James also received intelligence containing information on the mecha Li John was piloting. Li John was using a tenth-generation mecha manufactured by the Alliance's Titan Company.
Of course, this tenth-generation mecha was an Alliance model. The export version certainly did not perform as well as the ones used by the Alliance Military itself.
Tenth-generation mechas had already been phased out in the Alliance, but in the Federation, they still counted as top-tier mechas.
As mentioned before, most Federation companies lacked the ability to manufacture mechas themselves. The companies capable of making them would not sell to other companies either. This left the Federation's mecha technology far behind that of the Empire and the Alliance.
The tenth-generation mecha exported by Titan Company was codenamed Tai Blade. It was a multipurpose mecha with different configurations for different clients.
James did not have the specific parameters of Li John's mecha, but that did not matter. It was only a tenth-generation mecha.
"The Pufferfish Mercenaries are making a fortune this time."
"That bastard Li John is costing me so much extra money. If I'd known the bastard was only traveling in one mecha, I wouldn't have hired an A-Class Mercenary Group." James was feeling somewhat regretful now, because the mission he had posted was an A-Class mission.
The Pufferfish Mercenaries were an A-Class Mercenary Group under the Mercenary Guild, ranked thirty-sixth in the Free Mercenary Guild.
The Free Mercenary Guild ranked groups according to the points registered from missions. One Alliance Credit Point in mission rewards equaled one point.
Credit Points were used because the Alliance currency was stable.
Over a one-year calculation period, accumulating one hundred thousand points made a group an F-Rank Mercenary Group; one million made it D-Class; five million, C-Class; ten million, B-Class; and fifty million, A-Class.
This was the