Second Succession War (sourcebook)

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Second Succession War
Product information
Type Source Book
Author Chris Hartford
Development Ray Arrastia
Matthew Alexander
John Haward
Primary writing Chris Hartford
Pages 154
Cover Artwork Marco Mazzoni (Cover)
Ray Arrastia (Cover Design)
Illustrations Justin Adams
Robert Atkinson
Kevin McCann
Aaron Miller
Gerhard Mozsi
Matthew Plog
Ryan Portillo
Anthony Scroggins
David White
Matthew Alexander (Maps)
Ray Arrastia
Øystein Tvedten
Publication information
Publisher Catalyst Game Labs
Product code CAT35236
First published 2017
MSRP Publishing Costs
  • $34.99 (Printed) (U.S)
  • $14.99 (PDF) (U.S)
Content
Era Succession Wars
Series Succession Wars
Preceded by First Succession War

Description

The Second Succession War is a Historical type source book, which was written in the style of a Terran document. It was done originally as in-universe drafted first written in year 3150 and posed to be a published a nearly century after being written in which it is looking back to events of the Second Succession War.

The book chronicles brutal Second Succession War, which the interstellar nations of the Inner Sphere have exhausted themselves trying take power with all their might. With only a brief moment of uneasy peace, the book chronicles the second act of destruction and it reveals ComStar's secret rise of power behind the curtains of intrigue to attempt to steer the Inner Sphere to technology downswing so they may take power.

Second Succession War gives detail accounts of the conflict that would continue to ravage the Inner Sphere and herald it's civilization into the brink destruction.

The book includes; Rules creation of scenarios based on the events of the book, profiles of individuals who were major characters during the war and Conversion rules into various forms of Battletech Gameplay such as Interstellar Operations's Abstract Combat System.

From the back cover

WAR TO END ALL WARS

By 2821, the “Great Succession War” has ground to a halt, the participants seeking desperate respite and to forge a new peace and hope for mankind. Yet not everyone shares this ideal and soon secret machinations undermine the peace efforts and propel the Inner Sphere into a new round of violence. Soon brother will be set against brother and madness will reign once more: The Second Succession War. The Second Succession War covers the aftermath of the titanic First Succession War and the Great Houses efforts to survive before the machinations of Conrad Toyama propel them into a new round of blood-letting. Detailing the efforts to build a peace while preparing for a new war, this volume showcases the causes and consequences of the Second Succession War, as well as the politics and stresses between and within the Great Houses.

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