Clan Night Owl

Clan Night Owl is an exiled and abjured Clan that eventually founded the Owl Campus in the Deep Periphery. They were noted to be the only clan to make no distinction between the Warrior Caste and Scientist Caste - In essence, all their warriors were also scientists. This makes Night Owls huge nerds by default.

History
Created shortly after the 20 original clans, from different dissatisfied youth, the Night Owls attempted to "pretend" to be a traditional Clan, while actually having little but scorn to the customs of their "Brethern".

Despite their secrecy, it was observed several times that Night Owls worked "too closely" between Warriors and Scientists. In fact, sometimes an individual could be listed as a Warrior in a trial and as a Scientist in a design - Under different names, but this was eventually discovered.

Following the increased waves of revelations of unacceptable cross-caste fraternization in the Clan council, the Night Owls desired to put an end to it by formally abolishing the Scientist caste, later on "selectively" incorporating some of them to the Warrior Caste with mostly "fixed" trials.

This only stalled the inevitable Abjuration a few years, and before 2925 it was already clear this was coming and it was inevitable. The final straw was the development of AI and drone Quad BattleMechs. This blatant violation of the Honor of a MechWarrior was not taken lightly, and along with everything else, it was used as the argument to start a Trial of Anhilation.

Countering
The Clan was not truly anhilated, however; the Night Owls had been stockpiling Weapons of Mass Destruction including Radiation-enhanced Hydrogen bombs, chemical weapons, biogenic weapons, and mutation agents. When these capabilities were made clear, the other clans preferred to strike a deal to guarantee "safe exile" into other regions of the Deep Periphery rather than risking that their carefully crafted genetic legacies were contaminated forever.

A new home
The Night Owls have been quietly develoiping technology "far" from the Clan Homeworlds ever since, though occassional (and highly illegal) contact with the Scientist caste of Clan Hells Horses did occurr, as well as limited involvement with The Society. Some of its members could escape, triggering a secret clan Cold War with the faraway Owls, known as the Conflict of the Interests.