The Star Union
OK, I'm going to step in here as a veteran of the original. You are making the same mistake that they did, and massively overwanking Earth and assuming that the reason for the various things done in BTech are purely due to them being too stupid to pour piss out of a boot.
Congratulations, you've remade An Entry With A Bang in all of its curbstomping wankery.
If you want it to work long term, think seriously about how to merge the technical paradigms, rather than keep them separate. Anything that your ISOT earth can do must be possible for the BTech powers, and the BTech choices must not be pants-on-head durr durr durr stupid. *They* are the ones who've built interstellar empires that, despite everything, have lasted longer than damn near anything currently around on Earth. They probably know what they are about.
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 technology, especially in computing power -- mix that with Wolverine stuff for over a hundred years? Yeah), this "Clancy Earth" would pretty much be an out of context problem for the IS and Clanners until they begin adapting, and even then just by trying to adapt would cause massive military and social upheavals to the current civilizations out there.If you want it to work long term, think seriously about how to merge the technical paradigms, rather than keep them separate. Anything that your ISOT earth can do must be possible for the BTech powers, and the BTech choices must not be pants-on-head durr durr durr stupid. *They* are the ones who've built interstellar empires that, despite everything, have lasted longer than damn near anything currently around on Earth. They probably know what they are about.
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.You are assuming that our paradigm is in fact superior.
If you want to write an earth wank story that's one thing, but it'll be boring and rapidly turn into the same sort of crap the original turned into