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Blacknova:
The Kapteyn Universe is Back!

Thirteen years ago I started writing a story that turned into a PBEM and then a huge alternate universe setting for BattleTech. Dozens of people were involved over the years, and now I am working to publish our universe as a coherent whole.

What is the Kapteyn Universe?
This is an alternate timeline story starting from 3022, which rewrites the lead up too, and outbreak of the 4th Succession War. It is based on the side bar on page 57 of the original House Marik Sourcebook, but quickly diverges into an alternate reaction by ComStar and the Kapteyn powers. I had an epiphany that started with the question “What if…”. What if Marik, Kurita, and Liao had struck first, before Davion and Steiner were ready, all manipulated by ComStar.

For the Clans, the premise was "What of Andery Kerensky lived?" and how could all twenty Clans survive down to the present day? This meant creating new events, but coming back to key touch points of canon along the way, making for a familiar, but very different set of Clans for the KU.

What is Coming for the KU?
Over the next few months, I'll be posting the story as a PDF and the sourcebooks of the universe as well, before getting into new stories set in the KU.

If you prefer reading the story via a thread and seeing the conversation that went with it, you can view it here: https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,60667.0.html

The product list is below and I'll update it as each sourcebook is published over the coming weeks and months, along with a brief synopsis of each book here in the thread.

To access the published materials, use this link https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/68p8roygnszkdw4s83rtb/h?rlkey=hqj6s2oeu8faa4g6ejzilzkpc&dl=0

Novels
KU-A The Other Option: Kapteyn’s First Strike
KU-B The Other Option: Kerensky’s Lost Hope
KU-C The Other Option: Cameron’s Dream

Sourcebooks
KU-01 The Fourth Succession War
KU-02 Inner Sphere Supplemental
KU-03 Field Manual: Clans
KU-04 Field Report: Terran Hegemony
KU-05 Field Report: Federated Suns
KU-06 Field Report: Lyran Commonwealth
KU-07 Field Report: Minor Powers
KU-08 Field Report: Capellan Confederation
KU-00 Field Report: Periphery
KU-10 Field Report: Draconis Combine
KU-11 Field Report: Free Worlds League
KU-12 Inner Sphere Supplemental II
KU-12 Field Report: Loyalist Clans
KU-14 Field Report: Crusader Clans
KU-13 Field Report: Warden Clans
KU-16 Field Report: Unaligned Clans

Want to Chat about the KU?
You can do that here, or come and join the new KU Discord https://discord.gg/YjHSU3PSyM

Blacknova:
NOVEL: The Other Option - Kapteyn’s First Strike

This is an alternate timeline story set in 3022, which rewrites the lead up too, and outbreak of the 4th Succession War. It is based firstly on the side bar on page 57 of the original House Marik Sourcebook, but quickly diverges into an alternate reaction by ComStar and the Kapteyn powers.

The results of the invasions were gamed out and the story of the alternate war slowly written as we progressed the results of the war, using a highly detailed version of Succession Wars/Inner Sphere in Flames.

The full novel is available here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/68p8roygnszkdw4s83rtb/h?rlkey=hqj6s2oeu8faa4g6ejzilzkpc&dl=0

Original thread is here: https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,60667.0.html

Special Thanks: An enormous number of people have contributed to the Kapteyn Universe (KU), and I hope I have not forgotten any of them below: Matthew “Blacknova” Alexander, Joshua “Knightmare” Perian, Jason “Panzerfaust150” Wiser, Michael “drakensis” Brown, Eugene “Centurion03” Klopper, Dan “Coriendal” Waugh, Glenn “Rainbow 6” Miller, Andrea “Magestric_ Artbitch” Hamann, Xavier “Ice Hellion” Lugherini, Bruce “Kwic” Jensen, Jeremy “shwagpo”, “Manne”, “Epoch Rooster”, “Recon-5”,
Chris “Alex Knight” Marti, “Dragon Cat”, “Potenza”, “Dread Moores”, “Hessian”, “VhenRa”, “Shadow Wraith”, Nathan “Valles” Baxter, Robert “Chaosextreme”
Johnson, John “Col. Chiang” Almond, Christopher Damour, Tony Crum, David “Slencgb”, “Red Pins”, Michael “DragonCat” Middleton, Matthew Stohner and anyone else we may have missed!

Blacknova:
KU 01 - The Fourth Succession War Sourcebook

Available here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/68p8roygnszkdw4s83rtb/h?rlkey=hqj6s2oeu8faa4g6ejzilzkpc&dl=0

Fourth Succession War is a Kapteyn Universe fiction supplement designed to offer information on the progress and conduct of the Fourth Succession War. This book provides the wider scope and background for the novel The Other Option: Kapteyn’s First Strike.

The first sections of the book provide a short look into the pre-war state of the Inner Sphere and the planning for and lead up to the Fourth Succession War.

The second section, details the Fourth Succession War through its three distinct phases, each of which covers approximately six months of the war.

Finally, the results of and fallout from the Fourth Succession War are details at the end of the book, tallying the losses and gains of each of the many nations involved.

Want More From The Kapteyn Universe
For more from the Kapteyn Universe, come and join the KU Discord https://discord.gg/YjHSU3PSyM

Wrangler:
Oh wow! you guys are still kicking around, that's awesome!

Blacknova:
We are indeed.

Clans, Supplement 3032, HAF, and AFFS are laid out, and LCAF in is lay out, so with one a week, and about a week to prep, the next ones should keep you in reading for a couple of months.

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