

Another arc that has run too long is the Dark Age era, not helped when its development outside of the novels was put on hold until the Jihad arc was finished.
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Arc Fatigue: When the BattleTech license transferred to FanPro a significant number of new material focused on the year 3067, during the end of FedCom Civil War and the start of Jihad.The Periphery states, which were at best considered second-class members and at worst suffered from outright genocide at the hands of the SLDF, have a rather less rosy opinion. In the Inner Sphere, House Cameron and the Star League are held up as the pinnacle of human achievement, having presided over an unprecedented era of unity, peace, prosperity, and technological advancement that has never been matched since they are the shining beacon that every Successor State aspires to reach.Sun Tzu Liao: Scheming, opportunistic weasel of a ruler, or brilliant political tactician?.(And then later generations of the FedCom/FedSuns and Lyran Alliance can have an argument: were they well-meaning, competent rulers whose children/grandchildren then tore apart the realm they worked so hard to build with their own petty failings, or did Hanse & Katrina unintentionally set Victor & Katherine up to fail from the start due to decisions made before Kath, in particular, was ever even born? And does this, in a way, make them ultimately responsible for the Jihad?) Not so much if you were in one of the three neighboring states that got curbstomped in the process of them carving out a territorial bridge between their realms. In-universe, this applies to Hanse Davion and Katrina Steiner: they're awesome leaders if you lived in the states that became the Federated Commonwealth.A society that seeks to avoid the endless, horrifically destructive Forever War that consumed entire planetary populations in the Inner Sphere by confining warfare to rule-bound Trials to keep civilians safe, or a nonsensical group of Blood Knight fools who think War Is Glorious, rewrote their own history, and have anyone not a warrior firmly under their boot-heel? It's hard to classify them one way or the other as different Clans take different approaches to their non-warrior castes, even before the invasion, and the other castes got virtually no screen-time to show whether civilian life in Clan space is particularly different from the Inner Sphere. The Clans themselves, for that matter, particularly their warrior caste.Innocent victims of Nicholas' manipulations, a powder-keg waiting to go off or power-hungry monsters who merely were caught out before they could act? Betrayal of Ideals puts them somewhere in between powder-keg and innocent victim.

The same can also be said for Sara McEvedy and Clan Wolverine.
