And a friendly reminder, I'm really looking for some help with creating unique characters. They do not have to be existing canon characters (I expect most not to be). Since I'm not doing fluff, there's not a whole lot to them, but a name, faction, skill, 'mech or other unit, SPAs and who they are for (affiliation).
'Mech/unit can be an already canon unit, or give me a short description of what it is (move medium lasers to front, drop LRMs for SRMs, etc). As long as it's enough I can build it, I can convert it.
Affiliation can be entire faction, or a brigade, or a specific regiment.
(Review/comments on the rest is great too! Just wanted to point out the "fun" part...)