Dactarik

everybody forget who put the bullet into aisling

he got his leg always connected with a port; while he uses it for walking

iirc its maintained with vulcan reserves.

she is a journeywoman, she is commited in a narrow specialization and see everything else as a travesty. same with gloriana, she see things in terms of how far from perfection they are.

my head canon says she was early 20's. after all she was fully fledged novice mech designer

because those that bash the wall, can bash every wall

every customer of training living mechs can use the MSTS. plus any military that uses living mechs. so far, it has been explicitly stated that the larkinson clan and the hexers have their regular troops using it and implicitly implies other militarirs have also access to it

and while you said is true; soo far physical mundane substitutes do not have enough weight (concept-wise) to facilitate the pact. soo far the alternatives have been high lvl energies (fire energy with the dominion of man)(wood with lannie)

iirc the carmine system was simply the physical medium that facilitates the metaphysical connection between the pilot and the mech. the pact itself is a binding ritual that permanently join the pilot with the mech ves used a blood sharing system because the concept of blood was the most aligned for such permanent pacts. after all its the pact itself that lets the pilot to pilot the mech, not the physical system.