Welcome to the setting of Battletech Altered Realities.  Below is a time
line and brief description of all new factions and stuff like that.

3061 Clan Wolverine returns, as clan Pheonix, completely rebuilt with new
     tech and the all the clans from the clan homeworlds united under it.
     Clan Pheonix proceeds to attempt to elimnate all clans who oppose it
     and asorb those who remain. Their attempt almost succededs with only
     Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon managing to survive, though severly weakened.

3062 The Lyran Alliance and the Free Worlds League Unite after the marriage of
     Katarina Steiner-Davion and Thomas Marik.  The new Lyran League is Formed.

   - Sun-Tzu Liao Delcares war on the new Lyran League.
   - Katrina Steiner-Marik has Thomas murdered, and claims rulership of
     the new state.

3064 The Capellan Confederation falls to the new Lyran League.
3065 After a four year stand-off, a member of Clan Wolf's council throws in
     with Clan Pheonix, completely destorying Clan Jade Falcon and betraying
     what reamained of Clan Wolf.  Former Clan Wolf Khan and fugative Phelan
     Ward then fights a trial absorbtion with Clan Pheonix and wins.  The Newly
     reborn Clan Wolf then signs a new five year truce with the Inner Sphere.

3067 The Word of Blake attacks (with the secret help the the new Lyran League)
     Earth and is destroyed in the process, after being betrayed by their
     leader, Ussi Blake, who is actually an agent of ROM.

   - Fearing what will happen when the Clan truce is up and wanting to
     bolster COMstar's defenses, Anastatius Focht begins the Universal Man
     Genetic Breeding program.

3068 The new Lyran League launches a suprise attack on the St. Ives Compact
     And Comstar. Fearing what will happen if Katrina gets her hands on COMstar
     and factories within the St. Ives Compact the Federated Commonwealth and
     the Draconis Combine mount a counter attack.

   - The Whole inner sphere is engulfed in war.

3069 Clan Wolf breaks the truce after crusader elements within it kill
     SaKhan Phelan Ward and have him replaced.
   - Somehow they manage to sneak past all survalience and capture
     the Captial of the Draconis Combine, Luthien.
   - With the help of her brother Hohiro, Omi Kuratia escapes to the Federated
     Commonwealth.
   - Hohiro Kurtia dies trying to save his father, Theodore.
   - Theodore Kuratia and all the remaining Kurtia family are caught by
     Clan Wolf and executed.

3071 A truce is called between the Lyran League and the rest of the Inner
     sphere.

   - Clan Wolf remounts its attack, capturing Worlds all along the Lyran League
     and Federated Commonwealth borders.

3072 Omi Kuratia, and Victor Steiner Davion marry. What remains of the worlds
     of the Draconis Combine become part of the new United Worlds Alliance.

   - Anastatius Focht unveils the first batch of genetically created and
     altered clones, based on his DNA from the Universal Man Project.

   - Togather, with the new Lyran League, and the United Worlds Alliance, and
     with their ranks bolstered by the U-men COMstar launches a massive
     attack on Clan Wolf.  An estimated 10,000 mechs plus support personnel
     and additional Mercanary units are couter-attack, recapturing dozens of
     lost worlds.

 3073 - 3076 The Battle for the Inner Sphere continues.

 3077 Clan Wolf is defeated, after a Anastatius Focht fights a trial of
      exile with SaKhan Vlad Ward.  The genetically and cybernetically altered
      Focht succeeds in killing the SaKhan, despite treachery on Vlad's part,
      though it costs him his life.

    - The real Thomas Marik returns from Terra, after being freed from his
      cyro-prison.  The plot by former COMstar Precentor Myndo Waterly, to
      control the FWL through a clone of his is reveiled.

    - The Real Thomas Marik heroically saves Victor Steiner-Davion from an
      assassin's attempt and becomes one the most beloved figures of the Inner
      Sphere.  He also reveils the identity of Anastatius Focht, as being that
      of Hanse Davions eldest brother who was supposedly killed in battle with
      the Draconis Combine.

 3078 With the help of the United Worlds Alliance and the St. Ives Compact,
      Thomas reclaims his throne from Katrinia Steiner-Davion.

