So who decided that the prime variant for a 100 ton omnimech should have a damage capacity of 25? Seriously, even if you don't play battletech you should know that's way too anemic for its weight class.
Christian Lee
Fed Suns?! Yeah that was our territory initially.
Anthony Howard
Is it because of the company engine that it doesn't have a lot of pod space? Even the targeting computer doesn't really offset the fact it has the long range weapons of something I would put as 60 tons.
Josiah Rogers
Nope, because the A variant mounts 2 HPPCs, a snub nose, and 2 ERMLs, with 8 DHS.
Jaxson Sanchez
The pod space is low anyway, and the Prime proceeds to mount a bunch of heavy pointless gear.
Benjamin Clark
All the stuff that premiered in Hotspots 3072 has new toy syndrome. Don't take it seriously and look to the Infernus and later variants.
Caleb Cook
I never really looked at it like this...
Please consider that comstar has had a clandestine anti-tech religious war against all other factions because "Hurr we should be the only ones with high tech, the others can't be trusted". And their whole monopoly on HPG comms because they sabotage, murder and destroy anyone who tries to research things on their own.
So its not just Zimbabwe. Its space Zimbabwe, the only people who know how to breed the special space pigeons (tm) that can transport messages all over the galaxy.
Also they had a fuckhuge cache of mint condition star league mechs + coolant suits.
So it is literally space pigeon breeding Zimbabwe in SPESS, with the best TEC-9 submachineguns while everyone else only has .38 revolvers. Literally an african milita in space. Add to it the religious fundamentalism and you get !Not-Jihadists in space doing everyones mail delivery. And of course everyone entrusts them not to just open the letters, read them, and reseal them.
I'm still amazed it took the inner sphere so long to get some real alternative means of data transfer. First mention i know is around 3048. Davion blackboxes, and then either Liao or Drac stole them and reverse engineered them.
>tl:dr: Comstar is literally space zimbabwe with space pigeons, religious anti tech raids and Admech-tier mysticism tech worship >Pic related
Owen Gonzalez
>First mention i know is around 3048. Davion blackboxes, and then either Liao or Drac stole them and reverse engineered them.
Dude, you need to go back and read the grogtech era stuff. Because Black Boxes are how Hanse got around the Comstar interdiction in the 4th Succession War.
Even that wasn't invented. It was old pre-HPG tech they found, and severely limited.
>And of course everyone entrusts them not to just open the letters, read them, and reseal them. Not really. But their public neutrality was one of their defining characteristics before the schism. They were also the last vestige of the true Star League, and nobody wanted to wreck that up. In a setting where local comms are trashed with any invasion, it's nice to know the interstellar ones will still work.
Then there's the money issue. HPG comms are supremely profitable, but building a single new Class B station is more than 1/4 the cost of a new McKenna Warship. Class A is way more. There's just not the money to make a competing network on hundreds of worlds, even if you had the tech. Only the Star League had that kind of money and will to throw around.
Ironically, this is the main reason Comstar went bankrupt in the Dark Age. You blow the HPG cores on 900 worlds and even if you found a solution to Clarion Call, you're still fucked with replacing them all.
