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Fan Fiction / Re: It's a family curse.
« Last post by DragonKhan55 on Today at 07:26:21 »Except that Omnimechs are more expensive, the variety of weapons means techs have to be trained and equipped to operate all armament, and that the four cited omnimechs use four different fusion reactors, two different gyros and entirely different computer suites.
But if those four are all the mechs you ever operate, it still is not too bad. Canonically in either Ngoverse 2.0 or 3.0, the Kowloon mech units that Liz eventually created standardized around three different battlemechs:
-The Enfield, 250 XL Engine with an Endo Steel Chassis
-The Black Hawk KU, 300 XL Engine with an Endo Steel Chassis
-The Centurion (not as sure of this one, memory fuzzy), 200 Standard Engine with a regular Chassis.
And Liz did like the flexibility and options that Omnitech brought to the table since it meant her mechs could be reconfigured in the field for different operations as needed. In addition, Omnitech IS expensive, as are Clan parts in general, but a lot of that expensiveness would be in the vagaries of the Clan economic system and how inefficient it is. CS has a track record of writing the Ngos as being able to do stuff with money in-universe that leaves the FedCom leadership and the Falcons speechless.
If we want to get serious about the possibility of Liz standardizing mech forces around Clan and IS Omnis though (and oh god what a spectacle that would be), I have a proposal:
200 XL Engine: Fire Falcon and Blackjack Omni
375 XL Engine: Mad Cat and eventually Ostrogoth
Two Clantech XL engines take care of your entire mech force (light scout, workhorse medium, mobile heavy) and also lets you get in later on into the heavy Omnifigher business if/when the Hue Falcons trial for the newfangled Ghost Bear fighter at the end of the 3070s.
