Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)

Will Gene be getting that Devastator or will someone else get it?

 

Gene will be using it as his primary assault mech, but there will be instances where others swap into it, if the current outline of the Black Jack fight scenes hold given that Gauss rifles don't heat up like regular weapons and there are some hostile enviroment fights coming up Gauss Rifles though really reflect how Gene prefers to fight even though there is an ammunition requirement.

 

So how do the Davions even handle a reward like this.

This is a shitlosd of desperately needed hardware being handed over. Not even counting the very important documentation and tech manuals hidden all here.

Does Gene get a few vehicle companies as his share, does the FedSuns throw more funding at IS?

Does all the units involved in finding this walk out with large bonuses also?

Thanks for the gear but spare us the headaches?

 

You meaning going for the head?

 

Early in the chapter, Gene made a pointed comment to Yvonne, loosely quipping "i don't have a problem with material what I need are soldiers"

This sets up for in the 3020s where those recruits are available. Of course by that point Gene in both this primarily timeline and the Whoops sidestory, are pretty tightly associated to House Davion, and then later the Federated Commonwealth

As for everyone else, thats going to be a little awkward,

What they thought was happening "OH GOD are we under attack" in response to being to get the fuck up and into your mechs, followed by four five hours hiking through the back country in formation being yelled at to stay vigilant followed by two more days of standing around, and then being told "OH yeah we found a star league cache guess who all is one the duke's christmas card list." There will be rwards for everyone but it will vary based on how Sandoval wants to do that, since he's FMDMM.

In the near future:

"Oh look I only have twelve rounds left." Looks around, climbs up on the only hill for about five miles of open grassland, "I also have the high ground, and there is only a company of you." Five minutes later "Also I still have PPCs."

 

the answer is being made into nobility probably a count or maybe even a duke. and having favors owed from the ruling family never hurts at all

 

Cunningham is going to jump his bones. Straight up offer her hand in marriage for this.



She’s not bad looking. I’m just soured on her from that one Flashpoint where you’re taking down a Cappie terror cell and she gets mad if you prioritize rescuing hostages over killing the ring leader.

Stating, “It would have been a tragedy but one we could have blamed on you and saved face. Your whole purpose is a deniable asset. Take your C-Bills and leave I have a mess to clean up.”

So yeah, at least Renauld “Bob Kurita” Yamaguchi is always forthright with me in his flashpoints, works with me in situations where the contract changes like red hare fiasco, and at the end of Heavy Metal he doesn’t go all, “you have failed me.” But invites the Marauders over for a damn party admitting they’re the closest thing to friends he has. His level of chill is no doubt him being disgraced and exiled to the opposite side of human space from the Combine.

 

Isn't Cunningham a Countess?

 

Yes, she is the Countess of Kestrel, which presumably means she's her father's heir apparent.

 

hmmm I wonder what stuff kestrel has that's valuable for a merc unit

 

What really makes me laugh is that Gene is really reminding me of Nick Moran ‘The Chieftain’. When he’s at rest or talking about the equipment I get the same vibe from Gene as in Chieftains YouTube videos.

 

speaking of the hoplite it really does need a refit, you mind if I give it one?

 

With the contents of that cache it might be possible ro reestablish one of the old Robinson Ranger units in addition to the other stuff it will be used. The Sandovals would need ro get the lift for the new unit though

 

In the long term there is enough material to potentially restart some old Age of War designs and have them actually be built at Robinson with the First Prince's support, which means the need for a larger garrison force.


Production in this case are like, Archer, and Dervish. The Feds already have a Marauder line in operation, because GM.

 

Gene didn't even try to snag some Highlanders?

 

Hmmmm age of war designs. Does that include non royal Reunification war era designs?

 

Why fight over Highlanders, when there are Alacorns Mk VI's in the cache? And partly He doesn't have the mechwarriors or the mech bays to store mechs with the present expectation of needing to move Davion mechs for the campaign. [Not when the duelist group is slated to be billeted aboard the overlord, alongside the missile boats]

But what he does have are vehicle bays a plenty so there are cold logistical reasons at play here.

[Seriously I didn't process / remember how old both of those designs are, the famous configurations of both the Alacorn and Highlander are both the Early 2590s.]

Yes. A lot of this is going to allocate for stuff a ways in the future, particularly after the Arano restoration [since I've outlined the 3024-26 years around the HBS game, and have ahd that on the books since I started this timeline]

 

Hmmmm for good mechs from that era....not much on the light front that the SLDF had other than the Falcon and the Firestarter. Maybe the Ostscout. And of course you have the trio of classic 20 ton bug mechs which are at best meh
Mediums....the kyudo(albeit the OG model), wolverine,kintaro(which is still in production in suns space at that if not very many being made)the griffin, the dervish, and the shadow hawk for the calvary role. The Hunchback and the Hoplite and maybe the Swordsman for the trooper role. Oh and you can't forget the OG Rifleman.
You might see a clint or two in the cache along with the Wyvern, Whitworth, Scorpion, Sentinel, and Phoenix Hawk.
For heavies....oh boy. You've got the Champion, Ostol and Ostroc for the calvary role. The ostwar, Orion, Black Knight, Crusader(the OG model that is), Catapult, Guillotine,Archer Warhammer, Hammerhands, Battleaxe, and the Thunderbolt in various 4/6 roles. And the Helepolis in the artillery mech role. And the Galahad in the 3/5 sniper of doom role. And maybe some Lancelots.
For the assaults...The Mackie, the Longbow, the Emperor(probably the less advanced variant), the Highlander, the Pillager(same as the Emperor), and the Stalker for the classic slow murder machines.
With the Striker, Victor, Thug, and Banshee( needs to be given the old 3-S treatment ASAP) for the fast assault role.

