BattleCorps
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- This article is about the website. For the mercenary unit, see Battle Corps.
BattleCorps is a subscription-based website that features original BattleTech fiction, as well as other products and services.[1]
It is owned and run by InMediaRes Productions, LLC, the parent company of Catalyst Game Labs. InMediaRes was founded in 2003 by Loren and Heather Coleman with the expressed purpose of licensing the right to publish new, canon BattleTech fiction to the Internet from WizKids.[2] Wizkids granted this license to IMR in the fall of 2003, which directly led to the creation of BattleCorps in August 2004.[3]
In addition to publishing BattleTech stories, BattleCorps also publishes original and reprinted scenarios for CBT play, and "news" stories that add flavor to the fictional universe (including new units or variants). In this fashion, it is essentially a subscription-based online magazine.
BattleCorps also has a store known as the BattleShop that carries new books, takes preorders, and sells electronic versions of new books, as well as some older titles. New or returning members can also purchase stories that were published when they were not members here. The website also features a forum for members. Many members of BattleCorps became part of the BattleCorps Regiment, a group that posts pictures of painted miniatures and roleplays through the forum. This group was canonized as a mercenary unit, The Battle Corps.