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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9704438" data-attributes="member: 87792">Random musing - the AI doesn't want soldiers. That's part of its point. I'm thinking it either recruits an existing group of hapless b or c list actors who think they've got a really good job offer (shades of Tropic Thunder) or it selects a squad of video gamers through sabre metric nonsense from a video game with non-coincidental similarities to piloting a real mech. Possibly an already existing team. Either way before the PCs start to unravel their patron you've excuses for sponsored nonsense in downtime. And the military of course doesn't really want these amateurs.And what is the mech's pseudorealistic reason for existing on the battlefield? Simple. Drone denial. For some reason any enemy drones within LoS of our mech squad overheat/go berserk/crash/get hacked/whatever. (Something to do with the AI? The silhouette giving far more profile for ECM?). Either way mechs can not be hit except by accident by guided munitions, only ballistic ones. Most of which are hopelessly obsolete. (Which means that the best anti-mech weapons are tanks from tank museums because no one's made tanks in quarter of a century)</blockquote>