>>96006198
>Well your first problem is that Guns didn't stop Knights. Pikes stopped knights. Guns came later to break up pikes. That led to the Pike and Shot era.
that isn't true either. pikes had been around for thousands of years before knights.what changed was the centralization of European economies and the twilight of Feudalism; why rally wealthy landowners to fight when you can use banking and nationhood to get a thousand regular guys to fight instead?

but, I think that's our answer.
In a setting with Space Feudalism and backwoods colonies, mechs are cool because they let a small adventurous wealthy elite enforce their authority directly.