<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/QraZAZ2.jpg)<br/><div align="center"><strong>Rosalinde Kohls</strong><br/>Foreign Assets Specialist, Glitzern Co.</div></div><strong>Tranta, Lübeck, Lübeck System, Hanseatic League</strong><br/><br/><strong>"Consider the implication explicit, then.  Aerofighters are also part of the offer.  Not all of you are trained Mechwarriors, after all.  Thomas?"</strong><br/><br/>Compliantly, Thomas flicked a few displays on his tablet, and the trideo player lying dormant on the table flickered to life.  Wireframes constructed a series of images, their outlines familiar to any studied Mechwarrior: a<em>Panther</em>, a<em>Javelin</em>, a<em> Commando</em>, a<em>Valkyrie</em>, and then one still image depicting a<em>Sholagar</em>and a<em>Sparrowhawk</em>.<strong>"To answer your second question,"</strong>Frau Kohls continued mildly,<strong>"we simply don't have the chance to offer you a wide selection -- we aren't the Successor States, with Battlemechs lying around that we can simply hand out to worthy soldiers.  These are machines my people have managed to salvage and refurbish over the past several years that have not found an easy place in our own armed forces -- retrofitted to work with parts and suppliers more commonly found out in the Periphery.  Make no mistake, though: these machines are just as combat-capable as their counterparts you would find in the Inner Sphere.  In your skilled hands, perhaps even more so.</strong><br/><br/><strong>"With that said, of course, once you are signed and in the field, our factory stores will be open to you as they are to all parties, both for sale of salvage and for purchase of new equipment.  Perhaps even new Mechs, if you prove particularly profitable-- but let's not get -too- ahead of ourselves."</strong><br/><br/>To her side, Commander Werner huffed slightly.  Frau Kohls either did not notice this or chose not to acknowledge it, waiting to see if there were any other queries from the mercenaries.