<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=207350.msg10384346#msg10384346">Quote from: King Serperior on 16-08-2014, 00:05:53</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">For political motive:  Perhaps it's a way to not go to war?  I believe that's the point of the Olympics (I know, bad example).  Really, it'd be cheaper to pay mercs than to engage in an all-out war.  Besides, it'd likely just be a few groups engaging in this.<br/><br/>That said, it's just an idea. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Paying mercs to kill each other? That's still a waste of money, when you could instead hire both sets and send them at one of your enemies.<br/><br/>On a grand scale, that's what the entire Battletech universe is - the various Successor States at war with each other, either hot with House troops or cold with deniably hired mercenary units. It just doesn't make any sense; anyone who was rich enough to afford this sort of thing would have far better things to do with their money and/or mercenaries. And unlike the Pseudo-Clan bandits, I can't think of any way to salvage the idea into something more workable.<br/><br/><br/>And speaking of Kayla, I do want to know if the less-ambitious refit counteroffer I proposed a few posts upthread is acceptable OOC before I make the pitch IC.