The Founding of the Clans

The Founding of the Clans (advertisment)
Product information
Type	Novel trilogy (unfinished)
Author	Randall N. Bills
Publication information
Publisher	FanPro (German novels) BattleCorps
First published	2004 (Germany) 2007 (BattleCorps)
Content
Era	Star League era, Succession Wars era
Timeline	5 November 2784 - 9 June 2815 (unfinished)

The Founding of the Clans is a (projected) trilogy of novels by Randall N. Bills. He wrote only the first two book though; the third part has not been written to date.

Centering on Andery Kerensky, Aleksandr Kerensky's younger son (and brother of Nicholas Kerensky, who is considered the "father" of the Clans), the series describes Operation Exodus, the Pentagon Civil War, and the creation of the Clan society.

Although completed, the books were not initially published in their original language.
It has been speculated that this may have been because of FASA ceasing active operations in 2001, handing over the BattleTech IP to Wizkids who subsequently granted the license to FanPro. FanPro began to publish a line of entirely new BattleTech print novels in German from 2004 onwards, including translations of the first two Founding of the Clans novels in 2004 and 2006, respectively (and also the German translation of Fall from Grace which had also been a previously unpublished engish-language manuscript), but ceased further publications after a disagreement with InMediaRes/Catalyst Game Labs over the rights in 2008.

The first Founding of the Clans novel was later published as a serial via BattleCorps; the second remains unpublished in English so far. The third was never written:

German novel cover	German title	English title
	Clangründer: Abkehr ("Clan Founders: Breakaway") FanPro, 2004	Fall from Glory BattleCorps, 2007)
	Clangründer: Traum ("Clan Founders: Dream") FanPro, 2006	Visions of Rebirth, announced but unpublished so far
n/a	Clangründer: Bande ("Clan Founders: Bonds") announced but unpublished so far	Forging of Blood, announced but unpublished so far