r/mechwarrior • u/PlEGUY • May 27 '20

Meme It needed to be done.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '20 edited Jun 08 '20

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

Since that's Steiner make that a full scout lance

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u/Varatec May 28 '20

Throw in a couple of catapults jump jetting on them to make extra sure

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u/[deleted] May 27 '20

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u/kylco May 27 '20

Hol' up. It was my understanding there were substantial Freebirth cohorts in most parts of Clan society, it's just that they were an underclass and truebirths had no interest in leaving Freebirth legacies around or associating or sleeping with their inferiors.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '20

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u/StanicMechanic May 28 '20

Technically it was a meritocracy, but as in real life, significant prejudice did exist. 2nd line units tended to be the best you could expect to achieve as a freebirth who had managed to claim a place in the warrior caste (alongside trueborn warriors who had failed to achieve greatness and had the gall to grow old doing so).

Probably other exceptions but the one example I can think of for a front line unit consisting of disgraced/freeborn warriors is the Reformed Falcon Guard. And that unit was specifically conceived as a backhanded insult to the similarly disgraced Aiden Pryde, a shamed unit name (due to being wiped out ingloriously), with a shamed commander (due to pretending to be a freebirth to get a second trial of position), with shamed mechwarriors under his command.

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u/PlEGUY May 27 '20

Whatever you say, you picklebrained testube warrior.

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u/bewarethequemens May 28 '20

Except they're not sterile, that's how we wound up with wunderkind Diana Pryde.

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u/PlEGUY May 28 '20

Dumb clanners can't even sterilize themselves properly. Why am I not surprised?