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[mechwarrior-rose]

𝕄𝕖𝕠𝕨𝕕𝕪

It's what you Canopians greet each other with, right? Why the funny looks? Aw, hell, someone set me up with that bit, huh?

Rum and cola, if you would. Thanks kindly.

Well, yeah, I guess my accent gives it away. I ain't from around here. I might sound like a Taurian, but that's from spending too much time around a busted-up merc back on Solaris. I used to be pretty uptight before she loosened me up and shook me out. Damn, could she sling a PPC.

You keep peekin' at this tattoo out the corner of your eye like you're scared I'll bite if I catch you. Ain't you ever seen a Ghost Bear before? Maybe not this far rimward, I reckon. Well I ain't no Ghost Bear no more. Free agent now.

Speakin' of which, I hear this is the place to go if a body might be lookin' for work of a more under-the-table nature. The kind suited to a free agent like myself, quiaff? And maybe I'll cut you a discount if you've got any information on that merc I mentioned. Rides a beat-up Marauder. A polite person might say her manner of speech is a rarified patois of Taurian English, but perhaps it'd be more accurate to say she talks like she crawled out of a possum's asshole.

Welp, all I can do is ask. Thanks for the drink, feller. I best be movin' on.

[This is a BattleTech RP account. All OOC is in brackets, like this paragraph. I won't give precise demographics for my real-world self here, but suffice to say I'm a resident of North America old enough to have teenage kids who play BT themselves.]

[Fiction posts under #bearclaw rose for Rose and #sheltertech for Shelter. Posts for the shared Clan Invasion project are under #REVIVALposting.]

[un-x]

One of my favorite retro pixel art tropes, the neon wireframe or schematic look, comes straight from the Tektronix 4010, a 1970s CAD computer whose vector display could draw permanently to the screen without using memory, enabling extremely high resolution line graphics.

[kasperl-ruprecht]

It's a look I mimicked for a Stormcrow I made.

[dapperapples]

Me when my jumpjets were critted last turn (I forgor)

[tobinatorr]

Death Commandos actually get two 'mechs: the latest hotness, and a daily driver.

[safetycgreen]

Warhammer IIC (I think)

[safetycgreen]

Battletech pirates make less sense the more I think about them.

how are they moving? how do you get millions of dollars worth of high end military equipment and industrial scale hardware be economically incentivesed to use all of that to go shoot some dirt farmers? how can no one track the spacecraft? how do you make money when your sister organization, mercenaries, barely get by with zero black market tax? All that added, how in Blake's name are there so many?

[ips-northstar-official]

I’M STILL ALIVE BITCHES

CAN’T KEEP ME DOWN

HAHAHAHAHAAAAA

//[UNCLE]

///PIRATE RADIO FOREVER///

[vexwerewolf]

"y'all mind if i start posting again"

Actually it is forbidden

[ips-northstar-official]

AH SHIT PACK IT UP FOLKS

//[UNCLE]

[amedalak]

A vapor wave/city pop inspired scheme. Was also practicing edge highlights and shading.

[sleepdeprivedmint]

Hound coming back from a mission on foot to her mech:

“Who- who the fuck gave my mech a parking ticket???”

[xeansicemane]

One of the funny things about people acting surprised about Mechsploitation developing as a genre is that the ingredients have always, always been endemic to the mech genre as a whole.

Battletech, for example: The clans get it in their heads to develop lighter, faster mechs. And heck, why not try directly neurally interfacing the pilots? Boom, the protomech is born. If you're getting spicy with it why not put it down on all fours?

The Procyon, lovely. Missing a tail but solid design otherwise. Oh shoot the pilots can't run the thing properly because being quadrupedal messes with their self identity.

No trouble! Give 'em the puppygirl drugs.

a drug named Feralize, which makes it easier. As its name indicates, the highly addictive drug turned the users feral and more aggressive. Despite its success, there are no indications than any other Clan used it later.

(From Sarna.net)

See! Just turn 'em into dogs full time and it's fine.

Just give some Clan commander a leather kink and you've got mechsplo.

[tinierpurplefishes]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[ross-hollander]

I'm never one to...

...nitpick a good story over the realism, least of all one so grandly over-the-top as Battletech. However- I do think there's one area in particular, or one that's recently come to mind, that it is lamentably inaccurate in: why is nothing named after anyone?

Now, of course, there are Rommels and Pattons and for some reason Hoovers and suchlike- but what I mean is, I'd expect there to be an RZN-24 Urizen or a HNS-009 Hanse or suchlike. But usually they get, at most, a singular WarShip. Even Anastatius- just the one ship. With BattleMechs rolling off the lines, why stick with just ships? Quite honestly, I'm surprised there isn't a GRYD-28 Gray Death, with all the goodies the Helm mission unearthed- surely there were some 'mechs in there, or made with its tech, that were just dying for a punchy name.

The one I can, notably, actually brush off is the lack of a Kerensky: the Sphere didn't care for him and the Clans probably revere him too much to put his name on a 'mech. But with egos running so high in the Sphere and beyond- and, quite frankly, so many confounded war machines to be named -I'd really imagine that self-congratulatory namings would come by the bushel.

[sakhanweaver]

Star Adder Nova Quasar Keshik by Jeff Laubenstein

[sakhanweaver]

"Yes we build the best mechs, and produce the best warriors, and have the most aura out of any clan, and have the most desirable sexual traits. It is not my fault everybody is like, obsessed with us."

-ilKhan Leo Showers in a 3051 Chatterweb interview via Clan Diamond Shark on why the Smoke Jaguars are so hated

[tinygiantplasticmonsters]

Last of my davion assault guard lance, an Iron Cheetah (I beleive an L variant with the HAG-40) in the old blue with red/white pinstripe scheme. Stl by sir mortimer bombito, print by afterdark prints.

[hotdoghowitzer]

So I was playing Minecraft a few months ago, in a forest. And the wolves kept spawning in the goddamn trees. So I asked, rhetorically, ‘Why are the wolves spawning in the goddamn trees?!’. My boyfriend’s answer, ‘Timber Wolves’ was funny in an of itself.

But in my mind’s eye, I saw this.

100% derp.

I’m going to bed.

[hotdoghowitzer]

Because this is still damn funny. 

[chicks-dig-giant-robots]

We had our ten year wedding anniversary last year and this is still funny