Sigh.
Some pointers on B-tech canon policys
The Games are not canon, at lest when it comes to mechanics, story elements can be considered canon but require other sources to confirm, even then in game details are subject to changes.
The Table top game is considered canon, in some cases more so than the novels, like wise the Novels are canon and in some cases can be more cannon than the table top game.
I believe newer is more correct as well.
Their are some items that could be conspired official but not canon, like the Old battletechnology magazines (though they once where canon).
Their are references to Mechcommander 1 & 2 in other sources (Imminent crisis even mentions the system it used)
Mechwarrior 1 and the crescent hawk series have some mention in canon (Jason Youngblood in particular)
Mechwarrior 2 GBL has some references
Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance has it's basic elements described in the Fed Com civil war book, but makes it dificult for Black knight to happen
Im not sure about Mechwarrior 3 though, but their is a short story called Trial Under Fire that recounts it, so it might be considered canon due to that.
This however has not stopped some mechs from MW4 from getting into canon products.
The Fed Com civil war time line for MW 4
Mid to late 3062
After months of protests started and encouraged by the Planetary ruler Eric Dresari, Katherine Sends Marcus Roland and elements of the 5th Donegal Guards to take control of the worlds militia and stop the uprisings. The arrive of these forces temporarily subsided the protests
However they soon started heating up again, and by October the 5th was regular forced into firing into mobs of angry citizens... Due to events Roland and his subordinates where not able to fully take control of the Militia forces until the end of October when the Militias commander was killed, When this happened he promptly cracked down on the protests. This however did not help, by November Roland ordered the militia commander to take control of the Royal palace and arrest Dresari, he refused, so Roland arrested him and his staff and assumed control of all forces on world. On November 24th 3062 He stormed the Palace and arrested the Eric Dresari and his family, the next day he executed them, By January 3063 he had arrested 4,000 people and them put them on show trials and then had them executed.
Mid 3063 Riots and unrest continued... Late 3063 to early 3064 Ian Dresari arrives with a substansole force and after three months routs Roland and his lackeys, spends much of the rest of 3064 rooting out rement forces loyal to Katherine...
Early 3065 In reprisals for early actions against the Draconis Combine the DCMS lanchs a number of attacks on Fed Duns worlds, Kentares was one of them, within weeks the DCMS had the Forces under Dresari control on the run, then the 10th Lyran Guards showed up to save the day, the Tenth had been stranded on a near by world and had managed to impress enough jumpships to get them home, and elected to help the "allied" forces along the way. A few weeks later the DCMS force on world was no more (ending up in one of the only stand up fights in the civil war).
FYI the old Cartoon is considered a in universe childrens show, as such is a bit exaggerated, but the cast are canon, Adam in parturler is the current leader of House Steiner.
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In regards to the Question if LRMs and SRMs have Guidance packages the answer would be yes the y do, other wise MRMs and Rockets would not need to note that they have their systems removed...
Era Report 2750 explitly mentions LRMs and SRMs have guidance systems
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NARC MISSILE BEACON
The leap forward that the standard SRM and LRM systems
made over old missile systems was so great that it was not until the
late twenty-sixth century that the Terran Hegemony began research
on a wide-range EM beacon under the codename TATTLETALE. It
was to be a short-range missile that, instead of an armor-piercing
explosive warhead, would contain the TATTLETALE beacon. All SRM
and LRM missiles normally have a self-guidance system in their
noses that allow them to keep a target. The TATTLETALE system
was a small adjustment to the smart core that allowed the missile
to more accurately home in on the beacon.
It mentions the system broadcasts over a wide range of frequency's covering much of the EM spectrum, early models even had a powerful strobe light for visual, but that bit was dropped before it saw wide spread deployment. Underline is mine
Here's what it mentions on Streaks
Quote
While autocannon rounds were cheap and easy to produce,
the complex targeting, tracking and guidance systems found in
most modern missile systems were not. Efficiency and accuracy in
missile munitions was high on the priority list of the Star League, as
the SLDF consumed tens of thousands of tons in missile munitions
every year across the Inner Sphere.
A solution eventually emerged in the form of an advanced
system that used a multi-lens “compound eye” sensor mated to a
microwave targeting laser array. This targeting blister in the missile
launching system would bounce multiple coherent light pulses off
the target, accepting a positive lock only if over ninety percent of
the pulses returned a signal. Only then would the launcher’s combat
computer release the missiles with a constant feed of telemetry
to ensure optimal delivery. In practice, this multi-layered targeting
and tracking system ensured that, once the missile system fired, all
of its missiles would impact their target.
Also note that this entry also mentions missiles of the time (I.e. LRMs and SRMs) have guidance systems.
Edit:
From what I have seen on the B-tech canon policy printed materiel in Germany is not considered canon, with exception of the Founding of the Clans series.
So Sorry CCC your book references are not inherently valid
Also link on canon
http://bg.battletech...opic,586.0.html
Edited by Nebfer, 16 July 2012 - 12:14 PM.
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3rdworld, on 16 July 2012 - 09:57 AM, said:
