Here's a custom Nightstar variant I made to fit my old, converted, Talon Games Nightshade CAV. Just a simple design rework to make it WYSIWYG (Like removing the hands, a few Heat Sinks, and adding a set of CASE, some ECM. Oh, and the honking big gatling gun!! :D)
Probably not the most combat efficient variant, but who doesn't love a GIANT GATLING GUN??? 8)
** The fluff is that this mech is operated but the granddaughter of it's original owner, Captain Douglas Baker, who fought beside Stone in the Jihad. Then, it was a standard 9J. Unlike many vets of the war, Baker did not retire and give up his mech. He joined the fledgling Republican Guard as a company commander when the Repulic was established, and served with distinction until he retired to Galatia III, in Prefecture 3, at the age of 81. His son chose not to become a warrior and went into medicine instead, and the Nightstar (modified to the elder Baker's liking during his service) was leased to the planetary defence force to bolster its reserve units. But the mechs ownership stayed with the Baker family. In 3130, Emily Baker, Douglas Bakers granddaughter, graduated from the Northwind academy and returned home to her world as novice, but skilled, mechwarrior. She accepted a posting as a reservist serving part time in her family's mech, and spent her days working as the office manager of her father's private medical practice.
With the Black Out in 3132, Emily was activated to regular duty and the planetary defence force's mechs (only 4 of them including the Planetary Legate's personal Lament battlemech) were kept on constant standby. Emily saw her first combat only a few months later when "unknown raiders" (mercenaries hired by Jacob Bannson) established a hidden base in the wilds of the planets inner continent and spent the next two months raiding military, industrial, and civilian, targets all over the planet, seemingly at random.
She has proven her skill in her grandfather's machine time and again, however, the prolonged periods of combat and utter lack of resupply of materials to the planet since the Black Out means she has had to ration her severely depleted stockpile of Gauss and auto cannon ammunition. She has been considering removing the Rotary cannon and replacing it with a PPC, much like the mechs original configuration, to decrease her dependence on ammo, but there are no techs on the planet that she trust to have the know-how to perform such an extensive modification.
Nightstar NSR-9X-Baker
3058 IS Assault
Original: https://battletech.rpg.hu/mechfactory_frame.php?call=displaymech&id=136387
Source: My Own Custom /
Type/Model: Nightstar NSR-9X-Baker
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3058
Config: Biped BattleMech
Rules: Level 3, Advanced design
Mass: 95 tons
Chassis: Norse-GM HeavyTRQ Standard
Power Plant: 285 XL Fusion
Walking Speed: 32.4 km/h
Running Speed: 54.0 km/h
Armor Type: Kallon Royalstar Heavy Type K Standard Standard
Armament:
2 Medium Laser
1 Gauss Rifle
1 Guardian ECM Suite
1 Gauss Rifle
1 Rotary AC/5
Manufacturer: GM BattleMechs; Norse-Storm Technologies Inc.
Location: Kathil / FC (GM); Solaris VII / LA (NSTI)
Communications System: System: Tek BattleCom
Targeting and Tracking System: DLK Type Phased Array Sensor System
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Type/Model: Nightstar NSR-9X-Baker
Mass: 95 tons
Equipment: Crits Mass
Int. Struct.: 145 pts Standard 0 9.50
(Endo Steel Loc: 2 RA, 5 LT)
Engine: 285 XL Fusion 12 8.50
Walking MP: 3
Running MP: 5
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: 11 Double [22] 0 1.00
Gyro: 4 3.00
Cockpit, Life Supt., Sensors: 5 3.00
L: Sh+UA+LA R: Sh+UA+LA 6 0.00
Armor Factor: 293 Standard 0 18.50
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head: 3 9
Center Torso: 30 48
Center Torso (Rear): 12
L/R Side Torso: 20 32/32
L/R Side Torso (Rear): 8/8
L/R Arm: 16 32/32
L/R Leg: 20 40/40
Weapons and Equipment Loc Heat Ammo Crits Mass
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2 Medium Laser CT 6 2 2.00
1 Gauss Rifle LA 1 7 15.00
1 Guardian ECM Suite LT 0 2 1.50
1 Gauss Rifle RA 1 32 11 19.00
(Ammo Locations: 2 LT,2 RT)
1 Rotary AC/5 RT 1 60 9 13.00
(Ammo Locations: 3 LT)
CASE Equipment: LT,RT- 0 2 1.00
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TOTALS: 9 2 51.50
Crits and Tons Left: 10
Calculated Factors
Total Cost: 20,184,450 C-Bill
Battle Value (BV1):2123
Battle Value (BV2):2396
