MechWarrior (Summary of Plot, lead in for Chapter 1)

As the dawn of the 31st century loomed, the human race has been in a state of nearly constant war. The inhabited planets of the nearby solar systems was split into the Inner and Outer Spheres after a long and bloody civil war. Each side taking massive losses, the two sides signed a ceasefire in the year 2840. However this ceasefire was nothing but a trick that both sides thought they were playing on each other. They used this temporary truce, like governments before them, to re-arm, regroup, and get as many soldiers to the front as possible.

Because of this ceasefire, humanity saw the biggest arms race in history as new advancements were made nearly everyday. Regular foots soldiers were equipped with more advanced weaponry and armor, making them faster, smarter, more lethal. Tanks were bigger, badder, and better. Aircraft, once used for the sole purpose of fighting on planets were now fighting in space. Navies, were upgraded with massive new guns capable of shooting ships from the sky as they entered orbit. However the most notable achievement was the construction of the armored, assault platforms called Battlemechs.

Battlemechs were the pinnacle of modern engineering. These hulking metal monstrosities were unlike anything that had been created before. While the first models were clunky, inefficient, and downright unwieldy for the pilots, by the time the 31st century rolled around, both the Inner and Outer Spheres had perfected the design and the manufacturing for hundreds of different models. Each more deadly than the last. But each had their own job. Each was armed to the teeth with plasma cannons, machine guns, laser projection systems, missiles, rockets and whatever else the Spheres wanted to shove onto an armored giant. These 'Mechs became the battlefield standard. Some weighing in at one hundred tons.

By the year 3010, the ceasefire ended and both Spheres erupted into war again. But this time, with the Battlemechs at their disposal, the war reached a new height of depravity. Foot soldiers would be obliterated, tanks utterly crushed, ships melted into slag because of the awesome might of these giants. Entire cities crumbled, planets were subjugated and all because of differing opinions. 

By 3016, the war had taken it's toll and the Outersphere surrendered. With the Inner Sphere victorious, they decided to add insult to injury and forbid the formation of another centralized Outer Sphere government. The Outer Sphere's economy collapsed by 3020, and by 3025, the Outer Sphere was no more. At least in terms of material being. The idea, however, of what the Outer Sphere stood for remained and was as strong as ever.

In 3030, the Outer Sphere degenerated into a lose assortment of clan mentality. Each planet playing host to one or more clans and soon, each was fighting for control. This led to even more war and death and once again, the Battlemechs were at the forefront. The pilots once again becoming heroes and reclaiming past glory. Certain pilots became household names and they were the best of the best, in each clan's eyes.

With eleven years of clans spilling each other's blood, it is the year 3041. And that is where the story truly begins...