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There is a satellite dish tucked inside that the pilot folds away before a fight.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Atlas6,mech,Age of War,"The Locust entered production in 2499 and has never left it. Six centuries later it is still one of the most widely fielded 'Mechs in existence.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Locust10,mech,Succession Wars,"The Hatchetman (3023) was the first all-new Inner Sphere 'Mech design in over a century, and the first built around a dedicated melee weapon.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hatchetman12,tech,Succession Wars,"The Hatchetman ejects its entire head, which then flies itself toward friendly lines for thirty seconds.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hatchetman13,mech,Star League,"Highlander pilots developed the ""Highlander Burial"": jumping their ninety-ton 'Mech onto an enemy machine. Later production runs reinforced the legs to support the manoeuvre.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Highlander15,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"Clan Wolf built the Timber Wolf in 2945. Inner Sphere doctrine said a heavy 'Mech with assault firepower was impossible.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Timber_Wolf18,tech,Star League,"A Gauss rifle makes almost no heat, and is safe from ammo explosions. However, hitting the weapon will cause a similar effect.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Gauss_rifle19,tech,Star League,"Only three Land-Air 'Mechs were ever mass-produced. The last factory making them was dismantled in 3050.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Land-Air_%27Mech20,tech,Clan Invasion,"Elemental battle armour started life as Clan Goliath Scorpion diving gear: the Water Elemental Mining Suit.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Elemental_Battle_Armor21,tech,Clan Invasion,"An Elemental lifts half a tonne and jumps ninety metres. Inner Sphere pilots took one look and called them Toads.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Elemental_Battle_Armor22,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"Clan Wolf debuted Elemental armour in 2868 by using it to win a Trial of Possession off Clan Nova Cat.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Elemental_Battle_Armor23,tech,Age of War,"A neurohelmet reads intent, not thought. It relies on the pilot's own sense of balance, so MechWarriors need an exceptional inner ear.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Neurohelmet24,tech,Succession Wars,"The Inner Sphere's last WarShips were gone by 2853. ComStar maintained its own fleet in secret for another two centuries.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/WarShip25,tech,Pre-Star League,"Kearny and Fuchida published their FTL theory in 2018. It was dismissed for decades, and neither lived to see the first jump in 2107.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Kearny-Fuchida_drive27,tech,Star League,"The hyperpulse generator was unveiled on New Year's Day, 2630. It reaches fifty light years; a JumpShip manages thirty.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hyperpulse_generator28,tech,Star League,"One HPG pulse carries about two pages of text. A ""live"" interstellar call is really many short bursts reassembled at each end.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hyperpulse_generator29,history,Dark Age,"On 7 August 3132 about 80% of the HPG network went dark at once. It stayed that way for nearly twenty years.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hyperpulse_generator30,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"Every HPG has a black box logging power, direction and destination, built to survive the station being destroyed.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hyperpulse_generator31,faction,Succession Wars,"The C-bill, ComStar's currency, became the standard of interstellar trade across the Inner Sphere. Every C-bill was backed by HPG transmission time.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/C-bill32,history,Star League,"Ian Cameron's Star League lasted 210 years, from 9 July 2571 to 12 August 2781.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Star_League33,history,Age of War,"The Ares Conventions, signed in 2412, were proposed by a Capellan Chancellor after the devastation of Tintavel.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Ares_Conventions34,history,Age of War,"The Ares Conventions set rules of war to protect civilians and cities. They shaped a century and a half of limited, formalised warfare.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Ares_Conventions35,history,Star League,"Stefan Amaris gave First Lord Richard Cameron a jewelled ceremonial laser pistol in 2766, then shot him with it.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Stefan_Amaris37,history,Star League,"Operation EXODUS left in 2784 with six million people, 402 WarShips and over 5,000 DropShips, and never came back.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Operation_Exodus38,deep-cut,Star League,"About a hundred Mackies went with Kerensky on the Exodus. The design was already three centuries old.