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The thing that was standard about the way the Clans selected who was involved in the invasion was the bidding and fighting each other to earn slots in the invasion. The thing is that each trial basically has its rules and objectives made up specifically for that contest. So if you're doing a...

Why would the canon Revival trials process be used in a scenario where the strategy for taking on the Inner Sphere was totally different? Also, LMAO at thinking the Smoked Jaguars wouldn't be more concerned with having 3B and 3C under their control and ensuring they could fuck with the Wolves...

Why wouldn't the Star Adders get in on the action, since the plan is way more competent than the canonical Operation Revival? Also, the logic of the selections escapes me, aside from the Jade Falcons. Having two contiguous blocks makes sense, even if 2A is less dense than 3A, and also spites...

Here's an idea that can be applied to a wide variety of AUs set in the 3020s to 3050s: The Crusader Clans, in a bit of cunning that the Wardens didn't expect, decide to constrain their planned invasion of the Inner Sphere to the Draconis Combine, claiming they are the most dezgra of Successor...

Bruh, I hate to say this, but... That's nowhere near as impressive as you think it sounds. Like, sure, the actual alloy might be super impressive in its mechanical properties, but everything else around it is very meh, especially its massive volume disadvantage relative to the normal structure...

Maybe? It depends if it was properly indexed and didn't require absurd amounts of processing power to trawl through for information. The problem would be building out infrastructure to build the new tech, which is where our legal hurdles come in. (Also, getting stuff like ECAM up to the exact...

Real simple: Special interests (private and governmental) doing a lot of shenanigans to suppress/obfuscate intellectual property that can make things better, such as alloy formulas, patents, manufacturing technologies, weapon designs, etc... You don't have to go full "the CIA shoved...

I think that map is probably balkanized a bit too much for it to be viable as a wargame setting, but you could probably unite some of those smaller blobs into medium sized ones and expand the setting to one to two dozen really good factions. If you wanted to support a setting that's fractured...

Mmm... I don't think that's realistic. Oh sure, there's going to be some stupidity - the Sandovals aren't going to miss an opportunity to take worlds from the Combine and the Lyrans are always for screwing over the Combine, but I don't think IS would implode. How much Minbari salvage would be...

Kind of a crackish idea spawned from re-reading @Harlock's A Fighting Chance Babylon 5 story: A chunk of the Minbari fleet from a Babylon 5 AU where things are going worse than in canon gets yeeted into BattleTech universe by the Vorlons, appearing in orbit of Terra seconds before Amaris blows...

Probably requires FTL comms to be developed earlier in the setting, but with significant range limitations, so that smaller regions have more time culturally unify. Maybe gate/relay style FTL where its faster to connect to planets within a certain area, but traveling outside that takes way longer?

Have the WOB arrange for the Shadow Broker to deliver the info to the Batarians, with optional Shadow Broker backstab, depending on how you want to characterize this specific Broker.

Honestly, ComStar/WOB fuckery would allow it to happen pretty easily. It's the Batarians doing it with zero outside knowledge feed that doesn't work.

Honestly, looking over the story idea again, this is where everything kind of breaks down, because unless you're having the Batarians bamf from somewhere in their occupation zone, they're going to have to trek through the Combine and Terran corridor to get to Terra. Unless ComStar/Word of...

So, do they find the mass relay in the Pentagon Worlds, or somewhere before there? Because that can change things a lot.

No, but it's apparently experimental (and therefore expensive as shit) and the performance on smaller ships (like the Tempest) isn't as good as the Arks, due to how ME drives scale (bigger is better). The Tempest is still close to the upper end of Citadel space FTL performance (~15LY per day...

IIRC, most of their populations aren't on their homeworlds, they're on the tons of colonies they have in the various clusters they control. Then Andromeda has them design a drive system that recycles the static electricity or whatever for more drive longevity.

I can see the Asari not-so-subtly pushing for the Star League to shift from a pyramid scheme to keep the Camerons in power to a more fair and equitable system, through copious bribing of the House Lords and pointing out that with the break in continuity between Richard and his kid(s) would allow...

Having first contact during the war changes the political equation so that having Kerensky and the Star League around is a better alternative than letting it all fall apart and grabbing what's left. Kenyon Marik and Robert Steiner might hate the SLDF and Kerensky, but they're not going to say...

Kerensky? Not much, besides maybe hire someone to discreetly kill Amaris? Like, there's not much Kerensky can do pre-coup when 2 lords hate him personally, the other 3 have a grudge against House Cameron/the Star League for action/inaction in political strife, all 5 don't like that the SLDF...