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CLAN NOVA CAT

Although not as diversified as their Diamond Shark allies, the Nova Cats still posses a strong and vigorous industrial base, one that has served them well for many years.  Unlike most other Clans, who either concentrate their industry on one main site, or scatter it across many worlds in small parcels, the Nova Cats have built up four strong industrial sites.  Each one produces a variety of products and each is well defended.  However, the loss of any one would not cripple the Clan, but each does not draw of too many defensive assets, allowing the Cats to maintain a balanced garrison across their worlds.

WORLD   ENCLAVE OUTPUT RATING
Barcella   264
Circe   54
Strana Mechty   39
Bearclaw   30
Brim   15
Danials   13
Hoard   10
Gatekeeper   5
Delois   3

BARCELLA

The Nova Cat capital world is the pride of the Clan, shared with their Diamond Shark allies and one of the most well developed and industrialised worlds in Clan space.

BARCELLA PRIME FACILITY

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Swift-OF Light Fighter [12]
Turk-OMF Medium Fighter [12]
Scytha-OMF Assault Fighter [12]
Shadow Cat-OM Medium Mech [36]
Nova Cat-OM Heavy Mech [12]
Supernova-O2 Assault Mech [12]
Elemental Battle Armour [120]

Barcella Prime was the development site for the new Nova Cat-OM Heavy Mech, the pride of the Clan and now the core of Nova Cat assault formations.

BEARCLAW

The capital of the Ghost Bears in another world the Cats share with allies, although their development here has been secondary to other facilities.

NEXUS COMPLEX

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Bear Cub-O2 Light Mech [24]
Elemental Battle Armour [180]

Nexus was originally a joint Bear/Cat project, allowing both Clans early access to Elemental Battle Armour.  Once the Bears had completed work on their massive Ursus Aeroyards Battle Armour line, they traded their share in the Nexus complex to the Cats.  The Nova Cats also later Trialled for and won production rites to the Ghost Bear’s Bear Cub design.

BRIM

Most Clans would not see an enclave the size of the Nova Cat’s holding on Brim as worthy of much investment, but the Cats have seen differently and made this enclave one of their prime manufacturing centres.

BRIM IRONWORKS

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Huntsman-OM Medium Mech [24]
Matador-O2 Heavy Mech [12]
Liger-OM Assault Mech [12]

The Nova Cats are currently in the market for an –OM chassis to replace the Matador, won from the Vipers many years ago.  The Nova Cat Khans would prefer to gain access to the Timber Wolf, but the Wolf Clan goes to great lengths to protect that design from being taken.  As such, the Nova Cats will likely have to settle for something else.

Additionally, a second new Assault Mech has gone into production here, replacing the Gladiator.  Unable to access design plans for the Timber Wolf, the Nova Cats reverse engineered the Mech, with Diamond Shark assistance, creating what was first called a Timber Wolf II.  The name of the Mech saw several changes, nearly being named the Werewolf, before Lieger was settled on.

CIRCE

As the Nova Cats first major industrial site, Circe has long been invested in, especially as it is the Cat’s main naval centre.

SPIRIT CAT INDUSTRIALPLEX

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Turk-OMF Medium Fighter [12]
Ammon-O2F Heavy Fighter [12]
Scytha-OMF Assault Fighter [12]
Mule class DropShip [9]
Noruff class DropShip [3]
Invader class JumpShip [4]
Carrack Naval Construction Facility [1]
Nova Cat Naval Yard [6]

The orbiting Spirit Cat complex produces the core of the Nova Cat merchant fleet, with many Mules, Invaders and Carracks having launched from these docks over the years.  The later addition of Aerospace Fighter production lines has rounded out the facilities product line.

CLAN SNOW RAVEN

For a seemingly small Clan, the Snow Ravens possess a large industrial base, however, when the size of the Raven navy is counted as a each ship equalling a Cluster, the Clan suddenly looks a lot larger and its industry more appropriate to its real size.  The Ravens have been a major beneficiary of the naval arms race, having produced several Leviathans, Nightlords and Conqueror class ships for other Clans.  The major result for the Ravens from the resources gained during this program, is the opening of the Dark Raven Facility, which produces the new OMF-x series of OmniFighters, rumoured to be better than any OmniFighter that has come before.

