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Name/Model:         Hunchback HBK-4P2
Designer:           Festy_Dog
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  D
Tonnage:            50
Role:               Juggernaut
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Succession Wars / 2937
Rules (Current):    Introductory
Rules (Era):        Introductory
Rules (Year):       Introductory
Total Cost:         3,413,500 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,155

Chassis:              Standard
Power Plant:          200 Fusion
Walking Speed:        43.2 kph  
Maximum Speed:        64.8 kph  
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Standard
Armament:             
    9 Defiance B3M Medium Lasers
Manufacturer:         Promethean Armouries, Ravensborne Specialist Engineering
    Primary Factory:  PA Loxley Campus (PA), RSE Loxley Ironworks (RSE)
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    Before there was Promethean Armouries, there was Ravensbourne Specialist Engineering.
    
    Up until this point RSE had been a modest firm producing retro-engineered parts for lostech
    systems. The work was agonisingly slow and exorbitantly expensive, but there was enough
    demand for their services that they were successful. In the mid-30th century RSE sought to
    diversify. Leveraging their existing technologies, notably very advanced 3D printing, RSE
    branched into refits and mod kits for battlemechs. The product quality was impeccable, and
    their mod kits and refits ended up more successful than their lostech repairs and parts.
    
    Riding this wave of success RSE decided to start building their own battlemechs. Their first
    offering was a full production line for their most popular refit, a variation of the HBK-4P.
    The HBK-4P2 was RSE's first mass production mech and a valuable learning lesson. They came
    to the conclusion that head-mounted weapons were too detrimental to pilot comfort and stayed
    away from them on future works. The -4P2 also shaved off half a ton of armour to upgrade the
    small laser by the cockpit into a medium, another choice the engineers came to regret.
    Henceforth RSE would be apprehensive about reducing mech (and thereby pilot) survivability.

Capabilities:
    RSE's -4P2 is only slightly functionally different from any given Swayback one may find. The
    production quality is stellar but the real functional difference come from a slight armour
    reduction to free up weight capacity to upgrade the head-mounted small laser into a medium
    laser. That is all.

Variants:
    The next generation of RSA Swayback (imaginatively called the -4P3) wouldn't enter
    production until the 3040s, after the company had rebranded to Promethean Armouries roughly
    two decades prior.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                          Standard                  5.00                     
Engine:                                     200 Fusion                 8.50                     
    Walking MP:                                 4                                               
    Running MP:                                 6                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Single):                            23                    13.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  2.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  152                     9.50                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      16             26       
    Center Torso (rear):                               5       
    R/L Torso:                         12             18       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  4       
    R/L Arm:                            8             16       
    R/L Leg:                           12             18       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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Medium Laser                                              H                 1          1.00             
6 Medium Lasers                                           RT                6          6.00             
Medium Laser                                              RA                1          1.00             
Medium Laser                                              LA                1          1.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 33
TP: BM,  SZ: 2,  TMM: 1,  MV: 8"
Damage: (S) 5 / (M) 5 / (L) 0,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 5,  Structure (S): 4
Specials: ENE
 
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