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Name/Model:         Guillotine GLT-3P
Designer:           Festy_Dog
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            70
Role:               Skirmisher
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Succession Wars / 2979
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard (Extinct)
Total Cost:         6,404,183 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,442

Chassis:              Endo Steel
Power Plant:          280 Fusion
Walking Speed:        43.2 kph  
Maximum Speed:        64.8 kph  
Jump Jets:            Standard
    Jump Capacity:    120 meters
Armor:                Standard with CASE
Armament:             
    1 PPC
    1 SRM 6
    4 Medium Lasers
Manufacturer:         Ravensbourne Specialist Engineering
    Primary Factory:  RSE Loxley Ironworks
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    The Guillotine -4P2/-3P was Ravensbourne Specialist Engineering's second mass production
    model. CEO of the period, Gertrude Clausewitz, decided the Guillotine was the best option
    for the next step in scaling up their Loxley facility's capabilities. The fact that the
    proposed variant was pitched as the GLT-4P2 (not unlike the HBK-4P2 also in production) is
    thought to be a major factor in the CEO's decision. Gertrude declared that it was a sign of
    good fortune for the mass production models to have "conceptual resonance" and referring to
    them as the "eldest siblings".
    
    In actuality, the -4P2 was much more closely related to the -3N than the -4P. RSE's
    marketing and engineering departments pushed hard to have RSE's first Guillotine designated
    the -3P to create a sense of continuity from the Star League era Lostech variant, true to
    RSE's brand image of expertise with Lostech (the "-3" of the Lostech variant and the "P" for
    carrying a PPC). Gertrude couldn't be budged, and the -4P designation stuck until the early
    31st century when Gertrude was eventually succeeded by her daughter. The designation was
    changed officially as part of RSE spinning off "Promethean Armouries" as a dedicated
    battlemech manufacturing subsidiary.
    
    Production of Guillotines meant that the other mass production lines also proposed during
    the same board meeting (Archer and Jenner primarily, but plans for Commando and Locust were
    also presented) were somewhat delayed. Long term success of the Guillotine did lead to the
    Loxley campus staged expansions to encompass additional manufacturing lines.
    
    Like with the HBK-4P2, RSA was able to edge out their competition through having not only
    preserved and maintained their ability to produce and work with endosteel during the
    Succession Wars but develop much more advanced methods of working with endosteel, comparable
    to a kind of 3D printing. Unfortunately, it would be nearly a century before their endosteel
    production would meet volume targets that would allow them to bid on major contracts.
    
    The use of endosteel in their mechs' construction was never divulged to the general public
    as a security measure to protect RSE facilities and intellectual property. This came at the
    cost of detractors claiming that RSE exaggerated their products' performance. RSE would be
    vindicated time and again by independent testing, but the secrecy around their technology
    and production methods created a mystique that intrigued mech nerds thereafter. Once use of
    endosteel became commonplace again RSE started boasting their proprietary endosteel alloy,
    forge technology and construction methods.

Capabilities:
    RSE's GLT-4P2/-3P boasted better cooling and more armour than it's venerable -4P
    predecessor. It didn't do anything particularly special or different compared to the -4P, it
    just did the same things slightly better and made the pilot a little more comfortable.

Variants:
    The -4P2/-3P would eventually be succeeded by the -3P2 once RSE had figured out their own
    double heat sink production line. By this point RSE's battlemech production was under the
    Promethean Armouries sub-brand but parts production, endosteel fabrication, lostech repairs
    and other niche services remained under the Ravensbourne Specialist Engineering label.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 3.50                     
Engine:                                     280 Fusion                16.00                     
    Walking MP:                                 4                                               
    Running MP:                                 6                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 4                                               
Heat Sinks (Single):                            24                    14.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  3.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  176                    11.00                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      22             22       
    Center Torso (rear):                               5       
    R/L Torso:                         15             22       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  5       
    R/L Arm:                           11             21       
    R/L Leg:                           15             22       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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SRM 6                                                     CT                2          3.00             
CASE                                                      RT                1          0.50             
2 Jump Jets                                               RT                2          2.00             
Medium Laser                                              RT                1          1.00             
SRM 6 (Ammo 15)                                           RT                1          1.00             
2 Jump Jets                                               LT                2          2.00             
Medium Laser                                              LT                1          1.00             
2 Medium Lasers                                           RA                2          2.00             
PPC                                                       LA                3          7.00             

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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) 4 / (M) 4 / (L) 1,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 6,  Structure (S): 6
Specials: CASE
 
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