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Any decision that isn't already being decided by a Trial can be overturned through a Trial of Refusal, which serves as the only legal appeal process.

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Appeal to Force: A central pillar of Clan Justice.(Clan Burrock then created an animal and named it the Blood Spirit as a Take That! to the Clan). The only exception is Clan Blood Spirit, named after the esprit de corps. Animal Motifs: Nearly every Clan is named after some kind of animal, typically a bigger, meaner, cousin-with-a-prison-record version of a Terran animal found on or introduced to the Clan Homeworlds.While this often results in myopic leadership that favors brute-force solutions, some genuinely shrewd individuals rise through the ranks from time to time. Unsurprisingly, this system regards warriors as the most elite citizens, with voting rights belonging exclusively to warriors, and authority granted to reflect combat skill rather than any talent at strategy, negotiation, or administration. Fundamentally, they are a society on permanent war-footing - everyone and everything is Clan property, honor is given to those who best serve the Clan, and disputes are resolved through personal challenges. The Clans are a culture born from desperate necessity, aimed to promote excellence and create the greatest good at minimal expense. At the time of the Inner Sphere invasion seventeen Clans remained, and the events of the invasion would lead to a second extermination and subsequently to the Wars of Reaving that permanently split the Clans in half: By the time of the Jihad there are seven Clans permanently exiled to the Inner Sphere and only four remaining in Clan space. Originally, there were twenty Clans as envisioned by Kerensky, but disagreements between them saw one clan (the "Not-Named") exterminated by the rest almost immediately, and several weaker clans were conquered and absorbed by the lesser. Though the Clans prospered for a time, their isolation and unique societal norms twisted Aleksandr's vision, leading to their 3049 invasion of the Inner Sphere to restore the Star League by conquest. Nicholas returned in 2822 to quell the rebels and establish the Clans, an idealized society he devised in his exile. Kerensky hoped his loyalists could one day reinstate the League to its former glory, but further conflict and rebellion drove his son Nicholas and his most faithful followers to another world called Strana Mechty. This volume features some of the most common ’Mechs from the Clan Invasion and Civil War Eras, each illustrated in detail and accompanied by a description of its history, capabilities, and game stats, along with their most famous pilots.Having fled from the dissolution of the Star League, Aleksandr Kerensky's SLDF Exodus fleet settled several resource-poor planets in 2786, far beyond even the Periphery states. Technical Readout: Clan Invasion builds on Technical Readout: Succession Warswith ’Mechs previously found in Technical Readout: 3050 Upgrade, Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade, Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade, Technical Readout: 3060, and Technical Readout: 3067. These large-scale conflicts accelerated technical advancements, as a new generation of BattleMechs and weapons appeared on a hundred worlds of conflict. As the victorious forces returned home, the mighty Federated Commonwealth tore itself apart in a titanic Civil War spanning a thousand light years as Houses Davion and Steiner pitted brother against sister. In their absence, political machinations continued across the Inner Sphere. There, the destruction of Clan Smoke Jaguar and the defeat of the Clans in the Great Refusal ended the invasion. With the clock ticking, the Inner Sphere’s elite took the battle directly to the Clan Homeworlds. At first sweeping all before them with their advanced technologies, the Clans met defeat at the Battle of Tukayyid and were stymied by a 15-year truce. On 27 September 3048, the ComStar Explorer Corps JumpShip Outbound Lightstumbled onto the Clan Homeworlds, setting in motion a massive invasion of the Inner Sphere by the Clans.












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