This is totally a Big Mac style 'Mech. Perfect for the Capellans, and I tied it into Shengli Arms and the eventual development of the Jinggau. Plus Third Marik Civil War shout-out!
Type: JM6-F “Flashjager” JagerMech
Production: Capellan Confederation (Shengli Arms refit, Victoria)
Combat Value: 1758 BV
Total Cost: 13,769,799 C-Bills (including x1.65 tonnage premium)
Internal Structure: (Endo): 3.5t
Engine: (VOX 325XL): 12t
Walking: 5
Running: 8
Heat Sinks: 17(34): 7t
Gyro/Cockpit (Std): 7t
Armor (Standard): 13t
Head 3/9
Center Torso 21/30/11
R/L Torso 15/20/10
R/L Arm 10/20
R/L Leg 15/29
Quirks: No Torso Twist
3x Large Laser (6cr, 15t) RA/CT/LT
5x Medium Lasers (5cr, 5t) RA/RT/LT/LT-r/LA
1x Anti-Missile (1cr, 0.5t) RT
1x Ammo (AMS) (1cr, 1t) RT
1x Flamer (1cr, 1t) H
In the mid-3020s, the Confederation discovered a Star League era Mech facility in an underground bunker on the remote world of Victoria – most likely the centuries-old remnants of the Carlos Dangmar Lee Center that was an annex to the SLDF military base placed on the world.
After the severe losses inflicted to the CCAF in the Fourth Succession War, Chancellor Romano Liao diverted quite a few resources to Victoria to recover as much of the technology as possible, and to return the facility to operation ASAP. Although the Federated Commonwealth targeted the facility during the War of 3039, they never realized that they had actually destroyed a secondary decoy structure, and the core facility was not only undiscovered, but came online by the early 3040s. The Confederation lacked the expertise to expand to full ‘Mech production until the mid-3050s, when Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao increased ties with the Word of Blake, but the facility that would later be known as Shengli Arms was a fully operation ‘Mech repair and refit facility by 3042, capable of producing limited quantities of Star League era material and components.
With Capellan engineers tasked by Romano Liao with finding ways to update four cutting-edge ‘Mech designs found in the facility, and facing dire consequences for failure, the lead engineers decided to focus on refitting existing and long-established ‘Mech designs of comparable tonnage, in order to test the designs, particularly as none of them (the 25t Sling, 65t Siren, the 70t Donner, and the 90t Horus) had never progressed past the prototype stage. Designers ultimately focused on the two lightest-weight ‘Mechs, using captured Commando chassis as a component testbed for the Sling design, and captured Jagermech chassis to test the Siren components, as those two common FedCom designs were very similar in overall framing to the ancient prototypes. (Ceres Metals as given responsibility for bringing the 70t Donner to production, ultimately succeeding with the Thunder in 3055).
The Confederation built a small orbital facility around Victoria’s third moon, Jennifer, designed to produce Chariot Type II Endosteel. They were able to begin production of Omni 175 XL engines (for the 25t testbed), and Vox 325 XL engines (for the Jagermech testframe), and were able to mass-produce sizable quantities of double heat sinks, earning engineers a reprieve from Romano Liao’s murderous rages despite the numerous design delays. Apart from lacking full on-site production facilities, their major technological obstacles including recreating a combat-ready Ferro-Fibrous armor composite, not succeeding until 3079 with their original Dola design. And even with assistance from the Helm Memory Core schematics, engineers were unable to create a reliable manufacturing process for Star League era armaments, only able to handcraft examples of (for example) the Painkiller Gauss Rifle or Victory ER PPC, until getting final critical assistance from the Word of Blake in the mid 3050s. At that point, the rebranded Zhi-tong-yao Gauss Rifle, and Shengli ER PPC, became centerpieces of the new designs coming out of newly christened Shengli Arms.
But in late 3050, facing increasing pressure from Sian, engineers decided to release an interim design that would showcase the incredible 86mph speed of their modified Jagermechs. Using designs licensed from Capellan laser armaments firm Firmir Weaponry, they released the JM6-F “Flashjager”, a 65t ‘Mech comparable in performance to the legendary SLDF mainstay, the Flashman 8K. The JM6-F has stripped out the Garret systems of the Jagermech (losing its anti-aircraft capabilities), instead equipping the recovered Standart Comms design (later rebranded the Dian-bao), married to a Dynatec T&T “Special” targeting system. The older Siren used a variety of ER laser weapons, but designers simply copied the classic Flashman layout, with Firmir Standard medium lasers scattered across the arms and torsos, and three Firmir MaxiLase large lasers, one in each articulated arm structure and one mounted in the center torso.
An Olympus brand ‘Mech Flamer was mounted in the head of the ‘Mech, and an LFN Lindblad Shotgun anti-missile system fitted to the right torso, with both designs licensed from Earthwerks Limited, the Capellan branch of the multinational firm. With seventeen double heat sinks, and wrapped in 13 tons of Standart “Star Shell” standard-grade ‘Mech armor, the JM6-F runs much cooler than its classic Flashman inspiration, and was welcomed by new Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao when it first became available to CCAF forces in 3052. McCarron’s Armored Cavalry has been granted the first dozen examples of the speedy ‘Mech, and it has already proven its worth in the early phases of the Third Marik Civil War.
