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Name/Model:         Catapult CAT-5D
Designer:           Mechworks
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            65
Role:               Missile Boat
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Succession Wars / 3040
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         12,241,625 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,678

Chassis:              Hollis Mark II 
Power Plant:          GM 260 XL
Walking Speed:        43.2 kph  
Maximum Speed:        64.8 kph  
Jump Jets:            Anderson Propulsion 21 
    Jump Capacity:    120 meters
Armor:                Valiant Scutum Ferro-Fibrous with CASE
Armament:             
    2 Federated Super Twenty LRM 20 w/ Artemis IV FCS
    3 ExoStar Medium Lasers
Manufacturer:         Achernar BattleMechs
    Primary Factory:  New Avalon, New Avalon (Refit Kit)
Communications:       O/P Com-211
Targeting & Tracking: O/P 1078

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Overview:
    Originally designed for the Star League Defense Force as Hollis Incorporated's first foray
    into the BattleMech field, the Catapult would prove a highly successful design over the next
    several centuries, even after the original manufacturing plant on Corey was destroyed during
    the First Succession War. At the turn of the millennium, however, Hollis was able to return
    the design to production on a limited basis after approximately three decades of only being
    able to manufacture limited spare parts, reversing the design's extinction fully, though by
    that point several variants of the basic design were in at least limited bespoke production
    across the entire Inner Sphere, and the original design would be superseded by advanced
    variants produced with recovered "LosTech" only a few decades later.
    
    The -5D variant of the Catapult is an advanced model created for the Armed Forces of the
    Federated Commonwealth, featuring an Extra Light engine, Ferro-Fiberious armor, and double
    heat sinks, ten additional missile tubes supported by Artemis IV fire control with CASE'd
    ammunition, and one fewer Medium Laser. This model was produced both as a prebuilt refit kit
    for existing Catapult -4Ls in service and as a stock configuration by Archernar. Only a
    relatively limited number of -5D Catapults were in service at the time of the Clan Invasion,
    but like many new-built advanced machines, they would be rushed to the front with alacrity
    once the scope of the threat became clear.

Capabilities:
    Note: Possesses the No/Minimal Arms Design Quirk. Also possesses the Extinct (2800-3004)
    Design Quirk.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                          Standard                  6.50                     
Engine:                                       260 XL                   7.00                     
    Walking MP:                                 4                                               
    Running MP:                                 6                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 4                                               
Heat Sinks (Double):                         10 [20]                   0.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  3.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  206                    11.50                     
    Type:                                 Ferro-Fibrous                                         

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      21             28       
    Center Torso (rear):                              11       
    R/L Torso:                         15             21       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  9       
    R/L Arm:                           10             20       
    R/L Leg:                           15             29       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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Medium Laser                                              CT                1          1.00             
CASE                                                      RT                1          0.50             
2 Jump Jets                                               RT                2          2.00             
LRM 20 (Ammo 12)                                          RT                2          2.00             
Medium Laser                                              RT                1          1.00             
CASE                                                      LT                1          0.50             
2 Jump Jets                                               LT                2          2.00             
LRM 20 (Ammo 12)                                          LT                2          2.00             
Medium Laser                                              LT                1          1.00             
LRM 20 w/ Artemis IV FCS                                  RA                5         10.00             
LRM 20 w/ Artemis IV FCS                                  LA                5         10.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 41
TP: BM,  SZ: 3,  TMM: 1,  MV: 8"j
Damage: (S) 3 / (M) 5 / (L) 4,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 7,  Structure (S): 3
Specials: CASE, IF2
 
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