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Bite sized digests, not wall of text.
People TL;DR walls of text.
Funnily enough most of that Wall of text are links.
I'll see if I can restructure it a bit more topical tomorrow.
House Davion-The master race, the white savior, the main protagonist, the Good faction. Learn to kiss up them (or better yet, get your House Princess to be inpregnanted by them), the existence of your faction depend on it.
Comstar-If Comcast and Scientology had a baby, then anoint him as the next pope. I think we all just pooped from sheer horror of that thought. So whenever you hear "Peace of Hubbard Blake be with you", either the phone bill just arrived, or your entire family are about to die.
House Liao- The Imperial Chinese Government of the future, complete with Fu-man-Chu stereotype, run by the Russian KGB, with the economic and military strength of North Korea (All your cold war perils in one!) . They also were aligned with the Scottish until the Scottish figure out they are not on the winning side. Either way, if you are stupid enough to sign up with them, expect them asking you to set fire to orphanages then backstab you after.
Taurian Concordat-They hate House Davion for some reason.
Magistracy of Canopus-A nation of hot girls ruling space Los Vegas, and later, hot CATgirls. This would be any SJW's dream of a "strong, independent women ruled society", if not for the fact most women there also enjoy sex. So we can classify MOC as "Boys sexual fantasy land"
House Marik- Nobody care about them.
House Kurita- Imperial Japanese Army with WWII brutality, 17th century military tactics and run on their economy on the back of slaves. (Probably because most Americans thought the Japanese were running their workers like slaves before the Chinese came along).
House Steiner- Germans with the wealth of British Empire and the Military sense of French.
Federated Commonwealth- The lovechild of Steiner and Davion, all one big happy family, complete with regicidal offspring. Was good while it lasted.
Interdiction- What happens when you don't pay your phone bills.
Free Rasalhague Republic- The 'Free' Republic that seems to spend most of its existence under someone else's rule. Space Palestine in short.
Battlemechs- Giant war robots whose main purpose is to stand out in battle so everyone knows who to shoot at.
Basically nobody cares about them
And sadly, they could've added in all the Periphery weirdness like the Canopian pleasure circuses and bloodsport death matches. I was rather disappointed when you met the Canopian liason and she wasn't wearing some skimpy/revealing outfit, unlike all of the artwork in the sourcebooks. Sad really. They could've spiced this game up so much.
They tried making this game way to serious and it ends up not being that much fun. And like I said, this is the Periphery. The over the top, anything goes frontier. They might as well have put the setting of this game in the Lyran Commonwealth for how stodgy and uptight the main story is.
But yeah, cooling vests, shorts/briefs/panties and a trashcan on top of your head. Battletech in the 80s. :)
We've been in a steady cultural decline since the 80s. The Backstreet Boys were probably the horsemen of the apocalypse.
Get the RogueTech mod. I cant give you your goofy neurohelmets, but I can give you a better BattleTech experience.
This is such a great initiative, Wolf! In fact, I will pin this topic to make sure the lore will be easy to find.
You forgot their love of overly heavy combat units.................like a certain period of german history...........
If you want assault mechs, they will dazzle you with their variety of models and Variants, if you want a light mech, they will look at you like you are mad........
Their units are very strong, and they will crush any enemy like a mighty hammer.....given that they can tie their enemy down or box them in so that they can't get away. ;)
House Marik - Well, they do have the parlamentary system of the Brits, an idustrial base almost as strong the Lyran Commowealth, and the political stability and neighbourly friendliness of the Balkans........only with Nukes!
The difference to House Liao is that they excel at stabbing each other in the back, instead of Outsiders.
BTW you forgot the occansional made ruler that the Liaos tend to have. ;)
Thank you, much appreciated.
Should I still do a rewrite to make it a bit more ordered and readable?
Question is open to everyone.
My idea right now is to break the OP up into topics a bit more.
Like
1. Basic stuff (what is BT)
2. Basic universe information.
Then either:
3. IS Factions
4. Periphery Factions
5. Clan Factions*
6. Vehicles, Mechs and Aerotech
7. Weaponry and Systems
*I wonder if I can find some lore videos on the Society for example.......
Or instead:
3. Vehicles, Mechs and Aerotech
4. Weaponry and Systems
4. 5. 6 Factions
What are all your thoughts on that? I mean I find the backstory interesting, but I can imagine that most people who are new would find what are all those systems more interesting.
@Mistfox and Padmite :D that is a discussion that I'd love to see ;) ! btw, I thought that was beachwear, must be getting old! ;) anyway yeah I missed the helmets too they are such an integral part of the mech piloting.
I was surprised at the ammoung of coolant suits......although you could argue that they are more or less royality to they could afford such a rare item as a symbol of wealth.
After all you can almost buy a mech for that. It was part of the payment and the decider when Jeremiah Rose bought his Charger in Main Event. I would still argue that he was shortchanged.
On that note:
Charger - A mech that you do not want! Seriously! It's an 80 ton Assault built for scouting, with a 400 engine and only 5 small lasers, as weaponry was seen as a distraction, one that could put the mech in danger.
And no despite it being an 80 ton being used for scouting it was not ordered and designed by Lyrans!
They would've complained about the lack of firepower and armour! ;)
Instead it was mostly used by the Draconis Combine and the Capellans.
Found the Davion lover :P
Got almost all the books on the shelf. Need to find a few to complete the collection. So no wonder I am a sucker for BT.