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The 120LY drive apparently also doesn't have the gravity limitations of all other KF Drives. It was destroyed by jumping inside a Star, which is notably rather far inside the normal jump-limit.

Hmm, there doesn't seem to be any reason that gun couldn't fire longer or shorter bursts so I'm not quite sure how it applies but it's an interesting link.

I'm not sure what you mean, a search yield a trillion different ARES cannons mostly from various games. Wikipedia has ARES rockets, an ARES APC, an ARES robotic VTOL, and an ARES spaceraft but no cannon.

For my own writing I avoid variable autocannons by making the assumption that the shells in a burst are not all the same bullet. Rather, it fires a "cartridge" of bullets which are designed so that the first few rounds don't do any damage but "soften" the armor by radiation and vibration and...

Megacorporations in BattleTech don't get as much play but what we see indicates that they're incredibly powerful and controlling, probably on par with Shadowrun. They like their monopolies and nonstandard parts so they force it on the Great Houses. ComStar is the most successful and gets the...

Yeah, that part I knew but thanks. I'd just never heard before that punching a 'mech makes it harder to repair/recycle it than shooting it and wondered where that was from.

Huh. You'd think that would be reflected in the damage they do but this is Battletech...

Why does melee not leave anything to recycle? I've never run into that explanation before.

Hmm, well the clans wouldn't have developed the tech as much that they disapproved of using. So maybe Ultra Long Tom Artillery?

Ah, battle armor artillery. I have so many fond memories of using the Centaur back in the clicky-tech days. It was a common strategy for cheap players to bring one ace battlemech, give it range boosters, and then put it in a swamp so that it could camp and peel apart all comers as they slowly...

So now reach the important question that may decide everything diplomatically. Does Colonial One have an ice cream machine?

The red as needs to be dropped as it makes the sentence awkward. And now the tech differences are coming up, smaller FTL ships vs. FTL communication. Interested to see where it leads.

"Turns out the alien language is actually English, they just have really thick accents. Also their written language is also English, we were just thrown off by how bad their handwriting is." Poor BT, they're undoubtedly thinking a small craft can't possibly travel or communicate FTL so there...

IIRC the Galactica's a bit over 4700 feet. So in the same general ballpark as a McKenna, probably just a bit larger.

In a twist, it will turn out they're the Tetatae.

Ah, well I feel dumb then.

Eh, the description of the fighter as given can't possibly describe a Sparrowhawk (which has a distinctive fork-shaped front end). Granted they have a Sparrowhawk IV but normally in BT iterations of the same design look reasonably similar. That makes me suspect they're different groups.

It almost sounds like a Visigoth but I can't see the Jade Falcons holding back and not firing on a stranger that isn't responding to their hails.