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Welcome to Battletech-Mercenaries. This is a voluntary non-profitable play by email/play by forum role-playing game set in the Battletech Universe of 3078. You play as a tough Mercenary within a small-to-medium tight knit unit. The unit bids for contracts and earns hard cash to buy better and stronger hardware to take up even more challenging contracts.

Battletech-Mercenaries is currently set in the year 3078 based on the canon information leading up to 3068. Consequently we have attempted to move things on in a manner we hope is not too far from the ideas of the designers.

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The Star League Senate
When Christian Månsdöttar's First Lord term ran out in 3067 he gave all non-military power to bureaucrats, who were restructured into a provisional Senate led by Arthur Walker, who became the interim Presidential Senator. There is no argument that the SLDF is the true power of the Star League, so Christian Månsdöttar along with the provisional Senate put forward the idea of a SLDF Triumvirate of three Commanding Generals that would have to agree on important decisions for the future actions of the SLDF.
That was a few years ago, now the new Senate Forum is located in Norfolk on the East Coast of North America, the Senators and Senate President are now elected officials of divisional regions divided up by population among Star League member nations. For a new SLDF Triumvirate member to be selected, the Senate makes a secret ballot on candidates selected by the remaining Triumvirate members, this allows for very limited corruption and some satisfaction for the general populous that the SLDF is under civilian control but without crippling the Triumvirate from making decisive decisions when needed and also preventing political puppets from rising up into the Triumvirate.

SLDF: Department of Mercenary Management

The SLDF in an effort to apply control to the various Mercenary outfits across the Inner Sphere decided to set up a special department for the regulation of contracts and mercenary control. Thus was born the DMM, the Department of Mercenary Management. This new department of the SLDF offered exclusive regulation and luxury facilities for any mercenary units who took part.
Using the Alice Springs Castle Brian Complex constructed near the ruins of Alice Springs in Australia the headquarters of the DMM were established. With housing for hundreds of small mercenary units, the SLDF created a haven for mercenaries to trade their services. The DMM handled all finance for contracts. Thus contracts were far more secure for both mercenary and employer. In return for these services mercenary forces that joined the DMM were given board and lodgings along with SLDF provided maintenance and huge discounts on the costs of equipment. Many groups have signed up with the DMM making the new facilities on Terra on an even higher standard to those on the Wolf Dragoon world of Outreach.

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