BattleTech: The Animated Series Episode Rating Graph

Nicolai Malthus of The Clan conquers Summerset, whose forces are led by Commander Andrew Steiner. Nicolai clearly states his goal in the opening scnes: ""Soon all the planets of the Inner Sphere will belong to The Clan."" Meanwhile at the training camp at Kiely fails her test needed to pilot a Battle Mech; Major Adam Steiner the instructor. Adam's philosophies on war tactics are different than his assistant Cero, who believes in tradion and honor in battle. Adam learns that his brother was defeated at Summerset. He uses the fact that he is a distant cousin to the throne of the Inner Sphere lead a small expiditionary force to liberate Summerset and gather information about the unknown invaders. There is a catch though...with a fullscale invation by these mysterious invaders, he will need to find his own ship. Franklin Sakamoto is a smuggler from the Draconis Combine who is tricked into a raid by Captain Miles Hawkins. The ship is comandeered and it looks as though Sakamoto and his cre

Adam Steiner goes to Dustball to recruit mech pilots. The only one they find is Volten Rayder. Tybus makes a deal with Kristen Redmond to hand over the planet in exchange for the ability to continue in his smuggling. Tybus also controls Volten Rayder while he pays off his fathers debt. Volten is sent to the clan trap engineered by Tybus. He and Dustball's 5 mechs are defeated, but The 1st Sumerset Strikers come to the rescue just in time. Kristen Redmond is angered and thinks Tybus double crossed her. She retreats to return with reinforcements. Tybus places Ryder and the other strikers in prison. There they meet a FedCom spy who knows that Andrew Steiner is alive. The prisoners escape and try to retrieve their mechs. As the clans reinforcements begin attacking Dustball, Stiener convinces Tybus to let them go to save Dustball. Volten convinces Adam to give him the rank of Captain and joins the Strikers. The clan mechs engage the Sumerset Strikers and as they are on the verge of

We see Nocholai conquering another planet in the introductory scenes. Adam Steiner leads his forces to train at a holographic training facility on Romulus. Cero thinks this is a waste of time and disagrees with Adam. The Clan mechs invade, and the Sumerset Strikers are attacked by Toad elementals. The strikers defeat these only to be met by three clan mechs led by Nicholai. Adam challenges Nicholai 1 on 1, and quickly axes a mountain to cause an avalanche. The clan mechs must fire at the falling rocks and the Strikers escape. This infurates Nicholai. The dropship is captured by the clan, but Sakamoto discuises the weapons so it looks like an innocent trade dropship. The Somerset Strikers attack the clan forces. They seem to have won a small vicotry and pull out. During the retreat Cero attempts to save some loose humans. His mech is obliterated by the clan mechs. He fires his escape pod and is captured by Nicholai Malthus, though Adam leaves Romulus believing that Cero is dead.