As the conflict widens, nuclear armageddon is narrowly avoided when a space-based defensive system is used to intercept Russian missiles headed toward the West. Western forces, under the banner of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), intervene. Bill Fitz-PatrickĢ014 - The end of the Soviet Union: In 2011, the collapse of the Soviet Union sparks a civil war. The agreement still left both countries with enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other many times over. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signing the SALT II treaty, Jin Vienna.
Whether you’re new to the franchise or a returning vet, consider this your crash course on the BattleTech universe. Special thanks also to Catalyst Game Labs and the community at, who have been keeping track of the BattleTech lore online for a long, long time. Polygon talked to the loremasters at Piranha games - Matt Newman, Alex Iglesias and Mark Nicholson - part of the team behind the upcoming first-person action game Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries, to learn more about the key events in the BattleTech timeline. With two new BattleTech video games and two new boxed sets of the tabletop game on the way, all with bona fide connections to the franchise’s original creators, there has never been a better time to be a fan of BattleTech. But through it all there is a common thread - a singular timeline that every MechWarrior and BattleTech game shares.Ģ018 is set to be a high water mark for the historic franchise.
It is also incredibly complicated, thanks in part to the seemingly endless string of game developers and authors that have poked and prodded at it since its birth in 1984.
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