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A booklet titled '''''Classic BattleTech Universe''''' was included with the 2003 [[Classic BattleTech Boxed Set]] by [[FanPro]], and was also offered for free PDF download as a promotional product first by FanPro's and later by [[Catalyst Game Labs]] from their respective BattleTech website, the now defunct classicbattletech.com site.<ref>The download URL used to be http://www.classicbattletech.com/index.php?action=products&mode=full&id=210 but classicbattletech.com is now defunct.</ref>
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The booklet remained essentially unchanged for the 2007 [[Classic BattleTech Introductory Box Set]] except for being retitled to '''''Inner Sphere at a Glance''''', and it is arguably better known under that name now.
  
 
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'''Classic BattleTech Universe''' was included with the [[Classic BattleTech Boxed Set]] and is a short introduction into the [[BattleTech]] universe. The book starts with the history until [[3067]] and the major factions of the [[Inner Sphere]] and concludes with a description of the [[BattleMech]] in general and several common types in particular.
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Beginning with the ''[[Introduction to BattleTech]]'' booklet that [[FASA]] had included in the 1996 [[BattleTech, Fourth Edition]] boxed set, a second booklet besides the actual BattleTech rulebook was included with the game's core boxed set that contained background information about the BattleTech universe. While the booklet in FASA's fourth edition also contained the [[quick start rules]], it was revised by FanPro for their new 2003 edition of the boxed set to be purely a setting book. Despite minor changes to its layout and being renamed after 2007, it has remained essentailly unchanged ever since.
  
 
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** [[Atlas (BattleMech)|AS7-D ''Atlas'']]
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==Covers==
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Image:CBT10980UniverseCover.jpg|Booklet cover from 2003 [[Classic BattleTech Boxed Set]]
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Image:Classic_BattleTech_Universe.jpg|PDF edition 'cover'
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Image:CBT35000ISaaGCover.jpg|Booklet cover from 2007 [[Classic BattleTech Introductory Box Set]]
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Image:BT3500AISaaGCover.jpg|Booklet cover from 2011 [[25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set]]
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==Notes==
 
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The book can be downloaded for free on
 
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[http://www.classicbattletech.com/index.php?action=products&mode=full&id=210 classicbattletech.com]
 
 
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Revision as of 10:22, 15 September 2020

Inner Sphere at a Glance redirects here.
Classic BattleTech Universe.jpg
Classic BattleTech Universe
(standalone PDF publication cover)
Product information
Type Sourcebook
Pages 48
Cover Artwork Franz Vohwinkel
Illustrations Franz Vohwinkel
Publication information
Publisher FanPro
Product code 10980a
First published 2003
Content
Era Civil War era

A booklet titled Classic BattleTech Universe was included with the 2003 Classic BattleTech Boxed Set by FanPro, and was also offered for free PDF download as a promotional product first by FanPro's and later by Catalyst Game Labs from their respective BattleTech website, the now defunct classicbattletech.com site.[1]

The booklet remained essentially unchanged for the 2007 Classic BattleTech Introductory Box Set except for being retitled to Inner Sphere at a Glance, and it is arguably better known under that name now.

Description

Beginning with the Introduction to BattleTech booklet that FASA had included in the 1996 BattleTech, Fourth Edition boxed set, a second booklet besides the actual BattleTech rulebook was included with the game's core boxed set that contained background information about the BattleTech universe. While the booklet in FASA's fourth edition also contained the quick start rules, it was revised by FanPro for their new 2003 edition of the boxed set to be purely a setting book. Despite minor changes to its layout and being renamed after 2007, it has remained essentailly unchanged ever since.

Contents

Covers

Notes

  1. ↑ The download URL used to be http://www.classicbattletech.com/index.php?action=products&mode=full&id=210 but classicbattletech.com is now defunct.

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