Look if we sell a movie studio a mech to film a live action version of Mobile fighter G Gundam, that mech is in circulation. It's not in some mysterious third state between unsold and in circulation. Our stuff is in circulation, why you object to that terminology is not something I understand, the minute I used it however you started comparing me to Obadiah stane. So either explain or stop it, because you're being a jerk.
Sure we can avoid selling it directly to pirates and such, but that doesn't mean our stuff stops being in circulation.
As far as using them in films, ummm you have addressed 0 points. We know that using the actual mechs isn't the most efficient or cost effective way to tell the story, but even now irl film studios don't always, or even often take the most efficient routes. Stop animation is itself an exercise in massive inefficiency in service to art and spectacle. The use of real warplanes in top gun is also far from efficient or necessary, but it still happens. So there's no reason we couldn't use the real mechs to make movies and shows with, sure it's not efficient, but that's not an issue films care about now, why would they care about that in mass effect revy future? Hell we could just start a studio to do it ourselves if nobody is biting.
Renting or buying doesn't matter for our purposes, not for the film studios anyway.
The league matches it matters a bit more.
Mechs being out and about doing mech things, and being seen doing mech things, is a benefit because people like mechs. If we can make them work in industries besides the military people will buy mechs, innovate with them, expand on them, and increase the demand for mechs and mech accessories. Even if we never make them a major military thing, we can make them important in other places. That way we get to have cool mechs all over the place, doing cool mech things, and make it self sustaining so that we'll have consistent demand. This means we get paid to produce mechs, it probably wouldn't be a net profit for a long while, but we can eat the short term hit in order to essentially invent our own industry to dominate. Especially when that industry is an excuse to manufacture cool giant robots.
As far as "cutting edge military tech" I'm pretty sure nothing required for mechs is on the SA's exclusivity list.
Nobody is objecting to the terminology. I just don't fucking see the benefit.
Stop animation is a tiny fraction of all animation which is a small fraction of all movies. And as I pointed out, Kubo was actually not a high budget compared to other major cinema releases. I can't even find numbers to compare what kind of fraction we're talking about, but you realise this comparison implicitly concedes, that for all live action mech movies being produced in the galaxy, only a small fraction would be interested in using inefficient mechs rather than CGI. And Live action mech movies are not exactly a mainstream genre. We're talking about a % of a % of the galactic market. Hardly mainstreaming.
The use of warplanes is always subsidised by the US military making it actually a very cheap way of doing it because the studio doesn't pay for it. The incentives don't make sense for PI to step in and do this we're taking a financial loss to advertise a product we're going to sell at a loss. And its not like we've ever had a hard time reaching our production cap for sales or that people who buy million credit mech suits get their advertising via the cinema.
Nobody is going to compete with PI's innovations, the quest has been going on for 5 ingame years and other competitors are decades behind us.
Nobody is going to compete with PI if we are selling these at an unprofitable rate because they'd rather find ways to compete that are profitable, and if the mad scientist Revy can't make a cost effective mech then that signals to everyone else that they won't either. We do not care about money, but you're no longer talking about only us.
If you think mechs will ever be everyday things, you are actually disconnected from reality.
taller mechs mean they can build bigger buildings
Cranes exist my dude. Nobody tried to build the Burj Khalifa but failed half way because they don't have a 10 meter exoskeleton.
Look, just run back to Slamu's plan, mech sports all teams sponsored and run by PI, because I've already conceded that I can't and won't argue with that as a concept, there are too many unknowns, the scope is small enough that we might actually be able to single handedly bank roll it even at a loss and it seems reasonably IC as vanity projects go. In terms of "I wana do mechs because I like them" its understandable and the sports plan doesn't really require 15M mechs so it isn't conflicting with more important things for research priority.
However if you want Mechs to be an every day object its not enough to just say "we don't care about money" because the galaxy is fucking huge and PI is a small fraction of its economy and we can't subsidise hundreds of millions of unprofitable mech suits across all known space. The Reapers are coming we have more important shit to do than this vanity project. Everyone else does care. The problems with mech are fundamental to the design being overly complicated, inefficient and high maintenance, and there is no way of getting around those.
E: Oh and as for what cutting edge tech it uses. Its going to be arc reactor powered, use PI software, the motors and mechanisms are likely to be derived from our work on military grade legionaries. and so on. None of this may be on the list
currently, but if we started to sell all the individual parts for a Legionary or Pydna the SA would take a pretty dim view of that being a breach of the exclusivity contract.
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