and death fill the pages of Fire for Effect: BattleCorps Anthology Volume 4.Savvy readers will recognize familiar names who have shaped the direction of BattleTech lore: Randall N. Bills, Steven Mohan, Jr., Kevin Killiany, Phaedra Weldon, Jason Schmetzer, Jason Hardy, and Herbert Beas. In 2007, they took the storylines of the BattleTech universe to new and violent heights. Worlds rose and fell, and empires toppled. Armies of BattleMechs and fleets of WarShips fought and perished. And beneath all of it, the spidery tendrils of the Word of Blake sowed mistrust and conflict in every realm…