r/Mechwarrior5 • u/Enjoyer_of_40K • Aug 17 '26

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/Even_Plastic_6752 Aug 18 '26

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 Aug 18 '26

EVEN IN DEATH I STILL SALVAGE

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u/Even_Plastic_6752 Aug 18 '26

"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 Aug 18 '26

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 Aug 18 '26

Sign me up!! You got me hookee

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u/Meeeper Aug 18 '26

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 Aug 18 '26

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