Sooo... What's the source of the Wolves as ilclan / fall of the RotS chatter?
The Case for ilClan Wolf.
(1) Position - Clan Wolf's new empire is aimed right at the heart of the republic. They're closer, and their troops are positioned for combat against that foe. The falcons are almost as close, but not quite.
(2) Probability - The Wolves are in one of the better states to conquer in such a fashion. The Falcons lost the Horses, and now have to contend with them on one front, the Lyrans on another, and if they misstep they might have to worry about the bears as well. The horses are too far away, and too bloodied from their unfortunate alliance with the Falcons. I expect their focus is on rebuilding and capitalizing on their gains within the former Wolf OZ. The Sea Foxes aren't poised to take it, and they're happy doing what they're doing already, selling guns to anybody who wants em. The Bears are already cozied up with the FRR, and I expect we'd see them bulking up if they intended to do more than homestead with their FRR buddies. The Exile Wolves seem to be occupied with the task of "not dying to the falcons" and the Nova Cats seem to be busy "being dead at the hands of the dragon." The Spirit Cats who survive are in a similar position as the Exile Wolves, surviving rather than dominating. Clan Wolf, meanwhile has quite a bit of conquest momentum, the potential means to invade earth once the fortress is solved, and the desire to.
(3) Meta Knowlege: 2013's Gencon Battle was CWF v.s. ROTS on Terra Itsself with a side-battle between Alaric's own forces and Stone's own. - The Wolves Won. No guaranteee of a wolf /victory/ on terra but a pretty good sign that there will be a wolf/republic fight on the soil of humanity's homeworld. Ultimately these battles are not binding in any fashion, but that such a battle ever occurred in the first place seems indicative of TPTB's Likely direction. Further evidence in favor is that 2014's Gencon Diorama showed Clan Wolf taking Unity City. Again, not a guarantee, but I've never heard of them comissioning a diorama for an event that didn't/won't happen.
(4) Meta Knowlege: the "Free Taiw... St Ives" April Fools Day PDF - AFD PDFs have foreshadowed things before. the Project Omega AFD PDF showed us a Superheavy mech (which we eventually got in the form of the omega), foreshadowed Marthe Pryde's death, and if one believes the potential WoB/Wolverine correlation, it hints at that as well. So, we have here a PDF that shows us a future ruled by a Third Star League, ruled by "Clan Wolfhound." The whole document seems to possibly hint at a Wolf-Led Third Star League.
(5) Winson - There is a mystery around Jennifer Winson's true identity. There is a fair degree of likelyhood as hinted at in some of the historical documents we've seen lately that she is a Cameron, or a Cameron-Amaris. The wolves retain her legacy. This would be the means to reboot the ruling line via the breeding program. This is something only the Wolves, Wolves in Exile and Coyotes would be fully in the know and capable of.
(6) Meta-Historical - The Republic has a Roman thing going. Alaric's Historical Namesake sacked Rome.
(7) Mobile Assets - Clan Wolf recently relocated their best manufacturing capacity, and their best scientific and engineering personnel and its possible they could uproot those mobile factories and relocate them to Terra.
(8) I don't have it handy, but in one of the star league era sourcebooks, someone, I believe a cameron had a quote about "dark days when wolves stalk terra" which I think is intended as forshadowing.
I will laugh my arse off if ilClan doesn't result in the "we assured ourselves this would happen two years ago" Wolf victory
and I promise that if you don't stop clogging up the wolf thread with this sort of thing, that when the wolves DO take terra, you will never hear the end of it. We get it. You don't think it's likely. That's swell, but some of us do think it is and we'd like to discuss it without you butting in. Please stop.