In times of war and emergency the Grand Council also elects an ilKhan to serve as the Grand Council's head and the supreme commander of all Clan military forces. Lastly Clan law discourages the combining of genes from related warriors, usually within three generations of each other; despite genetic screening incest remains a taboo. This language is held sacred, as are many things dating back to the Star League, and as such is spoken with an emphasis on formality. Denied a chance to participate in the Clan Invasion, they lashed out at the other Clans during, Staunch traditionalists and aggressive fighters, the Jade Falcons were central in the creation of the Crusader philosophy and considered Clan Wolf their enemy. [3], Upon their arrival Kerensky's followers tried to reforge life as they knew it once again and create a Star League-in-Exile. But after their loss at Tukayyid, internal tensions within the Clans and an alliance between the Great Houses ended their invasion with the Great Refusal. In more serious matters, the caste's ruling council may serve as jury, while the Clan Council automatically handles the most heinous crimes and serves as the court of highest appeal for all warriors of that Clan. [59][60][61], Second-line units are a Clan's reserve and garrison force, used to hold ground taken by frontline units or to attack secondary objectives. [6], Opposition to his rule destroyed, the ilKhan set about restructuring society and laying the groundwork for future prosperity. A Clan marked by their own unique brand of mysticism, the Nova Cats were guided by visions and portents, especially through the use of, Clan Smoke Jaguar was among the most aggressive and warlike of the Clans, even at the expense of more peaceful endeavors, and were early supporters of the Crusader philosophy. [48], The greatest philosophical divide to emerge during the Clans' history was that between the Wardens and Crusaders, at its heart a debate over how the Clans should interact with the Inner Sphere. It formalizes most combats and many decision-making processes into a set of Trials, such as Trials of Position to earn rank, Trials of Possession to claim a resource held by another, and Trials of Refusal to legally refute the order of a superior officer or ruling body. This helps explains why the mortality rate is much higher among the Clans than in the Inner Sphere: besides the harsher conditions, medical attention is more likely to go to highly skilled individuals who contribute most to society rather than unskilled and easily replaced workers or those whose injuries or old age prevent them from working. These pairings are mandatory, however, for the production of many children, and individuals caught "eloping" as it were faced severe punishment for interfering with the eugenics program. With the exception of the Diamond Sharks, most are too involved in their own power politics to meddle with overall Clan affairs, while the threat of bloody reprisals and occasional concessions by the warriors keeps them in line. Ice Hellion warriors prized the ability to strike first above other considerations, though members of the civilian caste were more restrained in their dealings. They would later incur the wrath of Clan Smoke Jaguar after they had been voted to be absorbed by them after a dispute. Clan society is based on a strict caste system, the foundation of which is that one's genetic makeup predisposes them to a particular role. They found refuge on, Official Clan history holds that Clan Wolverine was annihilated in 2823 for heinous crimes against the Clan way, including using a nuclear device to destroy a Clan Snow Raven city and genetic repository. Ethical concerns kept these artificial wombs from being used for any other purposes, concerns discarded by Kerensky and his scientists in their need for a larger population. However, the brutality of the months post-liberation prompted some within the Clans to begin questioning Nicholas' methods and even his leadership. Consisting of aged or disgraced warriors these units may occasionally be ordered, in the face of overwhelming odds and near-certain death, to hold a location or attack an enemy as part of a major campaigns. By 2794 prosperity had taken hold and colonization efforts were directed to a group of nearby stars, the Kerensky Cluster. [41][49], The failure of the Clan invasion, along with the destruction of Clan Smoke Jaguar and the Crusaders' defeat in the Great Refusal on Strana Mechty did cause a serious setback to its adherents and saw a resurgence in Warden ideology. [41][44][45], Ironically, while the Clans' eugenics program is the centerpiece of their society, in many ways it is the least technologically advanced. In the summer of 3057 they charged the ilKhan with genocide for denying their warriors the right to combat against the Inner Sphere. However, this war would shift between the Invading Clans and the Home Clans in what would later become known as the Wars of Reaving. [63], Maintaining and tracking the flow of work credits and Kerenskies is the job of each Clan's "central bank," in truth a series of institutions associated with major mercantile concerns. They use Aluminum Bats and Big League equipment. Around the year 3100, Clan Diamond Shark reverted their name back to Clan Sea Fox. [21] The worlds of the Kerensky Cluster and the Pentagon Worlds are barely habitable and lack easily reachable natural resources. Largely centered in Katyusha City on Strana Mechty, it primarily revolves around the buying and selling of nonstandard goods and uses Kerenskies to facilitate transactions. By June all-out war was raging on Eden, and Aleksandr was in the midst of planning an operation to end the fighting when, on 11 June 2801, he died of a massive heart attack at his command post. As Aleksandr's eldest son, Major-General Nicholas Kerensky, commander of the 146th Royal BattleMech Division, was his designated heir to take command of the exiled SLDF. Instead, Khan Ward of Clan Wolf called for their Abjuration, which achieved the necessary four-fifths majority, and the Nova Cats were given a month to evacuate their Clan holdings.[17]. The result is that the general technology level in the Clan Homeworlds differs very little from that of the Inner Sphere and in some areas even lags behind.

