MEKWARS: LEGENDS A MEKWARS CAMPAIGN SERVER
CLAN FACTIONS
When the bulk of Star League Defense Forces (SLDF) followed General Alexander Kerensky's fateful decision to abandon the chaos and ambitions of the Inner Sphere, they unknowingly were forming the seed from which would grow "The Clans". Their descendants, arriving in the Inner Sphere as part of "Operation Revival" in 3049 as clans Wolf, Jade Falcon, Ghost Bear, Smoke Jaguar, Steel Viper, Nova Cat and Diamond Shark would bear a strong testament to the exceptional qualities of the SLDF and its long dead commander.
After the exodus and the trials and tribulations that occurred as they set about creating a new beginning for mankind, Kerensky divided his descendants into Clans (each named after a animal found on the new worlds they discovered) and formed a caste society where, not surprisingly, the warrior sat firmly at the top. Centuries of genetic selection and ritualized warfare in the "Clan Homeworlds" created the clan warriors that arrived in the Inner Sphere and swept all before them. Without the destructive waste of the Inner Sphere's succession wars Clan society never lost the technology of the Star League, and even improved upon it. giving the clans warriors and weapons that far outclassed the Inner Sphere. Indeed, it took the SLDF reborn as the Com Guards (using many of the SLDF's old equipment) to stall the Clan invasion at Tukkiyad.
Operation Serpent saw the Inner Sphere boldly turn the Invasion around on the Clans, and the Inner Sphere was able to destroy the most hated and feared of the Invading clans, the Smoke Jaguars, as well as challenging and defeating many of the Clans that had remained behind during Operation revival in a great Trial of Refusal, further stalling the further invasion of the Inner Sphere.
With their invasions stalled the clans have taken to their traditional pastime of fighting amongst themselves. Gone however is much of the ritualized civility of the previous centuries. The Grand Council's influence is waning and more and more, naked ambition has replaced the honor-bound traditions of the past and the clans themselves have come to resemble the Inner Sphere more and more since Operation revival. The Ghost Bears have all but abandoned the Homeworlds, and The other Invading Clans seem focused on the Inner Sphere leaving the door open for new powers are rising amongst the Clans in the Homeworlds.
After the exodus and the trials and tribulations that occurred as they set about creating a new beginning for mankind, Kerensky divided his descendants into Clans (each named after a animal found on the new worlds they discovered) and formed a caste society where, not surprisingly, the warrior sat firmly at the top. Centuries of genetic selection and ritualized warfare in the "Clan Homeworlds" created the clan warriors that arrived in the Inner Sphere and swept all before them. Without the destructive waste of the Inner Sphere's succession wars Clan society never lost the technology of the Star League, and even improved upon it. giving the clans warriors and weapons that far outclassed the Inner Sphere. Indeed, it took the SLDF reborn as the Com Guards (using many of the SLDF's old equipment) to stall the Clan invasion at Tukkiyad.
Operation Serpent saw the Inner Sphere boldly turn the Invasion around on the Clans, and the Inner Sphere was able to destroy the most hated and feared of the Invading clans, the Smoke Jaguars, as well as challenging and defeating many of the Clans that had remained behind during Operation revival in a great Trial of Refusal, further stalling the further invasion of the Inner Sphere.
With their invasions stalled the clans have taken to their traditional pastime of fighting amongst themselves. Gone however is much of the ritualized civility of the previous centuries. The Grand Council's influence is waning and more and more, naked ambition has replaced the honor-bound traditions of the past and the clans themselves have come to resemble the Inner Sphere more and more since Operation revival. The Ghost Bears have all but abandoned the Homeworlds, and The other Invading Clans seem focused on the Inner Sphere leaving the door open for new powers are rising amongst the Clans in the Homeworlds.