*Notably here folks like yours truly who've not read any of the fiction past the FedCom Civil War and have only briefly glanced at sourcebooks occaisonally looking for flavorful notes of stuff...So this is all probably coming from a thoroughly unfamiliar and divorced-from-how-Canopus is actually portrayed in anything that portrays it since Canopus doesn't really get much focus in any of the 3025-3060 fiction...So grain of salt/I'm just bullshitting in the name of defending Glorious Canopus from vicious slander by men
As to the kickstarter discussion...
I threw in a few bucks to get one of the slick, signed books, but the fiction and occasional video-game is about the only way I've ever interacted with or wanted to interact with battletech, so...meh to the rest. Probly won't even listen to my inner completionist to get the other hardcovers of the series until/unless I can get them used at a discount since I've still got the old paperbacks and what they're charging on the books ($15 hardcovers, $25 signed nicer) seems a little steep to me even if realistically not being too bad objectively.