PHOENIX HAWK IIC
Добавлено: 24 апр 2008, 20:21PHOENIX HAWK IIC
Type/Model: Phoenix Hawk IIC 6
Mass: 80 tons
Chassis: DSAM 4
Power Plant: Type 79 400 XL Fusion
Walking Speed: 54 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86 km/h
Jump Jets: Trellshire Long Lifters
Jump Capacity: 240 meters
Armor Type: Forging AM15 Ferro-Fibrous
Armament: 2 Zeta-series X Plasma Cannon
2 Krupp MML-5
2 Series 2D-2 Heavy Medium Lasers
Manufacturer: Trellshire Heavy Industries
Primary Factory: Twycross
Communications System: MegaBand System 21
Targeting & Tracking System: Dtrac Suite 4a (TC)
The first time someone told me the Clans had built an assault-class version of the Phoenix Hawk, I scoffed. I looked up the specifications in school and continued to scoff, since they’d managed to build a suitably fast assault ’Mech from the same aesthetic but not given it weapons worthy of its weight class. I dismissed it and went back to studying interesting ’Mechs.
Until yesterday.
Dante’s Detectives brought me back data on two new Phoenix Hawk IIC variants, and one of them scares the heck out of me. Working with the same technology they used on the new-model Rifleman IIC, the Diamond Shark engineers on Twycross have outdone themselves.
Current-production Trellshire Phoenix Hawk IICs mount a dual pair of weapons. Two of the new Zeta-series plasma cannon are matched with a pair of the Clan’s devastating heavy lasers to provide reasonable firepower, but the real threat is the mounting of an octet of improved jump jets, giving this eighty-ton Phoenix Hawk a greater jump radius than the original forty-five-ton model! I’ve had enough conversations with MechWarriors to know anything that heavy that can jump that far in a single leap is going to be dangerously unpredictable.
The other new-model Phoenix Hawk IIC is appearing in the ranks of the Ghost Bear Clan. Jimmy’s boys and girls nabbed this data on a quick pass through Rasalhague space. It makes my heart warm to consider that this new Phoenix Hawk IIC has already drawn Blakist blood, because an assault ’Mech as mobile as the Charger with a pair of those new HAG things and a quartet of AP Gauss rifles would go through a Word Level II like a scythe goes through wheat.
The only thing I can’t figure is that the Ghost Bears don’t have a production line dedicated to the Phoenix Hawk IIC on Alshain or anywhere else in the Dominion that I’ve been able to place. The HAGs suggest a Hell’s Horses connection, but the obvious hatred between those two Clans makes that an unlikely happening. It wasn’t until I compared the visual ROMs of the two ’Mechs side by side that noticed the similarities, and that was enough to lead me to the meager production information I’ve been able to gather about the Trellshire facility on Twycross.
The Diamond Sharks are building the frames and shipping them to the Ghost Bears. Invoices for chassis and other structural components are higher than they should be for the Sharks’ own variant, but the numbers match for weapons. For whatever reason, the Diamond Sharks are building them, and I couldn’t be happier. They’re killing Blakists in Rasalhague. Now if we could only lure them further into the Sphere!
Type/Model: Phoenix Hawk IIC 6
Mass: 80 tons
Chassis: DSAM 4
Power Plant: Type 79 400 XL Fusion
Walking Speed: 54 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86 km/h
Jump Jets: Trellshire Long Lifters
Jump Capacity: 240 meters
Armor Type: Forging AM15 Ferro-Fibrous
Armament: 2 Zeta-series X Plasma Cannon
2 Krupp MML-5
2 Series 2D-2 Heavy Medium Lasers
Manufacturer: Trellshire Heavy Industries
Primary Factory: Twycross
Communications System: MegaBand System 21
Targeting & Tracking System: Dtrac Suite 4a (TC)
The first time someone told me the Clans had built an assault-class version of the Phoenix Hawk, I scoffed. I looked up the specifications in school and continued to scoff, since they’d managed to build a suitably fast assault ’Mech from the same aesthetic but not given it weapons worthy of its weight class. I dismissed it and went back to studying interesting ’Mechs.
Until yesterday.
Dante’s Detectives brought me back data on two new Phoenix Hawk IIC variants, and one of them scares the heck out of me. Working with the same technology they used on the new-model Rifleman IIC, the Diamond Shark engineers on Twycross have outdone themselves.
Current-production Trellshire Phoenix Hawk IICs mount a dual pair of weapons. Two of the new Zeta-series plasma cannon are matched with a pair of the Clan’s devastating heavy lasers to provide reasonable firepower, but the real threat is the mounting of an octet of improved jump jets, giving this eighty-ton Phoenix Hawk a greater jump radius than the original forty-five-ton model! I’ve had enough conversations with MechWarriors to know anything that heavy that can jump that far in a single leap is going to be dangerously unpredictable.
The other new-model Phoenix Hawk IIC is appearing in the ranks of the Ghost Bear Clan. Jimmy’s boys and girls nabbed this data on a quick pass through Rasalhague space. It makes my heart warm to consider that this new Phoenix Hawk IIC has already drawn Blakist blood, because an assault ’Mech as mobile as the Charger with a pair of those new HAG things and a quartet of AP Gauss rifles would go through a Word Level II like a scythe goes through wheat.
The only thing I can’t figure is that the Ghost Bears don’t have a production line dedicated to the Phoenix Hawk IIC on Alshain or anywhere else in the Dominion that I’ve been able to place. The HAGs suggest a Hell’s Horses connection, but the obvious hatred between those two Clans makes that an unlikely happening. It wasn’t until I compared the visual ROMs of the two ’Mechs side by side that noticed the similarities, and that was enough to lead me to the meager production information I’ve been able to gather about the Trellshire facility on Twycross.
The Diamond Sharks are building the frames and shipping them to the Ghost Bears. Invoices for chassis and other structural components are higher than they should be for the Sharks’ own variant, but the numbers match for weapons. For whatever reason, the Diamond Sharks are building them, and I couldn’t be happier. They’re killing Blakists in Rasalhague. Now if we could only lure them further into the Sphere!
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