TechManual Proto Fiction and the Future

[Carbon Elasmobranch]

In the prologue fiction for protomechs in TM, an inner sphere corp is attempting to hammer out some kind of business plan for making the aforementioned unit type.  Would that be a hint for a near or far future appearance of IS-made protos?

[HABeas2]

Hello,

Maybe.

Thank you,

- Herbert Beas
  BattleTech
  Catalyst Game Labs