At least they seemed cool until the whole shitshow with Nueva Castilla and Scorpion Empire together with the poorly translated predecessor Escorpion Imperio, then it's just retarded.
Everything in Battletech is retarded. The Scorpions even in the contemporary era make, in my opinion, probably one of the best Clans for random play:
- Seekers justify essentially any engagement you want ( space archeologists with mechs lead by drug visions can get them, I dunno, to Canopus to shoot people in the quest for Kerensky's Brothel Receipt)
- They're quite reasonable when they're not drugged as fuck. Their IlClan plotline is stupid but admittedly the least stupid amongst all, they got their Periphery Empire, fight the Council of Merchants and struggle to run their new nation properly.
- They were forgotten for so long that they had no chance of developing terminal retardation like Malvina for the Jade Falcons or Alaric for the Wolfies.
- They build quite a bit of weirdo chassis, like Blakist machines and Invasion-era stuff (the Warhawk, for example).
They are the default clan option. And as such everything is written around them.
After the Davions stopped being the protagonists with the Clan Invasion, it's them or the Goons. Battletech is retarded so they will always choose the dumbest, most obvious pick for plot advancements instead of being creative, and if they are creative they will forgot about it or it will be insanely retarded (Dominions Divided). The Jihad was written as a justification of the Dark Age, that's the reason why the Blakists manage to fuck up Fochstar and the Goons, "good guys that had to win". I find amusing that Jaime Wolf got killed like a dog by a character that was written as a sad joke, fitting.