MechWarrior: Dark Ages and its related novels take place in the mid 3100s.
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Most works in the series are set during the early to middle decades of the 31st century, though a few publications concern earlier ages. Interstellar and civil wars, planetary battles, factionalization and infighting, as well as institutionalized combat in the shape of arena contests and duelling, form the grist of both novelized fiction and game backstories.īattleTech's fictional history covers the approximately 1,150 years from the end of the 20th century to the middle of the 32nd.
Despite one or two isolated encounters in novels, mankind is the only sentient species.Ībove all, the central theme of BattleTech is conflict, consistent with the franchise's wargaming core. Cultural, political and social conventions vary considerably between worlds, but feudalism is widespread, with many states ruled by hereditary lords and other nobility, below which are numerous social classes.Ī key feature of the BattleTech universe is the absence of non-human intelligent life. Individual lifestyles remain largely unchanged from those of modern times, due in part to stretches of protracted interplanetary warfare during which technological progress slowed or even reversed. Generally, BattleTech assumes that its history is identical to real-world history up until approximately 1984, when the reported histories begin to diverge in particular, the game designers did not foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, which plays a major role past 1990 in the fictional BattleTech history. ( September 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī detailed timeline of the BattleTech fictional setting stretching from the late 20th century to the mid-32nd describes humanity's technological, social and political development and spread through space both in broad historical terms and through accounts of the lives of individuals who experienced and shaped that history, with an emphasis on (initially) the year 3025 and creating an ongoing storyline from there. Please edit the article to focus on discussing the work rather than merely reiterating the plot. It should be expanded to provide more balanced coverage that includes real-world context.
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