Why was this game never ABOUT being a pirate?

[Ben G]

Since a lot of Pirates start as legit Mercs or house units gone rogue, there should probably have been some that had a moral compass but lived outside the law.

Now I need to go start a new career-mode game, rename my unit to "The A-Team", and edit all the starting pilots...

 

[Packrat]

All organizations in the Periphery are thieves and marauders, but when they are in control of a planet, they are a "Local Government" but when they don't have a base of power, they are labeled as pirates by those who are in control.

I'm not saying it is the right way to look at it, however everything that seems to go on in the Periphery is very sketchy no matter who is in charge or what they are doing.

That sounds more like everyone in this franchise rather than something unique to the Periphery.

 

[Kereminde]

Now I need to go start a new career-mode game, rename my unit to "The A-Team", and edit all the starting pilots...

Real 'MechWarriors do it to recreate 'Mason's Marauders'.

Edit: Embedded source.

 

[MeiSooHaityu]

That sounds more like everyone in this franchise rather than something unique to the Periphery.

That is very true.

 

[Deaghaidh]

That sounds more like everyone in this franchise rather than something unique to the Periphery.

BT is interesting, in that the overall state of the universe is quite grim, but the stories told within it are very often straight-up "Noble underdog overcomes despicable villain" types.

 

[Packrat]

BT is interesting, in that the overall state of the universe is quite grim, but the stories told within it are very often straight-up "Noble underdog overcomes despicable villain" types.

I like that, actually. BT stories are usually about good people in bad situations. Having them be good people means you have someone to root for (an easy trap to fall into is to spend so much effort making everyone morally grey that the end result is that no one is likeable), and for a franchise that needs to remain open-ended, the easiest way to make sure you never run out of bad situations is to make the entire setting a bad situation.

 

[Kereminde]

. . . that said it's easy to go overboard and wind up somehow managing to concentrate protagonists into one or two places and give the vibe "these are the good guys" even while they see the Red Wedding and go "we can top that".

 

[Packrat]

. . . that said it's easy to go overboard and wind up somehow managing to concentrate protagonists into one or two places and give the vibe "these are the good guys" even while they see the Red Wedding and go "we can top that".

Execution has sometimes been lacking.

For example, there are still Capellans. The FedSuns clearly need to step up their executions.

 

[Kereminde]

Execution has sometimes been lacking.

For example, there are still Capellans. The FedSuns clearly need to step up their executions.

It'd have been easier if they could have counted on help from the Free Worlds League. (Stop laughing.)