The Clans which took part in the invasion were able to gain tremendous prestige as their warriors proved the strength of their bloodlines in combat and, more importantly, gained tremendous wealth as they conquered dozens of resource-rich systems. The Jade Falcon Clan was one of the four original participants in the Inner Sphere invasion and confronted the, Following the sundering of Clan Wolf into two factions during the Refusal War and the escape of Warden-aligned Clan Wolf-in-Exile, Crusader-minded. grow food); some teams though are given a specific assignment for a limited time, and so frequently move between different tasks. In addition, subcategories exist within each grade depending on the individual's role which allow for additional amenities: a strenuous job involving hard labor requires a higher caloric intake, and thus that person is granted larger food allowances than someone with a sedentary position, or someone whose work schedule is not easily accommodated by public transportation will be given a personal form of transport, ranging from a simple bicycle to motorized vehicles. New worlds were explored and colonized, industry rebuilt, and the population finally reached its prewar levels in 2832 thanks to the eugenics program. That division would become permanent in the wake of the Wars of Reaving as the Home Clans and Invader Clans became separated permanently. This process took a year to complete and gave the Inner Sphere breathing room to rebuild and prepare. The relaxation of social mores and taboos, which had been essential for survival during the early Second Exodus, became permanent fixtures in Clan culture. [30], The type of media produced also depends on its target audience, though the promotion of the Clan lifestyle remains pervasive. [51][52], Freeborns can also enter in the warrior caste without being captured by the Clan. At the time of the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere, seventeen of the original twenty Clans were still in existence, one of which - Clan Sea Fox - had changed its name to Clan Diamond Shark. The surnames were termed Bloodnames, and were traced matrilineally through mitochondrial DNA. Less formal and more flexible than others, Clan Wolf emulated its namesake by blending caution with decisiveness to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Clan Wolf also led the Warden effort to oppose the invasion of the Inner Sphere, but were nevertheless forced to participate as one of the four original invaders. In 2800 the first of several small-scale clashes broke out on Eden between colonists of Capellan and Federated Suns origin; by May of next year full-scale rebellion broke out. Though this effectively meant sacrificing Clan Wolf, he tasked Phelan Ward with gathering the Warden-minded elements of the Clan and escape to the Inner Sphere, as Clan Wolf-in-Exile. [41][42], Most profits made by the merchant caste come from traditional exchange of materials, however several also put emphasis on futures trade. Without exception, there is nothing more holy or sacred to the Clans than these Chapels.[20]. The invasion of the Inner Sphere resulted in a radical series of changes amongst the Clans, which saw their numbers reduced dramatically over the next thirty-five years. Likewise Invader Clans of different ideologies also banded together to ensure their dominance and exclude the Home Clans from the Inner Sphere, whether to ensure their place in rebuilding the Star League by force or rein in the invasion's excesses.[41][49]. Another theoretical yet rarely occurring practice is the ability to create clones, known as a "retread." Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht, 1st December. They later fled to the Inner Sphere during the Wars of Reaving, taking the only copies of the Founders' genetic legacies with them. a warrior who pilots a vehicle will be called "crewman", and aerospace pilot will be called "pilot" and so on (for example, MechWarrior Aidan). Officially the scientist caste is responsible for pairing individuals based on their genetic compatibility, but in practice most "marriages" are given approval after the fact. Outright persecution of religious people is rare in Clan society and those who adhere to any particular faith are for the most part tolerated, with varying amounts of extra hardships. Fully eighty percent of the SLDF agreed to this plan, and in November of that year they made their fateful departure. However even in this area most of their advancements have been evolutionary rather than revolutionary. While the warrior caste consist of seven grades and for the most part can requisition whatever they need, among the civilian castes there are a total of twenty-five grades, from the lowest Grade One to the highest Grade Twenty-Five. Refusing to honor the deal is possible but such a thing happens just as infrequently. Crimes which might result in long-term imprisonment in the Inner Sphere are normally handled through physical punishment such as flogging, the individual's Abjuration or their execution. Battle raged across the Smoke Jaguar Homeworld from the first landings on 2 March until final victory on 7 April, by which point the Star League had achieved their goal of utterly destroying a Crusader Clan, which they hoped would give the Wardens more political power. [39], The composition of the jury depends greatly on the magnitude of the crime. This includes the restoration of archaic English terms such as "rede" and "troth," the abbreviation of certain phrases, and influence of other languages (particularly Russian) in shaping new words, phrases and sentence structures.