So a simple concept... I'll just list ten "mechs" or at least close enough facsimiles of ones from non-Battletech settings.
Questions:
1. How Would These Mechs, If They Exist in Battletech, Perform in that Setting If They Were Available in Number.
2. What in universe classification would each of these mechs get, if any are applicable.
3. Rank the Mechs in How Useful They'd Be in Battletech if They Could Be Practically Fielded?
4. There are ten caches of different Mechs, Dispense Them How You See Fit, and Ponder the Potential Ramifications of Your Charity.
1. All Terrain Scout Transport/AT-ST (Star Wars): Light chicken walker with a two person crew with room for one passenger. Nine meters tall. Equipped with two chin mounted blaster cannons, a side mounted twin light blaster cannon and a side mounted concussion grenade launcher.
> Cache: A Large Asteroid With a Near Limitless Supply of Tibanna Gas for the blaster cannons as well as one hundred AT-ST's and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
2. XV8 Crisis Battlesuit (WH40K): A Tau Battlesuit (which will be modified for giant gue'vasa bodies) twice the height of a Tau (and thusly twice the height of a normal human male) equipped with a jumpjet, advanced optics and fire tracking systems, augmented physical strength and three weapon hard points for selections such as plasma burst cannons, flamers, anti-armor fusion blasters, missile pods, or a plasma rifle.
> Cache: One Hundred Gue'vasa Sized XV8 Battlesuits with 60 plasma burst cannons, flamers, fusion blasters, missile pods and plasma rifles each found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
3. OZ-O6MS Leo Mass Production General Purpose Mobile Suit (Gundam Wing): Sixteen meters tall and only seven tons in weight (when empty) this mass produced mobile suit is equipped with a circular shoulder mounted shield, beam saber and a 105mm Rifle.
> Cache: One Hundred Leo Mobile Suits Found equipped identically. Twenty Flight Units Also Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
4. Titan MK I (Command & Conquer): Twenty five meters tall. Well armored and equipped with a long range side mounted laser guided 120mm cannon capable of firing over obstacles.
> Cache: One Hundred Titan MK I's Found and instructions and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
5. Atlas Mech (Mass Effect): Small piloted mech equipped with a powerful inciendiary rocket launcher and a magnetic accelerator cannon while its other arm ends in a claw. It's capable of rushing attacks and has a smoke grenade dispenser. Covered in armored plating.
Cache: One Hundred Atlas Mechs Found and instructions and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
6. Goliath Combat Walker (Starcraft): A 3.7 meter tall walker with a neosteel frame for light armor. It's main armament are twin 30mm smoothbore anti-armor explosive autocannons as well as two missile racks of Hellfire Anti-Air/Armor Missiles.
Cache: One Hundred Goliath Combat Walkers Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
7. Tone Atlas-Class Titan (Titanfall 2): Roughly twenty feet tall and equipped with a 40mm Tracker Cannon, Lock On Tracker Rockets, a deployable particle wall barrier and a guided barrage of salvo core missiles.
Cache: One Hundred Tone Titans Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
8. Metal Gear RAY (Metal Gear Solid): Amphibious Gear Hunter. Over twenty one meters tall, it is equipped with a power water cutter, wing mounted gatling guns, a rear mounted guided missile and cluster bomb pod and more missile pods located in the knees. It's design makes it move more organically like natural muscle with a streamlined shape to make it more maneuverable.
Cache: One Hundred Metal Gear Rays Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
9. BAWS MT (Armored Core): Boxy shaped bipedal mech that can be equipped with various detached weapons mounted in its arms or back including vehicle sized anti-armor rifles, machine guns, grenade and rocket launchers as well as physical shields and designed to fight in small squads, not alone.
Cache: One Hundred BAWS MT with 50 MT Rifles, 50 MT Machine Guns, 50 MT Bazookas, 50 MT Shotguns, 50 MT Bomblet Dispensers, and 50 Solid Shields and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
10. Tokki (Overwatch): Small highly maneuverable mech equipped with jump boosters, explosive micro missiles, an active defense matrix, and twin short range rotary fusion cannons whose only practical limitation is slowed maneuverability. It also has a self destruct (and ejection) system.
Cache: One Hundred Tokki Mechs Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
Reverse Engineering or Cloning the technology would likely take decades of investment and research though YMMV. If possible, weapons can probably be swapped between BTech and non-BTech weapons but the autofabs that come with the mechs won't be able to sustain more then the hundred or so mechs they came with so sadly no spam of various weapons or capabilities in the near future.
