Jade Falcon for the WIN!

Inner Sphere, because we make babies the old fashioned way.

Seriously though, House Marik is the industrial avalanche that will enable the IS to push the clans out.  The only advantage the clans have is technology, and the longer the fighting goes, the more that edge vanishes.  The IS has numbers on their side; in the field, in the labs, in the factories, in the military think tanks.  The clans are doomed unless they start blowing up jump ships, and that's just not very honorable at all, now is it?

Extended...

And, when did honor, or the lack thereof when it really comes down to it, stop the Clans?  Really, their honor is very fragile when one looks at all of their stories.  A lot of people argue that Clan honor is really the very pinnacle of honor, and I would agree that the design of it is fantastic.  Now, if the Clans would only actually stick to that code of honor, that would be great.

I'm speaking from a story-telling corner, here, not necessarily from the community at large, because in the stories, at least, the Clans attempt to stick to their honor until it's no longer convenient.  The community, at large, couldn't care less, in my experience.

Oh, I understand that, about rules being violated.  However, when one group does not readily lay down what their rules look like for the other, then it becomes very easy to break those rules, quineg? ;P

I vouch for IS ... and stealing Clanner gears!

I've always been torn between the two, one part of me loves the militaristic viewpoint of the clans, but the other resonates more with their practical view on combat (the overall consensus of the uselessness of honor, glory, and other romanticized takes on war). Also, because of this philosophy, they WON the war. But again, the technical superiority of the clans is something I love. This is one of the reasons why I liked Phelan's clan wolf in exile.

Yeah, you just keep tryin' to convince yourself of that... while I go get a beer, hehe.