Hi All
Just putting this out here because several guys have poked me that I
should put it up here.
This was really more than anything else an exercise is playing around in MS Publisher because I had not used it since High School, but for work purposes I needed to play with it and so wanted to just get a little practice.
Making a 'fake' Battletech sourcebook accordingly sounded like a nifty little idea to play around with the software and get used to it again before starting on serious work!
Of course like all so many of my things, it went utterly out of control and took on a life of its own until I was finally able to stop and ask why in the hell I've written this much...
To sum it up, this sourcebook was based around something of an AU I was throwing around in with some people years back, where the FedCom started on the path to Warship construction a little bit earlier than in canon, in the 3040s to be specific. Add to that around that time, in response to Romano trying to capitalize on the Big Macs deep raid rather than take it for what it was, Hanse got incredibly pissed and was about to 'punish' the Cappies, which forced Candence to jump in and take over the Confederation to stop Hanse from simply snapping it like a kit-kat bar with the FWL. Although she is still allied to the FedCom because she sees them as pretty much going to win in the long run anyway, so she'll stick with the winning team, while protecting her independence.
But as a result of stepping up a real Navy much earlier, butterflies started to happen.
Also, it served as an excuse for me to throw around a lot of fanon and headcanon stuff. Like what makes Monitors different from dropships and so on ... I just thank God that I was able to stop it before I started to go into my grand-unified theory of K/F drive technology...
Annnnnnway.
Keeping in mind this is only like a 75% complete
first draft of an AU sort of universe, I'm just throwing it up here! Keep in mind I have utterly no permission to use any of the art from FASA or Catalyst or whoever owns it so I'm iffy on actually putting it up. If anyone has a problem, just let me know and I'll take it down!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0uhNSpHk-hBNVlWbjRfRl9XUWc