hello all,
I have the nagging suspicion that I asked this like a year or 2 ago, but my forum-fu is weak and I cannot find it. So here comes the rant and question.
Dropships are not that common. They are expensive and designed to be able to do interstellar travel. All well and good. Now, mechs are also uncommon (pre-clans where everything loses its elan, chivalry and worthiness :P), and sometimes need to cover a large area. When you move 4/6 or so and the attack is 1000 km away (a short distance by planetary standards) the raid is probably over by the time you get there. That would make mechs less than ideal to cover a continent worth of assets, let alone a continent or planet. A lot of planets do not have that good rail or road infrastructure either that allows high speed (in the hundreds or thousands of MPH speed). So....
Do we have any kind of intra-planet transportation (probably air transport) that deploys mechs and is NOT a dropship? I thought this would be common for small planets, but I might be wrong.
Or maybe dropships are very common and they just use a Union of the 3 or 4 that they have laying around to hop to other places in the planet like you take a cab to a party. meaning that I am wrong about the availability of dropships in the IS and that they are relatively common.
Thanks,
Xavi