The entire design team looked dazed.
When Ves first revealed to them that he intended to design a marksman mech, they reacted with skepticism.
The current doctrine against the sandman basically amounted to deploying lots of mechs and starfighters to bombard the sandmen with as many rounds as possible!
Every defensive force relied on massed firepower and deploying lots of cannon fodder to resist the tide of sandman incursions.
Recently, the defensive forces added Dawnbreakers, Duskbreakers and Novabreakers to their mech rosters. The Dawnbreaker and Novabreaker were especially effective because they could endure a lot of hits while dishing out significant damage with their Sandbreaker rifles.
So far, no one managed to think of a more effective way to beat the sandmen. The Bright Republic and the other third-rate states being hammered by the sandmen were constrained by many limitations.
