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August 16, 2007
Mechwarrior: Age of Destruction Factions – Clan Nova Cat
Here’s another high-quality backgrounder on a major Mechwarrior faction – Clan Nova Cat. Whether you use it for Mechwarrior role-playing, or just to give context to your Mechwarrior tabletop gaming, this is a good overview of “contemporary” Clan Nova Cat demographics, history and politics.
” The Nova Cat Clan endures, no mean feat for perhaps the most downtrodden of Kerensky’s children. Its existence has seen the death of the Wolverine and Smoke Jaguar Clans, the absorption of the Widowmaker and Burrock Clans, and the loss of contact with all others, save perhaps the occasional Sea Fox, Wolf (in-Exile), or even Ghost Bear trading expedition. And through it all, this Clan of honor and spirit continues to survive.Unlike many of the Clans that now dwell within the Inner Sphere, the Nova Cats claim no worlds unto themselves. Instead, their enclaves are scattered, their civilization surrounded by peoples who still live under the laws and the samurai codes of the Draconis Combine. Once, the Nova Cats were conquerors, but today their fate appears little different than that of the Azami, another unique culture absorbed into the bosom of the Dragon, permitted their own autonomy, but only at the sufferance of their Inner Sphere hosts. ”
Clan Nova Cat now exists within Kurita space, living on reservations under a “separate but equal” policy that would probably not be approved of by the U.S. Supreme Court. They lend their military might to the Draconic Combine, and in return are granted living space and semi-autonomy.
“ And this is how the Nova Cat survives today, still embracing the ways of the Clans, the rites of the Trials, the honor of the Bloodname, the reverence of the Kerenskys. Though their merchants now trade freely with those of the Combine and its neighbors, and though their Touman is but a fraction of its pre-Jihad strength, the Nova Cat survives. The Clan’s story is a testament to faith and spirit, the courage to take chances, and the will to never give up when destiny beckons.”
Posted by Discoshaman at August 16, 2007 07:38 AM