The Clans themselves, for that matter, particularly their warrior caste.Innocent victims of Nicholas' manipulations, a powder-keg waiting to go off or power-hungry monsters who merely were caught out before they could act? Betrayal of Ideals puts them somewhere in between powder-keg and innocent victim. The same can also be said for Sara McEvedy and Clan Wolverine.Were they really buying his grand vision because they felt it was a better way, were they won over by his charisma and impassioned words? Or were they just so sick and tired of fighting and conflict and total war that any option at all to end it seemed like pure genius? For that matter, the people who followed Nicholas and became the Clans.Did he genuinely have a vison of a better society in which civilians and infrastructure were spared the horror and suffering of endless warfare, and the sacrifices which brought it about were a fair price (or, at worst, absolutely necessary)? Or was he a megalomanical sociopath who wanted to reshape humanity in his own image so he would be revered like unto a god by all who lived in his utopia? Again, there's plenty of evidence to support both interpretations. Nicholas Kerensky was either a driven visionary or a figure of evil, and there's plenty of evidence for both.
Aleksandr Kerensky: Definitive (and only) Big Good of the BattleTech universe, whose every decision came out of superlative wisdom? Flawed man who made a few mistakes, some of them glaring? Or ultimately a coward who fled the problems of the Inner Sphere he himself was partly responsible for, only to bring those problems with him, resulting in the near-destruction of everyone who followed him and the formation of the Clans? While almost every single person in the BT universe regards Aleksandr Kerensky as a near saint who could do no wrong, there's a segment of the fanbase who considers the Exodus, and to a lesser extent his refusal to sieze the throne of the Star League when it was apparent no one else would be able to without massive bloody warfare, extremely stupid decisions that only created more death and destruction in the long run.
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