Refit Facilities

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BattleMech Triage Goes Mainstream
[24 January 3071; MercNet] Since the onset of the Succession Wars our militaries have learned to make do with the scraps of battle, learning the jury-rig and tape together the weapons needed to keep fighting, to survive. A handful of military industries survived the wars, but not all of the technologies that had blossomed during the golden years of the Star League. The recovery of the Helm memory core reversed the decline, and the spread of knowledge and technology was rapid and complete, to the point where the adults of the 3070s live in an era of cyborgs and WarShips and legions of brand-new BattleMechs.
The growth of technologies not even dreamed of during the Star League has spread to the point that even now, with the horrendous expenditures being cast during the war against the Word of Blake, the salvagers of the past have become the tinkerers of the present.
Across the Inner Sphere a phenomenon known as the refit yard has sprung up, a series of facilities that accept damaged BattleMechs and use pre-planned packages to repair and upgrade them to new and even more dangerous specs. At first they were simple upgrades—advanced lasers for older models, modification of that sort—but now the process has evolved to the point where the refit yards can transform a BattleMech from damaged parts to a machine its producers would barely have recognized.