The principles of other common BattleTech equipment such as Gauss rifles, directed-energy weapons and sonic weaponry are also understood, though as yet undeveloped.
The fusion reactors that power many BattleTech machines are the subject of current research, while the myomer muscles used to animate robotic articulations exist as electroactive polymers. BattleTech conveys a sense of realism through a depiction of future technology that, though a thousand years removed from that of the modern world, has much of its foundation in accepted science.