 

... I just checked the 2578 version of the Black Knight has endo steel... hell a lot of the late 26th century (Thug, Wyvern and they're not even Royal specific models) mechs have endo steel for some goddamned reason and yet somehow no one figured out a way to keep endo steel production going through the succession wars despite having been in production for two plus centuries. GOD DAMN IT FASA stop giving me a headache.

 

Good news! There are a lot of downrated models. But yeah the endosteel bit never made sense to me. If nothing else you'd think the endosteel forges that would be in orbit of worlds like Tharkad would be intact. Not Luthein though. The LCS Nightwind probably put paid to them in 2787

 

Anyways i hope that list I made is useful to ya

 

Yeah it was similar to the one I already had.

One thing as ubiquitous as the Centurion is (litterally everyone has it on their random tables) its a sucession wars davion mech. Its not Star League, its not even 'we built this for the league and there was this one really early run i.e. the 7A with its large Laser, or the Panther, with its large laser' no its a davion mech from the succession wars and yet everyone has them.

As for say the champion, they're present because Bergan has the right connections in the hegemony to get them bought from the factory just basically to be put in holes in the ground and forgotten about (which admittedly is a plot point I've used in other stories)

 

You have the equivalent lists for AFVs or ASFs done? If not I can do that.
Also as related to the Centurion it used to be made in the FWL until late in the 2nd SW and even then the parts where still being made. The Suns only just started making it on new avalon in 3012

 

I have no good AFS sources so sure. And if you want to do the AFVs I'm happy have a second list to check against

As to the Centurion, again thats one of the things, where canon tells us something but the actual numbers and locations of plants they tell us exist or did exist... then proceeds to get give us 2+2 = fish situations where things don't add up.

Like very likely because in the grand scheme of this fic, its very much the Fed Suns and then FedCom end up doing very very well overall and the right investments are made... and some of those investments will be touched on during the travel September 3017 chapters.

Hanzo talks about Errai, Septim talks about logistics and force deployment Bahar has her stuff, Bubbles deals with assault mech stuff, Beau deals among other things Sutton's Md. There will not in this interlude series / chapter mention of a new centurion factory but it will probably happen, maybe in the Outback somewhere but the AFFS is in a position where they can't jsut rely on we just got a big resupply of material and the other guy just lost a bunch of his and the FedCom hasn't happened yet. Steiner hasn't even sent out the peace proposal yet.

 

Ok then I'll get ya a list of ASFs available prior to 2600 or so. And I'll possibly do the AFVs later

 

Thunderbird, Stuka, Lightning, Centurion, Eagle, Rapier, Sabre, Chippewa, Hammerhead, Sparrowhawk, Seydlitz(yes the SLDF used those), and lastly the Samurai are the canonical ASFs that all predate 2600 and where used by the SLDF and thus are likely candidates
Might see some Ironsides, Rogues, Gothas, Hellcats, and Swifts but not many. Alas not likely to see any of the glorious Tomahawk in the cache or other birds like the Ahab, Zero or Trident

 

I suppose Hanse is going to be one that will not be able to stop himself for asking if he is really a Hegemony officer from before the Amaris's coup?

I've been waiting for a true discussion about this subject for a while.

 

SO on Tuesday I have an Extras segment that is going up.

I'm mentioning it early, because it is not necessarily canon per se. As I've written this there have been changes, I've left somethings vague, just to give me wiggle room beyond unreliable narrator, and I've probably left some things too vague in some cases.

Originally one of the core parts of this story was going to be the Aurigan Campaign (HBS story campaign) dealing with the directorate, another part of that being dealing with Black Jack McGirk and Kristofur being alive, and in that later case that leds into Kerensky showing up because he's responsible for Joshua's death... and that in turn leads into the Dragoons finding out that HOLY FUCK there are Amaris's still alive (this is related to McGirk and friends).

And Frankly this was always going to be a story where the principle inner sphere allied house is House Davion, and then FedCom, but gradually over time the expression of those plans had changed and developed in other ways. So anyway Tuesday will have an a snippet going up its relatively short, its not necessarily canon but it does contend with material that will show up in the future. There are certain details and characters were thats going to happen.

And I like be able to explore and share 'alternates' for these sorts of things.

 

you going to involve the dobrev at all? Because I'm pretty sure she's a carrack class ship and while those are wimpy warships they're still warships. plus the info on the clans and her cargo