We Found it on New Dallas

[wolfgar]

We Found it on New Dallas
For those of you who haven’t read the write up on New Dallas, the planet had a boneyard where they stored their outdated equipment that was hidden when the nuke that destroyed the capitol city went off and dropped a building on top of the entrance to the old, pre-terraforming living areas. In the lead up to this, much of the modern, or even semi-modern tech was used up fighting the Combine, the Capellans and the League. What I’m looking for here is Retro-tech. Something that would fit in the early to middle Age of War aesthetic, and for each class, I’m going to give an example of what that could be. I request submissions of what you would expect to find in such a site.

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BLT-01 Bullet

Mass: 25 tons
Frame: Unknown
Power Plant: 180 Fusion
Cruising Speed: 86.4 kph
Maximum Speed: 129.6 kph
Armor: Primitive Fighter
Armament:
     3 Medium Laser
Manufacturer: Unknown
     Primary Factory: Unknown
Communication System: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown
Introduction Year: 2470
Tech Rating/Availability: D/D-X-X-F
Cost: 1,340,156 C-bills

Type: BLT-01
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Advanced)
Tonnage: 25
Battle Value: 439

Equipment                                          Mass
Engine                        180 Fusion              7
Safe Thrust: 8
Max Thrust: 12
Structural Integrity:         8                       
Heat Sinks:                   10                      0
Fuel:                         400                   5.0
Primitive Cockpit                                     5
Armor Factor (Primitive Fighter)53                      5

                           Armor   
                           Value   
     Nose                    15   
     Wings                 14/14   
     Aft                     10   


Weapons
and Ammo              Location   Tonnage  Heat   SRV  MRV  LRV  ERV
Medium Laser            NOS       1.0      3      5    0    0    0 
Medium Laser            RWG       1.0      3      5    0    0    0 
Medium Laser            LWG       1.0      3      5    0    0    0 



The BLT-01 Bullet is a high speed interceptor capable of deploying one nuclear armed ASM per flight, it is backed up by three standard medium lasers for dogfighting.

[Vehrec]

How about a nuclear salt water/minimag orion/plasma-core fission drive?  For someone who can't build fusion drives locally, these options might be attractive, if you don't mind quickly/slowly irradiating what you're fighting over.  However, I don't think the RAW support such things, especially for ASFs/smallcraft.

Instead, let's have a typical War of Persuasion era assault shuttle, designed to saturate enemy PD networks and overwhelm the ability of early warships to defend.  too bad about the low speed though...

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Hailstorm Assault Shuttle
Type: Military Aerodyne
Mass: 190 tons
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Standard)
Introduced: 2270
Mass: 190
Battle Value: 1,055
Tech Rating/Availability: D/D-X-X-X
Cost: 12,512,574 C-bills

Fuel: 8 tons (426)
Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Heat Sinks: 18
Structural Integrity: 6

Armor
    Nose: 67
    Sides: 57/57
    Aft: 46

Cargo
    Bay 1:  Cargo (1.5 tons)        1 Door   

Ammunition:
    12 rounds of RL 20 ammunition (12 tons),
    200 rounds of Machine Gun ammunition (1 tons)

Escape Pods: 0
Life Boats: 0
Crew:  2 officers, 1 enlisted/non-rated, 5 gunners

Notes: Mounts 20 tons of primitive aerospace armor.

Weapons
and Ammo                          Location   Tonnage  Heat   SRV  MRV  LRV  ERV
12 Prototype Rocket Launcher 20    R Wing     18.0     5     12   12    0    0 
12 Prototype Rocket Launcher 20    L Wing     18.0     5     12   12    0    0 
Machine Gun                         Nose      0.5      0      2    0    0    0 



[wolfgar]

interesting, thats a good one, would work well with these two

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EGL-01 Eagle



Mass: 50 tons

Frame: Unknown

Power Plant: 180 Fusion

Cruising Speed: 54 kph

Maximum Speed: 86.4 kph

Armor: Primitive Fighter

Armament:

     1 Rifle (Cannon, Heavy)

     2 Primitive Prototype Medium Laser

     2 Primitive Prototype LRM 5

Manufacturer: Unknown

     Primary Factory: Unknown

Communication System: Unknown

Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown

Introduction Year: 2470

Tech Rating/Availability: E/F-X-X-X

Cost: 2,193,125 C-bills



Type: EGL-01

Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Experimental)

Tonnage: 50

Battle Value: 604



Equipment                                          Mass

Engine                        180 Fusion              7

    Safe Thrust: 5

    Max Thrust: 8

Structural Integrity:         5                     

Heat Sinks:                   16                      6

Fuel:                         400                   5.0

Primitive Cockpit                                     5

Armor Factor (Primitive Fighter)64                      6



                           Armor

                           Value

     Nose                    20 

     Wings                 16/16

     Aft                     12 





Weapons

and Ammo                              Location   Tonnage  Heat   SRV  MRV  LRV  ERV

Advanced Fire Control                   NOS       1.5      -      -    -    -    -

Rifle                                   NOS       8.0      4      4    8    8    8

Primitive Prototype LRM 5               RWG       2.0      2      3    3    3    0

Primitive Prototype Medium Laser        RWG       1.0      5      5    0    0    0

Heavy Rifle Ammo (18)                   FSLG      3.0      -      -    -    -    -

CASE-P                                  FSLG      0.5      -      -    -    -    -

Primitive Prototype LRM 5 Ammo (36)     FSLG      2.0      -      -    -    -    -

Primitive Prototype LRM 5               LWG       2.0      2      3    3    3    0

Primitive Prototype Medium Laser        LWG       1.0      5      5    0    0    0






The EGL-01 Eagle Strike fighter was intended for close air support and attacking grounded dropships to lame them and keep the enemy from retreating, Conversely it was also used as an escort for the HRN-01 Harington Assault Shuttle when the latter was delivering Marines to dropships or jumpships

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HRN-01 Harrington Assault Shuttle

Type: Military Aerodyne

Mass: 200 tons

Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Experimental)

Introduced: 2470

Mass: 200

Battle Value: 824

Tech Rating/Availability: D/F-X-X-X

Cost: 14,612,242 C-bills



Fuel: 10 tons (666)

Safe Thrust: 6

Maximum Thrust: 9

Heat Sinks: 12

Structural Integrity: 10



Armor

    Nose: 54

    Sides: 46/46

    Aft: 38



Cargo

    None



Ammunition:

    36 rounds of Primitive Prototype LRM 5 ammunition (2 tons),

    18 rounds of Light Rifle ammunition (1 tons)



Escape Pods: 1

Life Boats: 0

Crew:  1 officer, 2 enlisted/non-rated, 1 gunner       



Notes: Mounts 15 tons of primitive aerospace armor.



Weapons

and Ammo                          Location   Tonnage  Heat   SRV  MRV  LRV  ERV   

Primitive Prototype LRM 5          R Wing     2.0      2      3    3    3    0

Primitive Prototype LRM 5          L Wing     2.0      2      3    3    3    0

Primitive Prototype Large Laser     Nose      5.0      12     8    8    0    0

Rifle                               Nose      3.0      1      4    8    8    8

Satellite Imager                    Hull      5.0      -      -    -    -    -

Satellite Imager                    Hull      5.0      -      -    -    -    -

Satellite Imager                    Hull      2.5      -      -    -    -    -

   






Used to deploy Platoons of Marines to underway dropships and jumpships, the HRN-01 Harrington could also be used for suborbital insertion of the same Marines as well as mapping and survey work