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Mackie39,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"Nicholas Kerensky founded twenty Clans of forty warriors each, choosing all eight hundred by hand.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Operation_Klondike40,history,Clan Homeworlds,"Operation KLONDIKE, the Clans' first war, was fought to retake the five Pentagon Worlds from their own colonists.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Operation_Klondike41,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"Clan Wolverine was condemned in 2823 for a nuclear attack it never carried out. Clan Widowmaker's Khan framed them.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Wolverine42,deep-cut,Clan Homeworlds,"The Clans erased Clan Wolverine so completely that they speak of them only as the Not-Named Clan, and even renamed the Wolverine IIC 'Mech.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Wolverine43,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"In 2825 raiders calling themselves the Minnesota Tribe hit the Combine wearing wolverine heraldry. Nobody ever identified them.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Wolverine44,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"Only Bloodnamed warriors can sit on a Clan Council or become Khan, and each Bloodname is held by at most twenty-five living warriors.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Bloodname45,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"A Clan sibko starts with up to a hundred children. Four or five of them will pass the Trial of Position.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Sibko46,clan,Clan Invasion,"The Clans practice zellbrigen, a form of structured dueling on the battlefield.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Zellbrigen47,history,Clan Invasion,"The Clan Invasion was ended by ComStar in 3052, when they wagered possession of Terra on the outcome of a proxy battle at Tukayyid.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Battle_of_Tukayyid_(3052)48,history,Clan Invasion,"ComStar's victory at Tukayyid in 3052 halted the Clan Invasion with a fifteen-year truce. Clan Wolf was the only invading Clan to take all its objectives there.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Battle_of_Tukayyid_(3052)49,clan,Clan Invasion,"Clan Nova Cat warriors meditate before a bonfire and try to see the victory before they go and fight it.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Nova_Cat50,clan,Clan Invasion,"Clan Nova Cat fought beside the Inner Sphere against the other Clans in the Great Refusal of 3060. They were cast out, and resettled on worlds granted by the Draconis Combine.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Nova_Cat51,deep-cut,Clan Homeworlds,"Each Clan is named for a totem animal. Clan Sea Fox spent over a century as Clan Diamond Shark after a rival Khan stocked the sea fox's home ocean with predators.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Sea_Fox52,deep-cut,Dark Age,"Sea Fox Clansmen are known for an uncanny sense of smell, from generations spent breathing sterile shipboard air.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Sea_Fox53,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"Clan Ghost Bear's founders were a couple who walked into the wilderness together. The bear that found them kept them warm.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Ghost_Bear54,clan,Clan Invasion,"Every Ghost Bear warrior gets a vote in the Clan Council, Bloodname or not. No other Clan allows that.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Ghost_Bear55,history,Jihad,"Clan Ghost Bear moved its entire civilian population from the Clan Homeworlds to the Inner Sphere in secret, aboard converted dreadnought transports.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Ghost_Bear56,deep-cut,Clan Homeworlds,"Clan Goliath Scorpion's Seekers hunt Star League relics on visions brought on by drinking scorpion venom.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Goliath_Scorpion57,clan,Jihad,"Cast out of the Clan Homeworlds in 3078, Clan Goliath Scorpion trekked into the Deep Periphery, conquered two nations, and founded the Escorpión Imperio in 3080.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Goliath_Scorpion58,history,Clan Invasion,"In 3059 the newly reformed Star League invaded Clan Smoke Jaguar's territory and homeworld. The Clan did not survive the campaign.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Operation_Bulldog59,history,Jihad,"The Wars of Reaving (3071-3075) began when an ilKhan decided contact with the Inner Sphere had ""tainted"" the Clans. Four Clans were destroyed in the purge.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Wars_of_Reaving60,history,ilClan,"The Remembrance promised the Clan reaching ""that fabled cradle of us all"" would rule. Clan Wolf took Terra in 3151.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/ilClan61,mercenary,Succession Wars,"Wolf's Dragoons appeared in 3005 with five regiments of pristine Star League 'Mechs, and no one could explain where they came from.