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Name/Model:         Fafnir FNR-5C
Designer:           09-Tyba
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            100
Role:               Brawler
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Civil War / 3063
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         11,168,000 C-Bills
Battle Value:       2,472

Chassis:              Foundation Type 220 Endo Steel
Power Plant:          Vlar 300 
Walking Speed:        32.4 kph  
Maximum Speed:        54 kph    
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Durallex Heavy Special V2 with CASE
Armament:             
    1 Defiance Hammerfist Heavy Gauss Rifle
    1 FarFire Maxi-Rack LRM 20 w/ Artemis IV FCS
    2 Defiance Model 6 ER Large Lasers
    2 RAMTech 1500Z ER Medium Lasers
Manufacturer:         Defiance Industries
    Primary Factory:  Hesperus II
Communications:       Angst Discom
Targeting & Tracking: Angst Accuracy

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Overview:
    Imported from fan-made TRO:3063, organized and directed by Steve Satak. Which of the writing
    team created this mech is unknown.
    
    The Fafnir has become a sensation within the Lyran Alliance. Defiance Industries? new
    assault ?Mech appears everywhere, from Armed Forces recruiting posters to the upscale toy
    stores of New Olympia City. Even Steiner MechWarriors are not immune - they affectionately
    refer to the Fafnir as ?the Mugger?.
    
    Planners at the Military?s Strategies and Tactics Division, however, are not so sanguine.
    While they concede that the Fafnir is a powerful war machine, they remain unsure whether it
    is too specialized to effectively replace older, more versatile designs such as the Atlas
    and Banshee. For this reason they are exploring variants that would supplement the FNR-5
    model. One particularly fascinating take on the design is the prototype FNR-5C.

Capabilities:
    The greatest strength of the Fafnir is also this BattleMech?s weakness: twin Defiance
    Hammerfist heavy Gauss rifles. The weapon?s price, the shortage of its unique ammunition and
    their decreasing effect over distance restricts the mission profile of the standard model.
    With most of the available tonnage dedicated to housing these massive new cannons, the
    Fafnir can carry only a token array of secondary weapons. Three medium lasers, even modern
    versions, are hardly suitable back-up armaments for a hundred-ton BattleMech.
    
    Balking at variants such as the FNR-6B, the engineers behind the FNR-5C were unwilling to
    completely replace the Hammerfist cannons. They reasoned that the heavy Gauss rifle, a
    weapon unique to House Steiner, exerts a commanding presence on the battlefield. With this
    in mind, they reached a compromise: retain one Hammerfist and dedicate the remaining space
    to an expanded array of secondary weapons.
    
    The cavity which originally housed the right torso?s heavy Gauss rifle now carries a FarFire
    Maxi Rack twenty-tube launcher enhanced with Artemis IV fire control. The FarFire gives a
    Fafnir pilot considerable reach as well as indirect fire capability while conserving the
    primary weapon?s precious ammunition for closer, easier targets.
    
    To avoid simply exchanging one ammunition dependency for another, the FNR-5C also carries
    two Defiance Model 6 extended range large lasers, mounted one to each arm and accompanied by
    two Defiance Model XII extended range medium lasers. Pilots are encouraged to make heavy use
    of these energy systems on long campaigns, minimizing the need to reload. Four additional
    double heat sinks have been installed to offset the additional heat.
    
    The Fafnir FNR-5C has not been without its teething problems. Replacing the right torso?s
    heavy Gauss rifle with a lighter missile launcher has unbalanced the design. Engineers
    concentrated ammunition behind the FarFire Maxi to compensate, but the uneven mass requires
    intensive pilot training to correct. Trials suggest the Fafnir?s gyro and feedback systems
    may also need more frequent service and recalibration. Such adjustments are routine for
    factory technicians, but are problematic to attempt under field conditions.
    
    Finally, removal of the stock unit?s Guardian ECM has made the FNR-5C more vulnerable to
    electronic warfare.

Deployment:
    Select FNR-5Cs have been deployed to the Fifteenth Lyran Guard, based on Defiance
    Industries? homeworld of Hesperus II. ?The Death or Glory Boys?intend to put this new
    variant through its paces, assigning it on a volunteer basis to MechWarriors who have
    experience with assault Mechs such as the BLR-3S Battlemaster.
    
    The effectiveness of the new Fafnir pilot training program will most likely determine how
    many of these machines undergo conversion.

Variants:
    The LAAF currently considers the two existing variants, the 5A and 5C, sufficient for their
    needs.

Notable MechWarriors:
    Duke Gunther Wulfschild
    
    Played by heartthrob actor Victor Karloff, Gunther Wulfschild is the main character of
    Tharkan Media Associates? ?Wulfschild? action adventure series. ?Gunther? has piloted a
    succession of different ?Mechs, most of them in the heavy and assault class. During a recent
    story arc, treacherous Davion agents forced him to eject from his savaged Hauptmann OmniMech
    and cornered him in a ?Mech testing bay. Stumbling across an experimental Fafnir FNR-5C,
    Gunther quickly commandeered the ?Mech to turn the tables on his pursuers. The character?s
    adventures while piloting the Fafnir span several episodes and have attracted millions of
    new viewers.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 5.00                     
Engine:                                     300 Fusion                19.00                     
    Walking MP:                                 3                                               
    Running MP:                                 5                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Double):                         14 [28]                   4.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  3.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  304                    19.00                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      31             48       
    Center Torso (rear):                              11       
    R/L Torso:                         21             34       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  8       
    R/L Arm:                           17             34       
    R/L Leg:                           21             42       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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CASE                                                      RT                1          0.50             
Heavy Gauss Rifle (Ammo 12)                               RT                3          3.00             
LRM 20 w/ Artemis IV FCS                                  RT                6         11.00             
LRM 20 (Ammo 12) [Artemis IV]                             RT                2          2.00             
CASE                                                      LT                1          0.50             
Heavy Gauss Rifle                                         LT                11        18.00             
ER Large Laser                                            RA                2          5.00             
ER Medium Laser                                           RA                1          1.00             
ER Large Laser                                            LA                2          5.00             
ER Medium Laser                                           LA                1          1.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 54
TP: BM,  SZ: 4,  TMM: 1,  MV: 6"
Damage: (S) 4 / (M) 5 / (L) 3,  OV: 2
Armor (A): 10,  Structure (S): 8
Specials: CASE, IF1, OVL
 
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