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#1 Brenden

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Posted 20 July 2018 - 05:29 PM

Was there a book out there that detailed the fluff of a Civilian, Mechwarrior, Clanner, or Mercenary's daily life from one end to another, what their holidays were, what the Future Internet was like, stuff like that?

#2 Tetatae Squawkins

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Posted 21 July 2018 - 07:21 AM

That stuff is scattered across hundreds of sourcebooks/novels in bits and pieces. A lot of the more recent sourcebooks have fluff in the form of snarky 'internet comments'. But the real time internet would very much be a local planetary thing like we know it today. With limited amounts of data coming through HPGs and Jumpship/Dropship traffic on a regular basis.

I don't think there is a comprehensive guide to holidays, religions, sports etc. It's something the BT universe could use actually.

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Posted 21 July 2018 - 10:42 AM

Mainly drooling and soiling themselves. Freebirths are not very smart.

#4 Brenden

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Posted 22 July 2018 - 04:34 PM

View PostTetatae Squawkins, on 21 July 2018 - 07:21 AM, said:

That stuff is scattered across hundreds of sourcebooks/novels in bits and pieces. A lot of the more recent sourcebooks have fluff in the form of snarky 'internet comments'. But the real time internet would very much be a local planetary thing like we know it today. With limited amounts of data coming through HPGs and Jumpship/Dropship traffic on a regular basis.

I don't think there is a comprehensive guide to holidays, religions, sports etc. It's something the BT universe could use actually.

I think I might right a FF just for this. At least maybe, in broad strokes.

View PostNaglinator, on 21 July 2018 - 10:42 AM, said:

Mainly drooling and soiling themselves. Freebirths are not very smart.

no u

#5 Naglinator

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Posted 22 July 2018 - 05:26 PM

Lol, actually according to books fairly normal as life now. Little more primitive near the periphery little more advanced near the capital planets otherwise similar. People by houses, watch tv(vids) play sports go to school etc.

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Posted 22 July 2018 - 06:20 PM

View PostTetatae Squawkins, on 21 July 2018 - 07:21 AM, said:

That stuff is scattered across hundreds of sourcebooks/novels in bits and pieces. A lot of the more recent sourcebooks have fluff in the form of snarky 'internet comments'. But the real time internet would very much be a local planetary thing like we know it today. With limited amounts of data coming through HPGs and Jumpship/Dropship traffic on a regular basis.

I don't think there is a comprehensive guide to holidays, religions, sports etc. It's something the BT universe could use actually.


I think the Clan homeworlds have real time internet, at least for the warriors and scientists if the "snarky internet comments" are anything to go by. Of course, limiting access to the least populated castes probably helps with HPG bandwidth congestion.

The Inner Sphere probably COULD have real time internet Sphere wide if Comstar wasn't full of ******* that limited access and charged by the byte.

#7 Tetatae Squawkins

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Posted 22 July 2018 - 06:54 PM

View Postevilauthor, on 22 July 2018 - 06:20 PM, said:


I think the Clan homeworlds have real time internet, at least for the warriors and scientists if the "snarky internet comments" are anything to go by. Of course, limiting access to the least populated castes probably helps with HPG bandwidth congestion.

The Inner Sphere probably COULD have real time internet Sphere wide if Comstar wasn't full of ******* that limited access and charged by the byte.



Yeah the clans do have a more advanced system. The latency would probably still be on the order of a few thousand ms though.

No cross-clan FPS gaming. No wonder they are so salty.


Also spoiler:
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#8 Karl Streiger

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Posted 23 July 2018 - 08:39 AM

real time interstellar web?

not possible for one part you need a HPG-A station at the bare minimum.
of course you can only have intersystem communication with the speed of light.

at best I would expect to have daily updates or half day updates- were a station in the rotation sends all informations as delta load from day before (including all informations send to it by other station) packed into compressed data files and send in a burst.

to send every byte in realtime over 60LY would even exhaust the fusion fuel (and hydrogen can not be harvested) and not forget the waste heat. the soil would vaporate when you have some chatty ClansApp freebirth sending memes and funny cat videos.


information technology doesn't belong in hands of infidels - you should know it by now.




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Posted 23 July 2018 - 09:24 AM

You say not possible... yet is is possible. The clans can have realtime( about 1200ms) communication in the kerenksy cluster. Clearly not in the rest of barbarian territory.

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Posted 23 July 2018 - 10:47 AM

View PostNaglinator, on 23 July 2018 - 09:24 AM, said:

You say not possible... yet is is possible. The clans can have realtime( about 1200ms) communication in the kerenksy cluster. Clearly not in the rest of barbarian territory.


