Hello there everyone!!!!!!!!! First I hope this is in the right place. If not, sorry. This will be my first post on the forums, and it will be the introduction of my AU BT future. I've be working on it off and on for several years now. Getting all the things ready and whatnot. I even have maps for the different areas. This is mostly going to be in point form. As in there will be little information as a whole on everything. I'll leave all that stuff for you guys to make up on your own. ;) This AU starts in an unlikely place- the Marian Hegemony. As you can see from the map, things have happened, BIG things, like a war with the FWL, and new Realms in the Periphery (this I will get to soon ;) ). I don't have a set date for this, since I'm using current events in the BTU for all this. But it will be 100+ years from where it is currently at. This will focus on events in the periphery only. Including the IS factions moving into the periphery. That's it for them. Everything else in the IS proper is up to all of you. ;) Also, the maps contains worlds that another BT fan site(which is now down for good) made up. So many of the new worlds in here are from that. These worlds on the map are bold and italicized like
this. "Lost" worlds that are re-colonized/ rediscovered are capitalized and underlined, like
THIS. Worlds I made up are like
[THIS]. Worlds that are abandoned/ outpost destroyed are like
This.
If there is anything I made a mistake on, let me know.
I will be posting more as I make it, so enjoy!!!!!!!!!
EVERYTHING HERE HAPPENS WITHIN A 100 YEAR TIME FRAME FOR THE MOST PART. THINGS LIKE IF A PLANET WAS COLONIZED CAN BE BEFORE THIS. THE TECH LEVEL IS POST CLAN INVASION. WEAPONS, EQUIPMENT AND MACHINES FROM 3055 TRO-3075 TRO ARE THE COMMON WEAPONS, EQUIPMENT AND MACHINES NOW. IT'S NO LONGER 3025 TECH ONLY IN THE PERIPHERY. TECH FROM 3058-3067 ARE MORE COMMON IN THE NEAR DEEP PERIPHERY THAN THE OLDER OR NEWER TECH.
Now for a bit of back story-
It's the second Age of War, which really started back when all the HPG's went down. If you've been keeping up with BT history, it makes a lot of sense. The Inner Sphere is at war with itself again. It has been XXX years since that happened, the HPG's are back up, but are VERY limited in what they can do. Every HPG has to be re-coded, and that takes a very long time to do. Those on capital worlds are at about 70%, regional capitals and heavy industry worlds are at about 45%, regular worlds are about 20% for most of them. Periphery worlds are at 10-15% if in a nation. Independent worlds either are still at 0%, or are around 5%. With the IS at war with itself again, the periphery is left with dealing with the normal things that happen out here. While most would think the periphery would never advance in anything, it does. It does in a lot of ways that I will post here later on, including info on new weapons!!!! There is an on-going exodus of people heading to the periphery, but that won't be showing up in here. It's a constant, so no need for me to add it in. :)
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Inner Sphere-Periphery Rising:
MARIAN HEGEMONY:
YEAR 1-
-Starts a project to develop a new type of rifle: Assault Rifles.
-Starts building a Dropship/ Jumpship shipyard orbiting ALPHARD(MH).
-Starts looking for new worlds to colonize, and to sell their resources to pay for the shipyard.
-3 worlds coreward of ALPHARD: "Rodney", "Spike", "New Rome" are considered "ripe" with resources, and are colonized quickly.
-Finishes its development on the Assault Rifles with Light, Medium and Heavy classes.
-MH and LC stat talks to form an "Alliance". Mainly to trade and for harassing the FWL.
-MH and LC form a trade Alliance.
-With help from the LC, MH starts to build other factories needed for building Dropships and Jumpships. *MH trades head towards the Raven Alliance, after hearing about a new weapon developed there. They are told to obtain as many as possible LEAGALLY. They take as much rare metals and other items that they can carry, to start a trading
agreement with the RA.
-MH starts "persuading" the worlds of ZORN'S KEEP, THADORA'S LAND, BALTAZAR III to join the MH and be protected from pirates: The Mech Factory on BALTAZAR III is what the MH is really after. The RA agrees to the trade agreement and sells the "lesser" IS models to the MH, as well as the rights to produce them: But want more of certain
resources that are hard to find at their end of space. An amlost destroyed RWR Pinto class warship is discovered on an uncharted planet later named "Jones", after the Captain of the MH dropship that discovered it. The warship had plans for many SL era dropships, jumpships and warships. The idea of the MH having their own warship fleet starts to form due to what it found on "Jones".
-The worlds of "Abdea" and "Numeri", between ILLYRIA and MAXIMILLIAN are colonized by Illyrian settlers. *Laws in the MH start to change, allowing more freedoms to Plebeians and slaves.
YEARS-15
-A Privateer working for the MH develops the RL/25.
-ZORN'S KEEP and THANDORA'S LAND join the HM due to increased pirate activity. BALTAZAR III refuses to join and prepares for war with the MH.
-MH invades BALTAZAR III and are met with heavy, and well equipped local defences.
-MH defeats BALTAZAR III's defences after 1yr of fighting. BALTAZAR III is now part of the MH. MH troops find a hidden factory complex (built by the WoB). MH starts repairing it and starts producing mechs, fighters ans vehicles for itself. MH sends a scouting party to CIRCINUS to find any tech that can be salvaged. MH sends a secret mission to GIBSON, to see if any tech can be salvaged ( very little is found other than weapons and armor the MH couldn't produce until now). MH produces its second original vehicle (tracked), and the VULCAN ASF (found in the Pinto warship). the world "Lundium", rimward/ antispinward of PAULINUS is colonized. The world REVEL, renamed Rever, is recolonized by the MH.
-The Dropship/ Jumpship shipyard is completed along with the other factories. The MH starts producing "basic" Dropships and the Scout Jumpship. The MH starts a massive buildup of its military. The MH starts to increase raids into the FWL and former FWL worlds. A miss-jump has a MH Jumpship discover the world later named "Gal'ron", rimward of ALGENIB. It becomes the furthest rimward world of the MH.
-variants of mechs, vehicles and ASF using AR's and LML's start being prodused. MH starts producing 3 new AQUILLA Jumpships: Neutral (light weapons),
Defense (medium weapons), Offense (sub capital weapons). The new AQUILLA'S can carry 1 Dropship.
-*MH provides resouces to the reunited TAURIAN CONCORDAT. MH produses original mechs: one 45T, one 60T, one 80T. MH produces 3 original vehicles: one 25T, one 55T, one 100T.
YEARS-32
-MH offers "protection" to the worlds of HARDISEY'S HAVEN, CLAYBORNE II, DIEDRE'S DEN and ANDIRON if they join the MH. They refuse. The worls of SIERRA, SAN NICOLAS, LAHTI, NIOPS V/VI/VII refuse similar offers.
-MH invades the former CF worlds and quickly takes over them.
-MH invades SIERRA, SAN NICOLAS, LAHTI and the Niops Association. The FWL comes to the aid of said worlds. *FWL declares war with the MH. The HEGEMONY-LEAGUE War begins.
-YEAR 1: All the former CF worlds are freed. The former FWL worlds are freed and rejoin the FWL. The Illyrian worlds see heavy fighting but but are liberated by the FWL. VALERIUS falls to FWL. The Niops Association is freed by the FWL, but was very costly on both sides.
-YEAR 2: FWL invades REVEL, "New Rome", "Rodney". When FWL enters the "Spike" system, they are met with very heavy resistance. The battle lasts 7 months but falls. MH launches a counterattack on the "Spike" system, with 6 AQUILLA O's, 12 AQUILLA D's, and as many attack dropships they have. MH worlds "Spike", "New Rome" and "Rodney" are retaken. Due to troubles on other borders, FWL asks for a ceasefire with MH. The Illyrian and former CF worlds MUST be granted independence from the MH if the war is to end. MH agrees. *FWL forces leave MH space as MH forces leave Illyrian and former CF space.
-Losing half its worlds, MH starts a mass colonization program. 5 worlds between "Jones" and VALERIUS, 1 between REYKAVIS (IP) and REVEL. 2 between "New Rome" and REVEL. 7 between the MH, NA and the FWL, creating a buffer zone for the MH capital. 2 between NEW VENICE and "Jones". 3 between ALGENIB and "Gal'ron".
-With help from the LC and TC, MH starts expanding the ALPHARD shipyard and other factories to build warships.
-MH ships encounter MOC/DOA/CC ships in a system between ISLINGTON and THRAXA. Both sides attack eachother, claiming ownership of the system. Both sides agree to leave the system (do to both sides suffering heavy damage), and unclaimed for now. *This starts a low-level "war" with the two sides.
-With the shipyard expansion ahead of schedule, warship production statrs for a Corvette-class warship.
-An unknown warship is briefly seen in MH space, appearing, then disappearing.
-MH finishes its first PLEBEIAN Corvette-class warship.
YEARS-41
-The unknown warship jumps into the ALPHARD system and starts firing at everything. Luckily, the MHS PLEBEIAN was in the system as well.
The two warships battle as aerospace fighters, dropships and attack jumpships deal with the enemy aerospace fighters and dropships.
Despite being half destroyed, the PLEBEIAN destroys the enemy warship. The other enemy units are also destroyed.
After the battle, the debris is seen having WoB markings. The battle shows that the MH has become stronger. Pride in the nation grows.
****After this, more sightings of WoB ships, and WoB raids start happening across known space.
-The 7 MH worlds along the Illyrian border are continually under attack by pirates/ raiders since the end of the war.
-10 years after the war, it is discovered that some MH politicians had sided with the FWL/IP/Former CF worlds, and have been disrupting the flow of supplies to the coreward most worlds. They no longer trust the government.
-2 years later, 5 of those worlds are no longer part of the MH. They join the Lothian League.
-Helios is claimed by both the MH and MOC/DOA/CC. Both side control half the world. Skirmishes happen daily on this world.
-Both the MH and MOC/DOA/CC colonize worlds between the MH and MOC. Helios, [COPPERHELL] and [POSSIBLE] are fought over the most. As seen on the map provided, [PASTOR], [EMERALD FALLS], [WARM LEGS], [LOWGRASS] and [GIVER] are more or less controlled my the MH or MOC/DOA/CC, based on the dividing line.
YEARS-70
-The next 30 years see's the MH military grow in size. Slavery is banned in the MH 5 years into the build-up.
Marian Armed Forces: 16 Battlemech Legions (apx. 22 regiments/2400 mechs)
Warships:4
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