Talk:BattleTech eras

Great idea for an article. I think this would be a good addition to the BattleTech article in the See Also section. Suggestion for another title: BattleTech Eras? --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 10:13, 28 August 2008 (CDT)

Do we really need seven different articles for information that is already covered elsewhere? I do like the idea for explaining the eras thing, but shouldn't we just do it in one comprehensive article? --Scaletail 19:05, 28 August 2008 (CDT)

I agree with Scaletail. I created this article yesterday as a placeholder until I could figured something else out. I'm fine with linking all the eras to a single page. --Ebakunin 21:43, 28 August 2008 (CDT)

I think we're all in agreement on that (see my original post). I think its a great list-type article, but I don't think it needs to be recreated 6 times with different names. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 00:29, 29 August 2008 (CDT)

Adding Eras

In my research, I'm coming across other "eras" that are referred to. Plus the time from 2005 until the Star League can be broken up. Do you think we can add our own era's here or are we just going with InMediaRes stuff? Locis 13:38, 18 November 2008 (PST)

It's just CGL's eras right now. Interestingly, the era logos in Jihad Turning Points: Luthien now includes a "Dark Age" era. --Scaletail 16:52, 18 November 2008 (PST)

First Exodus Era

I have seen the "pre-Age of War" Era is referred to commonly as the "First Exodus (Era)". I looked up the date, if you are so inclined to change the name - the era would be demarcated by the settlement of Tau Ceti IV (New Earth) in 2112 and the start of the Age of War in 2398--S.gage 17:39 EDT 18 June 2009.

I was just copyediting. You're welcome to make any changes you want. However, we really do need more citations. If you could add them in your edits we'd really appreciate it. Thanks. --Ebakunin 15:35, 18 June 2009 (PDT)

The Reunification War Era

The Reunification War era is wrongly displayed as "Pre-Star League Era" in the in yearlist box. The Star League was formed in 2571. Add Star League logo and change the era for this period. --Neufeld 21:01, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Huh. Not sure how that happened. I have removed the Reunification War era entirely as the eras have been revamped (the canon document is here). Thanks for noticing! --Ebakunin ^{(talk|contribs)} 00:09, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

The Dark Age Era

The Period after 3082 is when Wizkids takes over more or less, calling that Darkage is a short hand. The actual Dark Age (3132-Fortress Republic?) and Age of Destruction (Fortress Republic?+) time periods should be split out too, does any one know what wizkids called the era I woudl call the Age of Peace, or Death by Boredom between 3082 and the circa 3132 collapse of the HPG network that starts the Dark Age? --Cameron 14:16, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

So far, official word from Herb has been that 3081+ is called the Dark Age. I'm not aware of an official distinction between these eras so far (unlike the Exodus eras, for example). Dirk Bastion 15:46, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Herbs Response ammounts to "Not My Job" - Thats when the Timeline for the DarkAge Game takes over, there are at least three time periods in DA's time line that FanPro/Catalyst is not going to account for because they are not yet cleared to operate in those years. Even if as IIRC WizKids is less of an issue and the DarkAge is dead, the era periods from the Dark Age game should still be as faithfully represented as from the BattleTech game that is all we really care about.--Cameron 17:30, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

BattleTech (Catalyst/FanPro/FASA) < 3081 <= Dark Age(Wizkids), we should cover the time periods of both games, not just the one that we care the most about.--Cameron 18:15, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

I have no clue what you are arguing against, to be honest. Nobody's saying that we shouldn't cover these events, just that distinguishing between suberas shouldn't be done until Catalyst does so (we don't do so for the Succession Wars or Star League Era either). Do you have any source on these sub-era periods? Dirk Bastion 18:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

According to the CGL description of era logos, the "Dark Age" era is 3132 and later. To my knowledge, there is no official name for the era between the Jihad and Dark Age eras, assuming the Jihad era ends in 3081 (the Clan Invasion era does not end in 3052, for example). --Scaletail 02:44, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Do take not, however, that TRO:3085 and Technical Readout: 3085 Supplemental claim that they take place in both the Jihad and Dark Age era. Since this product actually takes place in the era of question, that shouldn't be overlooked. Dirk Bastion 17:20, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

I am saying that it is/was not in Catalysts Mandate to do anything past 3081 when WizKids was an effective force, WizKids had Superior Authority and delegated authority to FantasyProductions/Catalyst for the period before 3081, thus CGL's Era list is not saying that 3081+ is actually called "Dark Age", what they are saying is that that period is still only being covered by the Dark Age game, Totally different Concept.--Cameron 16:42, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

WizKids materiel should be treated as authoritive for era type information 3081 and subsequent until Catalyst decides to progress past 3081.--Cameron 16:42, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Catalyst has already released two TROS in the past 3081 era. As to the names - could you please just link me to what those eras are supposed to be called and when they take place? I honestly don't know! Dirk Bastion 17:20, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

3081 - 3132 is a period of peace spiked by the occasional Pirate Raid and Capellan attempt to regain Territory - the main problem is that times of peace are not worth naming. The Dark Age Starts circa 3132 with the collapse of the HPG Network. Age of Destruction starts with the Formation of Fortress Republic in 3135 when the rotten Sphere finally collapses. The other problem is that the PTB make shortcuts, and then wonder why people would care enough to rub nose--Cameron 13:22, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Linkable Titles for the Eras

Tech Manual references the eras Directly for certain classes of weapons, so how do i get BattleTech_eras#Early Spaceflight and BattleTech_eras#Pre-Spaceflight links to work?— The preceding unsigned comment was posted by PerkinsC (talk • contribs) on 3 March 2011.

You can't, at the moment. You can only link to headlines, not table cells. Dirk Bastion 15:46, 3 March 2011 (UTC)