The 'Dark Age' of MW:DA is referring to a partial blackout of the HPG network that kicks off a new era of conflict by severely restricting interstellar communications in such a way that smaller, regional authorities suddenly became a lot more important once again, leading to the kind of political instability you'd expect from neofeudalism. IMHO it wasn't a very good story arc, but for other reasons. Plenty of opportunity for actual growth amidst the properties we know and love from the 3025 era and clan invasion without hamfistedly mashing the reset To be fair, the jihad didn't cause a technological regression, just a massive loss of life and political upheaval due to widespread acts of terrorism and unrestricted use of weapons of mass destruction. Plenty of opportunity for actual growth amidst the properties we know and love from the 3025 era and clan invasion without hamfistedly mashing the reset button. Maybe theses nouveau riche periphery states with their expanded access to resources upset the political balance some, maybe it's a good opportunity to add new factions or flesh out the old ones. Clan Ghost Bear is just another nation and sometimes it fights against its neighboring Great Houses and sometimes it allies with them to fight against another clan or house, etc.Įxpand the map out to include clan space and say maybe the periphery states took advantage of rediscovered lostech and the distraction of the Great Houses during the clan invasion to expand aggressively outwards. Honestly I don't even know much about the Jihad and Dark Age eras of Battletech because the names alone propose a sequence of events I expect to find distasteful.Īll I want from a furthered timeline is intermixed technology and an evolved political situation where you've got all the Houses and Clans you know and love, all out for themselves with no one but the most diehard clans having a problem working 'cross faction', e.g.

When I read another, harsher technological regression I just think 'ugh'.

Mwo civil war update