suddenly imagining 'Regular Mech Reviews'
"The GM MDG-1A Rakshasa: for when you want to induce the animal terror response of staring down a Timber Wolf, if they squint hard, and have no IFF. A machine that says 'I will never matter, but that's okay, because nothing matters.'"
"RAKSHASA: because you get a fusion-powered BONER thinking about the POWER of the Clans, but you live on a Davion dirt-farm planet that can afford one new combine harvester per decade, and need something to look at while you imagine an elemental pinning you to a wall."
"The Rakshasa is what you get when a bunch of New Avalon undergrads look at grainy footage of Clan mechs in action, and decide 'hey, we've got Catapult parts AND Marauder parts! we could build one of those!' just before hitting a lungbuster bongrip of Capellan March Green."
"The thing about imitative design, we've seen this so many times, is you can mimic form all you damn well please, but if you imitate without understanding, you end up with the battlemech equivalent of twelve kids who all brought a hydrogen peroxide volcano to the science fair."
@hystericempress i can hear these in his voice
