Clan Ghost Bear
Clan Ghost Bear is, without a doubt, one of the three most powerful Clans in their own time period. Ironically, they are the weakest of the three Clans on Rifts Earth.
Due to a jumpdrive misfire, a jumpship carrying a number of Clan MechWarriors and support personnel crashlanded in the Pacific Ocean off Vancouver Island. Out of a company of hundreds, only two dozen MechWarriors lived. Only a handful of the Mechs were salvaged whole from the wreckage; the remaining Mechs had to be sacrificed to keep the Mechs in use operational.
Since that time, the Clan Ghost Bear survivors have become a band of nomads, searching for any sign of human civilization. Due to their isolated landing site, they are unaware of exactly where, much less when, they are. They have yet to attempt to cross the Rocky Mountains.
At the present time, the Clan has yet to come across more than the occasional Wilderness Scout and D-Bee settlement.
Clan Nova Cat
Once the weakest of the Clans in their own time period, Clan Nova Cat has proven to be the strongest of the Clans on Rifts Earth.
For reasons known only to them, a sizable portion of all of Clan Nova Cat's varied castes had been on board one of the jumpships when it's jumpdrive misfired. The result was that the ship crash-landed in the Ohio River on Rifts Earth in 73 P.A. during one of the nastiest Rifts flare-ups in the Ohio River Valley Magic Zone, not far from the remains of the pre-Rifts city of Pittsburgh.
Back before the coming of the Age of Rifts, Pittsburgh had been a major industrial center. Because it was so far inland when the Rifts flared, the city was spared most of the devastation that had struck the coastal cities. Yet, because the city was near enough to the Ohio Valley Magic Zone, it suffered from constant demon and D-Bee attacks.
When Clan Nova Cat emerged from their jumpship's wreckage, they immediately set about rebuilding and retooling the factories for their use. The small cluster of MechWarriors on board the jumpship at first spent their time defending the Clan from the demons that roamed the countryside. Since then, Clan MechWarriors have spent the majority of their time defending the Clan or scouting out this strange world they've found themselves in.
It was in the year 99 P.A. that the Clan became known to the (then) Coalition State of Free Quebec. At first, the Clan and Quebec forces distrusted each other, but each soon saw certain advantages to being "unofficial" allies. This has led to a trade and non-aggression pact between the two. To date, Free Quebec has not revealed the location or even the existence of Clan Nova Cat to the other Coalition States. It is uncertain whether Clan Nova Cat will get involved in the war between Free Quebec and the Coalition States, although a large number of the Mechwarriors are pushing for sending aid.
As a Clan, Clan Nova Cat is one of the more philosophical and, some would say, mystical of the Clans. The leaders of the Clan are usually older than most Clan leaders. They are also highly skilled "seers", with the majority of them (85%) possessing the psionic powers of Clairvoyance and Sixth Sense. Many in the Clan have also developed psionic abilities to one degree or another. Also, there have been instances of people in the Clan becoming mystics. Due to the increasing number of mystics, especially among the Rifts-earth born Clan members, the Clan saw it necessary to create a separate caste for them between the merchants and the technicians
One of the mystics has suggested that the reason there are so many mystics among the younger Clan members is due to the ley line nexus in Pitt. There is a trio of ley lines that follow the Ohio, Allegheny, and Manongahela Rivers. All three lines come to a point where the rivers join together.
Clan Smoke Jaguar
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