Questions:
1. How Would These Mechs, If They Exist in Battletech, Perform in that Setting If They Were Available in Number.
2. What in universe classification would each of these mechs get, if any are applicable.
3. Rank the Mechs in How Useful They'd Be in Battletech if They Could Be Practically Fielded?
4. There are ten caches of different Mechs, Dispense Them How You See Fit, and Ponder the Potential Ramifications of Your Charity.
1. All Terrain Scout Transport/AT-ST (Star Wars): Light chicken walker with a two person crew with room for one passenger. Nine meters tall. Equipped with two chin mounted blaster cannons, a side mounted twin light blaster cannon and a side mounted concussion grenade launcher.
> Cache: A Large Asteroid With a Near Limitless Supply of Tibanna Gas for the blaster cannons as well as one hundred AT-ST's and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
2. XV8 Crisis Battlesuit (WH40K): A Tau Battlesuit (which will be modified for giant gue'vasa bodies) twice the height of a Tau (and thusly twice the height of a normal human male) equipped with a jumpjet, advanced optics and fire tracking systems, augmented physical strength and three weapon hard points for selections such as plasma burst cannons, flamers, anti-armor fusion blasters, missile pods, or a plasma rifle.
> Cache: One Hundred Gue'vasa Sized XV8 Battlesuits with 60 plasma burst cannons, flamers, fusion blasters, missile pods and plasma rifles each found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
3. OZ-O6MS Leo Mass Production General Purpose Mobile Suit (Gundam Wing): Sixteen meters tall and only seven tons in weight (when empty) this mass produced mobile suit is equipped with a circular shoulder mounted shield, beam saber and a 105mm Rifle.
> Cache: One Hundred Leo Mobile Suits Found equipped identically. Twenty Flight Units Also Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
4. Titan MK I (Command & Conquer): Twenty five meters tall. Well armored and equipped with a long range side mounted laser guided 120mm cannon capable of firing over obstacles.
> Cache: One Hundred Titan MK I's Found and instructions and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
5. Atlas Mech (Mass Effect): Small piloted mech equipped with a powerful inciendiary rocket launcher and a magnetic accelerator cannon while its other arm ends in a claw. It's capable of rushing attacks and has a smoke grenade dispenser. Covered in armored plating.
Cache: One Hundred Atlas Mechs Found and instructions and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
6. Goliath Combat Walker (Starcraft): A 3.7 meter tall walker with a neosteel frame for light armor. It's main armament are twin 30mm smoothbore anti-armor explosive autocannons as well as two missile racks of Hellfire Anti-Air/Armor Missiles.
Cache: One Hundred Goliath Combat Walkers Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
7. Tone Atlas-Class Titan (Titanfall 2): Roughly twenty feet tall and equipped with a 40mm Tracker Cannon, Lock On Tracker Rockets, a deployable particle wall barrier and a guided barrage of salvo core missiles.
Cache: One Hundred Tone Titans Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
8. Metal Gear RAY (Metal Gear Solid): Amphibious Gear Hunter. Over twenty one meters tall, it is equipped with a power water cutter, wing mounted gatling guns, a rear mounted guided missile and cluster bomb pod and more missile pods located in the knees. It's design makes it move more organically like natural muscle with a streamlined shape to make it more maneuverable.
Cache: One Hundred Metal Gear Rays Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
9. BAWS MT (Armored Core): Boxy shaped bipedal mech that can be equipped with various detached weapons mounted in its arms or back including vehicle sized anti-armor rifles, machine guns, grenade and rocket launchers as well as physical shields and designed to fight in small squads, not alone.
Cache: One Hundred BAWS MT with 50 MT Rifles, 50 MT Machine Guns, 50 MT Bazookas, 50 MT Shotguns, 50 MT Bomblet Dispensers, and 50 Solid Shields and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
10. Tokki (Overwatch): Small highly maneuverable mech equipped with jump boosters, explosive micro missiles, an active defense matrix, and twin short range rotary fusion cannons whose only practical limitation is slowed maneuverability. It also has a self destruct (and ejection) system.
Cache: One Hundred Tokki Mechs Found and a dedicated autofabricator for use, replenishment and maintenance.
Reverse Engineering or Cloning the technology would likely take decades of investment and research though YMMV. If possible, weapons can probably be swapped between BTech and non-BTech weapons but the autofabs that come with the mechs won't be able to sustain more then the hundred or so mechs they came with so sadly no spam of various weapons or capabilities in the near future.
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