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I was actually thinking after they've reverse-engineered/acquired some Battletech technology they'd go into weapons and such because, yes, I do think once we understood how to make their shit, we'd do it better/improve on it, which is why I said "modified Earth hardware" (though, I guess I...

Ya know, aside from Modern Earth (in the future) pulling a Clan Wolf and sending out feelers posing as a mercenary group, their later setting up a front company and acting as an arms merchant by selling modified Modern Earth hardware to the Inner Sphere could also work. Hell, even modified...

...Wait, what? What stupidity is this?

The Abrams X looks like something the US would use in a Command and Conquer: Generals remake or sequel; looks lit.

Ah, I got the two confused.

IIRC, Battletech's factions seem to have this weird "unspoken rule" that dropships aren't to be targeted for any reason because of how valuable/irreplaceable they are. Stolen if possible, destroyed as a very last resort. We... don't have that compunction. I mean yeah, we'd want one to...

Easily accessible and available? Even if companies and governments kept a lot of the reverse-engineered advancements 'under wraps'/gate kept, our technology would still leapfrog practically overnight in civilizational terms. Hell, NASA or Space X coming out with a "next generation shuttle"...

We'd likely have trouble accessing the thing, unless it's a Tacitus Situation where we struggle to decode/interface and gets slithers of data for a lot of effort.

You mean like how body armour (in the form of scale, plate, chain, et cetera) basically became obsolete thanks to gun development, until modern kevlar vests were created, making body armour viable again? And if, say, hand-held laser weapons became the norm over ballistic firearms that would...

Knowledge being lost, regained in some way (rediscovery, redevelopment, et cetera), lost again, regained -- repeat as needed? With the sheer amount of wars setting things back constantly, including a "certain war" that had Amaris being a cunt-nugget and that caused the Star League itself to...

Since this is about a Modern Earth (or close to) using modern/current advancements in reinventing, improving upon, or reimplementing Battletech technology, we'll go for realism and in-universe technical data (such as the km range of missiles, et cetera) over game rules and limitations because of...

...I honestly expected better from Battletech's side of things, to be honest.

Okay, this is I did not expect. Do we have calcs for B'Tech weapons and modern ballistics?

It's basically a late 80's machine with mid-00 (at best) levels of storage (and that was at high-end enthusiast/business areas than actual consumer at the time). Possible 1GB of RAM max, but possibly just 512. I'd give the processor speed a 1 GHZ, and that's being generous. And... is that an...

The 90's is a nostalgic time for me, too. :) I was born in '88, so growing up in the single digits I basically watched Commodore 64's (I remember shopping for Commodore 64 games at a nearby PC store, heh) be slowly replaced by IBM and Clone PCs, all the way to 2000+ when we had some new, weird...

While the Commodore and Spectrum and the like were commercial PC's meant for the public, and the 80's was when mainstream computing was beginning to kick off, most people's experiences with computers were still the clunky, room-sized mainframes and machines born from the late 60's and 70's...

It's like when you see sci-fi movies in the 80's using all these clunky spaceships, weapons, and vehicles, and you're like "yeah, if we built something like that now, it wouldn't be as fat, or as large, or use weird ass things the size of an old CRT monitor that would now fit on a smartphone...

Well, the former would likely cause massive disruption in Clan society between the Wardens and Crusaders, who each want to recreate the Star League based on the Inner-Sphere's bones but via different methods, and this new political faction that'd want to create a New Star League with Modern...

The Clans would also probably look at an untouched (from the stupidity of the current setting's factions, I mean) and more technologically advanced Modern Earth ("Wait, if we help them they can build a battlemech that's technologically superior to anything we have right now? In just a few years...

It's a long but interesting video. :) While a lot of Battletech's stuff is advanced, it's still derived from what they thought technology would be like as extrapolated from 80's stuff in the future; it'd basically be the Fallout Principle all over again, albeit with Fallout's stuff being from...