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Wolf%27s_Dragoons62,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"Wolf's Dragoons were a Clan Wolf scouting mission in disguise. Their true origin stayed hidden for 46 years, until the Clan Invasion.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Wolf%27s_Dragoons63,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"Wolf's Dragoons kept a secret Star League factory complex on Outreach and six hidden WarShips in the Bristol caches.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Wolf%27s_Dragoons64,person,Succession Wars,"Natasha Kerensky, the Black Widow, led Wolf's Dragoons' Black Widow Company for decades and piloted a jet-black Warhammer called the Black Lady.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Natasha_Kerensky65,person,Clan Invasion,"When Natasha Kerensky fell on Twycross, Clan Jade Falcon left her wrecked Dire Wolf standing as a monument.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Natasha_Kerensky66,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"Cranston Snord's mercenaries ignored orders whenever a relic turned up. Their museum held Fabergé eggs and Amaris's throne.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Snord%27s_Irregulars67,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"Snord's Irregulars part-funded themselves on museum ticket sales. An Archon of the Lyran Commonwealth came to visit.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Snord%27s_Irregulars68,person,Clan Invasion,"Phelan Kell was taken as a bondsman by Clan Wolf in 3049 and rose to become its Khan - an Inner Sphere freeborn leading a Clan.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Phelan_Kell69,person,Clan Invasion,"Kai Allard-Liao destroyed the Falcon Guards single-handed at the Great Gash on Twycross, in a Hatchetman.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Kai_Allard-Liao70,person,Clan Invasion,"Kai Allard-Liao won the Solaris championship in 3054 and retired two years later. His father had held it before him.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Kai_Allard-Liao71,person,Succession Wars,"After one duel in 3016, Morgan Kell disbanded most of his regiment and spent eleven years in a MechWarrior monastery.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Morgan_Kell72,deep-cut,Clan Invasion,"Anastasius Focht, the ComStar Precentor Martial who won Tukayyid, was really Frederick Steiner, a Lyran general the Inner Sphere believed dead.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Anastasius_Focht73,deep-cut,Jihad,"For 46 years the man on the Free Worlds League throne was a body double. The real Thomas Marik secretly led the Word of Blake.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Thomas_Marik74,deep-cut,Jihad,"Manei Domini cyborgs were given a ""true name"" taken from an angel or a demon, and every implant had a self-destruct.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Manei_Domini75,history,Jihad,"In 3067 the Word of Blake, a fanatical ComStar splinter group, attacked the entire Inner Sphere at once. Ending the Jihad took a coalition of every major power fourteen years.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Jihad76,history,Succession Wars,"In 2788 Jerome Blake switched off every HPG in human space and took Terra in 72 hours with troops dressed as mercenaries.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Jerome_Blake77,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"Blake got every House Lord to sign ComStar's charter by telling each of them theirs was the last signature needed.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Jerome_Blake79,history,Succession Wars,"In 3028 the Gray Death Legion recovered a complete Star League library on Helm and spread copies across the Inner Sphere, reversing centuries of technological decline.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Helm_Memory_Core80,history,Succession Wars,"At his wedding in 3028 Hanse Davion told his bride, ""My dear... I give you the Capellan Confederation."" He had invaded the day before.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Fourth_Succession_War81,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"ComStar cut off the Federated Suns over an attack on its Sarna station. ComStar had staged the attack.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Fourth_Succession_War82,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"The Bounty Hunter's lance of 'Mechs are painted bright green and covered in currency symbols.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Bounty_Hunter83,history,Star League,"Stefan Amaris seized 95 of the Terran Hegemony's 103 worlds in a single day. It took General Kerensky thirteen years of war to retake them.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Stefan_Amaris85,periphery,Succession Wars,"The Marian Hegemony was founded in 2920 on the fortune from a single germanium strike. It is modelled on ancient Rome, with a Caesar and legions.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Marian_Hegemony86,periphery,Succession Wars,"In Taurian video games, House Davion is the traditional villain. Taurian hostility toward the Federated Suns goes back seven centuries.