Honor to the Honorless (An Alternate history, Battletech RP)

[Paingodsson]

DISCLAIMER: You do not need to know about BattleTech to join, I will have plenty of information for you to use so you can understand clan and Inner Sphere culture as well as the fighting styles. (Already have a few people interested, and looking for more to join us)

They said that they would come back to protect us, but no one expected them to come back like this. Now instead of being saved, we are slaves to the very beings we cast out when we went to war with each other. Years of fighting, and years of war left us defenseless, we threw everything we had at them but nothing worked, they had better technology. they had better fighters, they had a better governing system. We fought, we failed, because we had no honor, because we fought like monkeys, because we fought without brains. We are scum, we are weak, we were birthed naturally so we have no right to claim title or strength....

At least that's what they told us when they first took over. That's what they continue to tell us now that they have control, now that they own Terra, now that their Ilkhan is above us all. They treat those of us from the Inner Sphere like we are trash, like we have no place in the world. Well it's time to change that, we will gain our honor back, but not by their standards, by our own standards! We will rise up once more and find a way to have peace, not be oppressed by the powers at hand. But there is only one way to do that, and that is by tearing them down brick by damn brick. So join us, as we rise against the Clans, we are not alone though, members of their own clans wish to see the fall of the current clan in charge, let us tear them down!

3 factions
Clan Jade falcon/Overlord Clans (Reigning Government)
NSLD New Star League Defense Force (Democratic Rebellion Force)
Inner Sphere Rebel Army (ISRA) (Feudal/Old way of Government)

Choose your side, choose to be a Clansman or an Inner Sphere fighter, the world around you will adapt as you as groups make decisions.
Choose to be a Freebirth or a Trueborn
Choose to fight for Tyranny, or Freedom

(I would like to get a big group and have it be a sort of Sandbox style, we will be using sarna.net/wiki/Main_Page as a reference, but it will not be all deciding, certain things we will have and won't have, just as I have messed with the timeline a bit so will we mess with Cannon slightly! Come and join me on this adventure!)

My History

History:The Clans were originally descended from the self-exiled remnants of the Star League Defense Force army, who had departed the Inner Sphere after Stefan Amaris brought about the downfall of the Star League. General Aleksandr Kerensky led his forces to a hidden destination far from the Great Houses because he believed that a catastrophic war was inevitable; a war that even the once mighty Star League army would be powerless to stop. Through great hardship and a dynamic reorganization into twenty Clans of warriors leading and protecting their attendant civilian castes.

Later Aleksander's son, Nicholas would try to take control of the Star league army, however he was rejected by many. So he took most of the navy and his entire regiment out of the pentagon worlds. (Where most of the clan had taken seat) He also evacuated multiple civilians and others who followed his cause. Nicholas would then name himself 'Ilkhan' over the clans. Later Nicholas had judged the time was right and unleashed Operation Klondike, the campaign to take back the Pentagon worlds. Success was finally achieved in May a few years later, and at first the liberated populations were for the most part relieved: much of the civilian population was simply thankful for the devastating fighting to be over, while those who had exploited them were hunted down to be tried, convicted, tortured and executed as an object lesson. However the brutality of the post-liberation months prompted some within the Clans to begin questioning Nicholas' methods and even his leadership.

Though the first rumblings of discontent would come from Clan Jade Falcon, whose Khans eventually purged themselves of this "cancer" in what became known as The Culling, opposition to the Ilkhan's authority eventually coalesced around Clan Wolverine. This opposition came to a head when the Grand Council in an August session ordered that the Wolverines share their Brian Cache on Circe with the other Clans, an order they protested unsuccessfully first in the council and then in a Trial of Refusal in October. In her final Grand Council meeting, Khan Sarah McEvedy made the fatal error of not only insulting Nicholas, and by extension the other Clans, but declaring her Clan independent. The Wolverines' nuclear attack on Clan Snow Raven's genetic repository was the final nail in the coffin, and in the proceeding Trial of Annihilation Clan Wolverine ceased to exist; even their very name was stricken from the records, to be forever known as the "Not-Named Clan."

Opposition to his rule destroyed, the Ilkhan set about restructuring society and laying the groundwork for future prosperity. New worlds were explored and colonized, industry rebuilt, and the population finally reached its pre-war levels thanks to the eugenics program. Tragedy struck however just two years later during a Trial of Refusal between Clan Wolf and Clan Widowmaker, refereed by the Ilkhan and the other Clan Khans. When the duel degenerated into a melee the Ilkhan attempted to step in, but was accidentally fired upon and killed by the Widowmaker Khan. Incensed by the death of their leader the combined Clans laid waste to the Widowmakers, with Clan Wolf given the honor of Absorbing the remnants. A new Ilkhan would eventually be elected, though through the years the position slowly lost its authority and prestige until ending altogether and the remaining eighteen Clans would continue to develop and factionalize along different lines

It wouldn't be until later that the decision for another ilkahn was decided on by the great-council. To decide who there was a trial by combat. In which Corian Tchernovkov of Clan Coyote was the new Ilkhan. During the Political Centuries following this Clan society coalesced around two competing viewpoints: Crusaders who believed it was their right to re-establish the Star League by force with themselves as leaders, and Wardens who thought it was their mission to protect the Inner Sphere from outside threats while maintaining their own distinct culture. The Jade Falcons would go on to first head the Crusader faction,and Clan Wolf would head the Warden faction.

Well finally it happened the Clans stormed the Inner Sphere leaving destruction in their path, it all came to a head at the Battle for Terra, where the Jade Falcons defeated the combined strengths of the houses and Comstar(The communication center for the Inner Sphere). Because of their glorious victory Yvonne Hazen, the Khan for the Jade Falcons had the right to challenge the current Ilkhan. He won, thus leaving him the ruler over the entirety of the Inner Sphere and the Clans. He continues to rule with an Iron fist crushing anyone who doesn't see his way.

Something was fishy though, Clan Wolf's Khan wasn't happy about the results, not just because Jade Falcon was a rival clan, but because things didn't seem okay, after all, the Jade Falcons, were outnumbered 8 to 1 on Terra and still somehow won, and what looked like a mechanical failure caused the death of the Ilkhan who fought Yvonne. So unknown to the Jade Falcons, Clan Wolf and a few other clans began to fund and help the Rebellions, as they knew that even if they were to try to oppose Clan Jade Falcon, it would only lead to the destruction of their Clans.

Furthermore, the houses of the Inner Sphere are somehow still functioning, most believe they are simply figureheads that take their orders from the Ilkhan, but war is still apparent throughout the entire Inner Sphere between houses who are fighting for control. Some believe they simply fight to entertain the Clans now, however, little is known as most officials who are close to the Ilkhan are watched regularly for any type of suspicious activity.

(More info on the clans and their culture to come with the OOC if enough interest)
(ignore the chaos march, Lyon's Thumb and the St. Ives Compact)