[PBW] A House Divided - Discussion thread (PBW Setup Online!)

[Joachim]

OK, got the mods, all good (I hope!)

Will email you what I would like for a race pic and empire flag. I would do it myself but I have no ability in that department.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Joachim:
Can I have some more background on the empire so as to develop my renegade House?

It would be good if we can have a quick history, name of race/empire etc.

I'm all for taking the FASA, Battletech, Inner Sphere for our background.

Basically the Star League resulted from the unification of distant colonial empires under the Terran Hegemony. It was a Golden Age of Man, but all things come to an end, you know.

SOme traitor kills the young ruler of the Star League at some point and tries to take over. There is a spilt in the military, and a war that this traitor loses. He is killed.

At this point the various Great Houses of the Star League, remnants, I belive, of the colonial empires, begin to war amongst themselves at the head of each house declares him or herself ruler of the Star League.

The Star League military gathers itself under its great leader, Kerensky, and just leaves, buggs out and heads for uncharted space. They left so they could not be used in the succession wars that followed.

For the most part the Great Houses kept to a rule, for many ages past, agianst orbital bombadment and nuclear weapons, and fought amongs themselves with limited space battles and extensive ground campaigns featuring great war machines called Battlemechs.

The territories of the five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere are layed out like slices of a pie from the center, Earth. This reflects the spread of people of similar ethnic and national backgrounds that made up the pre-Star League empires. The worlds that were once part of the Terran Hegemomy were taken by whatever House could hold them in the beginning. Earth itself is held by a quasi-religious decendant of the Star League Communications Authority, calling itself ComStar.

I'm sure, if we take this route, I can find more links for further details on the matter.

The five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere are as follows.

House Davion, the The Federated Commonwealth

House Liao, the Cappelan Confederation

House Kurita, the Draconis Combine

House Marik, the Free Worlds League

House Steiner, the Lyran Alliance

Of course, we don't have to take this path. We could be much more vague on the background and let each player build their own history... at least build it back to the point of our common place in the Old Empire.

[Randallw]

Originally posted by Loser:


The five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere are as follows.

House Davion, the The Federated Commonwealth

House Liao, the Cappelan Confederation

House Kurita, the Draconis Combine

House Marik, the Free Worlds League

House Steiner, the Lyran Alliance

Been ages since I looked at my Battletech books but...House Davion is the Federated wolds who merged with the Lyran Commonwealth, House Steiner, to form the Federated Commonwealth. By this time Liao had split into the Capellan confederation and another, Liao I think, and The Rasalhauge republic left the Draconis Combine. Then of course the Clans turn up. Basically the houses are as such
Davion- Federated worlds- America
Steiner- Lyran commonwealth- Europe
Kurita- Draconis combine- Japan.
Liao- Capellans- China
Marik- Free worlds- Africa (I always thought. Also the weakest house who basically do nothing)
Rasalhauge, who form later, are Scandinavia.

All that said I would prefer something other than Inner Sphere. All the houses are basically the same technologically (culturally they are different) and they all use the same weapons.
It would be more interesting to develop our own houses.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Randallw:
House Davion is the Federated wolds who merged with the Lyran Commonwealth, House Steiner, to form the Federated Commonwealth.

They spilt back up again. I guess it just didn't work out.

I've no problem with taking a strictly non-Inner Sphere route. But I would like to see a few things nailed down.

Especially this "no glassing" thing.

Oh, and some history.

Just to keep things simple, let's say we're human. Maybe some of us and a little different, a little changed with time. But we all started human.

[General Woundwort]

I think (from the files I'm getting so far) that this is not going to be a strictly Battletech history. That's fine by me, as I want to do some things for game mechanics that don't totally fit into that story. However, I do happen to have some Battletech main pics lying around if you want to have one of them, Loser.

I sent this litte extra background to Joachim earlier. If you guys want more specifics I can post them before we start...

The background is pretty much what I set out in the forums. The idea is a human homeworld, through advanced astronomy (Ancient race in game terms), charted out their star cluster (sector in game terms) and sent out six colony ships (one founding each player's "homeworld") with the understanding that the leaders/feudal lords of those colonies would remain loyal to the Emperor back home. Due to political apathy and cultural decline the homeworld settled nothing else outside of its own system. The feudal lords themselves didn't advance much in technology, but did expand out from their settled worlds. I'm assuming that subspace communications have only been available in the Last 20 or so years before the game "begins", and because of the potential for integration that opens up, the central government attempts to gain greater control over the outer territories. However, they don't have the chutzpah to back it up, and the Imperial family gets "wacked" in the process (watch for story thread in the forums). Doesn't matter who did it, the central cultural symbol of unity is removed, and the six players get to fight out who will consolidate the sector under their rule.

[General Woundwort]

EDIT - double-post due to dial-up hiccup

[ May 01, 2004, 20:43: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[Joachim]

Can I have some more background on the empire so as to develop my renegade House?

It would be good if we can have a quick history, name of race/empire etc.

[General Woundwort]

So far, I have tenative pics and EMP files from Randallw and TerranC, and pics for Joachim. The sooner I get your files, the sooner I can start the pregame set-up, and the sooner you can get after one another's throats.

[General Woundwort]

If I don't hear from the rest of you guys soon, I may just have to go back to working on the Mother of All Mods mod - and I know you all don't want that...

[Joachim]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
If I don't hear from the rest of you guys soon, I may just have to go back to working on the Mother of All Mods mod - and I know you all don't want that...

emp. sent - C'mon everyone!