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[[Image:Last_Chancers_Series.jpg|thumb|right|150 px|''13th Legion'']]The '''Last Chancers Series''' is a series of novels and short stories by [[Gav Thorpe]] featuring the Imperial Guard 13th Penal Legion, or "Last Chancers" under the command of [[Last Chancers#Colonel Schaeffer|Colonel Schaeffer]].
==Books in SeriesDeliverance==# [[13th Legion (Novel)|13th Legion]] ©2000# [[Kill Team (Novel)|Kill Team]] ©2001# [[Annihilation Squad (Novel)|Annihilation Squad]] ©2004''Deliverance'' is a short story that introduces the Last Chancers series.
The series begins with the short story describing the events on Deliverance. Deliverance is a small, primative world that is home to a [[Sisters of Battle]] shrine. It is also the focus of a Tyranid invasion force.
After hunting Lictors through the various areas surrounding the shrine, Lieutenant Kage and his men are repositioned in at the shrine as the Tyranids finally make planet fall. Combined with the rest of the Penal Legion, the Sisters of Battle, and the primative natives, Kage and his men fight back force after force of Tyranids.
Eventually, reinforcements arrive and help squash the invaders. However, 150 of the Last Chancers died before they come.
==13th Legion==
[[Image: 13thlegion.jpg|thumb|right|150 px|''13th Legion'']]
The ''13th Legion'' is a seven chapter book describing the journey of Last Chancers as they work they journey until they can complete the mission they were created for.
;Introduction - Chapter Three
1. Leaving Deliverance, 2. False Hope, 3. Bad Landings
After the events at Deliverance, Kage starts fighting with Choreks Imperial Guardsmen. However, this does not last long as Colonel Schaeffer comes and forces Kage and the others to leave on a new mission. They are lead back to their transport ship, the "Pride of Lothus", and they are then sent to the Typhon Sector to a system called XV/108. Recently, the base on the deathworld, Lost Hope, has dropped all communication. After landing at the planet, they are attacked by a giant lizard.
They eventually defeat the lizard and make it to the base, discovering only Lieutenant Hopkins. He describes the recent events leading up to the disappearance of everyone else on the base and Colonel Schaeffer decides that they must go to the "Heart of the Jungle", the only other place on the planet mentioned by Hopkins. Arriving there, the area turned out to be controlled by a tyranid-like beast called the "god plant" that has used the commander of the planet's forces, Captain Nepetine, to lure the humans to the area to be devoured. After battling against the plant and cutting their way free, Schaeffer orders a bombardment on the plant before they return to transport.
Their next destination is another penal colony in the Hypernol system. Before they arrive, Schaeffer brings two mysterious, pale twins, named Loron and Lorii. As they approach the planet, their pilot dies and they crash land, bursting into an underground cave. While repairing the ship, Kage and the others are attacked by strange alien bugs. After fighting back the alien warriors, the ship manages to be repaired and they return to their transport once more.
;Chapter Four - Epilogue
==Liberty==
''Liberty'' is a short story written to promote the release of the ''Kill Team'' novel.
==Kill Team==
[[Image: killteam.jpg|thumb|right|150 px|''Kill Team'']]
''Kill Team'' describes the battles of the Last Chancers against the forces of the Tau.
;Introduction - Chapter Three
;Chapter Four - Epilogue
==Annihilation Squad==
[[Image: Annihilationsquad.jpg|thumb|right|150 px|''Annihilation Squad'']]
''Annihilation Squad'' follows the last chancers as they are sent to [[Armageddon]] to join in the 3rd War for Armageddon.
;Introduction - Chapter Five
;Chapter Six - Chapter Ten
;Chapter Eleven - Chapter Fifteen
;Chapter Sixteen - Chapter Twenty
==Characters==
* [[Last Chancers#Colonel Schaeffer|Colonel Schaffer]]
* [[Last Chancers#Lieutenant Kage|Lieutenant Kage]]
* Clericus Amadiel - Schaeffer's clerk
* Captain Ferrin - "Pride of Lothus" Naval Captain
;Allies and Survivors
;The Pardoned-Deceased
This is a list of the more notable of the deceased Last Chancers (in order of appearance):
* Deliverance and 13th Legion: Franx, Gappo, Poal, Kronin, Linskrug, Becksbour, Fredricks, Donaldson, Jorette, Slavini, Thenneson, Lammax, Jorret, Mallory, Kyle, Loron, Lorii, Poliwicz, Linskrug
;Others
* Kragmeer: Captain Olos
* Penal Legion on Kragmeer: Colonel Greaves
;Regiments
;Ships
* Pride of Lothus - The Last Chancer's penal transport ship
==Additional Information==
* 13th Legion
* Kill Team
* Annihilation Squad
;Related
* [[Last Chancers]]
* [[Black Library Publishing]]
* [[Black Library gaming (novels)]]
[[Category:Novels]]
