Inbredmartian
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150 years in the future some desperate yet utterly ruthless Catachan general is trying to take a planet so decides to just start airdropping Catachan Flora and Fauna on the planet and just implementing a lockdown
Battletech Welcome to the Jungle
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PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
SLDF didn't drop the bioweapons, Amaris forces did and they did it because otherwise they would have to fight a regiment worth of rebels, for which they would need to pull regular forces from elsewhere and that option simply wasn't feasible.
Kitsunedarkfire
New member
That and they where just evil bastards.
Speaker4thesilent
Crazed Deplorable
The Rim Worlds Republic is what you get when spite is the primary deciding factor for government officials.
Simonbob
Well-known member
There;s a reason they needed the largest, most powerful empire in human history to keep them in power.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Also says a lot the couple amaris's in power who wanted to fix shit died shortly after they started that
Crazyone47
Active member
While how the Periphery was treated by the Star League and Great Houses is an explanation for why they had spite, their actions are unjustifiable
Speaker4thesilent
Crazed Deplorable
The Amaris family really doesn’t have that excuse. They got much better treatment than the other Periphery powers. To the level that the Star League restored them to power after a revolt that damn near overthrew them.
No, the Amarises had a snake pit as a court and seemed to view that as a feature, not a bug. Everything else flows from that.
bobnik
Memetic Warfare Specialist
The Amaris family originated on Terra, moving out to the RWR shortly after an assassination attempt on a Cameron Director of the Terran Hegemony. Don't remember if it was successful. The head of the house got married to the then-ruler of the RWR, and somehow they left the rulership to Amaris whem they died. Somehow. They do not ever seem to have been nice people.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
not even married. just a lover of them and said head of state lack kids. oh and Jacob Cameron aka he who made the mech a thing survived
bobnik
Memetic Warfare Specialist
Yeah, I didn't remember whether it was him or his father Richard Cameron I who Amaris was involved with. Richard died of a heart attack at age 45, which even today would be weird.
Blasterbot
Well-known member
he is definitely the kind of man to refer to himself as such. top kek. just look at that swarthy carpet of arm hair.
Jacob Cameron, Mr Funky Fresh in the flesh. The assassination attempt was probably orchestrated by the members of the Amaris clan he cucked.
Which was probably all of them. Just look at that beast, the literal definition of a sexual tyrannosaurus.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Hey he got the mech to be a thing he can get a lot of slack cut as a result
Blasterbot
Well-known member
his belief in his own hype is so legendary it made mecha happen.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
The early Mackies indeed where meh but it's the impact it had on the battlefield and especially interstellar geopolitics where it shone
.IronSun.
Member
It's even better than that. They brought in a media darling to draw attention as the pilot, carefully staged every part of the public demo to maximize the theoretical kill count against SDLF equipment, publicized the HELL out of it, and then declared the Mackie proprietary SDLF tech so the house lords would all geek and waste their military R&D and Procurement budgets into copying Big J's new hotness.
Either that or The Main Man wanted big stompy robots like in his cartoons, sank his political pull into justifying it, and then told everyone he wasn't sharing and to get their own damn toys like a responsible and mature adult. For a man who subsisted solely on Tennessee whiskey and Grizzly bear liver it could honestly go either way.
Either that or The Main Man wanted big stompy robots like in his cartoons, sank his political pull into justifying it, and then told everyone he wasn't sharing and to get their own damn toys like a responsible and mature adult. For a man who subsisted solely on Tennessee whiskey and Grizzly bear liver it could honestly go either way.
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Doomsought
Well-known member
Why not both. The big guy wanted big stompy robots, then the intel boys realized they could deal a lot of damage by spinning into something more effective than it is, because the hegemony could afford the waste while its neighbors could not.
Kataphraktos
New member
The Amarises were restored to power precisely because they voluntarily agreed to join the Star League and the SLDF only invaded the RWR to stomp on those who disagreed with that. The Rimworlds state itself was still shafted like the rest of the Periphery by being made a non-voting territorial state regardless.
Cameron and the SL were just plain dealing in bad faith with regards to their peaceful attempts at gobbling up the Periphery pre-Reunification War.