Let's start this off with a direct quote from Mechanic:
> What do you think, how much does human life cost? Not much, I guess. But what’s even more surprising for me, it’s the contemporary art market. The value of art pieces by renowned artists grows every year. They are definitely talented, but the more you look at it, the more it seems that anything can be art. It can be a Rothko painting, a displaced urinal, or a bunch of garbage. However, in my opinion, the most amazing pieces of art are weapons, starting from the melee – which is already universally recognized as such and can be found in many museums – to an old AK or M4, which are beautiful as they are. But a weapon only transcends to true art when it becomes unique, one-of-a-kind, in the hands of someone who knows how to use it, who modifies it for his own needs, creating a masterpiece worthy of being displayed in the best of museums. Bring me one such masterpiece, an M4A1 with an NT4 FDE silencer, rifle length MK 10 handguard, REAP-IR thermal scope, and a 60-round magazine. Ergonomics should be more than 40, the recoil sum less than 250, and the weight of 5 kg or less.
TL;DR: He's talking about art. He wants a gun that's an art piece.
Then you hand him this fugly thing.
And he says:
> Makes me want to put it on a showcase display. Masterful work, it truly did turn out to be a masterpiece.
… and gives you an actual piece of art, the Space Trooper.
This has been bugging me for as long as I've played the game. You'd expect the last quest of the series to be… something endgame. Anything but a KAC vertical foregrip and the MK10.
