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I'm looking for a good story. Nation building and upteching are two parts of too it. Mechs vs Tanks and how to integrate Mechs into ISOT Earth's Tactical and strategic paradigm. Mechs will be present, but to what end? I see them both as the Left and Right hand of the overall whole. one thing...

A fair point. An incompetent and stupid enemy makes for a poor story. I'd imagine we'd see the Clans start to adapt earlier rather than later. Fir instance. With the Wolverines leaving as they did, many of the Clans instituted their reforms much more quickly after Nickolas died. The result is...

This is still in the idea phase. I would think continuois improvements would be a thing? What would you suggest?

Not sure. Maybe 'Star Alliance'?

All feasible with 175 years of continuous R&D.

One thing I was thinking about was that Earth wouldn't stop developing Jump technology. Given a 150 years of R&D you could see jump ships as capable as the Lucretia that can jump 200 LY in a single jump. Or even artificial gravity and the ability to jump inside a gravity well.

So rather than be idle, Earth and the Minnesota Tribe would be very, very active building a Periphery state to rival the Taurians if not surpass them. The IS will get wise to this. How do they respond?

Thr Valkyriate, the Chainlane isles, Oberon. You could a very powerful Periphery state with them.

How big are we talking?

Warships and missiles are certainly on the table. I'm thinking that maybe Earth is placed centrally in the Chainlaine Isles and over time just takes over completely. Over the course of decades they build a small but prosperous (and extremely well armed) Interstellar Nation.

Earth: We'll take them. Minnesota tribe. Which ones? Earth: All of them. Also we'd like to jointly develop a few of our own goodies with you. You game?

My thinking is that Mech Battalions would get added to Divisions as another form of heavy vehicle warfare. Since most powers in the IS and Clans value Mechs above all else, they put the Mechs out front to absorb attention and Firepower (while dishing it out in turn) but the real work is being...

Nah. They're still the Clans and all about the bidding system of theirs. They wouldnt get serious unless they absolutely had too.

Inadvertently this would make the Clans stronger and more of a threat. Talk about Irony of ironies.

I haven't committed to anything yet. Just tossing out ideas. Im thinking several things. First, yes, Artificial gravity as it's something Homegrown Earth was working on. This would lead into improved FTL drives Ala NBSG style. Earth would have a Naval fleet but it would be fairly small due to...

Kinda where I'm going with this idea now.

Depends on how you view underdog. Realistically there is no way they could compete on an even footing with the Clans or the IS. They'd still be the underdog. Only now the likelyhood of them getting curbstomped and absorbed/plundered is now not a near certainty.

So between Earth and the Minnesota Tribe (I believe they would drop the Clan name once they left Clan space). I believe they could some very scary stuff by the time of 3000s and 3020s. Given, what? A 150 to 200 some years?

The Coming Storm. Wait...there's more of them? Are any of them any good? How long was Wolverine gone by the time of, say, 3000 ro 3020 era?

One thing I absolutely despised about Entry with a Bang was that they had all the future knowledge and essentially went to fuck over the entire Inner Sphere. And in the new rip off story it gets even worse. Here? No future knowledge of events in BattleTech. No familiarity. It's just a fight to...