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>> << Not really, When I went thew Basic 12B Training ( Combat Engineer ) On the Demo Range there was a Old Sherman tank from WWII or Later as a Demo Target. with A Crater Charge and about 10% of our Combat Load We did not even Move the thing 1MM. ( please note this was Early 80's ) So it is More than Likely that SL did do Salvage, However With the Fact that most of the Conflicts of SL era were Small till the Civil war. I think that the Salvage Operations were basically Pick up the Full Mechs & any any thing of 80% or better.( meaning that only mech's that were Mostly there, along with any Weapons and Eq that was 80% there or better). Tho I will state that it is My Opinion I have No Facts to back that Up
When I was Playing Mechwarrior 4 Merc's there was a Few Missions that Happened on Hesperus 2. You needed 2 Lances of Heavy to Assault Mech's to Survive As i think that there was 2 Gauss towers with one Gauss Cannon per & i think that they were Heavy's Cannons because, ( one time i went to fight against the Mech Yard ) I had a Black Knight Hit Once and it Slagged the Mech. then the Assult Mechs came out and started trashing Every Enemy Mech that they could get with in range of.
In Battletech fiction and "fluff", factories are exactly as "hard" as the story the writer currently wants to tell requires them to be... no more, no less.
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The SLDF before the Civil War was hardly at peace. Read up on the Reunification War at Sarna. The campaign against the Periphery, particularly the Taurian Concordat, was brutal in the extreme with plenty of losses on both sides, although infrastructure losses would have been almost exclusively one-sided against the Periphery.
Hell, there's the argument that the entire existence of the Star League, was solely to preserve the Terran Hegemony's dominance over all other Great Houses, by hamstringing everyone else under the polite fiction of: "For the betterment of all mankind, for a greater future."
Granted, Ian Cameron might have actually believed in said fiction, but aside from him and Simon Cameron (2nd-to-final First Lord, before Stefan Amaris' coup), who else even bothered to be anything other than "Terra/Hegemony uber alles"?
Maybe Mother Jocasta, as a de facto First Lord to her younger brother (de jure First Lord) Jonathon Cameron in the later part of his reign, at best.
Granted, Ian Cameron might have actually believed in said fiction, but aside from him and Simon Cameron (2nd-to-final First Lord, before Stefan Amaris' coup), who else even bothered to be anything other than "Terra/Hegemony uber alles"?
Maybe Mother Jocasta, as a de facto First Lord to her younger brother (de jure First Lord) Jonathon Cameron in the later part of his reign, at best.
Other than major house campaigns, most of the fighting by 3025 is small unit skirmishes comparable to what we do in the game missions. If the FWL alone is putting out 500+ mechs per year, the great and minor houses with production capacity have to be putting out several thousand annually as a combined effort.
Old lore I read claims the remaining production just cancels out battlefield attrition,.which has allowed the status quo of the late Succession Wars to go for decades.
Old lore I read claims the remaining production just cancels out battlefield attrition,.which has allowed the status quo of the late Succession Wars to go for decades.
I'd like to point out that by the time the first succession war was over, a great deal of advanced technology, and more importantly, the understanding of how it all works had been lost. So you have this automated production facility, materials come in one end, mechs come out the other, and the company who owns it has NO idea how any of it works. The plant suffers a malfunction, or one of the assembly lines suffers a breakdown, as some part inevitably fails. As there's no one alive who knows how to fix the problem, the plant's ability to produce new mechs is either hampered or outright gutted. Add in the Second Succession War, which canonically was almost as destructive, and Comstar's false flag operations to hamper recovery throughout, and you have the state of the Inner Sphere circa 3025.
Here's something else to consider: With so much destroyed in the first two succession wars, the factories that are still functional are more important than ever for the production of war materiel, and while they are indeed hardened, and protected at all costs, it also means that you cannot dismantle one with the intention of reverse engineering the technology, as neither the companies that own the factory, nor the governments who are dependent on the weapons they produce, are willing to risk losing one.
Here's something else to consider: With so much destroyed in the first two succession wars, the factories that are still functional are more important than ever for the production of war materiel, and while they are indeed hardened, and protected at all costs, it also means that you cannot dismantle one with the intention of reverse engineering the technology, as neither the companies that own the factory, nor the governments who are dependent on the weapons they produce, are willing to risk losing one.
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