So, now that Era Report 3145 has not only confirmed that Niops has lost any battlearmor/PA(L) production facilities, and has assigned them the Periphery RAT with a -1 modifier (same as the other little Periphery powers), anyone care to speculate on what kind of production, and what likely designs, Niops has been able to recover by the 3130s-3145 range?
i'd love to speculate.. but i don't have the Periphery RAT's with which to base my speculations on. :(
i would imagine that Niops is now limited to whatever they can buy/steal/salvage the same way other small periphery nations are, though i would hope that the remains of their once mighty workshops could at least be up to the task of building spare parts.
hmm.. we know in the past Niops could build copies of SLDF mechs. even after their workshop based industry got damaged so badly, why couldn't they be able to produce mechs still, just at a less complex tech level? they should be able to build Primitives at the very least. those should require less resources and less work to build than SLDF level stuff.
something on par with a Primative TDR-1C Thunderbolt should be easily within their reach.
i would hope however that they still have some SLDF tech units tooling around to provide backbone to their forces..