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Another boring day completed. Was looking ahead and had this idea and decided to jump the gun on Quicksilver part deux again.

Funny story is that I used to play a MMORPG way back in the day called City of Heros which featured superpowered characters and mine was named Firefox after the old Clint Eastwood movie. Little did I know a new company had just come out with a new browser also called Firefox spent a lot of time that year explaining to people my character wasn't named after browser but the movie.


Firefox OmniMech

With the previous few years to recoup from their losses on Tukayyid, Star Colonel Labov's directives to do whatever was necessary to increase the Clan's military strength has begun to come to fruition. One of the many directives he initiated included several Trials of Possession for members of other clan’s scientist castes to bolster their own. One such successful trial included the design team for many of the Fire Mandrills prototypes in the series of Quicksilver Trials of 3053. With the moratorium ending later this year Clan Diamond Shark has been preparing ahead of many of its competitors and its chances in the upcoming exchanges look promising.

From the combined minds of the Diamond Shark Sand Devil design team & now bolstered with the former Fire Mandrill scientists comes the Firefox. Keeping with the track record that netted them three successful designs in the previous trials, the team utilized an existing frame to build upon their design, the Phantom. A ‘Mech that was voluntarily withdrawn by the ilKhan during the initial trials. Diamond Shark’s 39th Strike Cluster successfully challenged Clan Wolf in late 3054 for the blueprints for both the structure and electronics of the original design saving the clan years of R&D and resources.

Targeting specifically the Battle Cobra which the Clan felt was a vulnerable design due to flaws in its initial design. The team choose to remove the blocky and costly Light Force 360 XL engine and replacing it with the cheaper and smaller Nissan 200 engine whose blueprints were on file with the clan from the memory cores containing detailed information of the Mercury BattleMech. To compensate for the decrease in speed the designers upped the armor tonnage on the original Phantom frame and placed a fixed MASC system for bursts of speed that can nearly match any ‘Mech in its weight category. Placing fixed Jump Jets on the design was a heated debate ultimately concluding with the team incorporating them after a trial within the team, rumor states it was determined by who could solve fastest an ancient Terran mind enhancement device consisting of a cube with various colored squares.


Firefox
Mass: 40 tons
Tech Base: Clan
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Tournament Legal
Era: Clan Invasion
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-D-A
Production Year: 3057
Cost: 3,435,227 C-Bills
Battle Value: 718

Chassis: Type-A Endo Steel
Power Plant: Nissan 200 Fusion Engine
Walking Speed: 54.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86.4 km/h (108.0 km/h)
Jump Jets: Geotec 300
    Jump Capacity: 150 meters
Armor: Composite A-2 Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
    13 Tons Pod Space
Manufacturer: Diamond Shark
    Primary Factory:
Communications System: Howler 79
Targeting and Tracking System: Model 92 "Stalker"

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Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass 
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Internal Structure: Endo-Steel                    67 points                2.00
    Internal Locations: 1 CT, 1 LT, 1 RT, 1 LA, 1 RA, 1 LL, 1 RL
Engine:             Fusion Engine                200                       8.50
    Walking MP: 5
    Running MP: 8 (10)
    Jumping MP: 5 Standard
    Jump Jet Locations: 1 CT, 2 LT, 2 RT                                   2.50
Heat Sinks:         Double Heat Sink             10(20)                    0.00
    Heat Sink Locations: 1 LT, 1 RT
Gyro:               Standard                                               2.00
Cockpit:            Standard                                               3.00
    Actuators:      L: SH+UA+LA+H    R: SH+UA+LA+H
Armor:              Ferro-Fibrous                AV - 134                  7.00
    Armor Locations: 1 HD, 1 LT, 1 RT, 1 LA, 1 RA, 1 LL, 1 RL

                                                      Internal       Armor     
                                                      Structure      Factor     
                                                Head     3            9         
                                        Center Torso     12           17       
                                 Center Torso (rear)                  6         
                                           L/R Torso     10           15       
                                    L/R Torso (rear)                  5         
                                             L/R Arm     6            12       
                                             L/R Leg     10           19       

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Equipment                                 Location    Heat    Critical    Mass 
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MASC                                         RT        -         2         2.00
                                            Free Critical Slots: 22

Will finish with variants when I get a chance time to go home for now.