FOr a change of topic, I wonder how disability is handled/compensated for/dismissed in the BT universe? Are their any canonical examples of disabled characters? I'm not really expecting any, since SF isn't great in that regard, but perhaps physical disaiblities from exploding mechs are more common than I expect :)
Looking forward to exploring this. :)
Perhaps unsurprisingly for a setting 1,000 years in the future, BattleTech's universe has more medical capabilities than the real world. Additionally, with the game being focused on BattleMechs and the warriors who pilot them, injuries to those pilots tend to be a big deal.
The roleplaying game goes into much more detail on the personal level than the board game does. Through the RPG we know that technology has fallen across the Inner Sphere, and in some cases simple peg-leg/hook/glass eyeball prosthetics are the remedy to serious injury. There are various levels of bionic replacement available depending on access to "LosTech", and in the best case of all cloned body part replacements are possible.
It's fairly common for mechwarriors to suffer various disabilities from combat injuries, and correspondingly common for those characters to have various grades of bionic replacements. But it's not a Cyberpunk game per se, so you don't usually see people replacing perfectly good body parts. The primary exception to this of course is the elite corps Manei Dominei that do go full cyberpunk, dismissing purely biological people as "frails". But they're a villain-of-the-week and only really apply during one play era of the entire in-universe history of the game. Unfortunately for the disabled, following the Jihad there's kind of a widespread prejudice against people with bionic prosthetics due to their similarity to the horrific Manei Dominei. Prior to the Jihad, bionic replacements were widely accepted/ignored (outside of the Free Worlds League, the only place they were stigmatized prior to the Jihad).
As for canonical examples of disabled characters, I can think of a few. One off the top of my head is Subhash Indrahar, who despite being confined to a wheelchair (perhaps only in his later years, I don't believe he was disabled in his youth) he was House Kurita's spymaster and one of the most feared people in the Inner Sphere. His wheelchair even ended up being a plot device for a memorable death.