BattleMech Technical Readout
Name/Model: Wasp WSP-2S
Designer: Beaubot
Source(s): Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology: Inner Sphere
Technology Rating: E
Tonnage: 20
Role: Scout
Configuration: Biped BattleMech
Era/Year: Jihad / 3080
Rules (Current): Standard
Rules (Era): Standard
Rules (Year): Standard
Total Cost: 2,517,120 C-Bills
Battle Value: 396
Chassis: Endo Steel
Power Plant: 120 XL
Walking Speed: 64.8 kph
Maximum Speed: 97.2 kph
Jump Jets: Standard
Jump Capacity: 180 meters
Armor: Light Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
1 SRM 4
1 Small VSP Laser
Manufacturer: Defiance Industries
Primary Factory: Furillo
Communications: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown
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Overview:
With thousands of Wasps in service and more than 100 new ones marching off the assembly line
every year, this 'Mech is one of the most common in the Inner Sphere and Periphery. The use
of recovered technology can only prolong the service life of this design. Free Wolds League
factories account for almost half of the new Wasps every year, and the plants on Shiro III
and Kalidasa are in the midst of a major retooling to produce the WSP-3M model. Employing
Endo Steel and Ferro-Fibrous armor for lightness, the 'Mech will trade its medium laser for
a more potent medium pulse laser. Even with the stronger armor, reducing its overall armor
weight by half a ton makes the Wasp a bit more vulnerable, but Cellular Ammunition Storage
Equipment for the missile reloads more than offsets that weakness.
Defiance Industries at Furillo produces the model that will become standard in the
Federated Commonwealth, a model that has started to appear in the new F-C units. Though
carrying a medium pulse laser like the WSP-3M, the WSP-1S trades the missile launcher for
two Defiance B3S Small Lasers and a Zippo Flamer. This eliminates the need for CASE,
allowing the Steiner version to carry half a ton more armor.
Yet another model just reaching production is the WSP-3W coming out of the Archenar
BattleMechs factory on New Avalon under a contract from Wolf's Dragoons. This unusual
design lacks the Endo Steel of the WSP-3M, does not need CASE, and carries only two tons of
armor. Its weapons consist of two Sutel Precision Line Small Pulse Lasers in the right arm
and four ChisComp 32 Small Lasers, two each in the left leg and left torso.
Four factories in the Periphery continue to produce the WSP-1A, Taurian Territorial
Industries (Taurus) and Pinard Protectorates Limited (Perdition) in the Taurian Concordat,
Majesty Metals and Manufacturing at Canopus IV in the Magistracy of Canopus, and Alliance
Defenders Limited at Alpheratz in the Outworlds Alliance.
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Equipment Mass
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Internal Structure: Endo Steel 1.00
Engine: 120 XL 2.00
Walking MP: 6
Running MP: 9
Jumping MP: 6
Heat Sinks (Single): 10 0.00
Gyro: XL 1.00
Cockpit: Standard 3.00
Armor Factor: 67 4.00
Type: Light Ferro-Fibrous
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head: 3 9
Center Torso: 6 8
Center Torso (rear): 2
R/L Torso: 5 8
R/L Torso (rear): 2
R/L Arm: 3 6
R/L Leg: 4 8
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Weapons and Ammo Location Critical Tonnage
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Jump Jet RT 1 0.50
Jump Jet LT 1 0.50
SRM 4 LT 1 2.00
SRM 4 (Ammo 25) LT 1 1.00
SRM 4 (Ammo 25) [Inferno] LT 1 1.00
Small VSP Laser RA 1 2.00
2 Jump Jets RL 2 1.00
2 Jump Jets LL 2 1.00
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Alpha Strike Statistics
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Point Value (PV): 14
TP: BM, SZ: 1, TMM: 2, MV: 12"j
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 1 / (L) 0, OV: 0
Armor (A): 2, Structure (S): 1
Specials:
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