Well for one thing our PI Ships have been stated by WOG to already be far superior to anything everyone else has and unlike the MK 1 armor they are recent enough that the other races haven't even be able to try to catch up yet.
Now that I'm not tapping on a phone, I can offer a little more detail here. According to
@Hoyr's
numbers, our Pyndas have an effective range of ~16-25 thousand km. Depending on how fast MAC rounds are, this may not be outside the effective range of an enemy warship, even if our lasers will be super-effective if and when we do close on the enemy. More importantly, however, we are exactly one stolen tech--low-gigawatt lasers--away from the Salarians leap-frogging us in laser tech, since they already have and use UV lasers in the field, and it's a tech that is in fact vulnerable to being stolen, given that we started producing it before Flawless Blackboxing became available. We urgently need to keep pushing space tech, since in this area we've just barely begun to pass everyone else's state of the art, and the gains we've made so far are easily reversible.
Compare this to our suits, where half the techs that H&K are
just now starting to install in the new 1.75b versions of the Legionary did not exist when the suit was first placed on the market three years ago. We are just starting to deploy drones in combat (and thus just starting to actually use that Electronic Warfare/Improved Intelligence VI that we've theoretically had access to all this time) and for that matter the Tiger itself is only a year old at this point (and already getting an upgrade thanks to Superalloys). Everyone else is still desperately trying to catch up to where we were,
three years ago. Our ground game is fine.
I'm sad that 15m is probably never going to happen, which means I probably never get to go:
"Reactor, Online
Sensors, Online
Weapons, Online
All systems nominal."
Hey, it's not our fault that mechs larger than 5 meters offer nothing over larger tanks, and even that's only useful so we can make a VERONICA/Hulkbuster variant.
Mk II stuff is different enough assuming you don't make some thing that's a Legionary clone that you could sell. The bigger one is the CHA don't compete agreement that covers all fighter/bomber types.
All the same, it'd be kind of a dick move to drop the Mark II armor before even the initial five year contract period. Worse, it would discourage other companies from making deals with us in the future, since everyone will know that in a couple of years we'll just stab them in the back.
I've limited the growth rate on that to avoid running out the tech tree to soon.
Aw, that's no problem; we just need more research heroes! Co-develop all the shielding techs, so we have Singularity-reactive, Silaris-impregnated, Plasma shields around everything!
