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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3700513" data-attributes="member: 13966">Also, the lesser castes of Clan society are largely comprised of Freeborns (Freebirth is the more derogatory form of the term), people born through normal human reproduction.  The lesser castes are Scientists, Merchants, and Laborers.  Warriors who fail in their early training (as many do) get dropped down into one of the lower castes that better suits their abilities or disposition.  If they survive their failure.Also, note that Clan Wolf becomes a Crusader Clan, if I recall correctly, later on at some point while under a different leader.  But at least for the Invasion period, they are Wardens, intending to take over the Inner Sphere only to help the Spheroids improve Spheroid society, until the Star League can be rebuilt and unite humanity once more.Warriors can only earn a Bloodname from one of the two original members of Kerensky's followers that contributed genes to that Warrior's sibko; each sibko has two gene-parents, a gene-father and a gene-mother, even though they are only engineered artificially from those genetic samples.Also, the second goal is served by the first; a Warrior who earns a Bloodname is assured that their genes will be used by the Scientist caste of their Clan at some point after their death, to create one or more new sibkos of future Clan Warriors.  Assuming the Warrior's codex (a wrist-band they wear, that holds a copy of their genetic code) survives their eventual death in battle or whatever.  At least as far as I can recall, it requires the Warrior's codex; I do not think the Scientist caste keeps a sample of their genes until after they die and the Scientists retrieve their codex.Yeah, in Clan rules of warfare, a Grand Melee begins if a warrior strikes another opponent before defeating their current opponent.  At least I think I remember it being called a Grand Melee; that may have just been the name for a particular venue of combat Trial though.</blockquote>

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