But alas, it is not only the fault of DP9's licensors that the IP never gets anywhere these days.
DP9 really dropped the ball when those who worked for the company suddenly decided they wanted to be a production company and went on the rpg equivalent of radio silence for two or was it three years, while not leaving anyone to handle the rpg side of things. When they finally decided they wanted to be rpg designers again. They though they could disappear for two three years and run a successful rpg company while releasing nothing new in those three years. By then fans like myself moved on to other rpg companies.
As well to me at least it seems like they just leap on any new thread. Their version of the Silicore rules kept changing. Now it seems the guys in charge think that majority of the fanbase will want to shell out money for their Heavy Gear Blitz mintaure game and other similar miniature games. DP9 is a weird company to say the least with those in charge or at least those with the money making some of the strangest decisions. " We disappeared from the rpg scene for 2-3 years lets not release new version of our rpgs, instead miniature rpgs". While also expecting no one to do anything with Battletech during their hiatus from rpgs.
Basically, all the people who were really visionary at DP9 left, or were on the way out, by the time the Silhouette CORE rules were released. Badly. Half-formed. Probably best to just move on. At that point, there was
one guy left from the original group. From my understanding of things, he took over the company, and still runs it. The Blitz minis game is the only real moneymaker they have. Wasn't Heavy Gear licensed to Steve Jackson Games for a moment in time? And then there was at least one other gaming company that got the IP... nothing ever happened with that. There were two video games, a CG-animated TV show (!) and then nothing until the Blitz game came out. And then it came out again. And again, and now we're at it again...
Never got a compelling end to the HG storyline. Ah well.