The bonds system feels weird and out of place for lancer. It's mostly just a reimplementation of Forged in The Dark with rules that don't really tie in well with lancers base rules.

The bonds themselves also have powers that don't seem to fit the Lancer setting and the book itself just says to hand wave those and call them "super advanced scif fi tech"

It feels just sort of cheap compared to the rest of the book and was a real disappointment for me.