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Taurian_Concordat88,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"Pirate king Redjack Ryan wrote to the Lyran high command in 3022 to formally invite them to come and fight him.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Redjack_Ryan89,deep-cut,Succession Wars,"The Bounty Hunter is a celebrity, with a tri-vid series so popular that much of the Inner Sphere cannot tell the show from the real man. The identity itself is inherited: the 'Mech, the DropShip, part of the war chest, and a manuscript called ""The Tradition"".",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Bounty_Hunter90,faction,Succession Wars,"On Solaris VII, the Game World, MechWarriors fight televised arena duels for fame and fortune. Its six arena districts each have their own government and police.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Solaris_VII91,person,Succession Wars,"Gray Noton held the Solaris championship for seven straight years.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Solaris_VII92,person,Jihad,"Devlin Stone escaped a Word of Blake prison camp by leading an uprising, and ended the Jihad commanding the coalition that liberated Terra. Every great power then ceded worlds to found his Republic of the Sphere.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Devlin_Stone93,deep-cut,Dark Age,"Pope Leo XXI of New Avalon was a MechWarrior first. He still leads his knights into battle in a gold 'Mech called Justicar.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Leonard_Goodnight95,real-world,Real World,"BattleTech launched in 1984 under the name Battledroids. It was renamed for the 1985 reprint.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/BattleTech98,real-world,Real World,"The first BattleTech Center opened in Chicago in 1990: sixteen networked cockpit pods with screens and rudder pedals.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/BattleTech_Center99,real-world,Real World,"BattleTech has changed owners four times since 1984 with no reboot and no significant retcon.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/BattleTech100,real-world,Real World,"Sarna.net, the BattleTech wiki, is named after a Capellan border world and holds over 68,000 articles.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Sarna101,real-world,Real World,"MegaMek, an open-source engine for playing BattleTech by computer, has been in continuous development since February 2002.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/MegaMek102,real-world,Real World,"The MegaMek suite covers the whole tabletop experience: MegaMek fights the battles, MegaMekLab builds the units, and MekHQ runs the campaign between them.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/MegaMek103,real-world,Real World,"The 2019 Clan Invasion Kickstarter set its goal at $30,000. It passed that in under seven minutes and closed at $2.59 million.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/2019_Clan_Invasion_Crowdfunding_Campaign104,real-world,Real World,"The 2023 Mercenaries Kickstarter funded in under a minute and finished at $7.5 million from more than 23,000 backers.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/2023_Mercenaries_Crowdfunding_Campaign105,real-world,Real World,"The 1994 BattleTech cartoon ran for thirteen episodes and blended computer animation with traditional cels.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/BattleTech:_The_Animated_Series106,real-world,Real World,"The 1994 cartoon also exists inside BattleTech continuity, as a holovid series loosely based on real events: popular with audiences, panned by critics.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/BattleTech:_The_Animated_Series107,mercenary,Succession Wars,"ComStar's Mercenary Review Board, founded in 2789, registered mercenary units, rated their reliability, and held contract money in escrow.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Mercenary_Review_Board108,mercenary,Succession Wars,"A unit or employer that broke a Mercenary Review Board contract risked interdiction: losing all access to ComStar's interstellar communication network.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Mercenary_Review_Board109,mercenary,Clan Invasion,"The Mercenary Review and Bonding Commission has rated mercenary units from Outreach since 3052. The ratings are called Dragoon Ratings, after Wolf's Dragoons.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Mercenary_Review_and_Bonding_Commission110,deep-cut,Star League,"The Cameron Star, emblem of the Star League, began as a child's drawing: First Lord Ian Cameron saw his young niece's lopsided attempt at a star and adopted it in 2571.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Cameron_Star111,faction,Succession Wars,"In the Capellan Confederation, citizenship is not a birthright. It must be earned through service to the state.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Capellan_Confederation112,faction,Clan Invasion,"Sun-Tzu Liao, Chancellor of the smallest of the Successor States, was elected the first First Lord of the reborn Star League in 3058.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Capellan_Confederation113,faction,Pre-Star League,"Shiro Kurita founded the Draconis Combine in 2319. Both the state and its ruler are spoken of simply as the Dragon.