Debaucherous x Division 1 (Patreon)

Commissioned by Stan Your Ground

Tags: Battletech, Waifu Catalog, MC is not a hero, “plot” and plot

If Scavenged Restoration is a more classical BT SI story and Collection is fleet rush dominance, then this story will be crossover mech battle galore. 

Commissioner asked the following mech series to be included either through SI’s effort or his enemies but scaled up/down to BT level: Battletech, Lancer TTPRG, Gundam, Code Geass, Armored Core, Warhammer 40K

-VB-

BUILD: 

Battletech (Tier 4)
Intensity 5
Stamp
Body Tune-Up
Contractor Interest 

-VB-

Setting Format

Name of world/system, name of state/region

Year.Month.Date

-VB-

Debaucherous x Division

Chapter 1

-VB-

Cooperland, rimward periphery

3020.04.22

I stretched my back as I finished my minimum work of the day. I set the pickaxe down and back into my inventory as I began my walk back home. 

And just as I started that, I heard my phone ringing. Which shouldn’t be possible because I was at least five kilometers inside of a giant mountain and the phone was a Company Phone, not one that was connected to any of the local cellular networks. 

I pulled out my phone with my grime, dust, and sweat covered hands and raised an eyebrow. I answered it and made sure my face could be seen by the camera. 

“Morning, Agent Suleihan. What can I do for you?” I greeted. 

“Morning, Contractor Kor92-9. I’m calling on behalf of your Benefactor. He is calling you in for the favor you owe him.”

“Weird of him to use an Agent for this instead of contacting me himself. What does he want?”

“Hold on a moment,” my agent told me before I saw him shuffling papers from where I couldn’t see. “Your benefactor, the Seventh Baron of Gruziman, wants to see some … variety in this stagnant world. He views the current state of this universe’s humanity to be too … stereotypical. He wants to break it up.” 

“... Break it up how?” 

The bear faunus hummed as he pulled up something on his side of the call. I saw a bit of a paper poking up into the screen. “Let me just read out the contract he’s offering you. For his patronage, he wants three things from you. One, he wants you to send him ten thousand souls. Dead or alive, he doesn’t care. He already had a Patronage Hall app downloaded to your Company Phone, and that’s where you can submit your tribute to your patron. He also wants you to irreparably damage the most powerful nation closest to you. It shows that you are in the Battletech universe right now? Are you aware of your location’s history?”

“I am.”

I was on Cooperland IV, a tundra world. I knew of exactly one town in a fifty kilometer radius, and that town existed solely for two reasons: a spaceport and a local very poor quality germanium mine. Germanium was the stuff that the local human technology used to create FTL drives and had properties that weren’t the same as most germaniums found across the multiverse. 

Anyway… Cooperland IV was an isolated world that no one cared about. But it was right next to three nations: Taurian Concordat to the “south” or the rimward direction, the Tortuga Dominion (a pirate “kingdom”) to the “east” or spinward direction, and the Federated Suns to the “north” and “northwest,” corresponding to coreward and coreward-antispinward direction.

The Taurian Concordat was the most powerful “periphery” nation, but that was like saying Egypt was powerful. Yes, it was powerful in Africa, but it was nothing compared to India, China, and, especially the USA. 

And that’s what the Federated Suns was militarily. It was one of the five “Successor States” that dominated the Inner Sphere, or the center of human civilization, and possessed a military that outstripped the most powerful periphery state, the Taurian Concordat, twenty times over.

So when the agent said my benefactor wanted me to fuck over the “most powerful nation closest to me”... he wanted me to go after the Federated Suns. 

You know. 

The nation that dwarfed the next most powerful nation closest to me by a factor of twenty. 

“... He’s asking for a lot.”

“There’s no time limit.”

“Oh, sweet. And what do I get?”

“... Pardon?”

“My benefactor wants me to do him a favor. Cool. But, uh, he hasn’t done anything for me. He’s only a benefactor in name.”

“... Contractor Kor, I don’t think you are aware of how things work in the company.”

“Then explain to me in under fifteen words that even a child can understand.”

“The benefactor keeps the Company from screwing you over.”

Oh. I see. 

“Prevent it how?”

“Someone of your standing, or lack thereof, would be simply told by the Company to do a job. If you don’t, then you might get “recalled” for lack of compliance and, more importantly, lack of profitability. Your benefactor is not asking you to turn over profit, especially since you are in a piss poor universe for waifu and husbando profits, but to simply cause chaos. That’s a very generous and easy mission.”

“... My benefactor has just asked me to cause irreparable damage to a nation that has over a billion troops in just militia. That is not a generous and an easy mission.”

I saw him pinch the bridge of his nose. I also noticed that I was at the halfway point of being out of the tunnel. 

“You have Contractor Interest, do you not? That is a total of 2,500 points you will be receiving from the Company for your initial investment. That is enough points to raise an army!”

“And not an army powerful enough to beat forty-plus regiments of battlemechs. A single lowly Urbanmech could, would, and will end any Companion I can purchase for 20 points. He’s not just asking me to take down an empire; he’s asking me to build an empire.” 

Contractor Interest had a limit: no payout until my stored point count fell below 25 and only 2 points every 3 days. This limit meant I could not purchase powerful enough vessels to wage war, could not purchase powerful enough Companions to outperform any ground force, and limited my purchases of Talents and Defenses because some of those perks were over 25 points. 

And on top of that, Battletech universe was absurdly lacking in points with all Companions available for capture spread out across not jus the entire galaxy but also the entire fucking timeline! And most of those individuals were people like mercenaries, agents of the state, or state leaders. The most “numerous” type of individuals I could Stamp for points were soldiers riding battlemechs. 

