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Name/Model:         Charger CGR-3Dω
Designer:           Festy_Dog
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            80
Role:               Skirmisher
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Dark Age / 3099
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         24,158,040 C-Bills
Battle Value:       2,116

Chassis:              Endo Steel
Power Plant:          400 XL
Walking Speed:        54 kph    [64.8 kph]
Maximum Speed:        86.4 kph  [97.2 kph]
Jump Jets:            Standard
    Jump Capacity:    150 meters
Armor:                Standard
Armament:             
    2 Snub-Nose PPCs
    2 Medium X-Pulse Lasers
Manufacturer:         Promethean Armouries
    Primary Factory:  PA Loxley Campus, PA Ravensbourne Campus
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    "Is it a LAM? Is it a plane? No! It's a Charger!" recited the hilarious, tongue-in-cheek
    advert playing at the Promethean Armouries booth at the 3095 Solaris Military Expo. The
    CRG-3D was an inside joke that evolved into a halo mech, "An 80 ton wrecking ball that flies
    better than a mech half it's weight!"
    
    The -3D's life began as a skunkworks project that Erika Inōe and a handful of her peers
    drew up to present to then CEO Conrad Clausewitz as a birthday present. When they handed him
    the demonstration miniature he took such a liking to it that he greenlit the design for
    actual production.
    
    PA's -3D variants are likely the most expensive Chargers ever put into production, but when
    offered as a "Built-to-Order" catalogue item the initial outlay on PA's part wasn't an
    over-commitment. PA never intended widespread adoption so the design spent it's existence as
    one of their specialty products. Slow and steady 3D-printing of endosteel structure was PA's
    primary advantage. PA's electronics subsidiary licensed the Angel ECM design for production
    at their own facility. Everything else was purchased from their usual partners.
    
    When notable Solaris jock, Ariston Peri, commissioned a bespoke variant of the -3D from
    Promethean Armouries some of the team who worked on it got ideas that could be implemented
    into a new -3D variant. The omega entered production in 3099, three years after the
    original. The original was then re-designated the "alpha".
    
    In an unfortunate turn of events Ariston died in a motorcycle accident days before receiving
    the bespoke Charger. The mech went on to be auctioned by Ariston's estate, fetching the
    highest price ever payed for an individual Promethean Armouries machine.

Capabilities:
    The most agile assault mech in the Inner Sphere, or at least that's what Promethean
    Armouries claim. The omega variant lost a little mobility in downgrading to standard jump
    jets but 150m range was still nothing to sneeze at.
    
    The -3Dω has enough mobility and armour to get into the opfor's face and a six ton axe. Two
    torso lasers were upgraded to snub PPCs. The C3 and ECM of the alpha is sacrificed to
    facilitate the brutal spectacle that comes from a highly mobile assault mech with an axe.
    
    Both variants are victim to the curse of machines at the highest levels of performance:
    frequent, inconvenient maintenance and an array of high-stress parts to monitor that can
    only be replaced through PA. While PA's replacement parts are very affordable, production
    takes longer than other manufacturers and delivery can be tedious. In most cases the same
    parts from older model Chargers can fit right in but as they are not designed to the same
    tolerances as as the -3D versions they either wear out much quicker and/or end up failing
    catastrophically under stresses they weren't designed for.

Variants:
    Promethean Armouries never intended to offer another variant of the -3D but were inspired by
    a bespoke machine requested by a Solaris arena pilot, thus the -3Dω. Superficially, the two
    variants are easy enough to tell apart. The more meaningful difference lives under the skin.
    
    During the development process it was found that the -3Dα's endo-composite structure would
    be unsuitable for the -3Dω. Management were not pleased as this necessitated an expensive
    deviation from the intended plan of the Alpha and Omega sharing one endo-composite
    architecture. The Omega project was almost cancelled but PA's wunderkind, Erika Inōe,
    stepped away from another project she was working on at the time to spearhead developing a
    modular architecture using stress maps of the testbeds' architecture. She had a special
    insight into this after serving as the lead engineer on the -3Dα.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 4.00                     
Engine:                                       400 XL                  26.50                     
    Walking MP:                               5 [6]                                             
    Running MP:                               8 [9]                                             
    Jumping MP:                                 5                                               
Heat Sinks (Double):                         12 [24]                   2.00                     
Gyro:                                           XL                     2.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  247                    15.50                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      25             38       
    Center Torso (rear):                              12       
    R/L Torso:                         17             26       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  8       
    R/L Arm:                           13             26       
    R/L Leg:                           17             34       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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2 Jump Jets                                               RT                2          2.00             
Medium X-Pulse Laser                                      RT                1          2.00             
Snub-Nose PPC                                             RT                2          6.00             
Jump Jet                                                  LT                1          1.00             
Medium X-Pulse Laser                                      LT                1          2.00             
Snub-Nose PPC                                             LT                2          6.00             
Hatchet                                                   RA                6          6.00             
Jump Jet                                                  RL                1          1.00             
Jump Jet                                                  LL                1          1.00             
Triple-Strength Myomer                                    --                6          0.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 39
TP: BM,  SZ: 4,  TMM: 2,  MV: 10"j
Damage: (S) 3 / (M) 2 / (L) 0,  OV: 1
Armor (A): 8,  Structure (S): 4
Specials: ENE, MEL, TSM
 
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