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So you're saying, our modern day weapons can hurt them.

I honestly don't see ComStar being a big issue until after contact is established with the IS in some regular capacity. Earth is likely just a backwater world in the Periphery. There are dozens if not hundreds there that don't have Interstellar Communications or any meaningful Comstar Presence...

My thinking is that FASAeconomics would allow Earth to compete at some level as current economic models are not FASA. Earth is always going to be outnumbered and outgunned. Economically there is no way that they could compete with empires that have hundreds of worlds to their one. And maybe a...

The only way I see Earth viably rising post war is if they had a benefactor/Ally. Someone like, say, Clan Wolverine. It's literally a perfect marriage of necessity for both sides.

Doooo eeeeeet.....give in to your feelings!

So essentially you'd need some way to negate the space advantage.

Honestly, I just see Earth swarming any landings with massed Air Power, Artillery and then armored assaults. Literally drowning them in firepower and bodies. Earth has concentrations of troops that wouldn't be seen outside of House Lords homeworlds. The issue is Areospace fighters and the Fleet...

So yeah, I think the big difference is mindset. Earth doesn't know BattleMechs and doesn't use them. And even if they do get them, Groups like NATO and the US likely wouldn't use them. Where as I think Russia and or China might, if they can salvage any good ones. I could wonder what something...

So I started thinking. Lets say a group, say an Inner Sphere House like Kurita is intent on hitting Earth and is deploying the Sword of light or another group of similar caliber. And their target is an American City like say...Los Angeles or something like that. In BattleTech, at least to my...

I don't mean the Helm core specifically but rather a memory core that has the information easily accessible and available.

Could Earth then rapidly uptech if say, Earth got a Memory core similar to Helm? Maybe not reproduce the tech exactly, but something better?

Its more of a Real World ISOT'd to BattleTech verse. Being found by said factions and possibly attacked by said factions.

Okay, let assume, for a moment, our weapons really are that much better than Future of the 1980s BattleTech. How would we explain that weapon systems a thousand years in the past can compete with and in some cases exceed what the IS/Clans have now?

Well, lets gets some more perspectives, shall we? @S'task , @CurtisLemay @Speaker4thesilent . Id love to get more perspectives on this. This is fun and fascinating.

Not to mention Space Assets.

I love this idea. I like it a lot.

I'm reminded of this.

Let's play with both ideas. How does that go?

How would a Modern Day Earth, say Circa 2030 handle a concerted invasion from...: 1.) Pirates from the Periphery. 2800 to 2900 era. 2.) A major House like say, The Draconis Combine. 2900 to 3000 3.) The Clans. 3000 to 3050.

Can you link me? Also, what other areas does Modern Earth dominate? What areas are we deficient? And how can Earth maintain Dpace and air Neutral skies in a concerted invasion?