NationStates Jolt Archive

Considering how many people roleplay here as modern nations, fanatasy nations or futuristic ones, I was wondering if some people who do know of Battletech would be interested in forming a Battletech Universe to roleplay as. I fear this would be ridculousy complicated, but worth a try.


My guess would we would start where Battletech left off; circa 3066 AD, where the major factions still in existance which include (of what I can remember, if there is any Battletech historian who knows better than I do, please say)

Major Factions

Successor States

Lyran Alliance - House Steiner
Draconis Combine - House Marik
Free Worlds League - House Kurita
Federated Suns - House Davion
Capellan Confederation - House Liao

Clans of Kerensky

Crusader Clans:
Clan Blood Spirit
Clan Fire Mandrill
Clan Hell's Horses
Clan Ice Hellion
Clan Jade Falcon
Clan Star Adder
Clan Wolf

Warden Clans:
Clan Cloud Cobra
Clan Coyote
Clan Diamond Shark
Clan Ghost Bear
Clan Goliath Scorpion
Clan Snow Raven (In alliance with Outworlds Alliance)
Clan Steel Viper


Note; its most likely we won't use many of these clans if people are interested, much too complicated. I'm not sure if some of these clans have homeworlds or not either.

Outworld Regimes

Outworlds Alliance
Tortuga Domains (Pirate nation)
Magistry of Canopus
Tourian Concordat
Marian Hegemony
Circinus Federation
Aim Collection

Major Mercenary Units

The Kell Hounds
Wolf's Dragoons
Eridani Light Horse

Other Factions

ComStar
Word of Blake
Free Rasalhauge Republic
Clan Wolf-in-Exile
The SLDF Nova Cats
Periphery Pirates

Map of the Inner Sphere:
http://www.classicbattletech.com/InnerSphereMap.html

(Note, it only shows the Inner Sphere and the outworlds, it does not show all of clan territory that is 1,700 lightyears to the top of the map)

History of the Inner Sphere:
http://www.classicbattletech.com/cbt_cbt_history.html


Of course, this is not a recuirtment thread yet, I want to see how many people would be interested in trying this, I'm a battletech fan myself, so I would love to.

So Tell Me, Who Are The "Kell Hounds" ? It Doesn't matter though, because their name sounds cool. I Have Dibs on the Kell Hounds!

House Davion Baby!! I remember when I always used to play that free battletech game until they shut it down, that was fun. But count me in.

Cool, I'll keep your names down and will get in touch if I can get more people interested. Then I will write up some type of recuirtment thread.

Just a helpful link on Battletech.
http://www.kerensky.tierranet.com/btech/btech.shtml

I get the Lyrans. I assume this is after the events of MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries which means I get my own mercenary bodyguard plus command of half of Victor's forces plus alliances with FedCom, the Kell Hounds and Clan Wolf in Exile, to say the very least. Sweet. :)

Edit: Plus all of ComStar seeing as how Victor is their leader now. Even better! The Jade Falcon threat is a mere annoyance.

Edit: Plus all of ComStar seeing as how Victor is their leader now. Even better! The Jade Falcon threat is a mere annoyance.


The Word of Blake at the time is crushing ComStar after capturing Terra and are now on the "Chaos March"; the worlds in the 200 ly radius of terra have been turned into a warzone; the Wolf's Dragoons' homeplanet of Outreach was annilated by the Blakists as well who aim to destroy civilization and rise as the new saviors of humanity; playing the Word of Blake will be fun!

Bear in mind that the Draconis Combine and Free Worlds League are still in their non-aggression pact as well. :D

Plus, the Federated Commonwealth does not exist anymore I'm pretty sure....Battletech history gets confusing.

Damn, forgot about the Blakists bastards. Well, the Combine and Free Worlds League are fine as far as non-aggression pacts go and it might turn into a full-blown alliance if the Blakist movement gets worse. Fortunately for me, Tharkad is far enough from Terra that we should be fine for now.

And what I meant by FedCom is the former and now current Federated Suns.

EDIT: One other thing. You know in MW4:Mercs one of the endings is you setting up camp on New Canton and becoming a Regimental strength Mercenary unit? Can one of my other nations be that unit?

Aw man, Comstar is already taken... You guys are right, FedCom no longer exists. It was merged into the Lyran Allience under the iron-heel of Katrina Steiner-Davion. So, lets see whats left... Well, I was always partial to the Jade Falcons. Im sure I could figure out all their customs. Sign me up.

Bump


Again, this isn't exactly a recuirtment thread, but go ahead and say what you want if you wish, I just want to get people interested. We would probably need some type of mathmatical forumulation to simulate Mech battles and planet invasions ect....

EDIT: One other thing. You know in MW4:Mercs one of the endings is you setting up camp on New Canton and becoming a Regimental strength Mercenary unit? Can one of my other nations be that unit?

I am going to let people play as Mercenary companies; yes. But we need the major mercenary regiments filled in first. :)

Well, unless someone owns their technical readouts, there isnt really much information on them. Pretty everything i know about battletech comes from the books I own and the origional card game (I have over 10,000 cards). Oh sure, I played every mechwarrior game since Mechwarrior 2, but they do not really progress the storyline and get a lot of things wrong. Dont even get me started on Mechassault. A Madcat does not weigh 100 tons!

Yeah, well what we can't find out, we can make up! :D

Clan history, language,caste system and honor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech:Clans#Clan_Honor

Oh to hell with it, start claiming factions now dammit!

So, so far we have got

Defuniak - "The Kell Hounds" Mercenary Unit
Reichville - Federated Suns
Golden Wing - Lyran Alliance
Einhauser - ComStar
Revionia - Free Worlds League

roleplay-related threads shouldn't be here, unless it's a recruiting for a region (in the game)

So we can create our own region for this. Doesn't matter.

As for FedCom, it was united under Katherine. However, after she was exiled Peter took over the throne of the former Lyran Commenwealth and now Lyran Alliance while Yvonne took the former and now current Federated Suns.

Revionia, do you have an e-mail? I can't find you in the nations list and I need to PM you.