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[Empty Azure]

Is there any official end, or has it just not been written yet?

[Roland]

The Wobblies ruin everything for everyone, and people end up fighting with farm equipment.

Not even kidding about that. It's terrible.

[Murphy7]

Michael Stackpole, in a drunken puddle on the floor of a particularly dissolute bar in a flyover state.

Edited by Murphy7, 14 June 2012 - 02:21 PM.

[Arctic Fox]

Empty Azure, on 14 June 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

Is there any official end, or has it just not been written yet?

The current limit of BattleTech fiction is at 3143 at the end of A Bonfire of Worlds, the last Dark Age book. Now that the Jihad storyline is finished, it's supposed to proceed from there next year, so you can say it hasn't been written yet.

[Paladin1]

While the offical end of the game hasn't been written yet, that doesn't mean that individual factions can't be ended. Just ask the Smoked Jaguars what happens when an annoying fanboi can't take a hint and keeps pestering a writer about how uber their faction is versus all the others.

[Xantars]

there is no end Battle tech will go on for ever

[Kobold]

More war.

[Alistair Steiner]

If we take a fork in the road with the Wobbie thing, maybe. And Republic of the Sphere is all noble and shiny, but... kinda boring. Then everything goes black with the HPGs, and everyone fights everyone. Boo.

[ZnSeventeen]

Technically, the last Lore event, on Sarna anyways, is the transmission from Kerensky reaching the outer edges of the Inner Sphere in 3550.

http://www.sarna.net...ne#36th_Century

Edited by ZnSeventeen, 14 June 2012 - 02:37 PM.

[Evinthal]

Arctic Fox, on 14 June 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

The current limit of BattleTech fiction is at 3143 at the end of A Bonfire of Worlds, the last Dark Age book. Now that the Jihad storyline is finished, it's supposed to proceed from there next year, so you can say it hasn't been written yet.

Excellent. Let the tears flow from the people who hate the Jihad/Dark Ages.

Personally I like that era, and it will be interesting to see where they go with the line. Wonder how Clan Stone Lion will play into things.

[Vexgrave Lars]

In about 4.5 Billion years Sol goes Red Giant and destroy Earth. The throne of Terra becomes a moot point.

That's in TRO 45103125, so you have a while to go.

Kerensky is cloned in the meantime and does an Matrix like Agent Smith, taking over the inner sphere in a mathematically exponential doubling of his forces ever few moments, up to the point that everyone is genetically a Kerensky, and as such peace ensues and we all are delivered into a Utopian Ice Cream filled paradise of bliss and wonder on skates and skis.

Then as Roland said "The Wobblies (AKA GoonSwarm) ruin everything for everyone, and people end up fighting with farm equipment."

[Evinthal]

Vexgrave Lars, on 14 June 2012 - 02:44 PM, said:

Then as Roland said "The Wobblies (AKA GoonSwarm) ruin everything for everyone, and people end up fighting with farm equipment."

Nah that would be ComStar and the Republic of the Sphere doing that to you with their demilitarization of the Inner Sphere. See the "Wobbies"/"Blakists"/"Word of Blake" actually did more to advance the science / tech level than pretty much any other source did.

[Roland]

My mistake, I had thought that the Jihad directly led into the Dark Age nonsense that followed...but apparently that didn't happen for another hundred years?

Sarna just says some "unknown force" brought down the HPG grid.. is that seriously the best explanation?

Whatever the answer though, F that S. Darkage stuff is garbage. I do not want to fight in farm equipment.

[Beazle]

Roland said it best.

Edit: and then he added another good post while i was responding.

BUT COME ON!!!! Who doesn't want a mini with a chainsaw arm? Seriously, the dark ages happened because they wanted to sell their click-base mini's with chainsaw arms.

True story.

Edited by Beazle, 14 June 2012 - 03:14 PM.

[Arctic Fox]

Roland, on 14 June 2012 - 03:03 PM, said:

My mistake, I had thought that the Jihad directly led into the Dark Age nonsense that followed...but apparently that didn't happen for another hundred years?

The end of the Jihad is 3081, the Dark Age begins in 3132. So that's 51 years.

Roland, on 14 June 2012 - 03:03 PM, said:

Sarna just says some "unknown force" brought down the HPG grid.. is that seriously the best explanation?

At the moment, yes. Right now there's only speculation on who is really behind it, and until the timeline moves forward again we can't know for sure.

Roland, on 14 June 2012 - 03:03 PM, said:

Whatever the answer though, F that S. Darkage stuff is garbage. I do not want to fight in farm equipment.

I haven't read the first Dark Age novels, but from what I hear the armed IndustrialMechs that people complain about so much only really appear at the beginning, when it centers around various minor groups and planetary uprisings within the Republic of the Sphere, and that real 'Mechs appear in large numbers very quickly after the focus moves away from that. At the very least, the novels that I have have very little in the way of 'farm equipment'.

[GaussDragon]

Empty Azure, on 14 June 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

Is there any official end, or has it just not been written yet?

Protomechs and talking birds.

[GrizzlyViking]

Since there are over 100 books, if we ever get that far we'll likely all be too old to care or dead. LOL

Edited by GrizzlyViking, 14 June 2012 - 03:19 PM.

[Frostiken]

Battletech suspiciously ends at 3067.

NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED AFTER THAT.

[anonymous218]

Frostiken, on 14 June 2012 - 03:18 PM, said:

Battletech suspiciously ends at 3067.

NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED AFTER THAT.

Oh, if only that were true...

[Dexterm]

I get the felling they are going to try and bring in aliens and the clans and IS join together to fight them off. Hope im wrong but if they do that then ill have a bullet waiting for myself.