The other question...is Catachan the world of Godzilla? I joke...but is there another predator we haven't seen?
Trees unlike mechs are rooted in place and bushes and grasses bend.It's pressure per surface, the force exerted on the trees would either snap them or uproot them, the same way as blast wave can knock down BattleMechs.
No, their plan would be to ignore the planet and go look for valuable targets.So their plan if the planet is still contaminated should be to send a bunch of Solhama Elementals and mech pilots using second or third line mechs (whichever line the cached Star League machines are) with hands to retrieve any useful materials.
I reckon that the flora and fauna we have seen so far is but a 0,001% of Catachan biodiversity, as Weber's Warriors only explored the immediate surrounding of the city and some of the mines, which is small fraction of a percent of the planetary surface. Who knows what else lurks within expanses of the Terra Incognita, especially the lowlands.The other question...is Catachan the world of Godzilla? I joke...but is there another predator we haven't seen?
Which is why I wrote uproot them, as even if soil is rich with metal, it's still soil so the blast wave can uproot the trees (especially since trees are heavier than normal). Not to mention that trees themselves, despite the armored bark are still wooden, so they can snap just as regular ones. The diameter of destruction for thermobaric bomb will be narrower than in the regular forest but that only means you need a few more for the desired effect.Trees unlike mechs are rooted in place and bushes and grasses bend.
A blast wave could, the one from a thermobaric bomb won't. Thermobaric weapons generally don't destroy buildings which means the over pressure they produce is going to generally be below 10psi which is not going to uproot anything whose root structure can hold the sort of heavy trees we're talking about.Which is why I wrote uproot them, as even if soil is rich with metal, it's still soil so the blast wave can uproot the trees
I suspect the smarter ones would be happy to loot the place to ease their logistics, but even the smart Crusaders just don’t grok how much in the way of garrisons they’re going to need. Second line forces are exactly what you want for that.The clans consider SLDF technology to be second tier, and the mechs on Catchan they could be expected to find if they went looking would be inferior to SLDF mechs. Unless they find out about the restored factories there's nothing on Catchan they'd consider worth the effort and the need to decontaminate everything ensures none of them would even bother to go looking.
Dracs finding Catachan is only a matter of time at this point. The Norns are good, but they aren't perfect and there are now far too many people regularly interacting with Catachan for the beans to not get spilled.Say I wonder if we will start to see Drac competence... Call me a pessimist but The snakes have never struck me as calm enough to not launch major reprisals given what Webers done to them.
The drags always striked me as the first successor state to resort to throwing bodies at a problem to solved it. So I can see them throwing several Vega legions (or equivalent force) to establish a foothold on Catachan. Of course that probably won’t happen till they feel they have a good sense of the planet’s defenses. Then again they might decide that the dragon can afford the cost in blood to gain control over a system that can produce lostech at a level they can maintain and perhaps replicate elsewhere.of course hitting a place with warship weapons and lots of turrets is no mean feat even discounting the other defenses
Hmmm.....Dracs finding Catachan is only a matter of time at this point. The Norns are good, but they aren't perfect and there are now far too many people regularly interacting with Catachan for the beans to not get spilled.
Happily for the Lyran fighter corps, that attitude is changing.Not a bad presumption given what Lyrans think is a good fighter...
I don't think the clans had any shortage of second line equipment, they were short of people. Also while I agree they'd want to loot Catchan "eventually" between them believing the gear there to be a limited quantity of third rate gear, the presumed need to decontaminate everything before using it and of course the lack of any "glory" in looting an empty planet, I think until the Clans find out more about Catchan from Inner Sphere sources it would be at the absolute bottom of their list of possible targets.I suspect the smarter ones would be happy to loot the place to ease their logistics, but even the smart Crusaders just don’t grok how much in the way of garrisons they’re going to need. Second line forces are exactly what you want for that.
What do you base that on?It's not a place capable of reasonably growing its own food.
Claiming those worlds around Catchan, assuming it's possible would not prevent Catchan from continuing to trade with the rest of the LC. While legitimate civilian Jumpships generally don't jump into uninhabited systems there's nothing preventing them from doing that.Given the horrific cost of a direct invasion, claiming the worlds around it and preventing shipments in and out to starve it into submission might be cheaper than a direct invasion.
They were short of second line equipment in the Inner Sphere, and most of the time mechs take more serious damage than pilots. Most pilot injuries heal on their own without spare parts in a fraction of the time it takes to ship parts. It's over 160 jumps from the Pentagon Cluster to Star's End. They can also recruit Quislings like Phelan Kell who rarely have even second line mechs.I don't think the clans had any shortage of second line equipment, they were short of people.
Consumables or actual mechs? And note they'd consider the mechs found on Catchan third rate equipment.They were short of second line equipment in the Inner Sphere,
We've only seen the alpine forests. The hold fast is pretty high up in the mountains and doesn't get visited by the scary shit down below, at least yet.The other question...is Catachan the world of Godzilla? I joke...but is there another predator we haven't seen?