ComStar News Bureau

COMSTAR NEWS BUREAU

"As it was, as it is, and as the Blessed Order would have you remember it."

The stock news ticker in MechWarrior 5 cycles through a thin handful of headlines and falls silent the moment the campaign drifts off its rails. ComStar News Bureau replaces it with a living chronicle of the Inner Sphere, hundreds of source-verified wire bulletins that follow your campaign from the dawn of the BattleMech through the long dark of the Succession Wars and beyond.

What it does

CSNB overhauls and massively expands the in-game news feed with hundreds of new wire-service entries spanning 2439–3152. The feed reads like the vanilla Inner Sphere News ticker, terse, dateline-style bulletins, but with vastly deeper coverage across the whole timeline, so wherever and whenever you start, there's history scrolling past.

News that doesn't stop at 3058

The base game's timeline, even with every DLC, ends at 3058, and the vanilla feed dies with it. CSNB integrates the latest changes to PGI's news reel system and extends the news timeline all the way to 3152, so the chronicle keeps populating as your campaign rolls on past the Clan Invasion era and into the dark age.

Built on canon

Every entry is researched and verified. Dates, names, and events are checked against Sarna.net and the Master Unit List, supplemented by flagged apocryphal sources where they exist. Nothing is fabricated, material without a canon or apocryphal source is logged as original and treated as such. Where the vanilla game data disagrees with canon, canon wins.

Requirements

• []Yet Another Mechlab (required)[/]

CSNB is built to play nicely with career-start mods, including starts as early as 2439, so the full sweep of the timeline is actually reachable in-game. It only touches the news feed and reel registration, so conflicts with gameplay and 'Mech mods should be minimal.