Imperator Pax
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As an aside, I was going to make a comment about how in canon, Mechwarriors are relatively uncommon, only the reality of the succession wars has created a scenario where Mechs are less available than pilots, and the general impression is there is a certain degree of innate mechwarrior ability (You see this in the clans with their eugenics, but you also see it across the inner sphere, the Capellans take on the Lorix creed actually is more severe than the combines, and the combine takes family ties and hereditary especially serious) and thus the FedSuns also consider MechWarrior skill to be something of a hereditary traitHmm, wonder if Yvonne and the FedSuns got any footage of Gene pulling Phantom Mech shenanigans or if thats still under wraps for now.
so to wind back to Phantom MechWarrior... in the sense of recognizing what they're looking at yes. Samsonov and Hashiba to name two examples are not terrible shots them whoofing at long range range is emblematic of the advantage Phantom Mechwarrior potential provide. You basically have to be at close range or throwing lots of lead down range to hit them. Since Combine rules are proto-Zellbringen it is a very bad idea to stay at long range with one. Does Yvonne have the pieces to put that together presently? No. Does she have the connections to later? Yes. Gene is not the only Phantom Mechwarrior that the FedSuns elite know.