BattleTech Expanded Universe: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''This is the Inner Sphere, thousands of planets colonized by humankind. Once it was united under the Star League, but for the last three hundred years it has been consumed by savage wars...''|Adam Steiner, from the ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'' animated series. }}

A galaxy-wide conflict with [[Giant Mecha]] spanning centuries is ripe for backstory, so FASA naturally encouraged filling out the [[Battle TechBattleTech]] universe. They licensed the creation of a series of [[Science Fiction]] novels as the main medium for this. The continuity of these novels was incredibly well kept, mainly because the nature of the 'verse allowed for a very wide variety of characters and settings. Naturally, this led to an [[Loads and Loads of Characters|extremely large and diverse cast of characters]], which is probably the strongest point of the novels. Much of the setting's tone was (and continues to be) defined by [[Michael Stackpole]], with other authors fitting their works in around his.

* The ''[[Mechwarrior (Video Game)|Mechwarrior]]'' series

* The ''[[Mech Commander (Video Game)|Mech Commander]]'' series

* The ''[[Mech Assault (Video Game)|Mech Assault]]'' series

* [[Everything's Louder Withwith Bagpipes]]: The Northwind Highlanders have their bagpipe band play the loudest song possible onto Clan Smoke Jaguar radio frequencies to jam up the Clan's communications, forcing the Clanners to use more troublesome line of sight based communications.