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Name/Model:         Catapult CAT-7D
Designer:           Mechworks
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            65
Role:               Missile Boat
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Jihad / 3076
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Experimental
Rules (Year):       Experimental
Total Cost:         15,459,950 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,630

Chassis:              Achernar Special Type 6-CR Endo Steel
Power Plant:          General Motors 260 XL
Walking Speed:        43.2 kph  
Maximum Speed:        64.8 kph  
Jump Jets:            Anderson Propulsion 21 
    Jump Capacity:    120 meters
Armor:                Durallex Heavy with CASE
Armament:             
    2 Valiant Arbalest-Enhanced Enhanced LRM 15s
    4 ExoStar Medium X-Pulse Lasers
Manufacturer:         Achernar BattleMechs
    Primary Factory:  New Avalon
Communications:       O/P Com-211 with Guardian ECM Suite
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    across the entire Inner Sphere, and the original design would be superseded by advanced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.
    
    Entering service only late in the Jihad, the-7D model of the Catapult boasted a pair of
    fifteen tube Enhanced long range missile launchers with four tons of CASE-protected
    ammunition and a quartet of medium X-Pulse lasers as backup weapons. Ten double heat sinks
    provided adequate cooling for the mech's weapons load, though sustained close combat was not
    recommended. In order to free the necessary weight the -7D was built on an Endo Steel frame
    and used an Extra Light engine. It also utilized a redesigned cockpit assembly which
    functioned as a completely sealed escape pod rather than a traditional ejection seat, a
    feature which would persist on future Davion models of the Catapult.
    
    Despite there being absolutely nothing wrong with the design, the -7D was haunted by
    persistent rumors of ejection failure, catastrophic ammunition detonations, and other
    various issues-all entirely unfounded-which resulted in pilots, and shortly thereafter
    procurers, shunning the machine. Archernar would ultimately halt production of the -7D after
    less than a decade, and the design would be one of the few since the Catapult's return to
    production to be declared fully extinct-barely twenty years after its initial introduction.

Capabilities:
    Note: Possesses the No/Minimal Arms & Bad Reputation Design Quirks. Also possesses the
    Extinct (3090) Design Quirk.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 3.50                     
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:                                  192                    12.00                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      21             24       
    Center Torso (rear):                              11       
    R/L Torso:                         15             21       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  9       
    R/L Arm:                           10             20       
    R/L Leg:                           15             24       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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Guardian ECM Suite                                        CT                2          1.50             
CASE                                                      RT                1          0.50             
Enhanced LRM 15 (Ammo 16)                                 RT                2          2.00             
2 Jump Jets                                               RT                2          2.00             
2 Medium X-Pulse Lasers                                   RT                2          4.00             
CASE                                                      LT                1          0.50             
Enhanced LRM 15 (Ammo 16)                                 LT                2          2.00             
2 Jump Jets                                               LT                2          2.00             
2 Medium X-Pulse Lasers                                   LT                2          4.00             
Enhanced LRM 15                                           RA                6          9.00             
Enhanced LRM 15                                           LA                6          9.00             

Note: Equipped with Full-Head Ejection System

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 36
TP: BM,  SZ: 3,  TMM: 1,  MV: 8"j
Damage: (S) 3 / (M) 3 / (L) 2,  OV: 2
Armor (A): 6,  Structure (S): 3
Specials: CASE, ECM, IF2, LRM1/1/2
 
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