“Your benefactor might pull his protection away if you choose not to accept this mission.”

I sighed. 

If getting a mission to fuck over an empire was “generous,” then I didn’t want to know what kind of shitty missions a regular Contractor without protection might get. 

“Send the contract over.”

-VB-

I pulled up my phone a little closer to my face and turned on the Slutlife Internet. From there, I went to access Sarna.net, both the best fandom wiki out there and a fandom wiki for Battletech. 

It’s been four months since I’ve found myself here in Cooperland IV, and everything I’ve done so far had been for my survival. 

I survived the first month by foraging, hunting, and trapping. I lost 10 kilograms, or around 22 pounds, during that month. When I gained my first twenty points after waiting thirty days, I used it to buy a Template of Minecraft Steve. This gave me access to everything Minecraft… just not as overpowered. 

I didn’t have the full inventory. I only had half the hot bar. Crafting remained the same, but everything had weight, though it wasn’t as much as they should as long as they were in my inventory; I could not carry five stacks of cobblestone before collapsing like I was being crushed. I did not immediately regenerate damage even after eating until I was full and then some more, but regeneration did happen and happened much more quickly than it had any right to. The blocks I placed could not disobey gravity… but it could bend the rules a little. Mining a cubic meter worth of material, whatever it may be, took more time than a few seconds, even with the right tool, but, once again, I tore through lumber, dirt, and stone far faster than most machines could. 

And punching trees hurt. A lot. 

After another month, I got a Template of Dupli-Kate, a heroine from Invincible who could make clones of herself that were psychically connected to her and each other. Which meant that I could make clones and they were psychically connected to me. And they had my powers, too. 

Which meant, even if I was a half-baked Minecraft Steve, I could theoretically make an infinite number of mining, crafting, and hauling clones. 

Oh, and baking. And farming. Because that was the core reason - after suffering for a full month of eating roots,  insects, and boiled tree bark - why I chose Minecraft Steve as my first Template. You don’t know how much you miss bread or rice until you don’t have it anymore. 

I scrolled through sarna.net until I found what I wanted to see. 

A map of the Inner Sphere at 3025 and the worlds surrounding Cooperland. And once I knew the names of the worlds and systems, I could look them up directly and see if they had any known officers I could Stamp and Capture and any mech regiments I needed to watch out for. 

The result of my search was the following: 

Capturable

Colonel Walter Hokala of the Screaming Eagles, Skepptana

Marquess of Lackland Stanton Defire, Lackland

Precentor Kiletha Trasont, Lackland

Colonel Matt Preston of First Argyle Lancers, Broken Wheel

Major General Paula Winters of the 1st Albion Training Cadre, Morven (commanding officer of Broken Wheel Combat Region)

Paula Trevaline “Lady Death,” Tortuga Prime

Helen Trempeleau of House Trempeleau, Filtvelt

Marquess of Great Gorge Losart Ulitock, Great Gorge

Precentor Paul Thyres, Great Gorge

Colonel Timothy Nels of the Dioscrui, Vackisujfalu

Enemies

Screaming Eagles, 2 regiments, Skepptana

First Argyle Lancers, 1 regiment, Broken Wheel

1st Albion Training Cadre, 1 regiment, Morven

The Dioscrui, 2 regiments, Vackisujfalu

That’s it. 

In a 100 light year radius centering on Cooperland, that was all of the confirmed capturables and units, and none of those people were Tier 3 while taking on any of those regiments would require a lot from me. 

Fucking hell, just traveling across that wide of an area and distance was not worth it. 

Which meant I had slim to no chance of increasing my budget above 25 points unless the Slutlife Company was willing to pay me 1 point for every mechwarrior I captured and sold to them. 

But why the fuck would they accept that? Mechwarriors were dime a dozen. “Kill the meat, save the metal” was the literal slogan of this universe. And the Slutlife Company’s logo was “the company fucks everyone,” including its employees, its executives, and itself. 

Hell, depending on how much they can screw me over, they might charge me to process Captured companions for things like data processing, storage, payment processing, point account fees, transaction tax, and so much more.

“...” I paused.

But what about battlemechs?

Battlemechs weren’t part of the normal catalogue’s vehicle sales but there were surely people out there who appreciated mechs, right? 

So I sent my agent an email, hoping to get an answer. 

As for right now, I needed to grow to accomplish my mission, and I had another twenty points stored up from interest payout. 

So.

I had three choices. 

A) go for another Template and hope that a scientist/engineer Template would be enough for me to either make my own mechs or equip my own army from all of the Minecraft materials I’ve been saving up.

B) buy a companion who was a scientist/engineer like Ernesti Echevalier, who was a literal mech engineer, designer, and innovator, though for a different universe with different physics. 

C) get Science Talent and make up my own shit. 

Regardless of which one I got first, I’ll eventually get them all as the months rolled by. What I got first still mattered, because with all of these clones, what I got up to first would compound.

Which meant I needed to take the option that gave me the most bang for the buck… and a single Companion or a Talent that didn’t net me engineering capabilities weren’t it. 

[Purchase Template: Ernesti Echevalier (T5 -> T4)]

Like all other Template purchases, the abilities and capabilities dropped to Tier 4, though I can raise them back up and beyond their original Tier with effort, time, and talent. 

For now, though, this was good enough. 

I had ideas.

-VB-

Current Purchases so far: 

Chapter 1

Template: Minecraft Steve (T6) - currently T4

Template: Dupli-Kat (T4)

Template: Ernesti Echevalier (T5) - currently T4