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The Battletech paradigm is almost entirely based around mechs being the focal point, with light combined arms accompanying them -- that includes the Clanners with their elementals. And by light, I mean "often may as well not be there", for some reason. I mean, for the love of the Flying...

Thing is, due to the way how IS and Clanner civilization developed since the Star League's fall, a Modern Earth using the tactics that they themselves used in the past, with advanced technology to back it up (again, a lot of the stuff we have today shits over Battletech's retro-futuristic...

I can see that, sort-of. The IS and other states value mechs because of the resources needed to produce them, various pieces of technology being either outright lost or near-impossible to replace (getting excited over a cache of old, one hundred year old memory chips being found, for example)...

Yeah -- a Modern Earth that's been given time to stew with Wolverines and a century or so? They're not going to have an emphasis on the "Cult of the Mechwarrior" like the Clans/IS do -- you'd probably find one or two heavy mechs acting as bastions in a large formation of combined arms vehicles...

The conspiracy theories, ironically, could've also undermined Nicholas as people would start asking awkward questions. It went from being a rallying point of "destroy the heretics!" (so-to-speak) to being a double-edged sword. When the truth finally does leak out, I can see a lot of Clanners...

Oh, definitely. From both an outside/creative and an "inside" universe perspective, a lot of the stuff we have on Modern Earth now shits over a lot what's in Battletech's retro-tech future. I was serious about a cluster of Playstation 3's (fun fact, the DARPA actually did that to computate...

It'd be interesting, I think, if Clan Wolverine/the "Minnesota Tribe" came to see the Star League, and the doctrines based on it like the Clan System, as being a system so flawed that it's like how people with common sense see communism now. After all, it failed them twice (the original SL and...

The amusing thing about this? Since Battletech was designed/built in the 80's (roughly), they built their vision on the future on what they thought 70's and 80's tech would evolve into. We see the same aesthetic in Alien and films around that time, too. Even a modern smartphone shits over...