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A quick guide for new readers
Hello and welcome to Secrets of BattleTech, a weekly newsletter about the unreliable and tangled lore of the BattleTech Universe. This is a fan project, not an official work by Catalyst Game Labs.
If you’re relatively new to BattleTech’s lore, it might be best to start with my condensed summary of the whole timeline before fitting the details into it. Alternatively, if you’re wondering what I’m about and why I don’t agree with a lot of “standard views” on the setting, my philosophy on BattleTech’s lore is laid out in a short essay, The Wonders of Unreliable Narration.
Most of my letters so far discuss the history of the Clans, and especially their invasion of the Inner Sphere. If you’re not sure where to start on that subject, try the issues on the Exodus and early Clan history. The archives also have introductions and other material on the Great Houses of the Inner Sphere and their distinctive Neo-Feudal system, as well as some articles about the Free Rasalhague Republic and the Periphery.
If you have any general questions about Secrets of BattleTech, or if you’d like to request that I put the magnifying glass over some other topic, comment here or drop into the chat.
I've just read your first post from 2011/10 and I know for sure I'll be reading your many of your posts, getting a regular fix of a universe I read about and played in for years.
Thank you very much for your work.