[Abe Sargent]

I tried to bring in changes to the clans where possible, to indicate the ongoing climate and culture there. For example, no known edict was issued by Khan Pryde that we discussed in here, with Falcons manipulating, cheating, and defrauding their own honor and systems. But this is an ongoing issue with Falcon. I’ll give you two canonical examples:

A Trial of Bloodright is issued for a Falcon-only Bloodname, and due to genetic exchanges with other clans, a ristar of another clan is able to claim it, and arrives to the Trial, but his DropShip is held up due to inspections by Falcon because of “possible contaminants” in the DropShip, and then after he arrives late, and they are into the second round of the Trial already, he issues a Trial of Grievance to get himself back in, and they hand him a Linebacker omnimech that mysteriously blows up during the battle and it dies, they claim an electronic glitch killed him. Clearly, the Falcon didn’t want him to participate, in fear that their Bloodname would be outside of their clean.

Another incident happens in 3067 when Steel Viper, back in the homeworlds, is winning a Trial of Possession against a Falcon holding, and the Falcons launch a massive amount artillery right into the Viper’s unit, defeating it. The artillery was not a part of the bid, nor was it the next highest bid, and in fact, was not listed among the defender’s assets, so it was a clearly violation of all things honorable. Which is exactly the trick they tried to pull with us and the Elementals, so this is a clear theme that the Falcons are doing that I wanted to tie into, their ongoing loss of honor.

Ghost Bear is moving more and more towards uniting themselves with Rasalhague, and Wolf is just trying to survive, caught between the two powerful states, and they refused to use, as an example, any of the IS Factories they captured, because they were lesser and tainted. They were split in half when Wolf-in-Exile left, and then lost to Falcon a few times, and they just lost against Falcon during the Incursion, when they struck against the Falcon’s back, and the Falcon grabbed four worlds of their own to the Wolf’s three. Meanwhile, they are using politics to keep themselves solvent. They ceded three worlds to Hell Hounds along the border to Ghost bear, two enemies that hated each other, and then let them go at it, rather than have the bear Book askance at Wolf.

So you saw Clan Wolf sort of avoid a Trial with us and just gave us passage to the other side of their territory. They didn’t avoid it completely, when we landed to issue a formal batchall, they could not avoid it, but they had just a quick one on one match up, and then traded for the fighters and pilots rather than fight another Trial for it. They aren’t cowards, but they are still in a strong rebuilding mode, and you saw precisely that.


Meanwhile, you saw Diamond Shark as its own best friend, playing all sides off to the glory of Shark. They have created tons of deals with local companies and states in the 3060s, and thus helping us out was no big thing. They laughed off a Trial and just sold us stuff. They made deals that made them money.

All four clans are here in this campaign, and hopefully being realistically shown.


Meanwhile, one of the major trends in the clans is a heavy home world vs Inner Sphere clan battle, as the warden vs crusader was ultimately won by the wardens and the destruction of the Jaguars. Ghost Bear was the first clan to relocate to the Inner Sphere completely abandoned the homeworlds, and Nova Cat was censured off, and now other clans are following the bears lead, quietly. Diamond Shark. Snow Raven. Hell’s Horses. Ice Hellion.