Inspired by Valles and Acyl's fun BT SIs and an email discussion, I've gotten an idea for a (much more limited) attempt at my own... but I'm a little skint on details to set things up. What I need is a list of 8-10 plausible mechs and maybe a couple of ASFs for a pirate raid on some backwater Outer Rim world that they don't expect any serious resistance from (nothing more than infantry, a few light tanks, and a ramshackle militia lance, all squished off-camera before MC would engage.) I figure I can just look them up on the internet for the rest once I have the type names and then pick a dropship or two with enough bay space for them and some cargo, and probably not even have to specify what sort of jumpship they came on if I cut it off as MC goes transatmospheric in his Mekton-tech unit. Blatant escapist power fantasy of course, but worse crimes have been committed.
For lack of a better idea I'll say time frame is 301X like theirs, since that does matter for what's available in-setting, while the raid objective would be for luxury foods/textiles/etc. produced by a barely-industrial world and the civilian electronics manufacturing that suddenly popped up a year or so before as MC went a little mad after a month or two on a world with no internet and abused his Mekton powers to goddamn ninja-build one. (Well, I say "Mekton powers," but really it's a case of being dropped off with a breadbox autofac and a Protagonist Makeover that includes a silly amount of chipped skills and AI support in the cybernetics package. Actual power-of-a-mekton is a matter of multiple stages of bootstrapping, which is conveniently just hours away from being combat effective when the pirates roll in.)
For lack of a better idea I'll say time frame is 301X like theirs, since that does matter for what's available in-setting, while the raid objective would be for luxury foods/textiles/etc. produced by a barely-industrial world and the civilian electronics manufacturing that suddenly popped up a year or so before as MC went a little mad after a month or two on a world with no internet and abused his Mekton powers to goddamn ninja-build one. (Well, I say "Mekton powers," but really it's a case of being dropped off with a breadbox autofac and a Protagonist Makeover that includes a silly amount of chipped skills and AI support in the cybernetics package. Actual power-of-a-mekton is a matter of multiple stages of bootstrapping, which is conveniently just hours away from being combat effective when the pirates roll in.)
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