no it was extensively refitted and rebuilt back into a 'stock' ON-1K. prior to be stripped of basically everything but the cockpit and frame to be dumped durign the exodus, it had been a ON1-K Kerensky, which had been a pimped out heavily customized ride for kerensky, getting rid of most of the Orion's normal weaponry (the LRM15 and AC10) for a snub-PPC, guass rifle, and the addition of artemisIV to the SRms, and which mounted ferrofibrous armor and CASE. basically the only thing of kerensky's ON-1K that was "stock" was the pair of medium lasers, the engine, and the frame. the discoverers were able to trace serial numbers and such to identify it as the remains of kerensky's mech, and Theodore's aunt had the remains sent to Kali Yama Weapons Industries in the FWL to be rebuilt into a normal succession wars ON-1K.
during the 4th succession wars, Theodore had to leave the mech behind as part of a ploy to disguise the fact he'd left the planet the Legion of Vega was defending, marfik, and seek reinforcements to relieve them and blunt a lyran invasion of the combine. as part of this ploy one of his unit commanders drove the machine posing as him. in the course of events, the Lyrans ambushed the Legion of Vega command team and crippled the Orion, only to discover the deception. the mech was not functional at that point, but certainly had been in repairable condition.
somewhere between that point and the clan invasion the cockpit from that mech made its way into a museum, which is where the scorpions found it. presumably because someone realized the historical value of the mech, and wanted to preserve part of it. my speculation is that the Lyran unit parted out the mech to repair its own ON-1K Orion's, and the cockpit was the only part left by the time the historical value was recognized.
