It must suck being an RLF member.
Mainly the likes of an MT pilot, but it must especially suck with Rusty around.
Even if we don't directly kill any MTs, the mission critical elements of our missions has 621 directly kill or affect the RLF negatively in such a way we're making stuff worse for the natives, not like another corp or the PCA. Rusty's people.
We don't know how long he's been part of Arquebus for, but it's not hard to conclude Rusty has been killing RLF members as a Vesper for longer than we've been on Rubicon.
So 621 comes along and he just starts calling him "Buddy."
And if Rusty learned from Flatwell who wasn't a Vesper but was similarly in a situation but in Schneider...
Man.
Being an MT pilot in the RLF must really suck. Like "am I literally just a pawn" suck. And your 'leader' is a recovering Coral addict.
Imagine for a second you're a hapless MT pilot and you know you're going against Arquebus. There's a likelihood you're going to see STEEL HAZE in the field. You try to look for Rusty before the sortie, but you can't find him, so you sortie in dread wondering when you're up to bat to make V.IV appear compliant to Arquebus.
So maybe the 'Buddy' schtick isn't as cynical as I think and, and it's more of a "kindred spirit" thing, since 621 isn't as "free" as the liberation front makes them out to be.
None of the named entities in Armored Core 6 are free from culpability.
