Battletech memory Cores to modern world

[Apocal]

Speaking of that Pox on all that is fun, if all the Unseen Battlemechs looked like their original variants and the UN ruled that Core contents and likeness were public domain how pissed would Harmony Gold be and how much schadenfreude would Battletech fans experience?

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Dude, Harmony Gold is rich-ass real estate company. They won't give a fuck; this whole thing is because the guys in charge of BT have either been utterly dumb at legal stuff (FASA) or run away at the first sign of legal troubles (FanPro and CGL). When PGI shelled out for an actual lawyer and bothered showing up to court they got a judgment, right then and there. HG's legal team probably just does this shit out of habit, like the big guy who can fight but regularly beats the snot of some little shit he doesn't like, just because he can and it's fun.

Also the Unseens look like trash heaps at this point.

 

[Forgothrax]

Nobody is going to give a shit about any of the designs unless the underlying technology is so easy to build that, 5 years after the core data appears, the Chinese are shitting out Locusts by the job lot. Even then, everyone will be experimenting with different layouts.

 

[Cloak&Dagger]

Primitive cores are great, one that's only 50% of your mass still nets you 15 light year range, and it can still accept dropship collars AND have massive storage space internally.

There's also the Subcompact cores that don't use Germanium, but those are small and limited. The Word of Blake still was working on mass producing them to work around Germanium shortages however.

The lack of range doesn't even matter really, you can just set up jump chains with detachable dropships and not only have fast travel but have far faster than 30ly travel.

 

[Lailoken]

Dude, Harmony Gold is rich-ass real estate company. They won't give a fuck; this whole thing is because the guys in charge of BT have either been utterly dumb at legal stuff (FASA) or run away at the first sign of legal troubles (FanPro and CGL). When PGI shelled out for an actual lawyer and bothered showing up to court they got a judgment, right then and there. HG's legal team probably just does this shit out of habit, like the big guy who can fight but regularly beats the snot of some little shit he doesn't like, just because he can and it's fun.

Also the Unseens look like trash heaps at this point.

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I wouldn't be surprised if it were a case of poor lawyer wrangling. Lawyers exist to bill hours. They will hunt down every possible billable hour. If you give them too long a leash and too broad a mandate with too little supervision it's really your own fault when they hand you a bill for preemptively securing your copyright in Rhodesia.

 

[Durabys]

Primitive cores are great, one that's only 50% of your mass still nets you 15 light year range, and it can still accept dropship collars AND have massive storage space internally.

There's also the Subcompact cores that don't use Germanium, but those are small and limited. The Word of Blake still was working on mass producing them to work around Germanium shortages however.

The lack of range doesn't even matter really, you can just set up jump chains with detachable dropships and not only have fast travel but have far faster than 30ly travel.

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Idea: Make Primitive 'Compact' Core (%50) with Drop Collars, no Jumship control room, no fusion engine or reactor, only station keeping drives, some automated computers and some armor against micrometeorites and radiation. In fact, just use Jump Sails as the main power source.

The Dropship is the thing that carries cargo and people, not the Jumpship, so tear down the Jumpship to barebones levels and then seed every Zenith and Nadir points of all the stars in the neighborhood with these "Jump Collars"! THOUSANDS OF THEM PER STAR! Suddenly! JUMP CHAINS EVERYWHERE! FTL Travel Times? Negligible!

Yeah. I just created BT!verse version of the Mass Effect Mass Relay.

 

[MJ12 Commando]

Primitive cores are great, one that's only 50% of your mass still nets you 15 light year range, and it can still accept dropship collars AND have massive storage space internally.

There's also the Subcompact cores that don't use Germanium, but those are small and limited. The Word of Blake still was working on mass producing them to work around Germanium shortages however.

The lack of range doesn't even matter really, you can just set up jump chains with detachable dropships and not only have fast travel but have far faster than 30ly travel.

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And meanwhile, if you went and built a WarShip KF core, it would only take up 45% of your ship's mass, get twice the range, and be less expensive.

Furthermore, you actually have no idea whether your non-Germanium primitive KF cores are capable of accepting Dropship collars, because primitive Jumpships actually go extinct in the Terran Alliance/Hegemony before the prototype K-F boom exists and allows you to carry dropships through hyperspace.

 

[Cloak&Dagger]

And meanwhile, if you went and built a WarShip KF core, it would only take up 45% of your ship's mass, get twice the range, and be less expensive.

Furthermore, you actually have no idea whether your non-Germanium primitive KF cores are capable of accepting Dropship collars, because primitive Jumpships actually go extinct in the Terran Alliance/Hegemony before the prototype K-F boom exists and allows you to carry dropships through hyperspace.

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It would explain the current absolutely idiotic massive price hike of adding a dropship collar to a ship.

But regardless we know they can have dropshuttle bays so that would work fine.

 

[MJ12 Commando]

It would explain the current absolutely idiotic massive price hike of adding a dropship collar to a ship.

But regardless we know they can have dropshuttle bays so that would work fine.

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Or you could use a WarShip core, get double the range for 10% less cost, and still retain the option of docking proper DropShips.

There is basically no application in-canon where a Primitive Core has any use once you can build Compact Cores, because Compact Cores are better in every possible way, with longer range, lower mass, and equal cost per-kilogram.

And even doing massive rules abuse, the only reason you would ever want to use a Primitive Core is by having like, a 1ly jump capacity so you can free up an extra 35% of your vessel's mass in weapons-something that is never actually implied to be possible in-universe.

 

[Cloak&Dagger]

Or you could use a WarShip core, get double the range for 10% less cost, and still retain the option of docking proper DropShips.

There is basically no application in-canon where a Primitive Core has any use once you can build Compact Cores, because Compact Cores are better in every possible way, with longer range, lower mass, and equal cost per-kilogram.

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Cost doesn't matter if you don't have enough Germanium.

Heck, cost doesn't matter period with BT automated factories, those will have a massive impact.

And even doing massive rules abuse, the only reason you would ever want to use a Primitive Core is by having like, a 1ly jump capacity so you can free up an extra 35% of your vessel's mass in weapons-something that is never actually implied to be possible in-universe.

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They changed that, it's minimum 15 light years now.