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doolallymagpie · 1 year ago

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been trying to come up with a BattleTech “pitch” for fans of The Expanse, but honestly?

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this is probably enough, plus the official “primer” document if you want actual information rather than just a bunch of pretty images and a banging soundtrack by Jon Everist (who I’m fairly sure admitted he wanted this piece to sound kind of Expanse-y)

or if you don’t want to click links or watch videos:

politics-heavy hard-SF space opera, thrilling heroics, (almost) zero easy answers to the dilemma of the day, main themes are “people are always going to be people” and “the end justifies the means, but there is no end”. obviously this describes both settings nicely.

one just uses that to explain why people are hopping into big war robots and slapping the shit out of each other.

#not really sure what possessed me to wanna make this post but here it is after percolating a bit #there’s several centuries of in-universe history and three decades of real history to go through #you don’t need to know who Amanda Cameron is to know Bobbie is one ‘Mech away from being the average BT novel protagonist #battletech #the expanse #actually you could enjoy BattleTech thoroughly never knowing who Amanda Cameron is. she’s a largely extraneous detail.#basically the setting’s Anastasia Romanova. right down to the conspiracy theories.#although House Cameron is a bit more Atreides than uh the Tsar.#so like any good ‘classic flavor’ space opera there’s also a lot of Dune #but again. there is too much. let me sum up.#i will also warn you that that primer doc though official is SLIGHTLY out of date but you really don't need to know what an ilkhan is yet

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