It's currently 2970 at turn 40, so 2930.
Huh thought we'd have more then 2-2½ generations before the shit hits the fan.
Considering how we've been researching Life-extension Therapy it's likely that people born at this time will still be around when the Clans show up - Jihad Hot Spots: Terra mention that Terrans with the same level of medical care as in the Star League consider 140 years to be old. Thinking about how our research is progressing and we're talking about advancing to beyond Star League levels, and that with the level of Life-extension treatment we're hopefully finishing this turn people don't have to start rolling for natural death until they reach 100, it's possible that Jackie will still be Empress when Operation Revival kicks off.
Also, as far as I can tell, Life-Extension Therapy doesn't impede the reproductive abilities of its beneficiaries, so they can go about having children for longer. Awkward moment in the future when Jackie's kids have several siblings younger than their own kids...
... it's possible that Jackie will still be Empress when Operation Revival kicks off.
After all if she's still alive by that point she's obviously retired and living the good life on some tropical beachFortunately for you, Jackie is not a Sith and cannot reach across realities to Force strangle you for that. She definitely wants to, however.
After all if she's still alive by that point she's obviously retired and living the good life on some tropical beach
So, unless you thread dive stuff from waaaay back at the start of the quest, you'll have missed chatter about some of the things about my (and thus BQ's) take on this period in BT history.
The early 3000's are a 'new era' in the Inner Sphere, because the nations are finally resurging from the ruination of 1SW and 2SW. By the end of the 2SW, everything was a wreck. Even major nations only had one or two Shipyards left, worlds that were dependent on trade to stay viable were getting marked off the map, etc, etc.
The 3SW switched to low-intensity warfare, with infrastructure attacks and deliberately targeting civilians verboten (for the most part). This didn't end the collapse, but it stopped pushing it on. Over the next generation, the collapse finished, bottoming out around 2900 or so. At that point, any world that was going to fail because of the collapse in trade and infrastructure, had failed. The generation after that, 2900-2935 or so, were basically stuck in the darkest time of the Inner Sphere. It was a day-to-day struggle to keep infrastructure from further failing, production lines running, and the enemy from finishing off your massively-depleted military.
The generation after that, 2940-2975 or so, were the beginning of the recovery. It went from 'constantly patching and jury-rigging things to keep them working,' to 'we're finally starting to catch up on maintenance. We actually have the budget to build a new water purifier and keep the old one in service until it's finished, so we don't all die in the meantime.' Note that Janos Marik was born in 2957. This is where people are not just looking to survive anymore, they're looking to rebuild.
Next up, 2980-3010 or so, is the 'and now we're on solid ground.' The last of those who were adults at the nadir of civilization are dying of old age, and while there are those who remember things being harder in their childhood, that's great-grandpa; mom and dad remember civilization being largely stable. The people who grew up in this era, are those who aren't looking to rebuild, they're looking to expand. Note Katrina Steiner was born in 2976.
There's a reason that the Patton/Rommel design was the first tank in a hundred years to be designed to use FE, rather than ICE, and it's because now it was logistically and infrastructurally reasonable to look into expanding FE designs to support something like that, rather than catch up with the demand you already had. The 3020's were primed to begin new innovation, even before the Helm Core showed up, as supported canonically by the Patton/Rommel, the Hatchetman, the Wolfhound, and the Merlin. Hanse Davion, by founding the NAIS, did a better job of concentrating this resurgence into a place where it could both bear more fruit, and be protected from Comstar BS, but the NAIS is more a symptom than a cause.
For example Lordsfire put together a pretty good summary.
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They’d been disassembled and hidden instead, and evidently whoever had been part of organizing the original colonial expedition out here had feared that the Star League might decide to try their hand at a little Year Zero BS themselves and had shipped out at least a portion of those treasures out with your ancestors.
Two Mammoth’s had been heavily modified for the task and had been filled to the deckheads with disassembled historical artifacts. One of them had been filled with just one single massive artifact that completely filled it, and even then some items from it had to be carried on the second.
When have we had two Mammoth's where the fuck have they been all this time. I don't understand how we're only hearing about this now unless you just decided to toss it in at the last moment. It makes about as much sense as the speed of our tech advance, or the Combine having that much weight of metal to throw away even if they, in their insanity, moved a ASF and Mech line to the middle of nowhere.
Was any of this explained and I just missed it?
When have we had two Mammoth's where the fuck have they been all this time.
It makes about as much sense as the speed of our tech advance, or the Combine having that much weight of metal to throw away even if they, in their insanity, moved a ASF and Mech line to the middle of nowhere.
3. The only reason we haven't been at full Star League era Terran tech was that we suffered our own "mini" Dark Age due to the K-F event that blew up Old Landing. However, this was a "shallow" Dark Age because although the then-sole major city that housed the research labs was annihilated by Stackpoling fusion reactors, the loss was primarily confined to physical infrastructure; data backups survived on remote servers and more importantly, enough *people* survived to rebuild an advanced society.
4. As to the Combine. . . we don't know. That said, their forces out here would also be free of Com* interference, and it's clear that they were sent out with a solid technical and industrial base.