BattleTech Universe (sourcebook)

BattleTech Universe
Product information
Type	Sourcebook
Pages	280
Publication information
Publisher	Catalyst Game Labs
Product code	CAT35702
First published	4 October 2024 (general release)
Content

BattleTech Universe is an intensely detailed sourcebook providing an overview of the history and setting of the BattleTech Universe, providing details of the features, technology and factions of BattleTech stretching across all BattleTech eras to the time of the ilClan.

BattleTech Universe was originally set to be published in the fourth quarter of 2022, but was eventually delayed in the lead-up to the 2023 crowdfunding campaign for the BattleTech: Mercenaries boxset. Though flagged as being offered for general release, which backers could also select as a add-on option, the campaign also offered an premium Precentor Martial Edition with additional exclusive features in response to the campaign reaching the $2,000,000 USD stretch goal.

The standard version of BattleTech Universe was released on 4 October 2024

Product Description

“

A UNIVERSE OF POSSIBILITY The rich story of the BattleTech setting has played out across more than a thousand years of future history, encompassing the full sweep of human experience. Here, for the first time, that story is presented in one comprehensive volume! Dive deep into BattleTech lore with this look at the factions of the Inner Sphere, Clans, and Periphery, and learn about key events, personalities, and conflicts for each. Whether you enjoy titanic battlefield clashes, high-stakes covert ops missions, cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, or any other kind of story, you'll find it in the BattleTech setting. BattleTech Universe has everything you need to explore the ongoing BattleTech saga, and to write your own chapter on your game table!

”

Contents

• The Universe

• History

• The Star League

• Ad Astra
• Age of War
• The BattleMech
• The MechWarrior
• The Star League

• The Succession Wars

• ComStar
• The First Succession War
• The Second Succession War
• The Games
• The Third Succession War
• LosTech
• The House Lords
• The Fourth Succession War
• The War of 3039
• The Com Guards

• The Clan Invasion

• Operation: Revival
• The Children of Kerensky
• The Clans of Kerensky
• Clan Technology
• The Battle of Tukayyid
• The Truce Years

• The Civil War

• The Federated Commonwealth
• The FedCom Civil War
• Interstellar Corporations

• The Jihad

• The Word of Blake Jihad
• The Wars of Reaving
• Shadow Wars

• The Dark Age

• End of the Republic Era
• The House Lords

• The ilClan

• The ilClan Approaches

• Factions

• The Great Houses

• House Davion
• House Kurita
• House Liao
• House Marik
• House Steiner

• The Clans

• The ilClan
• Clan Jade Falcon
• Clan Smoke Jaguar
• The Rasalhague Dominion
• Clan Hell's Horses
• Clan Sea Fox
• The Raven Alliance
• The Scorpion Empire
• The Lost Clans

• The Periphery

• The Periphery
• The Magistracy of Canopus
• The Marian Hegemony
• The Taurian Concordat & Calderon Protectorate
• Minor States

• The Mercenaries

• Wolf's Dragoons
• Eridani Light Horse
• Kell Hounds
• Gray Death Legion
• Northwind Highlanders
• 21st Centauri Lancers
• Hansen's Roughriders
• Notable Mercenaries
• Interstellar Cartography by Year

• 2765
• 2786
• 2822
• 2864
• 3025
• 3050
• 3052

• 3063
• 3067
• 3081
• 3130
• 3145
• 3151

Precentor Martial Edition

As well as being included as a add-on option, the campaign offered a premium $200 USD physical Precentor Martial Edition which was hoped to include is to include half a dozen sections of layered acetate sheets allowing readers to "peel away" the various sections of a BattleMech, Battle Armor Aerospace Fighter and so on, multiple gatefold pages of mercenary wallpapers from the campaign and envelopes containing additional items such as the Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner Wedding Announcement, all presented in a stunning box or slipcase.

The finished product features a carbon-fiber styled red chevron box similar to the campaign exclusive BattleTech: Mercenaries box which includes a sound chip with plays the seminal 'Mech start-up sequence from MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat when the hinged lid is opened. Inside are a number of art prints and double-sided Timber Wolf and Warhammer technical blueprints. The physical BattleTech Universe features the same carbon-fiber patterning as the box and features acetate sheets for the Star Lord JumpShip, Atlas BattleMech, Elemental Battle Armor.

Notes

• The digital release included both single and double page PDFs to preserve the large scale maps.