Tribble # 43
In Clan space, we hear about the Dark Caste, the bandits who are outside Clan society. Yet since the Clans are ashamed/ don't want to admit that they have renegades. the Inner Sphere doesn't hear much about them. Certainly, some are regressed hunter-gatherers, or hill tribes hiding from the Clan forces, but others are better equipped and organised, with some operating like organised crime for the Kerensky Cluster. How about we fill in some of the blanks, tell the stories of the side of Clan space they don't want told?
*The decendants of a regiment who stay true to the SLDF, carrying out a centuries-long gurilla war against the degenerates who tarnish the memory of the Star League, tired and outnumbered, but never giving up hope ...
*A Norsemen style community of raiders, who espouse the ideal of Elemental superiority ... mostly operating as normal infantry, but with some stolen or heirloom suits, they raid Clan holdings for food, equipment, weapons and slaves ... females of Elemental bloodlines, whatever the caste, are taken as breeding stock ...
*An isolated world in the Kerensky Cluster where the Exodus Civil war is still going on, with the decendants of rival units have backslid over the centuries: now they fight their battles with flintlock muskets and sabes, a la the Raj Whitehall books ...
*An angry but frustrated bandit chief, sick of being hunted by the Clans, yet dependant on them, says 'enough is enough,' and strikes out for the Inner Sphere, both to find a new life and also to warn the Successor States about the Clans ... but when the Watch is informed of his plans, can his wiley band of misfits outrun and outsmart a Clan hunting party, desperate to bring him to heel and crush the hope of his followers?
*In the heart of Clan space, on Strana Mechty itself, a secret cabal of lower castemen, bandit chiefs and a few sympathisers from the Warrior caste, plots to bring down the rule of the Bloodnamed and their thugs. Their leader? A shadowy figure who remains anonymous, but many believe is a clone of Aleksandyr Kerensky himself ...