TME Industries Design List
Battletech Space/Time Sphere

   "Hail, citizens and ruling bodies of the Universe!   We here at TME Industries have been proud to provide quality BattleMechs and Combat Vehicles to the highest bidder since, well, a long time ago, and we hope that our profitable relationships continue.  We do not discriminate on race, gender, affiliation or financial situation.  Many financing plans are availiable.

    "A particular special we are proud to announce to planetary governments are effective and inexpensive DropShips, AeroSpace Fighters, and WarShips.  Be the first minor despot in your sector to have a respectable 'defense' fleet!  Put political leverage on your enemies!  Scare your friends!  Put the proven strategies of 'big-stick diplomacy' into effect TODAY!  Remember that if you don't, your enemies will and then the strategy will be 'mutually assured destruction!'

    "And we wouldn't want that, now would we..."

-excerpt from TME Industries' popular tongue-in-cheek advertising campaign

    Technology-Manufacturing-Energy (TME) Industries is a semi-nationalized corporate entity of the Weirdo Zone that produces everything from consumer goods to military equipment.  TME Industries is allowed, with strict regulation, to use the Weirdo Zone's TransDimensional Jump Portals (TDJPs) to sell manufactured products to extra-Universal governments and businesses.  All of TME's products are slightly superior to those readily availiable in the universes they are being sold in and quite within those universe's scientific and production capabilities.

    Although most of TME's products are pragmatic, common-use items such as flatware, packing containers, and packing peanuts, the most identifiable are their military products.  All were designed by TME and most were used by the Weirdo Zone Military Services at some point or another.  However, over time, they became outdated in our own Universe.  These old designs are "dumbed-down and de-teched" and sold to extra-Universal consumers, who usually accept these designs as high-quality goods that are relatively rare and very valuable.

    TME Industries' coordination centers operate hand-in-hand with Weirdo Zone Exploratory Services (WZES) bases in the target universes.   These bases are usually set in out-of-the-way star systems of no tactical or resource value.  TME accepts orders from sales centers set up across the target universes and produces the ordered products back in our Universe.  These products are then warped to the coordination centers in the target universes.  From the centers they are transported by nondescript unmarked freighters (extensively modified with WZ defensive equipment) native to the target universe to the sales centers.  The cash recieved in the sale, worthless in our Universe, is exchanged for bulk resources that are warped back to our Universe.

    Native governments are often extremely inquisitive about TME Industries, but none of their spy operations work out.  If they do happen to find the coordination centers, any forces they send to exact tribute are totally annihilated by superior WZES forces.  If they are persistent, they will find that the base has ceased to exist and has left no trace of its existence except for a scrap of paper announcing that it has "moved to a new location to be announced in the future."  No such announcement is ever forthcoming.

    This is a list of the military products sold in the Battletech Time Space Sphere.  Silhouettes are provided to familiarize potential users with the design (and can be downloaded and printed out for use as tactical representations).

    <REALITY CHECK:  I've been designing these things since 1989.  Yes, there is a lot of them.  Please do not tell me I have no life.  I already know this.>

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