Rotunda C
Mass: 10 tons
Movement Type: Wheeled
Power Plant: LTV 90 XL
Cruising Speed: 97 kph
Flank Speed: 146 kph
Armor: M2 Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
4 ER Small Lasers
1 Watchdog CEWS
Manufacturer: The Society
Primary Factory: Unknown/Classified
Communications System: SP/3 with Watchdog CEWS
Targeting and Tracking System: Hanover Sight 3090-K-I-T
Overview
When the Society emptied many Brain Caches during the rebellion they didn't use all of the recovered vehicles in combat, an example of was not used is the Rodunda Scout Vehicle, the reason for that was that it relied too much on it's disguise of being a civilian ground car, which wouldn't work in the HomeWorlds. But with the full relocation of the Society to the Inner Sphere it became practical again to put the Rodunda to use.
Capabilities
Not wanting to use a design with outdated technology, the Society decided to refit and update the design to better fit the needs of their agents and intervention teams. The extensive refit left almost nothing unchanged, creating an almost completely different vehicle. The fusion engine was replaced with a Clan-grade extra-light model, the armament was replaced with four ER Small Lasers, and a Watchdog CEWS was added to improve its usefulness as a scout. The resulting weight reductions allowed for the armor protected to be massively increased and the total weight to be reduced by ten tons. The reduced tonnage of the Rodunda C solved the old technical issues, freed-up more internal room for the one-person crew, while also deducing the chances of it being discovered.
The original Rotunda was almost never used in vehicular combat as it was a glass cannon that could not survive return fire from heavy weapons, but the current version has functional armor and only close range weapons, thus making it more of a knife-fighter.
Deployment
Examples of this design has been deliberately spread to the various Clan Watch agencies in order to create enough doubt and plausible deniability.
Variants
Like with the original Rotunda, there are no official variants, but there is a large range of body kits available for changing the shape and appearance of the vehicle to fool observers. The designers of the Rotunda C even went so far as to make it easier to exchange the outer body panels, allowing a very fast switch when using a pit-stop arrangement.
Notable Crew
“Racer” James Knight: Used an unique “CX” variant of which exchanged the armament for a higher rated XXL engine, pushing it up to 345 km/h, and armed with one Improved Heavy Medium Laser. This engine upgrade was extreme enough to make it ideal for extracting valuable contacts.
During one such extraction mission James had to flee from a large group of drones, later identified as Celerity drones, the first few drones were turned into scrap by the heavy laser. The ones chasing him managed to keep up with the CX, until eventually their legs came apart. The last obstacle of the mission was one drone that predicted the route and had positioned itself to block James, but it ended up as a 'Mech -scale bowling pin.
Rotunda C
Mass: 10 tons
Tech Base: Clan
Motive Type: Wheeled
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: Dark Ages
Tech Rating/Era Availability: X/X-X-X-A
Production Year: 0
Cost: 1.088.500 C-Bills
Battle Value: 549
Power Plant: 70 Fusion XL Engine
Cruise Speed: 97,2 km/h
Flanking Speed: 151,2 km/h
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
4 ER Small Lasers
1 Watchdog CEWS
1 Unknown CASE
Manufacturer:
Primary Factory:
Communications System:
Targeting and Tracking System:
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 4 points 1,00
Engine: XL Fusion Engine 70 1,50
Cruise MP: 9
Flank MP: 14
Heat Sinks: Single Heat Sink 10 0,00
Control Equipment: 0,50
Lift Equipment: 0,00
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous AV - 67 3,50
Armor
Factor
Front 20
Left/Right 16/16
Rear 15
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Equipment Location Heat Spaces Mass
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4 ER Small Lasers FR 8 4 2,00
Watchdog CEWS BD 0 1 1,50
CASE BD - 0 0,00
BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 2 Points: 5
9w 2 2 0 0 1 0 Structure: 0
Special Abilities: WAT, ENE
Rotunda CX
Mass: 10 tons
Tech Base: Clan
Motive Type: Wheeled
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: Dark Ages
Tech Rating/Era Availability: X/X-X-X-A
Production Year: 3132
Cost: 2.959.250 C-Bills
Battle Value: 693
Power Plant: 190 XXL Fusion Engine
Cruise Speed: 226,8 km/h
Flanking Speed: 345,6 km/h
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
1 Imp. Hvy Medium Laser
1 Unknown CASE
Manufacturer:
Primary Factory:
Communications System:
Targeting and Tracking System:
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Internal Structure: Standard 4 points 1,00
Engine: XXL Fusion Engine 190 4,00
Cruise MP: 21
Flank MP: 32
Heat Sinks: Single Heat Sink 10 0,00
Control Equipment: 0,50
Lift Equipment: 0,00
Armor: Ferro-Fibrous AV - 67 3,50
Armor
Factor
Front 20
Left/Right 16/16
Rear 15
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Equipment Location Heat Spaces Mass
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Imp. Hvy Medium Laser FR 7 1 1,00
CASE BD - 0 0,00
BattleForce Statistics
MV S (+0) M (+2) L (+4) E (+6) Wt. Ov Armor: 2 Points: 7
21w 1 1 0 0 1 0 Structure: 0
Special Abilities: CASE, ENE