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Defiance Industries posted:

The writers agree with you on that, which is why they've really walked back how much of that is an actual product of the Clans. The gear we know as "Clan technology" is basically all just stuff that was in the prototyping phase when the SLDF left the Inner Sphere and they then put a finishing touch on to get to full production. That's why they go from 2850 to 3050 without any real technological advances, they got to the end of their crib sheet.

Don't undersell the factor that their infrastructure wasn't bombed to poo poo, and the radically different social context meaning applications that were never considered before being feasible, such as mass production of exowombs.

Ironically, despite their militarism, they've made quite a few innovations outside of military tech, significantly in the life sciences - to get poo poo like these guys:

It took some significant biotech chops to make the elemental; from some analysis on the Btech forums, an elemental isn't just a giant guy, there's some significant alterations made to their cardiovascular system to allow them to both be huge and hench, but also move insanely fast, and it's implied the changes to them complicated their propagation programs until the Diamond Sharks managed to debug the process.

I'd be all over battletech as a game if Catalyst weren't well known contractor screwers, and I didn't know folks who literally were put out of house and home by their fuckery. :smith:

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Big Beef City posted:

The 20 year long Exodus Civil war, Operation KLONDIKE, The Culling that followed, Clan Wolverine, Clan Widowmaker all might object to that statement in varying degrees.

The clans are dumb.
They are, however, infinitely preferable to "Hanse Davion meets the Yuuzhan Vong" as an exciting new protagonist to 'spice up' the universe. Especially if the Yuuzhan Vong were the totally real bird aliens.
They're marginally better than calling the move forward in the timeline "The Jihad" and the "The Dark Age". Which even if helped to reset some stuff are just cringe worthy, imo, from what I've read on them.

That's 20 years, versus 4 succession wars over 300 years. Pretty different in level.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2020 17:06

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Defiance Industries posted:

Yeah, you also have to wear hella thick boots so that the bottoms of your feet don't burn, blister and fester. It's also visual shorthand for "this is a Succession Wars-era pilot, not one from the Star League or the post-Clan Invasion period" since the other eras have people wearing full-body coolant suits instead of just a vest.

Unless you're from a real poo poo unit like Wilson's Hussars, then you're still wearing the vest and stripping down.

:smithwarrior:

# ¿ Aug 21, 2020 00:35

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Polaron posted:

Okay, what on earth is this goofy thing:

I saw it on Sarna.net's article about the Battle of Tukayyid but it had no caption.

Quite the glowup.

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