Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Welcome and FAQ

Hello all,

What is all this?
This is the Star Swords saga, a fan-fiction I've been working on for nearly 25 years. It is set in the BattleTech universe.

Twenty-five years?
Yes, I'm old. I started this back in college as a collaborative effort between myself and a good friend of mine. I've gone back over it numerous times since, revising and editing it. It formed the basis of several BattleTech/Mechwarrior RPG campaigns over the years. I haven't worked on it much lately (as in the last three or so years), but since I've started web blogging some other fan-fictions of mine, I decided to post this one as well.

Is the story complete?
No, it's not. I'm nothing if not ambitious. I had story lines planned out through the Jihad (if you know BT history, you'll know what that is. Basically up to the year 3080.), but the completed "novels" only go to about the year 3055.

For those of you familiar with the "Era" designations, this is a purely Clan Invasion story for the time being.

It seems that the story doesn't follow BattleTech canon.
It doesn't. It's based loosely on it, and I try to not deviate too far from what is established by the Masters-of-the-Universe at FASA/Fanpro/Catalyst (the franchise has changed hands a lot over the past two decades.) But it's not the same. It's my alternate universe.

Do I need to know BattleTech to enjoy it?
I'll leave this one to you, dear reader. It probably helps to have some familiarity with the source material, but I'd like to think it's not completely necessary. Try it and see if you like it.


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