Who is the Director of the Internal Security Force? Planetary ruler of Regulus? Current Marshal of the Armies? Merchant Factor of Clan Diamond Shark?
As one of the most powerful interstellar corporations in the Inner Sphere—with satellite plants in every House—such questions are imperative for StarCorps Industries. In the tumultuous time of the Jihad, as power brokers fall and new personalities rise to prominence, the answers to such questions can mean the difference between a fat in-the-black account and operations in the red. And no corporation, much less one as power-ful and far reaching as StarCorps Indus-tries, treats failure well.
Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers is a sourcebook from the perspective of StarCorps Industries, compiled from dozens of sources by an army of administrators, all with an eye towards furthering StarCorps markets and interest. Masters and Minions is a complete who’s-who of the BattleTech universe, with well over a hundred personalities detailed. Short overviews of all the major and most minor factions of the Inner Sphere are also included, briefly covering such details as their most notable factories, planets and military forces.
other notable personalities of 3076 119Katherine Wolf 119Carlos 119Indira Mehta 119
Where do the teeth come from? 120Key Worlds of the Wolf clan occupation Zone 120
Tamar 120Kelenfold 121Weingarten 122
the prowling Wolves: Key Wolf military commands 122
Naval Assets 123Alpha Galaxy (The Wolf Spirits) 123Beta Galaxy (The Shadow Wolves) 123Gamma Galaxy (The Wolf Hussars) 123Delta Galaxy (The Snarling Wolves) 123Theta Galaxy (The Wolf Reapers) 123Iota Galaxy (The Phoenix Wolves) 124Kappa Galaxy (The Werewolves) 124Tau Galaxy (Hellions’ Nightmare) 124Omega Galaxy (Ghost Wolves) 124
cLan Jade faLcon 125clan Jade falcon overview 126
Preening and Posturing 126Gutting the Enemy 126Internal Pain 126Strength in Weakness 127
Key personalities of 3076 127Samantha Clees 127Uvin Buhallin 128Brian Pryde 128Diane Anu 129
other notable personalities of 3076 129Quinn Kerensky 129Daniel 130Krys 130
corporations of the Jade falcon oZ 130Olivetti Weaponry 130Red Devil Industries 131Jade Falcon Mobile Production Sites 131
Key Worlds of the clan Jade falcon oz 133Sudeten 133Blackjack 134Pandora 135
the falcon’s talons: Key military commands 136cLan heLL’S horSeS 137
Key personalities of 3076 185Boris Tharn 185Victor Sharpe 186
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Cham Kithrong 186Erik Martens-Calderon 187
other notable personalities of 3076 187Cole Lorian 187Talia Martens 188Matthias Commager 188
corporations of the concordat 189Taurus Territorial Industries 189Vandenburg Mechanized Industries 189Pinard Protectorates, Ltd. 189
Key Worlds of the taurian concordat 190Taurus 190Erod’s Escape 191
the Bull’s horns: Key tdf military commands 191Taurian Guard 191Taurian Lancers 192
Key cpf military commands 192Taurian Pride 192Calderon Guard 193Concordat Mercenary Employment 193
the marian heGemony 194Julius O’Reilly 195Warnings of the Word 195Cassius O’Reilly 196Death and Rebirth 196
Key personalities of 3076 196Cassius O’Reilly 196Michael Alexander 197Ivy Ward 197
other notable personalities of 3076 198Quintus Pullo 198Livia O’Reilly 198Aurelia Marcus 199
corporations of the hegemony 199Alphard Trading Corporation 199Marian Arms, Inc. 200Hadrian Mechanized Industries 200
Key Worlds of the marian hegemony 200Alphard 200Lothario 201
caesar’s Legions: Key mhaf military commands 202Alphard District Forces 202Lothario District Forces 202Illyria District Forces 203Hegemony Mercenary Employment 203
other notable personalities of 3076 208AlaIn Beresick 208Galen Cox 208Christine Harwell 209
corporations of comStar 209Communications Branch 209ComStar News Bureau 209Interstellar News Network 210
Key Worlds of comStar 210the com Guard: Key military commands 210
ComStar Mercenary Employment 211
Word of BLaKe 212Wheels Within Wheels 213Word of Blake Protectorate 213Manei Domini 214
Key personalities of 3076 215“The Master” 215Cameron St. Jamais 215Apollyon 216Alexander Kernoff 217
other notable personalities of 3076 217David Alsace 217Gregory Zwick 218Lucifer 218
corporations of Word of Blake 218Skobel MechWorks 218Gibson Federated BattleMechs 218O’Neil Yards 219New Earth Trading Company 219
Key Worlds of the Word of Blake protectorate 220Terra 220Mars 221Gibson 222
