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Name/Model:         Catapult CAT-8D
Designer:           Mechworks
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            65
Role:               Missile Boat
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Dark Age / 3087
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Advanced
Total Cost:         15,879,875 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,579

Chassis:              Avalon Type V Super Rugged Reinforced
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:                Valiant Plate Heavy Ferro-Fibrous with CASE II
Armament:             
    2 Federated Ten-Shot Super-X Extended LRM 10s
    3 ExoStar Pinnacle ER Medium Lasers
Manufacturer:         Achernar BattleMechs
    Primary Factory:  New Avalon
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    across the entire Inner Sphere, and the original design would be superseded by advanced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.
    
    Shortly after the conclusion of the Jihad, the poor reception of the -7D resulted in the
    rapid release of the -8D, which returned the platform to a pure artillery piece. Two
    Extended long range missile launchers with ten tubes were fitted to the design, allowing a
    previously unimaginable engagement envelope, while three Extended Range medium lasers
    covered the unit at close range. The -8D was also built with a heavily reinforced internal
    structure, greatly mitigating the vulnerability of its Extra Light engine, and used Heavy
    Ferro-Fiberious Armor to provide even slightly improved durability at only ten tons of mass.
    Ten double heat sinks manage the design's heat reasonably well, and both ammunition bins are
    protected by advanced CASE II systems in the event of ammunition detonations. Like the -7D,
    the -8D features a whole-cockpit ejection system that can considerably improve pilot
    survivability in hostile conditions, preferred due to the widespread use of nuclear,
    biological, and chemical arms by the Word of Blake.

Capabilities:
    Note: Possesses the No/Minimal Arms Design Quirk.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Reinforced                13.00                     
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:                                  198                    10.00                     
    Type:                              Heavy 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             25       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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ER Medium Laser                                           CT                1          1.00             
CASE II                                                   RT                1          1.00             
ER Medium Laser                                           RT                1          1.00             
Extended LRM 10 (Ammo 18)                                 RT                2          2.00             
2 Jump Jets                                               RT                2          2.00             
CASE II                                                   LT                1          1.00             
ER Medium Laser                                           LT                1          1.00             
Extended LRM 10 (Ammo 18)                                 LT                2          2.00             
2 Jump Jets                                               LT                2          2.00             
Extended LRM 10                                           RA                4          8.00             
Extended LRM 10                                           LA                4          8.00             

Note: Equipped with Full-Head Ejection System

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 35
TP: BM,  SZ: 3,  TMM: 1,  MV: 8"j
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 2 / (L) 2,  OV: 1
Armor (A): 7,  Structure (S): 6
Specials: CASEII, IF1
 
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