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BattleTech: Wolves on the Border

novel by Robert N. Charrette

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ85745775 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wolves on the Border is a novel by Robert N. Charrette published by ROC in 1989, and again in 1996.

Plot summary

Wolves on the Border is a BattleTech novel set in the 3020s about the Mechwarrior named Minobu Tetsuhara, who is also a Samurai of the Draconis Combine, and the Wolf's Dragoons mercenary unit.

Reception

Andy Butcher reviewed Wolves on the Border for Arcane magazine, rating it a 7 out of 10 overall.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “BattleTech: Wolves on the Border” is novel by Robert N. Charrette. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through BattleTech, Wolves and Border, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, BattleTech, Wolves and Border is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “novel by Robert N. Charrette” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85745775. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 1996.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “BattleTech: Wolves on the Border”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow BattleTech: Wolves on the Border primary sources, BattleTech: Wolves on the Border archive and BattleTech research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “BattleTech: Wolves on the Border” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.