The Succession Wars saw superstition, improvisation and ducttape become essential components in maintaining many battlemechs, a reality also observable in their cockpits:
- A rubber mallet on a flexible safety lanyard
- A mirror mounted in such a fashion that a side display is easier to see
- A hip flask with safety lanyard and drinking straw
- Three hand fire extinguishers strategically placed around the cockpit with ducttape and insulation foam
- A breaker box on the neurohelmet connectors
- A lightbox for paper maps screwed to a side wall
- A thermometer
- An automatic syringe mounted cannula first under a flip-top lid
- A fold-up fly screen under the cockpit hatch
- A key de-activated “theft protection”, that has a spring-loaded blade shoot up from the pilot seat 30 seconds after someone sits down in it