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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the

Inner Sphere

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the

Inner Sphere

An Introduction to the Battletech Universe

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Inner Sphere

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION......................................................4

THE STAR LEAGUE..................................................5

MAJOR FACTIONS.................................................12

MERCENARY FORCES........................................... 23

PLAYER’S HANDOUT.............................................26

Original Writing

The Battletech 3056 MUSE

Michael Flynn's

The Battletech3025 game

The Company Store

Editor

Yan Périard

Illustration

Patrick’s Battletech Archive

Battletech Central

Maps

Inner Sphere Cartography Society

Øystein Tvedten

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Introduction

introduction

Battalion: 3 Companies (36 Vehicles)

Regiment: 3 Battalions (108 Vehicles)

Most of this information was taking from the newbienews

on the BTech:3056 MUSE. I am willing to take any

suggestions for descriptions for any of the factions listed

here.

Infantry Organization

Squad: 7 troops

Platoon: 4 Squads (28 troops)

Company: 3 Platoons (84 troops)

Battalion: 3 Companies (252 troops)

Regiment: 3 Battalions (756 troops)

These files are intended to help give background

information on the various faction in the Btech Universe

for RP value. They are not meant to replace BTech

sourcebooks and do not contain any rules to play BTech.

Most files contain information up to and around 3052. For

paranoid and legal reasons, I do not plan to update

theses files to contain the latest and greatest information

from FA$A.

Currency Conversion Chart

Currency C-Bills Kurita Davion Steiner Marik Liao

C-Bills

1.00

1.25

1.11

0.91

1.43

2.00

By the 31st century, humanity has spread to thousands

of worlds, while a handful of powerful empires wage

continual war for the right to rule the stars. Foremost

among the weapons used in that struggle are

BattleMechs. Loaded with autocannons, missile

launchers, lasers, and charged-particle beam weapons,

these fusion-powered war machines of articulated armor

stand upward of ten meters high. Piloting them are

MechWarriors, the best, most intensively trained men and

women available. Like the armored knights of an earlier

age, MechWarriors are popular heroes, and their exploits

are the stuff of legends.

Kurita

0.80

1.00

0.89

0.73

1.14

1.60

Davion

0.90

1.13

1.00

0.82

1.29

1.80

Steiner

1.10

1.38

1.22

1.00

1.57

2.20

Marik

0.70

0.88

0.78

0.64

1.00

1.40

Liao

0.50

0.63

0.56

0.45

0.71

1.00

- Michael Flynn

Editor’s Note: The files have been edited to contain

information up to and around 3025, just prior to the 4 th

Succession War.

Standard Military Unit Structure

BattleMech Organization

Lance: 4 BattleMechs

Company: 3 Lances (12 BattleMechs)

Battalion: 3 Companies (36 BattleMechs)

Regiment: 3 Battalions (108 BattleMechs)

Aerospace Organization

Lance: 2 Aerospace Fighters

Flight: 3 Lances (6 Aerospace Fighters)

Company: 2 Flights (12 Aerospace Fighters)

Wing: 3 Companies (36 Aerospace Fighters)

Regiment: 3 Wings (108 Aerospace Fighters)

Armor Organization

Lance: 4 Vehicles

Company: 3 Lances (12 Vehicles)

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The Star League

months the trip had previously required. Because of the

fusion-power plant's efficiency, space vessels could now

maintain higher-acceleration burns for much longer

periods.

The development of efficient fusion drives made possible

the first widespread exploration of Terra's star system. By

2050, the Alliance had scientific outposts throughout the

Sol system, had dispatched unmanned interstellar probes

to Tau Ceti, Epsilon Eridani, and Epsilon Indi. By this

time, private multinational corporations also began to

participate in spacefaring activity, establishing mining

colonies in the asteroid belt, and ven transporting entire

asteroids from the belt to the Terra-Moon system. These

corporations also engaged in technological research that

resulted in breakthroughs such as the development of

dense-but-lightweight materials for spacecraft and space-

station construction and a variety of small, portable

fusion reactors for equipment use.

Breakthrough (2001-2100)

At the beginning of the 21st century, life on Terra had

not changed much from what it had been at the close of

the 20th century. Despite attempts at reconciliation in the

1990s, the planet's two giant superpowers still opposed

one another, but now their tangled web of weaponry

stretched outward into space. Over the next 100 years,

however, the situation changed dramatically. By the end

of the 21st century, the people of Terra stood poised in

apparent unity on the brink of their first expansion into

the stars.

Not all the breakthrough research of the 21st century

took immediate effect, however. Working together at

Stanford University, America's Thomas Kearny and

Japan's Takayoshi Fuchida published a series of papers

from 2018-2021 that attacked the theoretical

undepinnings of modern physics. The scientific

community ridiculed their work, and both men died in

obscurity before the century was half over. As had been

the case with so many innovators, only future

generations would respect and honor the value of these

two men's daring research. It would be another 80 years

before their theories would come to fruition.

Politically, humanity's new age began in 2011 when the

bloody Second Soviet Civil War tore that nation

permanantly asunder. As the Soviet strife threatened to

bring the rest of the planet to the brink of nuclear war, a

joint force of North American and Western European

troops intervened to end hostilities in 2014. This outcome

greatly strengthened political ties between nations of the

Western Alliance, resulting in a formal unification of

Western military forces. By 2024, the Western Alliance

included Japan, the newly liberated Eastern European

nations, and the now-separate seven Russian states.

Replacing the defunct United Nations as a world forum

was the Alliance Parliament. As a vigorous sponsor of

scientific research and space-exploration activities, the

Alliance handsomely rewarded similar efforts by its

member states.

Meanwhile, medical prosthetics research had led to the

development of polyacetene fibers called "myomers."

Under the influence of electricity, bundles of these fibers

would contract strongly, like muscles. Unfortunately, the

minimum bundle length required for the process was far

longer than any human limb. This line of research would

lie fallow for the next three centuries.

As the economic benefits of Alliance membership became

obvious, nation after nation petitioned the Alliance for

membership status. By 2086, the Western Alliance had

become the Terran Alliance, embracing more than 120

member-states. A complex formula based on date of

entry, wealth, population, and military power determined

each member's voting strength in Parliament.

Exodus (2102-2313)

In 2102, scientists announced the greatest scientific

breakthrough of the last two centuries, the theoretical

prototype for a faster-than-light starship. Ironically, their

work was based on the once-scorned theories of Kearny

and Fuchida. The Terran Parliament authorized the

Deimos Project, a crash program to develop an FTL drive.

Although the Deimos project culminated in the maiden

voyage of the first FTL ship to Tau Ceti in 2108, the

billions spent on it created resentment and even rioting in

some of the poorer Alliance member-states. This rift in

the apparent unity of Terra was never completely

The 21st century was an age of unsurpassed scientific

innovation, most notably the development of fusion

power as a major source of power. Alliance scientists

built the first full-scale fusion reactor in 2020, and sent

the first fusion-powered spacecraft from Terra to Mars in

2027. The voyage took only 14 days, a fraction of the five

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