the armies of Light: Key WoB military commands 223Word of Blake Militia 223Protectorate Militia 223Shadow Divisions 223Word of Blake Mercenary Employment 224
other reaLmS and poWerS 225minor periphery States 226
Niops Association 226Circinus Federation 226Others 226
deep periphery States 226Hanseatic League 226Nueva Castile 227Deeper Secrets 227
Key personalities of 3076 227Devlin Stone 227Belle Lee 228Reiner Wooden 229Calvin McIntyre 230Albert Snow 230Elian Whitney 231Lise Burrill 231Joseph Noye 232
other notable personalities of 3076 232Bertram Habeas 232The Bounty Hunter 233“Damocles” 233Wolfgang Hansen 234Lucas Beckett 234Egan Telosa 234Giovanni Estrella de la Sangre 235
ruLeS 243using notable personalities in an rpG campaign 244
Introducing Notable Player NPCs 244Have a Purpose 244Consistency is Key 244Mesh the Known and the Unknown 244Avoid Radical Changes 245Moving Forward 245More Than a Face and a Name 245In The End 246
notable personalities in non-rpG campaign play—campaign traits 246
General Guidelines 246Modifiers to Existing Rules 246Total Warfare—Creating a Scenario 247Tactical Operations 248Strategic Operations 251Additional Rules 252
a time of War: the Battletech rpG and the Starcorps dossiers 252
Notable Personalities Skills and Special Abilities 252House Kurita 252House Davion 253House Liao 254House Marik 255House Steiner 256Ghost Bear Dominion 257Clan Wolf 258Clan Jade Falcon 258Clan Hell’s Horses 259Clan Diamond Shark 259Clan Snow Raven | Outworlds Alliance 260Magistracy of Canopus 260Taurian Concordat 261Marian Hegemony 261ComStar 262Word of Blake 262Others 263
running campaigns using covert operations 264Clan vs. Inner Sphere Adventures 265Nation-states vs. Private Agencies 265Types of Games 266Espionage and Intelligence Gathering 266Humint 266Sigint 267Media Monitoring 267Analysis 267Sabotage, Kidnapping and Assassination 267Security/Spy Hunters 268Protection Details 268Covert Ops Characters 269Covert Operations-Only Campaigns 269Mixed-Character Campaigns 269Non-Covert Campaigns 270Player Character Double- and Triple-Agents 270Double-Blind Play 270Moles and Turncoats 270
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Writing Joel bancroft-Connors Herbert a. beas ii Craig K. erne Ken’ Horner Kevin Killiany nick “Gunslinger” Marsala david l. McCulloch Michael Miller steven Mohan, Jr. aaron Pavao Jim rapkins ben H. rome Jason schmetzer björn schmidt Paul sjardijn Geoff swift Øystein Tvedten Patrick Wynne andreas ZuberPurification of the Damned ben H. rome
Product Development ben H. romeDevelopment Assistance Herbert a. beas ii randall n. bills
Product editing diane Piron-Gelman
battleTech Line Developer Herbert a. beas ii
Production staffArt Direction brent evansCover Art alex iglesiasCover Design ray arrastiaLayout ray arrastiaIllustrations raymond arrastia sarah leanne buckley Kieron o’Gorman alex iglesias david Kerber Chris lewis ben newman neil roberts James scott Klaus scherwinski dean spencer Kieran YannerMiniatures Chris “Pendragon” dolega david “dak” Kerber Mark “Hyena” Maestas
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ben H. rome’s special Thanksspecial thanks go first, foremost and forever to my amazing wife ri, who not only allowed me the
time to pull this thing together last-minute, but continues to support my “big stompy robot habit” by giving me the time to write for such an incredible universe. To Herb and randall, for the opportunity of ‘baptism by fire’ in not just helping to write but attempting to hurdle development issues previ-ously known only to them when building a sourcebook. Who knew? and finally, to the dC area Turkish Prisoners, who despite my unavailability to play a ‘proper’ bT game lately, continue to invite me to ruin their day with my hordes of blakists. You guys just love punishment...
Herbert beas would also like to thankben, for taking this project off my hands when the role-playing game threatened to overwhelm me.
Playtesters/Fact-checkersray “adrian Gideon” arrastia, roland M. “Colbosch” boshnack, Paul “blackhorse” bowman, rich
Cencarik, Konstantin dika, nicolai duda, Tami elder, Matt “00dawg“ frederiksen, Ken’ Horner, roy “Wolf lancer 4” Karl, david “dak” Kerber, Mike “Cray” Miller, steven Mohan, Jr., luke robertson, Jim rapkins, andreas “Gaiiten“ rudolph, björn “Keiran” schmidt, adam sherwood, Geoff “97Jedi” swift, Øystein Tvedten, Chris “Chinless” Wheeler, Patrick “roosterboy” Wynne.
