20 Months Ago, John Baichtal from Wired says (in Empires Crumble, But Giant Robots Are Forever (1 of 2)) The Classic BattleTech game system takes you into the world of the 31st Century, where war has become a way of life. You are a MechWarrior. You are in command of the most powerful machine on the battlefield, and hold the fate of empires ...

And John Baichtal from nerdage.net says (in Empires Crumble, But Giant Robots Are Forever) In fact, over the twenty-plus year history of this game, we've had almost a hundred novels published between Classic BattleTech and MechWarrior: Dark Age--not to mention the electronically published short stories, serials, and novellas ...