WORLD   ENCLAVE OUTPUT RATING
Lum   147
Bearclaw   58
Circe   52
Strana Mechty   38
Columbia   14
Brim   7

BEARCLAW

Bearclaw is the capital of the Raven’s closest ally and a site of much collaboration between the two Clans.

Aeroyard Gargain

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Issus-O2F Medium Fighter [24]
Gotha-OF Heavy Fighter [24]
Elemental Battle Armour [240]

In return for their assistance in constructing the Bear’s Ghost Bear Orbital Facility Alpha, the Ravens received technical know how from their allies in helping to construct the Elemental production lines at Gargain.  The aircraft produced here are made solely for export to less technically developed Clans, like the Blood Spirits and Goliath Scorpions.

CIRCE

Circe was the Ravens first great holding, but has paled next the efforts they have put into Lum and even Bearclaw.

CIRCE MANUFACTURING CENTRE ALPHA

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Clint-O Medium Mech [12]
Phoenix Hawk-O Medium Mech [12]

The Raven’s first Mech facility is still in use, even if it is producing outdated –O series Mechs.  Still, the Ravens need every Mech they can get and do not look down on the –O and –O2 series for their ground forces.

LUM

Lum is the largest naval centre in Clan Space, Lum has long been the bastion for Clan Snow Raven.  However, Lum is more than just a naval yard to the Ravens, it is there political centre as well as a major source of other combat units with which they outfit their Touman.

SNOW RAVEN YARDS

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Comitatus class JumpShip [3]
Merchant class JumpShip [4]
Invader class JumpShip [3]
Monolith class JumpShip [2]
Alpha Yard - Nightlord [1]
Beta Yard - Conqueror [1]
Gamma Yard [1]
Delta Yard - Leviathan [1]
Epsilon Yard - Leviathan [1]
Zeta Yard - Nightlord [1]
Snow Raven Fleet Maintenance Unit [8]

The Snow Raven Yards are the busiest shipyards in Clan space, which when not producing WarShips, simply push out more civilian JumpShips.  Currently five yards are tooled up to produce three WarShip classes, with Gamma yard thought to be winding down from a run of Star Lord JumpShips to produce a new Raven light WarShip.  The WarShip, with the designation Type 42, is thought to be a Destroyer, potentially to be called the Sheffield class.

CREST FOUNDRIES

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Bashkir-OMF Light Fighter [12]
Jengiz-OMF Assault Fighter [12]
Carrier class DropShip [4]
Arcadia class DropShip [2]
Behemoth class DropShip [4]
Union-C class DropShip [5]

Crest Foundries are where the Snow Ravens produce DropShip assets and were the premiere Aerospace Fighter facility until Dark Raven came online.  Six lines were disassembled here and shipped to Dark Raven for retooling and use on new designs, leaving only the Bashkir and Jengiz in production.  The Raven’s faith in their new designs must be high, as all the Aerospace Fighter output of Crest is now traded to other Clans for new –O series Mechs.

DARK RAVEN ENGINEERING FACILITY

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Saxon-OMFx Light Fighter [36]
Lombard-OMFx Medium Fighter [48]
Sarmatian-OMFx Heavy Fighter [24]
Hun-OMFx Assault Fighter [12]

Dark Raven Engineering was the Raven’s dark secret during the naval arms race.  With only four new WarShips commissioned, many wondered why the Ravens were so complacent, as over thirty ships joined the navies of the other Clans.  The answer was revealed in late 3031, when the first runs of four new classes of OmniFighter began rolling of the new facilities lines.  Although no Clan has been able to learn of, or Trial for, the specifications for these craft, one thing is for certain, the have truly startling lines, which seem to hide whatever the secret technology is that they were designed to house.  The one attempt to Trial for the specifications was the disastrous Mongoose strike in January 3032.  Of the thirty Mongoose fighters from the 2nd Dragoon Guards, only six made it out of the engagement with the 5th Stoop and its new –OMFx OmniFighters.  Apparently, the brand new –OMFx fighters were able to absorb punishing amounts of damage, with only seven going down.

