20 Year Update

20 Year Update
Product information
Type	Sourcebook
Development	Jordan Weisman (Production Manager) James L. Nelson (Project Director) L. Ross Babcock III (Editor-In-Chief) Donna Ippolito (Senior Editor) Jim Musser (Editor) C. R. Greene (Editorial Assistant) Ken Stolt (Research Assistant)
Primary writing	Jim Musser Donna Ippolito Boy F. Peterson, Jr.
Pages	96
Cover Artwork	Jim Nelson, Jeff Laubenstein
Interior Artwork	Jonathan Marcus (Cartography)
Illustrations	Joel Biske, Jimbo Nelson, Earl Geier, Rick Harris, Tim Bradstreet, Jeff Laubenstein
Publication information
Publisher	FASA
Product code	1639
First published	1989
ISBN-10	1555601049
ISBN-13	978-1555601041
MSRP	$12.00
Content
Era	Clan Invasion era
Agency	Wolfnet
Universe Date	7 January 3050

Description

Written from the perspective of Wolf's Dragoons' intelligence organization Wolfnet, 20 Year Update pushes the current era of the BattleTech game universe forward from the Fourth Succession War to the cusp of the Clan Invasion. It details the massive political changes and new nations that spring up during this time, as well as providing deployment tables for all factions and updated maps of the Inner Sphere. The final section provides an overview of the movers and shakers circa 3050.

From the back cover

“

20 Year Update The year is 3050. The Fourth Succession War has been over for 20 years. The Rasalhague Military District broke with the Draconis Combine, forming the new Free Rasalhague Republic. Houses Steiner and Davion gradually merge to form the Federated Commonwealth. In an unexpected show of strength, the Combine military, under Theodore Kurita, stops the Federated Commonwealth invasion of 3039 cold. ComStar unveils a huge 'Mech army to garrison its thousands of installations throughout the Inner Sphere. Romano Liao fends off a Canopus-Andurien invasion and rebuilds the Capellan Confederation from the ashes left by her demented father. Don't think of your character as twenty years older...think of his son as being ready for battle.

”

Contents

• The Inner Sphere: 3050
• Historical Overview: 3030 – 3050
  • New Governments
  • New Leaders
  • Arming of ComStar
  • War of 3039

• Federated Commonwealth
  • Unification
  • Opposition to Alliance
  • War of 3039
  • Politics
  • Government
  • Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth
  • Economy
  • Goals and Problems
  • Deployment Tables

• War of 3039
  • First Wave
  • Counterthrust

• The Draconis Combine
  • Rise of Theodore
  • The Ronin War
  • Theodore's Innovations
  • War of 3039
  • Politics
  • Border Changes
  • Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery
  • Social and Economic Reforms
  • Goals and Problems
  • Deployment Tables

• Free Rasalhague Republic
  • Origins
  • Revolt
  • Independence
  • Government
  • Rasalhague KungsArmé (Royal Rasalhague Army)
  • Economy
  • Culture
  • Conclusion
  • Deployment Tables

• Free Worlds League
  • Recent Events
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Military
  • Conclusion
  • Deployment Tables

• Capellan Confederation
  • Reconstruction
  • Politics
  • Military
  • Economy
  • Conclusion
  • Deployment Tables

• ComStar
  • A New Stance
  • Interstellar Relations
  • Internal Politics
  • Political Goals
  • Com Guards
  • Conclusion
  • Deployment Tables

• Military Technology Review

• The Periphery
  • Magistracy of Canopus
  • Taurian Concordat
  • Outworlds Alliance and Independents
  • Bandit Kingdoms and Pirate Bands
  • Deployment Tables

• Major Personalities of 3050

Hanse Davion

Theodore Kurita

Myndo Waterly

Melissa Steiner Davion [sic]

Thomas Marik

Romano Liao

Takashi Kurita

Victor Ian Steiner-Davion

Haakon Magnusson

Anastasius Focht

Emma Centrella

Tsen Shang

Constance Kurita

Ryan Steiner

Morgan Hasek-Davion

Li Weaver

Tor Miraborg

Candace Liao

Subhash Indrahar

Tormano Liao (as Tormana Liao)

Charles Seneca

Justin Xiang Allard

Susie "One-Eye" Morgraine-Ryan

Misha Auburn

Other Notable Personalities

Sun Tzu Liao [sic]

Cassandra Blake

Knute Kurita

Kristen Marik

Margaret Doons

David Polonia

Charles Smith

Egan Telosa

Thomas Bradford

Katherine McCorkendale

Selah Bey

Corinne Marik

Notes

• Much like the Wolf's Dragoons sourcebook, this book details a distinct point of time, with no mention of the existence of the Clans or their upcoming arrival (in 3050). As such it is really the last pre-Clan BattleTech book, and summarizes the universe at the end of the initial (pre-Clan) setting.

• Notably, the 20 Year Update mentions that ComStar lost contact with the Oberon Confederation and subsequently with its protectorate, the Elysian Fields, as early as 3045 although the Clan invasion hit the periphery only in late 3049.

• At less than a page, the military technology review tells little beyond the names of new 'Mechs and details about the rise and fall of Listen-Kill Missiles.