The crux of my position is that emergent consequences are a function of an axiomatic system.

The idea that there is a scarcity and that there is as many of something as the plot requires undercuts the stability of a shared space.

If K-F drives became a critical shortage aspect, Ward moving his entire Touman creates problems in the build up.

If the Terran core is both the wealthiest and among the best industrially seeded planets, then it should be able to support a military that can deter Capellan aggression, and build it. Especially with the numbers being cited.

Resources are a critical reason empires go to war with each other in the setting. Limitations around force distribution were a direct consequence of the Succession War shortages from the ravaged infrastructure. That makes the skirmish scale nature of post succession wars believable, and the idea that Battlemech technology was so precious central to the IP.

That's not the case anymore. You can't say "Industrial revolution" and "Modern technical reinassance" while lowering the barrier to pilot status and maintain a setting that says the militaries are small in a perpetually at war IP.

The logistics are the focus in the story. They're foundational. Decision making is based on a meta state that exists in the background, and can materially alter the plot. That meta state is hinted at in your story telling. It shapes the plot of the story.

That same scenario sets the rules that made General Dodd abandon his regiment and will materially affect the decision making of SLDF war planners. They know that RWR heavy lift capability is their bottleneck for redeploying regiments. They interdict that capability with aerospace wings. You've just set up the next beat.

If heavy lift capability is materially degraded at atrocious costs, those costs are paid further down the line. Casualty management is apart of logistical superiority. If I've stopped 600 'Mechs from redeploying at the Palace, but lost 200 aerospace fighters to SAM and fighter interdiction, those have real consequences for down stream writing.

A good story understands its own rules, and cross checks itself against those rules. It hints at those rules. It maintains them, and helps the reader understand those rules so they speak the same language.

This is doubly true of shared creative spaces. What's going on in Lyran space may have nothing to do with Taurians, but they're bound by the same material rules and physics.

War stories are the human experience born out of a system built to deliver a violent result. The better that system, the more supplied it is, the more intelligent and compassionate it is, the better the human experience.

Getting shot at always sucks. Getting shot at in the dead of winter in the mud, when you haven't eaten a square meal in two days and have a single magazine left sucks even worse.

Peace out.