At Least they did before the Wars of Reaving and half the clans were wiped out.

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Posted 23 July 2018 - 10:48 AM

View PostTetatae Squawkins, on 23 July 2018 - 10:47 AM, said:


At Least they did before the Wars of Reaving and half the clans were wiped out.

I consider the reaving and dark ages as much to canon as i do the JJ star wars universe compared to old star wars.

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Posted 23 July 2018 - 11:19 AM

View PostKarl Streiger, on 23 July 2018 - 08:39 AM, said:

real time interstellar web?

not possible for one part you need a HPG-A station at the bare minimum.


Dude. Building better infrastructure is not technically impossible. Melissa Steiner's assassination was televised live to the entire Inner Sphere. If you upgrade all the connections to be two way and then run the links 24/7, you could have real time internet across the entire Inner Sphere.

It's just like with everything else in the Inner Sphere, the monetary and resource drain of all the constant conflicts in the Inner Sphere prevents everyone from fixing all their infrastructure (not just HPGs) back up to AT LEAST Star League levels.

#13 Tetatae Squawkins

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Posted 23 July 2018 - 02:12 PM

View PostNaglinator, on 23 July 2018 - 10:48 AM, said:

I consider the reaving and dark ages as much to canon as i do the JJ star wars universe compared to old star wars.


That's fine. But it's still canon either way.

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Posted 23 July 2018 - 02:24 PM

View PostTetatae Squawkins, on 23 July 2018 - 02:12 PM, said:


That's fine. But it's still canon either way.

Nope. Battletech ends in 3060, the whole universe blew up. Nothing else after exists. Sorry about that.

#15 Tetatae Squawkins

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Posted 23 July 2018 - 03:21 PM

View PostNaglinator, on 23 July 2018 - 02:24 PM, said:

Nope. Battletech ends in 3060, the whole universe blew up. Nothing else after exists. Sorry about that.



Understood.

#16 MechaBattler

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Posted 24 July 2018 - 12:42 PM

I imagine that only on the well developed planets is it futuristic relative to our own. And on less developed planets it's probably close to what we have now in first world countries. Worlds way out on the fringes though. Might be worse than a third world country. Especially if interest in development ceased and the people were basically stuck there. Waiting on a random transport that never bothered to come there way. So the people settled in for a few generations. It might be all they know.

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Posted 27 July 2018 - 11:10 AM

I always thought that life in the Inner Sphere depended on the culture based on the different Successor States. Because each House has adopted different cultures of Terra for their own nation. Like the Maoist China culture of the Capellan Confederation making civilians work hard to gain citizenship or the German-based Lyran Commonwealth's celebrity-like lifestyle based on wealth. So it is kind of hard to say what life is like in the Inner Sphere as a whole. The only thing they have in common are the HPGs and SLDF Mechs.

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Posted 27 July 2018 - 07:21 PM

View PostWill9761, on 27 July 2018 - 11:10 AM, said:

I always thought that life in the Inner Sphere depended on the culture based on the different Successor States. Because each House has adopted different cultures of Terra for their own nation. Like the Maoist China culture of the Capellan Confederation making civilians work hard to gain citizenship or the German-based Lyran Commonwealth's celebrity-like lifestyle based on wealth. So it is kind of hard to say what life is like in the Inner Sphere as a whole. The only thing they have in common are the HPGs and SLDF Mechs.



Even inside the various interstellar states local culture and living standards vary wildly. It's often said that the Federated Suns is like two different nations. One that contains several of the most developed and technologically advance worlds among humanity, and those in the Outback that have some of the poorest and least educated people in the Inner Sphere. Worse than many periphery state worlds.

Unrest among those poor worlds is one of the reasons the Filtvelt Coalition and Malagrotta Cooperative split off from the FedSuns.

Edited by Tetatae Squawkins, 27 July 2018 - 07:21 PM.


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Posted 28 July 2018 - 09:01 PM

View PostBrenden, on 20 July 2018 - 05:29 PM, said:

Was there a book out there that detailed the fluff of a Civilian, Mechwarrior, Clanner, or Mercenary's daily life from one end to another, what their holidays were, what the Future Internet was like, stuff like that?

A reasonable visual summary of generic life can be found in an episode of the TV series "Firefly." Just pay attention to the background characters in a given episode.

Earlier episodes - periphery/less well off worlds.
Later episodes - prosperous planets.

(Main characters basically summarize a small merc group... as well as the life story of the 'mercs' in the Battletech game by harebrained schemes.)

For specifics, it really varies on the location.

Edited by Koniving, 28 July 2018 - 09:07 PM.


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Posted 30 July 2018 - 05:28 AM

Firefly great example.





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