Cael
Arcane
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This patently untrue. The trueborn/freeborn divide is huge, and few Clans allow freeborns to get too high. Marthe tried it with Diana and nearly got a riot on her hands. She was only saved by the stupid Vipers who allowed the freeborn to prove themselves beyond a doubt.It's part of the general testing they do for everyone. Usually you get assigned whatever profession in your caste you're suitable for, but if they think you'd be better off doing a job in another caste then that's that, you're moved. Warriors who fail their trial/trials get kicked into a lower caste too. Though that's a bad thing for them so maybe that doesn't count.
As for games it's just 2, GBL, 3, and the first MechCommander that have a Clan focus. Mechwarrior 2M does and doesn't since they only invade halfway through the game, though obviously they become the big thing once they do show up. Some of the other games have Clan mechs, but only as salvage that's being used by Inner Sphere guys to fight each other. So overall there aren't that many games that focus on them, but they were all consecutive so sometimes it doesn't feel that way.
In the Clans, unless you are decanted as a warrior, you don't get to be a warrior. And if you test out, you're out for good. That was what made Aidan Pryde's story so compelling, and it took a lot of deceit and political backing to get him there. The Smokes are the worst of the intolerant lot, and mobility into the warrior caste is non-existent. There is no testing. If you are freeborn, forget it. Clanners are morons, and the only ones who succeeded and survived are those who bucked the trend. Wolf, Ghost Bear, Diamond Shark/Sea Fox, Scorpions, even Falcons (for a while). The rest died or became inconsequential.