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Name/Model:         Catapult CAT-5T
Designer:           Mechworks
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            65
Role:               Missile Boat
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Clan Invasion / 3055
Rules (Current):    Experimental (Extinct)
Rules (Era):        Experimental (Extinct)
Rules (Year):       Experimental (Extinct)
Total Cost:         6,182,825 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,150

Chassis:              TTI Type 2 Mark I Endo Steel (Prototype)
Power Plant:          Vlar 260 
Walking Speed:        43.2 kph  
Maximum Speed:        64.8 kph  
Jump Jets:            Rawlings 55 
    Jump Capacity:    120 meters
Armor:                Durallex Heavy with CASE (Prototype)
Armament:             
    3 Diverse Optics Type 18 Medium Lasers
    8 TTI ALM-62 "Piratebuster" 'Mech Mortar/1s
Manufacturer:         Taurus Territorial Industries
    Primary Factory:  Taurus
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    across the entire Inner Sphere, and the original design would be superseded by advanced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.
    
    When the Taurian Concordant was able to secure a copy of the Helm Memory Core, they
    possessed an advantage that few other realms in the Inner Sphere could boast: a robust and
    widespread education system. Consequently, rather than sequestering the core in some
    ultra-secure military college or research blacksite, then-Protector Thomas Calderon simply
    ordered additional copies made and distributed to every college, university and high school
    in the Concordant. This move would pay off: only a few decades later, the Concordant was
    able to produce a raft of technologies that, whilst ultimately dead ends in development,
    could in a few ways almost rival the advanced technology of the Star League.
    
    The Catapult -5T model is a result of this research, most prominently being built on a
    composite frame similar in performance to some early formulations of Endo Steel, though
    requiring far less industrial investment to produce. As the Concordant was more concerned
    with suppressing pirates and raiders rather than heavy armor at the time, the original
    missile launchers are replaced with quad-pack autoloading mortars, each fed by a two-ton
    ammunition bin protected by a home grown semi-active explosion suppressor roughly equivalent
    to early model CASE, those one medium laser had to be removed to do so, and it also carries
    two experimental laser-based cooling systems essentially equivalent to the double heat sink
    prototype designs developed by the New Avalon Institute of Science some few decades earlier.
    
    As the CAT-5T manufacturing plant was located (along with much of the other "Mid-Tech"
    manufacturing) in a satellite campus some twenty miles from Samantha, it would survive the
    complete destruction of the main TTI campus during the Jihad and remains in production to
    this day.

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

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                   Endo Steel (Prototype)           3.50                     
Engine:                                     260 Fusion                13.50                     
    Walking MP:                                 4                                               
    Running MP:                                 6                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 4                                               
Heat Sinks (Single):                       10 + 2 [14]                 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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Medium Laser                                              CT                1          1.00             
'Mech Mortar/1 (Ammo 48) [Airburst]                       RT                2          2.00             
CASE (Prototype)                                          RT                1          0.50             
Double Heat Sink (Prototype)                              RT                3          1.00             
2 Jump Jets                                               RT                2          2.00             
Medium Laser                                              RT                1          1.00             
'Mech Mortar/1 (Ammo 48) [Airburst]                       LT                2          2.00             
CASE (Prototype)                                          LT                1          0.50             
Double Heat Sink (Prototype)                              LT                3          1.00             
2 Jump Jets                                               LT                2          2.00             
Medium Laser                                              LT                1          1.00             
4 'Mech Mortar/1s                                         RA                4          8.00             
4 'Mech Mortar/1s                                         LA                4          8.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 33
TP: BM,  SZ: 3,  TMM: 1,  MV: 8"j
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 3 / (L) 2,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 6,  Structure (S): 5
Specials: CASEP, IF1
 
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