Editing LosTech (section)

== Battletech ==
After the [[Amaris Civil War|Fall]] of the [[Star League]], the Five Great Houses decided to have [[Succession Wars|one hell of a fight]] deploying their fleets against each others worlds and they were not shy about using Nuclear Weapons to get their way. If X planet in the Capellan Confederation had a Battlemech Factory that could make mechs to invade your worlds with which you could not quite capture, you blew it up. Same goes for a shipyard that can make WarShips. Or a factory which made high end manufacturing equipment for shipyards or Battlemech Factories. This was made all the worse as [[ComStar]] deliberately sabotaged things or assassinate experts under Operation Holy Shroud to prevent the development of certain capacities to maintain a balance of power. The fact most Great Houses instinctively blamed each other provided the supposedly neutral ComStar all the cover they needed.

By 3025 many of the Marvels of the Star League had become relics of a different time. The capacity to manufacture Compact K-F Drives was lost and with it the ability to make WarShips while the ability to make new regular JumpShips was substantially diminished. Items such as Gauss Cannons and Double Heat Sinks became irreplaceable. It was not until the discovery of the [[Standard Template Construct|Helm Memory Core]] by [[Mercenaries (Battletech)|merc’s]] (of all people) that Star League era tech began to be rediscovered and buildable again. Meanwhile, [[The Clans]] retained the ability to manufacture these items along with some new ones when they returned to the Inner Sphere in 3050.