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[Aokarasu]

The *only* attempt to bring in aliens was in "Far Country." The vast, vast, VAST majority of the fanbase hated it. I could go searching for a quote, but I'm pretty sure Catalyst Game Labs (current owner of the IP) has no intent to ever introduce aliens.

[Mercurial]

The end occurs when Stackpole finally snaps after putting together that 'Stackpoling' is a thing that battletech fans use pejoratively, and he sets to write a new book. In this book, Phelan Kell rises from the dead with a new Mech, the Wolfhound XXXXXXXXXXXXXXIIC. He systematically jumps from sphere to sphere (because his Mech has a jump drive, you see), and fires his lasers into the core of the planet, exploding the IS worlds one by one (And he is still the hero of this story). He then journies to the tomb of Victor Davion, rises him from the grave (his Wolfhound can also ressurect the dead thanks to LOStech that was developed during the Wobblie Jihad) and the two ride off into the sunset in space (Yes, he writes that. Rides off into the sunset in space) to form a new galactic civilization called the Davion's Wolves.

Upon reading this, approximately 75% of all Battletech fans fly into such an incadescent rage that they suffer a stroke. This is known as the great Battletech fandom purging, and it's survivors whisper fearfully in the night of it, lest they protest too loudly and suffer another Stackpoling of their beloved universe.

This also devestates Pirahna Games, since their built-in fanbase is gone, and they go out of business. The name Battletech is bought up by Actvision and eventually finds it's way into their newest game 'Modern Warfare: Battletech.' Which has no giant robots to speak of.

Edited by Mercurial, 14 June 2012 - 04:15 PM.

[PANZERBUNNY]

Cthulhu tech.

Demo half breed mechs.

[Team Leader]

I think it ends when everyone gets bored of fighting each other, they establish a utopian society, and technology advances until everyone joins Starfleet and boldly go on adventures together just to keep themselves occupied.

Or maybe there is yet another mech war, except it is caused by a rogue prototype AI controlled mech that establishes an enormous robotic army and seeks to destroy all humanity because of its past crimes to technology.

[Giverous]

Mercurial, on 14 June 2012 - 04:14 PM, said:

The name Battletech is bought up by Actvision and eventually finds it's way into their newest game 'Modern Warfare: Battletech.' Which has no giant robots to speak of.

nice

[CycKath]

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

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

ComStar victorious, its what you get from planning for the long game...

[Randalf Yorgen]

One day, at Mech Camp...... o,0

But really, did the story of the Not Named Clan ever get an ending, and don't say that they lived as Pirates in the periphery, I have a much more romantic notion of what became of them.

[Aym]

In the grim darkness of the future there is only war... Wait a second...Just don't ask how battletech BEGINS, cause Prometheus ruined origin stories.

[Insidious Johnson]

In the next 120 years, after the next 3 major wars, Mr. Spock will fly his science vessel to try and save Romulus but gets stuck in a wormhole and has to reboot the franchise with his younger self..... or something.

[Cubano]

Team Leader, on 14 June 2012 - 05:41 PM, said:

I think it ends when everyone gets bored of fighting each other, they establish a utopian society, and technology advances until everyone joins Starfleet and boldly go on adventures together just to keep themselves occupied.

Or maybe there is yet another mech war, except it is caused by a rogue prototype AI controlled mech that establishes an enormous robotic army and seeks to destroy all humanity because of its past crimes to technology.

I smell a winner.

[Leanansidhe]

Kobold, on 14 June 2012 - 02:32 PM, said:

More war.

It had to be done

[Skylarr]

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

Protomechs and talking birds.

Talking Birds Far Country was a good book. Being a Sci-Fi nut I like the concept. One of these days I will read The Sword and The Dagger to read about the Swamp People.

[Skylarr]

Randalf Yorgen, on 14 June 2012 - 06:07 PM, said:

One day, at Mech Camp...... o,0

But really, did the story of the Not Named Clan ever get an ending, and don't say that they lived as Pirates in the periphery, I have a much more romantic notion of what became of them.

The army unit, which had now been labeled the "Minnesota Tribe," attacked Jarett, this time using massed AeroSpace Fighters to keep the Draconis Combine BattleMechs out of the fight. The Tribe attacked for the last time on the planet Richmond, though it is unclear whether they knew about the jail that housed political prisoners before they freed them. The Tribe loaded the freed prisoners up in their DropShips and left, never making their presence known in the Inner Sphere again. ComStar continued to track the Tribe as it traveled in the Deep Periphery towards the Federated Suns, only to lose the trail near Valentina.

[Major Bill Curtis]

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

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

I really need this TRO.

I think it's the one in which people have just reverted to hitting each other with clubs. The clubs are divided into light, medium, heavy, and assault. The assault clubs are pretty amazing, but if you hit someone in the back with a light club it can still do some damage. Some clubs will take a dude's head off in one swing.

The Clan clubs are better, but the Inner Sphere is catching up: ever since they discovered the plans for the Star League clubs, which are actually shovels (have you ever been hit by a shovel?), in the Fuschia Death Memory Core, all hell has been breaking loose.

[chungus maximus]

Dexterm, on 14 June 2012 - 03:54 PM, said:

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.

Aye. Or a bath with a toaster. I couldn't handle that.

[Damocles 1]

Cubano, on 14 June 2012 - 06:13 PM, said:

I smell a winner.

right so battletech becomes earthseige/starseige, starseige becomes star trek which inevitable becomes star wars which then goes on to become starship troopers (somehow) it then breaks down to flash gordon only to end up being the actual fact based history of humanity prior to being stranded on earth, the system works

[Madddog]

Skylarr, on 14 June 2012 - 06:25 PM, said:

Talking Birds Far Country was a good book. Being a Sci-Fi nut I like the concept. One of these days I will read The Sword and The Dagger to read about the Swamp People.

Comments like that will get you banned from this website and the only "Battletech" games you will ever be able to play again will be Mechassault. Enjoy.

[-Ramrod-]

Adding aliens would be kind of neat. But I doubt most fans would go for it. I'd say just bring in a new faction. One that left the clans and made their own society. They could be more advanced than the clans...like the clans were to the inner sphere.

[Madddog]

Oh yeah the critters in Sword in Dagger were sapient, not sentient so its a little better

[sakkaku]

I would expect a "reboot" around the original star league. There are tons of material in the lore that wasn't covered in detail by the fiction so it makes sense. That said if they use the same god aweful authors of the dark age series I will cringe. Dark age could have been good but so much of that trash is barely readable. At least Stackpole and Coleman put together an interesting and sound political/military dialog. Some of the dark age authors just make you want to sigh reading the internal dialog, then kill yourself because half of the combat was incomprehensible and diluted to retardation.