CLAN SNOW RAVEN INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX CHI

PRODUCTS BUILT:

King Crab-O Assault Mech [12]

The lone Assault Mech produced by the Snow Ravens, the King Crab-O is the mainstay of their defensive formations.

PRODUCTION LINE GAMMA 2

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Kit Fox-OM Light Mech [12]
Stromcrow Medium Mech [12]
Mad Dog-OM Heavy Mech [24]

Gamma 2 is the most sophisticated of the Raven’s Mech plants and is a highly prized, if underdeveloped asset.

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Note
Assuming it's the same Mech it's Supernova not Super Nova.

Question
Nova Cat - Assault Mech?  It's 70 tons unless its a different design then it's a heavy.

Supernova fixed.  Nova Cat now heavy on Barcella and changed to an Executioner on Brim.

CLAN STEEL VIPER

Due to their isolation and general lack of interest in most things mercantile, the Steel Vipers have stagnated industrially.  Where this would cripple another Clan of similar size, the Steel Viper training regime ensures that only the deadliest Warriors in Clan space take control of their Clan’s new machines.  Additionally, for a Clan with a noted bias against aerospace assets, the Steel Vipers are a large producer of DropShips.

WORLD   ENCLAVE OUTPUT RATING
New Kent   96
Arcadia   82
Strana Mechty   37
Grant's Station   21
Marshall   20
Homer   19
Columbia   7

ARCADIA

Arcadia has long been a bastion for the Vipers in the Pentagon, with their innital Mech production facilities still in operation here.

ARCADIA BATTLEMECH PLANT CM-03

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Mongoose-O Light Mech [12]
Vapour Eagle-O2 Medium Mech [12]
Black Python-O2 Heavy Mech [12]

Although relegated to producing older models, once investment in New Kent blossomed, CM-03 is still critical for the Steel Vipers, due to their otherwise limited production numbers.

MARSHAL

The world of Marshal is riven with conflict as various clans compete for a better standing on the world.  The Steel Vipers have long used Marshal to blood young Warriors, before assignment to more prestigious units.

MARSHAL ORBITAL YARDS

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Broadsword class DropShip [5]
Noruff class DropShip [3]
Mercer class DropShip [2]
Scout class JumpShip [1]
Steel Viper Naval Service Station [3]

Strangely, the Vipers main ship yard is neither located on their Capital world or in the Pentagon.  The Vipers have never given a reason for this, remaining as enigmatic as ever.

NEW KENT

The Steel Viper capital is also home to most of their major industry, as well as their most advanced production facilities.  That they are forced to share their capital with four other Clans is a testament to their fall from power during the Exeter Trials.

MERCER FOUNDRIES

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Batu-OMF Medium Fighter [12]
Elemental Battle Armour [420]

The Mercer Foundries are small but highly efficient, producing scores of Battle Armour suits and a run OmniFighters every year.

NEW KENT ORBITER 7

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Tyre-O2F Medium Fighter [12]
Hellcat II-OF Medium Fighter [12]

An older production site, Orbiter 7 still produces these older model fighters for the grossly understrength Viper fighter forces.

NOVA MINSKY ARMAMENT WORKS

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Battle Cobra-OM Medium Mech [12]
Matador-O2 Heavy Mech [12]
Crossbow-OM Heavy Mech [12]
Gargoyle-OM Assault Mech [12]

Nova Minsky is the premiere site for BattleMech production in Steel Viper territory and is slated for an expansion ion the near future, although it is not yet clear what new model may be built here.

Information provided to the Ravens via secret Scorpion channels...