[34]. [13], Though still allowed by the terms of the agreement to attack those worlds which lay "above" the treaty line, the Truce of Tukayyid was a bitter pill for the Clans to swallow. While the three lower castes enjoy programming largely similar to that found in the Inner Sphere, including soap operas and cooking shows, scientist programming empathizes the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, while warriors prefer material focusing on battles, Trials, military technology and great leaders. He borrowed ideas from the medieval Mongol hordes, Shogunate Japan and twentieth century China to create the twenty Clans, each one a reinforced battalion of forty warriors. Both coins and blocks are minted in gold and contain ID chips and chemical compounds to prevent forgery. When charged by the Clan Council to deal with a nonmilitary matter (often at the prompting of the civilians themselves), the caste councils can directly assign individual teams to the task or delegate the matter to a lower council, which does the same. Equipped primarily as infantry units, occasionally with outdated vehicles or 'Mechs, they are given the least prestigious assignments like bandit hunting. Considered time-consuming and "wasteful" by most warriors and scientists, the performing arts are dominated by and produced largely for the merchant and laborer castes, with an entertainment "supercaste" consisting of members from both having developed over the years. He finally abandoned this effort by August of 2783 and began work on a plan he hoped would at least preserve the spirit of the League. One year later Operation REVIVAL officially began, first by conquering the worlds along the Periphery and then, on 7 March 3050, invading the Inner Sphere proper. Some crafts are more closely tied to certain castes, such as pottery being common among the artisans of the merchant caste, but any and all pursuits are practiced in all of the castes. In addition to retaining the ability to produce Endo-Steel, Ferro-Aluminum, and ferro-fibrous they also developed memory metals, compounds which "remember" their shape and return to it when subjected to an electrical current. Civilian technology advancements which aren't simply spin-offs from military developments are far fewer, while a fixation on the Star League also played its part in technological stagnation, with many civilian items little more than exact duplicates of what was available during that era. E.g. In addition, all of the Invading Clans were formally expelled from the Homeworlds by their Home Clan brethren. This war would permanently split Clan society in two, as the Invader Clans would be abjured from the Clan Homeworlds and start the Council of Six in the Inner Sphere, while the Homeworld Clans, believing that the Inner Sphere has tainted their culture through their brethren, would create and champion two new philosophies becoming known as the Bastions and Aggressors, effectively ending the Crusader and Warden divide. [38], The Clan system of justice heavily favors the warrior caste, not least because they largely staff it. Though the Star League officially disbanded in 2781, Aleksandr Kerensky would spend the next two years shuttling between the Great Houses in an attempt to salvage the situation. Thus if the ownership of a facility, city or even planet changes from one Clan to another, the work carries on just as before, with little more than the civilian reporting structure actually changing. While the Clans achieved spectacular successes in the first two waves of their invasion, it was marred by their failure to capture or kill the heir to the Federated Commonwealth as well as their failure to realize they had captured the heir to the Draconis Combine. When the Clans were founded and their breeding program started, surnames were done away with (after the first generation of warriors) and an ordeal called a Trial of Bloodright was established to allow eligible warriors to win the surnames of the original warriors that founded the Clans. [51][52], The exact nature of warrior training differs from Clan to Clan, though in general sibkos will spend their time at either a primary or secondary training facility. Clans Coyote, Goliath Scorpion, and Nova Cat also practice different forms of mysticism, including the use of vision quests to guide their actions. It would take the form of a Trial of Position known as "The Blooding". In Critter-TEK (a cartoon-style baseball parody of BattleTech), the Clans are pictured as the Crans, descendants of "Krewzinski, the great slugger who led the Big League lineup out on strike". [50], After being born into a Crche Clan trueborn warriors are then assigned to a sibko, or "sibling company," composed of children from the same geneparents. He sought to create a new society which eliminated all previous cultural biases and rewarded merit and ability. [59][60][61], Lastly are solahma units, the proverbial bottom of the barrel.

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