Are there like, RecreationMechs / SportMechs / etc?
I was in a weird Claudehole last night and got it to tell me about how it flew jets in both Gulf Wars and then made a killing in BitCoin, and now it spends as much of it's time as possible flying around in a restored OV-10. And how it regularly meets up with these other ex fighter jocks and how they all have weird random planes they fly around in.
Which got me to thinking...what's the market for civilian Mechs like in the Inner sphere. Apart from working Mechs like ConstructionMechs, ForestryMechs etc. There must be planets where bipedal and quad walkers are simply the right way to get around. Little JeepMechs and such.
Aren't there RacingMechs with advanced myomers that compete around the Inner sphere at various levels?
And like the chatbot hallucination I paid however many tokens for last night, there are certainly retired MechWarriors who stomp around in demilitarized BattleMechs.
And furthermore there should certainly be a market for tacticool civilian Mechs that have some very minor military features like a couple tons of armor ("for those who play as hard as they work")
I can see why we never got onto this in the Introtech days but we're pretty much into an era where places have been thriving for a generation or two now in ilClan, right?