In the aftermath of Trials for Operation REVIVAL the Warriors of Clan Goliath Scorpion were disheartened by both the failure of the Wardens to hold back the Crusading Clans from Invading and the Clan's poor showing during the bids to invade. Some despaired for the barren future of their clan, others threw themselves wholly into finest pleasures of battle and the flesh, while others trained themselves to a razors edge. A number Seekers however dived into the Scorpion Archives relentlessly working to uncover the hidden past which would yield rich rewards.
Opportunity knocked with the invading Clans stripping their territories of units that formerly patrolled the vast stretches of landscape between crucial Enclaves, territories Seekers had great trouble accessing without facing overwhelming odds. So it was in early September 3049 a Star of Seekers pooling their resources slipped into now loosely guarded territories of the Smoke Jaguars from the bordering Clan Wolf enclave ~ who had granted Safcon after learning of the Seekers plans to poke the Jaguars.
Slipping into the dusty hills and canyon filled Jaguar territory the Seekers soon split up.
Warrior Danielle's long hours of research soon paid off as she uncovered an ancient Brian Cache, an untouched treasure trove of war material. A full regiment of Terran Hegemony Militia Battlemech's, the Hegemony's crest proudly on display shook Danielle and her entourage with a profound sense of being on hallowed ground.
A honour guard of Phoenix Hawks, Griffins, Shadow Hawks stood proud at the fore of the cache before the powerful figures of Archers, Warhammers and Orions. While all of these Mechs bore signs of combat damage skillfully, lovingly repaired with a whole slew of now dead and forsaken Hegemony worlds names plastered over them nothing could prepare Danielle for what lay at the depths of the cache.
The fountainhead from which all Battlemechs came, forefather of a vast array of descendants, and paradigm shifter of war forever.
Mackie 9Hs.
A full battalion of them lay at rest, sleeping titans just waiting for day they would be called into battle once more.
Even in her ecstasy Danielle cunningly began to plot just how to remove the contents of the cache from underneath the noses of the Jaguars. A feat made much easier when carefully sent messages via Chatter Web lead to saKhan Ren Posavatz arriving in the CGS Atropos nominally to discuss with Khan Ulric Kerensky just what to do with his wayward pupils the Wolf's Dragoons.
The lightening raid that followed saw the Goliath Scorpions hauling away the lion's share of the cache with Orion's gifted to Clan Wolf.
Soon afterwards Star Captain Danielle Yeh found herself heading the project to refurbish the recovered Mackie's and if her design proved successful work towards the resources required to put the Mackie into production once more.
Not deciding to muck around with an already capable design Danielle had the Scientists and Techs strip a Mackie of its old weapons, electronics, heatsinks and armor. Replaced with in production clan components a vigorous debate soon followed on what to do with the freed up tonnage, which is when Danielle pushed to have armor replaced with modern ferro-fiberous plating.
With that additional weight savings a massive six ton targeting computer was fitted in the left torso, along with an ECM system on top of the active probe. To discourage Elementals one of the ER medium lasers was swapped out for a pulse version.
What emerged was a paean of sublime praise to Skobel's basic design. A powerful one two punch of PPCs paired with the fearsome roar of an Ultra AC20 with 20 shots of ammunition to work with.
Appealing to both the Clan's sense of history and a need for Assault Mechs to stiffen garrison Clusters the Mackie IIC soon after became permanently assigned to a Warrior at the sole discretion of the Khan's. Star Captain Danielle was the first such warrior to be rewarded.
Her fate and that of her Mackie IIC became a mystery in 3052 when she and SaKhan Ren Posavatz disappeared with three other Seekers during the battle of Tuyyakid inside the Devil Bath's.
Thus far only one variant of the Mackie IIC has been authorized, swapping the Devastator autocannon for a Thunderbolt Gauss Rifle.
Mackie MSK IIC
Mass: 100 tons
Tech Base: Clan
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Advanced Rules
Era: Clan Invasion
Tech Rating/Era Availability: F/X-X-C-A
Production Year: 3050
Cost: 11,720,000 C-Bills
Battle Value: 3,187
Chassis: Ford Super H Standard
Power Plant: Vlar 300 Fusion Engine
Walking Speed: 32.4 km/h
Maximum Speed: 54.0 km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor: Composite A-4 Ferro Fibrous Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
2 Kinslaughter H ER PPCs
1 Devastator Ultra AC/20
1 Kolibri Omega Series Medium Pulse Laser
1 Series 7J ER Medium Laser
1 Series 21B ECM Suite
1 Active Probe
Manufacturer: Unknown
Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications System: Khan Series (Type 1)
Targeting and Tracking System: Series III OPT
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 152 points 10.00
Engine: Fusion Engine 300 19.00
Walking MP: 3
Running MP: 5
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: Double Heat Sink 20(40) 10.00
Heat Sink Locations: 2 LT, 3 RT, 1 LA, 1 LL, 1 RL
Gyro: Standard 3.00
Cockpit: Standard 3.00
Actuators: L: SH+UA+LA R: SH+UA+LA
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous AV - 304 16.00
Armor Locations: 1 HD, 2 RT, 3 LA, 1 RA
CASE Locations: RT 0.00
Internal Armor
Structure Factor
Head 3 9
Center Torso 31 48
Center Torso (rear) 13
L/R Torso 21 31
L/R Torso (rear) 11
L/R Arm 17 33
L/R Leg 21 42
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Equipment Location Heat Critical Mass
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ER Medium Laser CT 5 1 1.00
Medium Pulse Laser CT 4 1 2.00
ECM Suite LT 0 1 1.00
Active Probe LT 0 1 1.00
Targeting Computer LT - 6 6.00
Ultra AC/20 RA 7 8 12.00
2 ER PPCs LA 30 4 12.00
@Ultra AC/20 (20) RT - 4 4.00
Free Critical Slots: 0
BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 10 Points: 32
3 7 7 3 0 4 2 Structure: 8
Special Abilities: ECM, PRB, RCN, CASE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA
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