>And post Clan invasion the Houses started to design and feild all
>kinds of new mechs, so your comment about slipping backwards isn't
>entirely accurate. (can't say it's entirely inaccurate either,
>though.)

Well, the general idea of the entire BT universe was that we'd managed to fight ourselves on a direct path to the stone age after a period peaceful advancement, though the idea that no one *really* understood how any of their stuff worked was kind of thin on the ground, IMO. And pretty much everything written from the 3025 period onward was about turning that around, either through all the caches of Lostech to be found or, yeah, events like the Clan Invasion with all of it's Omnimech tech to reverse engineer. By the time I stopped looking to hard at the game, around the 3060 handbook, everyone was well on their way to regaining Star League levels of expertise. Which to me, regardless on how you feel about any of the actual events, is more realistic than just having everyone stagnate in feudal nonsense just because the original concept demands it.

Boy did the actual game turn to shite, though. :D

	Chad Collier Smirking Kilrathi The Captain of the Gravy Train