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 twenty original clans, most of its members were dissatisfied youth - particularly aghast of the rigid tradition-based new clan culture. The Night Owls attempted to "pretend" to be a traditional Clan to evade being destroyed - while actually having little but scorn for 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. They did take the precautions that such was done under different names, but this was eventually discovered by the Watch.

Following the increased waves of inter-clan 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.

In the Warden versus Crusader debate, the Night Owls were happy to play both factions against eachother as much as possible - all to disctract from their own, highly "Dezgra" activities. Ultimately, they cared nothing for the Inner Sphere except for the possible LosTech there. Conquest was pretty much indifferent to them except in the regards it provided resources -and subjects- for their experiments.

Abjuration
These and other shenanigans 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.

Night Owls really didn't carry that much of a grudge against the other clans - they just wanted to be left alone. On the other hand, they did hate the Smoke Jaguars since the Jaguars were constantly "bullying" them: Spamming Trials of Possession against anything they developed just to destroy it out of spite if they gained it. This is why the Snoke Jaguars were chosen as the "example" to make while proving the existence of their stockpiles of WMDs.

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.

Units

 * Kariga (Assault wheeled QuadVee)
 * Sirvan (Assault Quad tracked IndustrialMech)
 * Pabusei (Light Quad tracked IndustrialMech)
 * Maranit (Ultralight Quad tracked OmniMech)
 * Libnei (Ultralight Quad tracked OmniMech)
 * Super Libnei (Light Quad tracked OmniMech)
 * Redrum (Light Command-capable Aerospace OmniFighter)