All you need to do is look at history gentlemen...it explains all!

Houses = Greek City States
Clans = Turks
Star League/Comstar/WOB = Different eras of Roman Empire
Republic = Final Years of the Romans / Divisions of Faith and Kingdoms
HPG Blackout = DARK AGE

And what comes after the dark age?

Renaissance

I think the next thing that happens is that like Victor Steiner Davion wakes up and it’s like… all a dream man. He’s been in an asylum the whole time and like Maximillian Liao, Katrina Steiner, and the Tin Man are all his DOCTORS man… Oh and all the battlemechs are really just old pictures in a coloring book of robots his son left in his room… except it’s not really his son it’s JESUS… and then JESUS comes in and like sneezes and the whole world ends because it was really just a soap bubble floating on the back of a turtle somewhere in the cosmos



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Why does the introduction of aliens have to be an invasion??

I'm going to be crucified for this, but here goes:

One house is contacted by an alien power. The aliens offer new technology for safe passage through and refuge in house space.

Another sect of the aliens contacts house B and makes the same offer.

Other alien sects ally with other house/clans.

Alien sect A crosses into House B space and attacks Alien sect A.

All hell breaks loose.

There's no law that says the aliens have to be united any more than the humans are.

Alien technology would allow the introduction of the overused-but-always-visually-interesting organic technology. Make for some cool looking DA miniatures.

Flame away!! :grin:

Aliens .... Please....

Ok here it goes.I like sci-fi, and I´ve nothing against Aliens, but not in the BT Universe, it goes against everything that was been written so far (execption made for Far Country, but that is so bad that maybe is better not to mentionet )

An Alien Invansion, coming from where....

And why just now...

And if there where aliens wasn´t supose that explorere corps should already found them.

Nah, sorry but the alien business seems a litle far strecht for my taste.

No, but that's it. WE contact THEM. An individual or house goes in search of a foreign (really foreign) power. What they find is a war between worlds. That individual or house allows the aliens to infiltrate the IS/Republic (w/e this part of space is called). When the other faction realizes, they attack the whole IS/ republic. All hell breaks loose

GREAT IDEA, especially when I get to improve on it.

Aliens would be terrible. Words cannot describe how angry I would be. They dont fit in this universe. It is about politics between people and other people. And then dealing with the politics thru the use of gigantic war machines.
I am so opposed to the aliens concept in battletech that I wont read far country. I dont consider it worthy of the battletech universe. But from somebody who has read it could they tell me if its any good or not. I have only heard real vague stuff like "far countr!!!" "oh yeah,,, far country I remember that" and then the convo is finished and I dont really know anything about the book. So whats it about?

To quote Stackpole himself, "Aliens? A thousand Times NO!"

The different cultures, from the Great Houses to the Clans, make for great diversity - the problems came when the Clans started to lose their alienesque edge in later novels. Touches like Vlad's refusal to help Katrina, simply because of semantics, was a wonderful recoupe and I'd love to see these differences worked on in the future...

Far Country is about a Jumpship who as missjump and ends in a world were humans and aliens coexist. The humans are descendents of a Kurita jumpship who as had missjump.The survivors of the first ship are divided in 3 factions who fight against themselves and all of them are killing the poor and inocent alliens (some kind of life form that is a cross over of a bird with a man...grosse).At the end the people of the 2 ship (DEST or ISF I don´t quite remember) start by helping the birdies and by the end took side in the conflict.

The worse piece of c### tha I´ve the misfortune of reading.

I only read the Stackpole books like Warrior: En Garde etc. when I was like in 6th grade and loved them. I forgot all about BattleTech until my friend Matt mentioned a Mechwarrior game earlier this year and I was so excited to get into it. I never knew the BT world was this big until about 6 months ago. Are the Stackpole books supposed to be the like best books? And who created BT?

Errrhhh, I'm not exactly referring to aliens. What about the civilization the Clans left behind in deep space?

Hmmm... what if there wasn't an invasion of the clans, or of other inner shpere houses... but what if the Republic somehow solidified, then as a result of the factions claiming alliegance to factions outside the Republic, the RotS goes on a rampage, and invades the realms outside their own borders?

Think about it... one day, after quelling the chaos that currently engulfs it, the Republic just picks a day to beat the snot out of House Davion? Launches a surprise attack like Davion did against Liao?

That would be most interesting.

All I have to say is.. Massive Highlander Invasion. Dont ask where they are gonna get the man power from...But a massive Highlander invasion...against...everyone!....and they win! and I'd be happy :)

All the factions declare peace with each other. Soon battlemechs are all decommisioned again, and Mechwarrior becomes Minewarrior, where the players race against each other to mine the best ore from the planets.

See, Wizkids really does have a reason for Tonka 'Mechs.

Kaylen, great idea. How about this: The Republic continues its current path of remilitarizing and becomes a war machine, driving House Liao from its borders and driving many of the splinter factions to their respective houses or taking away their power until they become little more than terrorists. But now they have this huge military and hundreds of thousands of trained soldiers and, rather than throw it all away again, the Republic invades one of the successor states, probably the splintered Free Worlds League. Maybe Exarch Redburn becomes or is revealed to be a war hungry leader, or even that he had somehow plotted it all along, disabling the HPG, or even disposing of Devlin Stone. Or perhaps after the fighting, military leaders, with a new and great deal of power, stage a coup, either voilent or political and replace him with a military man, with the goal of expanding the bounds of the Republic. No matter what, this offers a great opportunity to get the successor states involved and even takes care of rejoining them with the splinter factions. I don't see how the Jade Falcons would fit in but that is yet to come and we shall see.

--Peaked

Each person has their own preference, but pretty much everyone will tell you Stackpole is good.



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