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Draconis_Combine114,faction,Clan Invasion,"Coordinator Theodore Kurita modernised the Draconis Combine's military, opening its highest ranks to women and loosening the grip of tradition on its tactics.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Draconis_Combine115,faction,Succession Wars,"The Lyran Commonwealth remained the wealthiest of the Successor States through every Succession War, and its citizens enjoy the Inner Sphere's highest standard of living.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Lyran_Commonwealth116,faction,Succession Wars,"In 3020 Archon Katrina Steiner sent a peace proposal to every great house. The only answer came from Hanse Davion, and it grew into the Federated Commonwealth alliance.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Lyran_Commonwealth117,faction,Succession Wars,"The Lyran military fields a higher ratio of assault 'Mechs than any other power in the Inner Sphere.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Lyran_Commonwealth118,faction,Succession Wars,"Hanse Davion founded the New Avalon Institute of Science to recover lost technology. Within two decades the Federated Suns had the most advanced military in the Inner Sphere.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Federated_Suns119,faction,Age of War,"Since 2417, no one can rule the Federated Suns as First Prince without first serving five years in its military.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Federated_Suns120,faction,Pre-Star League,"The Free Worlds League, founded by treaty in 2271, is the oldest of the Successor States and the only one governed by an elected Parliament.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Free_Worlds_League121,faction,Jihad,"By 3067 the Free Worlds League was the arsenal of the Inner Sphere: its top manufacturers built half of all new BattleMechs.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Free_Worlds_League122,faction,Dark Age,"Blakist sabotage shattered the Free Worlds League into rival states in 3079. Jessica Marik reunited most of them sixty years later.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Free_Worlds_League123,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"Clan Jade Falcon takes its name from a gene-engineered cross of peregrine and gyrfalcon. Founding Khan Elizabeth Hazen was the first person to tame one.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Jade_Falcon124,clan,Clan Invasion,"At Tukayyid in 3052, the disgraced warrior Aidan Pryde died fighting a rear-guard action that saved much of Clan Jade Falcon's force. It made him a legend of his Clan.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Aidan_Pryde125,clan,Clan Invasion,"In 3048 Clan Smoke Jaguar seized the ComStar exploration ship Outbound Light when it stumbled onto the Clan Homeworlds. Its Khan used the intelligence to argue the Clans into invading.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Smoke_Jaguar126,clan,ilClan,"Smoke Jaguar survivors served the Republic of the Sphere in secret for seventy years as a unit called the Fidelis. In 3151 they were allowed to refound their Clan.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Smoke_Jaguar127,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"Clan Hell's Horses never accepted that the BattleMech rules the battlefield. Alone among the Clans, they build their armies around tanks and infantry fighting beside their 'Mechs.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Hell%27s_Horses128,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"The giant warriors who wear Elemental battle armour were bred by Clan Hell's Horses around 2870.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Hell%27s_Horses129,clan,Clan Homeworlds,"Clan Snow Raven kept the largest fleet of any Clan: forty WarShips and a near-stranglehold on the shipyards.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Snow_Raven130,clan,Jihad,"Driven from the Clan Homeworlds, Clan Snow Raven settled in the Periphery and merged with the Outworlds Alliance to form the Raven Alliance in 3083.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Snow_Raven131,tech,Star League,"A JumpShip recharges its drive by unfurling a solar sail about a kilometre across, then waiting six to nine days while it soaks up starlight.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/JumpShip132,faction,Succession Wars,"Jerome Blake's successor, Conrad Toyama, turned ComStar from a company into an order: white robes, ranks of Acolyte, Adept and Precentor, and rituals its technicians came to believe the HPGs truly required.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/ComStar133,real-world,Real World,"BattleTech fiction began with William H. Keith's Decision at Thunder Rift in July 1986. Roughly a hundred novels have followed.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Decision_at_Thunder_Rift134,real-world,Real World,"Fans call it ""Stackpoling"" when a 'Mech's reactor goes up in a mushroom cloud, after novelist Michael A. Stackpole. It is artistic license: BattleTech's fusion engines, like real ones, have no good way to explode.",https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Michael_A._Stackpole