Technical readout 2866 Rise of the Scavengers

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First Generation BattleMechs Outside of Yakima, Terra, Colonel Charles Kincaid of the Hegemony Armed Forces introduced the Inner Sphere to the BattleMech on February 5, 2439. He was piloting a 100-ton prototype MSK-5S Mackie built by Skobel MechWorkds. Armed with a particle beam weapon, a medium-light autocannon and a heavy laser, he made short work of the four remote controlled Merkava Mk. VI main battle tanks that opposed him. design. Coventry Defense Conglomerate would develop the BWP-X1 Ymir prototype, also know as the “Bipedal Weapons Platform, but it would take until 2475 before the 90-ton BattleMech was a viable platform. MCK-5S Mackie Until Kincaid’s demonstration, the Merkava had long represented the best hardware the HAF could build, but Kincaid’s performance sealed its fate. The Merkava would get one last revision, the Mk. VIII in 2465, but by then it was already being shifted away from the frontlines as fast as BattleMechs became available to take its place. It would get its final taste of glory fighting in the Reunification War. By 2597 it was declared obsolete and production was ended. It is ironic to note that by today’s degraded standards, the 75-ton Merkava Mk. VIII powered by a Vlar 300 fusion engine and armed with an AC/5, LRM-15, SRM-4, and two machine guns, would far outperform the main battle tanks the Successor States now field such as the Demolisher, Ontos, or Partisan, all of which are powered by heavy and fuel-dependent internal combustion engines. Merkava Mk. VIII News of the stunning success of the BattleMech spread like wildfire through the stars, first through the Terran Hegemony then out to the fledgling alliances surrounding it. Three years later, Quarry Arms, who had worked with Skobel MechWorks on the Mackie, would produce the second BattleMech, the EMP-1A Emperor in 2442. One year later, Martinson Armaments unveiled its 45-ton Kyudo BattleMech and two years after that the 95-ton Banshee would enter the field as well built by Defiance Industries of Hesperus II, marking the first time a BattleMech was produced outside the border of the Terran Hegemony. Up until 2445, the Terran Hegemony had limited all BattleMech research, development, and manufacturing to within their own borders giving the HAF unquestioned military superiority. With envious eyes, the various House Lords fearing the might of the HAF plotted and schemed to steal the secrets of BattleMech production. The opening of a ‘Mech production facility on Hesperus II, outside of the tightly controlled border of the Hegemony, would prove to be their undoing. The Lyran Commonwealth would be the first State to make a move, launching Operation Prometheus on February 7, 2455. Although Archon Katherine Steiner had ordered the LIC to infiltrate the Hegemony and steal plans years earlier, it would have to wait until her son, Alastair Steiner took the throne before they were successful. Colonel Simon Kelswa, whose family controlled the Tamar Pact, led a daring raid on the Hegemony BattleMech production facility on Hesperus II and succeeded in stealing the plans for the BNC-1E Banshee. Known as Operation Prometheus, it marked the first time the secrets of BattleMech design and manufacture were out of the control of the Terran Hegemony. It would take until 2462 however, before the Lyrans could take what they had stolen and turn it into their own unique 4 BNC-1E Banshee However just one year later, in 2463 Coventry Defense Conglomerate would unveil the 25-ton COM-1A Commando, marking the development of the first completely original design made outside of the Terran Hegemony. The Commando would go on to be a huge success and its successor, the COM-2D, is still in production today. The Lyran Commonwealth is also implicated in both the Free Worlds League and the Draconis Combine launching independent BattleMech production projects. In 2461 agents from the Draconis Combine broke into Coventry Defense Conglomerate and stole the production blueprints for the COM-1A. Coordinator Kozo Von Rohrs awarded the blueprints to New Samarkand Armor Works who produced the 55-ton GLD-1R Gladiator seven years later, which was used to create the first BattleMech units for the DCMS. The very next year, 2462, subcontractors based on Alarion were also able to acquire a complete set of blueprints from Coventry Defense Conglomerate, taking them with them to the Free Worlds League. From there they found their way into the hands of Corean Enterprises on Stewart. However, it would take until 2470 before they were able to
uild their first BattleMech prototype, the 40-ton ICR-1X Icarus, followed on year later by the 70-ton HOR-1C Hector. In both instances, Archon Alastair Steiner ordered the entire security detail imprisoned for life and executed their commanding officers for the critical security lapses. Ymir BWP-X1 "Bipedal Weapons Platform" 90 1,212 34 2462 Commando COM-1A 25 475 12 2463 Swordsman SWD-1 40 692 20 2463 Wasp WSP-1 20 314 10 2464 Griffin GRF-1A 60 1,024 26 2465 Shadow Hawk SHD-1R 50 851 24 2467 Gladiator GLD-1R 55 1,027 27 2468 Crossbow CRS-X 60 969 27 2468 Icarus ICR-1X 40 700 20 2470 Ostwar OWR-2M 65 1,205 34 2470 Eisenfaust EFT-2 45 715 15 2471 Hector HOR-1B 70 949 24 2471 Phoenix PX-1R 50 900 22 2474 Hector HOR-1C 70 993 24 2476 Longbow LGB-0C 85 1,295 36 2480 Toro TR-A-1 35 671 18 2481 Firebee FRB-1E (WAM-B) 35 514 14 2483 Thunderbolt TDR-1C 65 1,237 33 2491 Rifleman RFL-1N 50 931 20 2504 Dervish DV-1S 55 864 26 2520 Xanthos XNT-2O 100 1,300 35 2564 ICR-1X Icarus The Federated Suns also have the Lyrans to thank for establishing their own internal BattleMech production capability. In 2457, just two years after the successful Lyran raid of Hesperus II, First Prince Simon Davion would enter into negotiations with the Lyrans for access to the data they had stolen. The Lyrans demanded and exorbitant amount of money in exchange, which ultimately the Prince would approve before falling into a coma a dying shortly after. Nonetheless, the invest paid off two years later with Archernar BattleMech’s introduction of the 70-ton BKX-1X BattleAxe. In 2463, shortly after his ascension to the throne of the Federated Suns, Prince James Davion would commission the second indigenous BattleMech, this one to be produced by Jerricho Industries, based on Robinson. While originally intended to be produced in large number and distributed throughout the Federated Suns, the SWD- 1 Swordsman remained largely in the Terran March region through the manipulations of Prince Mikhail Rostov, the ruler of the Terran March. The design, which was rushed through development, was fraught with problems and after its extensive use by rebels during the Davion Civil War the design fell into disfavor and was discontinued. SWD-1 Swordsman The Capellans were the last major State to acquire BattleMech technology. It took them until 2483 to develop the 35-ton WAM-B prototype, originally called the “Weapon-Armed 'Mech-Alpha”. It is generally believed the Confederation Defense Corporation, headquartered on Boardwalk, reverse engineered existing BattleMechs to come up with their own design. By this time, there were at least two dozen different models being produced throughout the Inner Sphere, some of them having already undergone their first major overhaul to incorporate second generation BattleMech technology, such as the BNC-3E Banshee and the BWP-2B Ymir. Model Ton BV PV Year Mackie MSK-5S 100 1,436 37 2439 Mackie MSK-6S 100 1,461 37 2439 Bellerophon BEL-1X 60 957 24 2442 Emperor EMP-1A 90 1,453 40 2442 Kyudo KY2-D-01 45 748 21 2443 Banshee BNC-1E 95 1,458 38 2445 BattleAxe BKX-1X 70 1,079 31 2459 Model Ton BV PV Year Helepolis HEP-1H 75 1,063 37 2460 5 WAM-B “Weapon-Armed ‘Mech-Alpha”
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