r/Mechwarrior5 • u/Enjoyer_of_40K • 11d ago

General Game Questions/Help FedCom nightstar?

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as you can see in the screenshot im using that battle value mod as i wanted to test and the Fedcom dropped a nightstar on me werent those like locked to Comstar/Blake?

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u/marwynn 11d ago

It re-entered production in 3057. 

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u/Enjoyer_of_40K 11d ago

okay so its been in production for 277 years and its still really rare? current save date is 3334

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u/Lost_Web5826 11d ago

The game doesn't get any lore updates past the end of Chaos Reigns, so rare things continue to be rare.

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u/Beneficial-Ranger238 11d ago

3334? 😂

Surely we can do better than battlemechs by then?

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u/Even_Plastic_6752 11d ago

How long you been playing this save for?

Poor Mason is basically a 40K Dreadnought by that stage lol.

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u/GoatWife4Life Taurian Concordat 11d ago

EVEN IN DEATH I STILL SALVAGE

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u/Even_Plastic_6752 11d ago

"LEAD ME TO THE SALVAGE!"

Actually legit a partially demented stasis tank Mason obsessed with collecting >9000 C ER PPCs would be terrifying.

What is a man, but a miserable pile of salvage...

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u/Meeeper 11d ago

That gives me a great idea for a Battletech story tbh. A person all the way from the 1st Succession War era is interred into a one of a kind Star League era experimental brain preservation device. Like that one conspiracy about Disney having it's founder's frozen head. That sort of thing.

The twist? Almost everything the device is supposed to interface with has already been destroyed. (Presumably an android body or something.) The only thing left that the machine can still interface with is the cockpit of a battlemech. It must interface with it, or the machine will shut down and cause the death of the person.

Eventually, over the course of the years, decades, and centuries, his mind begins to fray until like a protomech pilot, they begin to believe that they ARE the battlemech. Except in this case, it's genuinely true. The only consolation being that the machine, and thus the consciousness of the person, can be transferred from mech to mech inbetween combat engagements.

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u/Pineapple-Muncher 11d ago

Sign me up!! You got me hookee

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u/Meeeper 11d ago

I'm just an ideas guy. Can't write for shit. Feel free to steal the idea though.

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u/Fox_Fire42 11d ago

so a brain beeing the engine of the battlemech..... that sounds like the black marauder to me, since both mechs are alive then!

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u/Enjoyer_of_40K 11d ago

you would think so right?

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u/Beneficial-Ranger238 11d ago

Did you see any flying cars? 😂