    - Katrina is tried and executed after it is reveiled she killed her own
      mother to gain power.

    - Thomas Marik forms the New Star League from the Worlds of the Lyran League.

 3079 The St. Ives Compact, the United Worlds Aliiance and half of COMstar
      unite forming a giant exploration and trading company called The Empire.

    - The Great Covenant of Peace is signed by The Empire and the New Star
      League.

   - The remnants of Wolf's Dragoons and The Gray Death Legion form Mercanies
     Incorporated.  Soilder's and explorer's for hire.

   - The other half of COMstar forms COMsat, a new intergalatic communications
     corporation using new technology based on smaller satelittes based on new
     Theta Pulse technology.

 3080 - 4000 The Empire leaves the Inner Sphere to explore and colonize new
      worlds.

    - A new golden age reigns.
    - In late 3099 the Empire establishes a Captial on the World of Neverend.
      Neverend is the largest planet ever discovere;almost 20 times the size
      of Earth and nearly an exact duplicate.


 4001 The first extra terristrial spieces, the Ki'Arrnin are encountered.
      They are found to be peaceful instectoidial humanoids.  A trade treaty
      is signed.

 4006 The next extra terristrial species is discovered.  The Enclave.  They
      attack some of the Ki'Arrnin's mining colonies.  The Empire lauches
      and counter attack. Loosing the first battle on the world of New Venus.
      Similar occurences happen on the other mining colonies.

 4007 The Enclave launches an attack on the Capital of Neverend, Imperial City.
      All looks lost until the Seventh Empirial Guard, a green company full
      of new recruits from the New Neverend Mech Academy demolishes the
      Enclave command company.  Neverend is saved.

    - Succesful attacks under the command of Jerry T. Yolinski are mounted
      the Enclave suffers heavy losses.

 4010 After suffering multiple losses, the Enclave signs a cease fire with
      The Empire.

 4010 - 4018  Damage from four years of fighting is repaired and the Empire
      starts exploring again.

 4019 A cache of unknown Star League Era mechs is discovered on the planet of
      Illiryia.

 4023 Exploration continues, with the Empire trading supplies and new inventions
      with the New Star League.  All none military areas of knowledge increase
      beyond the Star League Era.

 4029 A mysterious New Enemy, known as the Daemons appears.  These fully
      enclosed beings are either sentient robots or being wearing enviromental
      suits.

 4030 - 4056 War is fought between The Daemons and the Outter Ring States
     [The Empire, the Ki'Arrnin Worlds, an the Enclave]  The Enclave is the
     first to fall, in mid 4039].  They are soon followed by the Ki'Arrnin
     Worlds.  All looks lost until help from the New Star League arrives.
     The New Star League mechs being totally redesigned, using a new
     power system, a Hyper-Fusion, engine based on FTL drive.  The newer
     Star League Mechs togather with The Empires new designs conquer the
     Daemons, freeing the Enclave and the Ki'Arrnin worlds.

   - After the war a new treaty is signed between the Empire and the Enclave,
     creating a Outter Ring Worlds Consortium.

4077 The Ki'Arrnin discover a new race.  They are bird-like humanoids called
     the Gaels.  The Gaels are an ancient race of historians, and a absolutely
     fascinated with the story of the Empire and it's allies.

   - The Gaels reveil to the Empire and it's allies a tale about a lost race
     of beings who disappeared over 10,000 standard years ago, from what is
     now Neverend.  it turns out they were supposed to look almost exactly like
     humans.

 4078 - 4094 Peace reigns again until the U-men start rebelliing against the
    Empire for soem unknow reason.  Key Enclave and Ki'Arrnin heads of state
    are killed with Empire technology.

 4095 The murders are reveiled to be the work of a a group of underground
    criminals known as the 7 Faces of Death.  They are caught and executed.

 4096 - 4098 As a gesture of friendship and to help put the past behind, the
      Empire Opens the Neverend Mech Combat arens.  They are emmensly popluar.

4099 The Murder of Key Gael, New Star League, Empire, Ki'Arrnin, and Enclave
     heads of state threats to spark a war.  A tenative peace is being
     maintained, but for how logn no ones knows.
