Trivia / An Entry with a Bang!

• Defictionalization: The BattleTech game exists in the Clancyverse. Entire teams of researchers and analysts work on distinguishing what's real and what was Game Balance or Authorial Fiat.
  • Earth's Planetary defense force, as mentioned above, are officially named the Global Defense Initiative
  • The first Earth-born 'Mech factories and design labs are in Japan. Naturally, the very first Earth-made Battlemech would be none other than a Gundam. GDI later deploys GMs.
    • In itself only possible through making a 'Frankenmech' of a Shadow Hawk chassis over Hunchback legs. All they had to do afterwards was to remove the shoulder gun mount and change the head styling. The 'bubble-head' GM is a 50-ton part-by-part knock-off, and fittingly quite mediocre.
    • Japan's entry into the Mech-developed field rather than mere research was itself driven by realizing the pirates that attacked them had an intact Stinger LAM. Cue the formation of a new super-conglomerate to pick apart that technology. The GM and VF projects were situated in Hakone.
• What Could Have Been: Originally, the authors were discussing whether to go with C-Earth or Real Life Earth. The Non-canon Stories thread also has some posts that will not make canon. The discussion threads, if you dare brave them, also have older versions of posts that made it to the Story Only thread.