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                 BattleMech Technical Readout

Name/Model:         Hunchback HBK-8HG
Designer:           bladewind
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            50
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Clan Invasion / 3061
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         4,094,500 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,410

Chassis:              Endo Steel
Power Plant:          200 Fusion
Walking Speed:        43.2 kph  
Maximum Speed:        64.8 kph  
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Standard with CASE
Armament:             
    1 Heavy Gauss Rifle
    2 ER Medium Lasers
Manufacturer:         Unknown
    Primary Factory:  Unknown
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    After the Heavy Gauss Rifle was invented, Lyran factories began to work in a hurry, trying
    to fit the monstrous weapon on heavy and assault designs. However several scientists and
    techs in Defiance Industries begun toying with the idea of fitting the massive weapon on
    smaller and faster mech chassis thus making them optimal mech hunters with a large bore
    weapon.
    
    
    
    Knowing that Lyran preference for assault designs would mean that their proposal would never
    go through smoothly and ultimately delay their experiment. The scientists and techs silently
    re-drew money from their own bank accounts and offered a secret outsider company to
    manufacture the mech for them while they try to refit the mech.
    
    
    
    The outsiders did not try anything revolutionary, taking a venerable Hunchback and
    reconstructing it with the newer endo-steel construction and double strength freezers. After
    its done, the Defiance techs and scientists secretly shipped the Hunchback into a private
    factory of theirs and began their work.

Capabilities:
    Firepower wise this Hunchback is devastating, The Endo-Steel construction freed up plenty of
    internal tonnage for the mech while still making it economical and thus making fitting the
    massive Defiance Thunderfist possible.
    
    
    
    Supplied with 3 tons of ammo, the Hunchback only has a short engagement lifespan but the
    firepower output is greater than any Class 20 autocannon aside from the Defiance Thunder
    Class 20 ultra autocannon at closer ranges and with minimal heat. The tests showed that
    firing the massive rifle actually surged the Hunchback backwards and the target, a old
    Centurion, was cored with a single hit.
    
    
    
    A pair of ER medium lasers only serve as a backup weapon for the machine but the Hunchback
    best bet is to make off the field quickly once the ammo has being expended. The mech however
    is well armored enough to make its escape and the Hammefist is protected by CASE equipment
    which help limit the destructive power of the Heavy Gauss Rifle should it explode.
    
    

Deployment:
    Only 1 prototype exist and remains for testing purposes.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 2.50                     
Engine:                                     200 Fusion                 8.50                     
    Walking MP:                                 4                                               
    Running MP:                                 6                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Double):                         10 [20]                   0.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  2.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  168                    10.50                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      16             25       
    Center Torso (rear):                               6       
    R/L Torso:                         12             20       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  4       
    R/L Arm:                            8             16       
    R/L Leg:                           12             24       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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2 ER Medium Lasers                                        CT                2          2.00             
CASE                                                      RT                1          0.50             
Heavy Gauss Rifle                                         RT                11        18.00             
Heavy Gauss Rifle (Ammo 8)                                RL                2          2.00             
Heavy Gauss Rifle (Ammo 4)                                LL                1          1.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 30
TP: BM,  SZ: 2,  TMM: 1,  MV: 8"
Damage: (S) 3 / (M) 3 / (L) 1,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 6,  Structure (S): 4
Specials: CASE