MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries, Welcome to the year 3015! It’s a great time to be alive. Humanity has colonized thousands of star systems, warfare is everywhere, and heavy war machines known as BattleMechs dominate the future battlegrounds. It’s a dangerous job for elite pilots like you, but isn’t that why you’ve come here in the first place? If you want to blow things up, wreck havoc, and make some money on top of it all, step right in!