Thank you for this! Some brief feedback, fwiw:
This is pretty incredible -- I haven’t read every single page, and also I hadn’t come across Lancer before (I’m glad I have now!) --but I can see it’s an incredibly rich and thoughtful and beguiling world you have imagined.
I like how it opens, and I like how it is often written from a relatively deep ‘in-world’ perspective, so it feels like communications which might really exist in the reality you’re conjuring up. But at the same time … I kind of missed a couple of simple, very straightforward introductory paragraphs, to clearly curate what this is, and give your reader a sense of how to orient themselves? If you decided to do this, it could also double as a pitch to hook readers who aren’t familiar with Lancer. You know, like, “Lancer is a tabletop RPG of optimistic space opera, where players take the role of elite mecha pilots. The Field Guide to Mfecane is an Africanfuturist homebrew supplement” etc.
Typo I think? “Unions DOJ/HR agents” should be “Union’s DOJ/HR agents”?
Idk if this might be (a) totally obvious or (b) totally irrelevant, but aspects of this supplement remind me of Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels, i.e. trying to make sense of a benign post-scarcity utopia that is also expansionist and actually kind of militaristic. On a bit more of a tangent, it also reminded me a bit of Vicky Osterweil’s In Defence of Looting, which is a non-fiction exploration of violence and positive social change.
Thank you again for sharing!!