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CLAN WOLVERINE

Clan Wolverine was the first Pariah of the Clans, but since that time has rebuilt not only many of the bridges that were believed to be irredeemably burnt, but also its strength and vitality.  Although not as advanced as the Wolf or Jade Falcon industrial base, the Wolverine base is nothing to sneer at, due to the ability of the Wolverine to consistently recover from reverses.  Forced on to only a few worlds early in their history, having lost all of their holdings on Atreus, Homer, Saxon and Tranquil, the Wolverines have learnt to maximise what they have, leading to their capital of Nirvana being one of the most well developed of all the Clan worlds.

WORLD   ENCLAVE OUTPUT RATING
Nirvana   224
Garrison   84
Circe   65
Strana Mechty   48
Rolleston   42
Tathis   15

CIRCE

Circe served as the Capital of Clan Wolverine until they relocated the Clan Command to Nirvana in 2950.  Due to this, the Wolverine Circe enclave is home to a large portion of the Clan’s industry.

CIRCE BATTLE ARMOUR FACILITY

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Elemental Battle Armour [120]

The Circe Battle Armour Facility was the Clan’s first to produce the armoured suits and has continued production for many years.

NEW HOPE AEROSPACE INDUSTRIALPLEX

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Spad-OF Light Fighter [24]
Ironsides-OF Heavy Fighter [24]

Despite attempt over the years to properly modernize the Clan’s air arm, Clan Wolverine has never quite managed to get there, leaving the Spad and Ironsides produced here still important to the Touman.

NEW HOPE MECH PRODUCTION FACILITY

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Mercury II-O2 Medium Mech [12]
Stag-O2 Medium Mech [12]
Flashman-O Heavy Mech [24]
Pulveriser-O2 Assault Mech [12]

The original Mech facility of the Clan continues to produce the Mechs that made Clan Wolverine famous in its early years.

GARRISON

Although now shared with the hated Widowmakers, the Wolverine hold on their Garrison enclave is largely secure, allowing uninterrupted production from their industrial facilities here.

GARRISON BATTLE ARMOUR FACILITY

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Elemental Battle Armour [180]

This secondary facility was taken and held by the Widowmakers for thirty years, until the Wolverines won it back in 3010.

TORUS FLEET YARDS

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Confederate class DropShip [5]
Overlord-C class DropShip [5]
Invader class JumpShip [2]
Monolith class JumpShip [2]
Naval Command Station Wolverine [5]

Although Nirvana was also considered as a site for the main fleet anchorage, the great hollow asteroid known as Torus, which revolves around Garrison in a fixed orbit, was deemed too good a natural site to pass up.  Plans have long existed to add WarShips construction facilities here, but circumstance and the good relationship with both Clans Mongoose and Snow Raven, has stalled such plans repeatedly.

NIRVANA

The home of the Wolverines since 2950, Nirvana, formerly Exeter, is the largest and most productive of all the Exeter Cluster worlds.

NIRVANA AEROSPACE ALPHA

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Sulla-OMF Medium Fighter [24]
Scytha-OMF Assault Fighter [24]

The Wolverines have long sought to add to this facilities lines, but have always been stymied by other issues.  However, the Clan has recently been looking to Clan Snow Raven and their new –OMFx series fighters as a chance to finally upgrade their air arm.  However, Clan Snow Raven is driving a hard bargain, wanting massive assistance for its ground forces, a price that Clan Wolverine may not be willing to pay.

NIRVANA BATTLE ARMOUR FACILITY

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Elemental Battle Armour [300]

The primary Battle Armour facility of the Wolverines is also the youngest, being built up over the last twenty five years.

NIRVANA MECHWORKS

PRODUCTS BUILT:

Hellion-OM Light Mech [12]
Lighting Claw-OM Light Mech [24]
Wolverine III-OM Medium Mech [12]
Sand Badger-OM Heavy Mech [48]
Reaver-OM Assault Mech [24]

Nirvana Mechworks are the pride and joy of the Clan, with the brand new totem Mech, the Wolverine III-OM replacing the former totem, the Wolverine II-O in production here. 

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