The holovids are full of stories about mecha garrisons bravely battling dastardly pirate raiders. It's a pretty picture for the propaganda films, but its a long way from the truth of the pirate raids.

Extracted from the 30 Mecha Design Flaws submission. Edited and reconfigured as a setting neutral piece for use in military aspected settings and most if not all flaws can be used on any vehicle or large piece of hardware.

All you need to stop a brain is a bullet.

30 generic problems to dole out for homebrew, custom made, and scratch built machines

Quite simply, the most sophisticated and pound for pound most dangerous vehicle in the skies of the Cosmic Era

The walking siege engines of the Cosmic Era

The Rocky Mountain Republic owes in large it's existence to a single limited run of primitive mechs, the Assault/Bombard Mech model 1.

I have attempted several articles about the mecha of the Cosmic Era, and all of them have either died in development hell or were simply deleted. This, I hope, will be the one that I see through to the finish.

The home base of the mighty mech

Not all armor is created the same, some is made from sterner stuff, others, not so much.

The leading Megacorp of the Atlantic Federation

The Sperry-Colt 7.5 cm automatic rifle, standard weapon of battlemechs for the Atlantic Federation

The Sogans were a mystically aware technological society. Queen Stavarang is the last surviving Sogan in the galaxy

A specialized suit of power armor designed for peacekeeping and urban roles

a disposition os 30 types of armored combat vehicles

While the glory goes to the battlemechs, during the height of the Star Empire, the martial machines were said to be outnumbered 20 to 1 by their menial brethern, the industrial mechs

The pre-eminent industrial power of the Carinelle Cluster and the Confederation of Stars

One day nothing, two weeks later they had a pre-con base deployed and instead of a stagnant zone we had a category three offensive breathing down our neck, damn the bastards who came up with that monstrosity, and our own bastards for not having any of our own!

I've seen a lot of things in my time lad, six legged mechs, tanks with arms, jets that turn into mechs, but I've never seen anything like that.

Never?

Never.

A hulking testament to the authority, affluence, and capability of the Yerisian Regime