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To answer your question Gabe, yes Historical Liberation Terra Volume 1 will have an affect on Shattered Dawn. It sure does give us a lot of details on New Dallas and much more. There are some things I don't see eye to eye with the canon time line that we will adjust that leads me to this.

Let me detail for you our plan for the future. It is no secret that the BTSD line has been dormant for some time. We still have much work that we have done which has yet to be seen and recent historicals like the Reunification War have given us new insight into BattleTechs past. So we are using this year 2012, the Year of the Star League, to look over our work as well as new canon in order to craft a better fan product.

What I'd love to hear from all the fans is suggestions on what they would like to see in this Great Revision of BTSD. All input is welcome. 

I agree with keeping some vestige of the RWR, though I could see the nation fracturing; its extensive reach around the entire Periphery of the Lyran Commonwealth is quite unwieldy, even with HPGs; if it remains as one state it'd need to be decentralized on the scale of Pre-"Thomas" FWL, so a more plausible thing to happen may be for the state to fracture, with the largest section centered around Apollo, while the sections down the Steiner border split off to become petty states along the lines of the Palatinate, Marian Hegemony, and Lothian League.  The Steiners are in the business of making money, which gives them an incentive to leave these petty states alone so long as they don't raid too heavily into Lyran territory (as they're unlikely to be sufficiently developed to be worth capturing many). Thus it'd be better for the RWR's own successor states spend a lot of their time fighting each other.  Which allows for, you guessed it, proxy wars!  All for the cheap price of Balkanizing the remnants of the RWR.

Here is my small list of suggestions.

 1. Since the Historical states on p.81 Terran Hegemony Fixed Defenses that only 58 systems had defenses consisting of Castle Brian's or SDS or both. We either can accept that , toss that out the window or meld them together.
 2. Carver V and the Royal Marines should play an even bigger part in Shattered Dawn. There is more information on and the battles fought to preserve the Hegemony.
 3. New Dallas could be used as either a secret Republic R&D base using the mechs stored in their boneyards as the base for new mechs or use them to replenish the militia's stores of equipment.

More to come

Thought I’d gather suggestions together at this time. Please keep them coming.

1. New Dallas. Obviously an important addition but I also hoping to get more information on other “new” Terra “formed” worlds especially the Hegemony Provincial Capitals.

2. Rim Worlds. Don’t worry folks we got this subject covered and if you’d like to see some plans for Rim Successor States just go here,

http://ourbattletech.com/forum/rim-protectorate/rim-successor-states!/

3. Rasalhague. I can’t guarantee independence but stuff on House Sorenson (Kurita rulers of Rasalhague), Lyran Assimilation (I see the Dracs using “loyal” Rasalhaguers to help pacify conquered Steiner worlds), and their importance to the Combine will be on display.

4. Marian Hegemony. Working on it Six but don’t worry I like the Space Romans of BattleTech. Alphard will probably show up before the O’Reilly’s and the Hegemony though.

5. Hegemony Fixed Defenses. I did see this and was intrigued certainly. The more I hear on Castle Brains and their construction my earlier plans for Terran construction of these beasts may have to be altered. I talked about them in Fanbook 2 – Project Phoenix and Mini Castles should be fine but Mega Castles will be scaled back to one or eliminated. Also have to see if we can salvage a SDS or two. We gotta to take a look at Castle Brains again.

6. Carver V and the Royal Marines. This was going to be a big angle for the Terrans already but would you like to see them larger than a regiment?

7. Mini States. This might be a far future direction for BTSD however I pride myself on detailing the smaller regions of larger nation states. Plan on seeing things from the Provinces, Districts, Commonalties, Marches, and even Duchies.


Still looking for suggestions on canon characters you’d like to see fighting for Terra!

Good question Gabe one that will be addressed.

Quite simply my Terran Republic writings preceded the revelation of Hegemony Provincial in their current canon form. All I had to go on when I wrote the original fan fic was early FASA accounts in the SLSB, the Periphery SB, and the House Books. They lead me to believe that yes there were provinces which were detailed in one fashion then another. The example of the Sirian Concordance in the FWL book talks of a "Small" Province of 4 worlds joining the Mariks in the early 2790s. However information on the original SLDF Corps which took part in the Reunification War lead me to consider a "Large" Province system that split the Hegemony into 7 or so multi world divisions. DavionG took a stab at it and the lack of detail on the Hegemony lead to my decision to go with a new third Terran nation.

Today knowing what we know I can easily integrate the old Provinces into the story of a third Terran state after all didn't most authorities collobrate with Amaris during the Occupation. As such these worlds may have lost their moral authority with many Terrans so it is only natural that they would be replaced by more important, more loyal, and more practical capital worlds (i.e. less infrastructure damage).

6. Carver V and the Royal Marines. This was going to be a big angle for the Terrans already but would you like to see them larger than a regiment?

Just merge the survivors into a bigger unit.

How about Antonius Zalman or John Fletcher.