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Name/Model:         Ling Zhan LGZ-8N
Designer:           Thunder
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  F
Tonnage:            55
Role:               Skirmisher
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Dark Age / 3150
Rules (Current):    Advanced
Rules (Era):        Advanced
Rules (Year):       Advanced
Total Cost:         11,000,557 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,776

Chassis:              Standard
Power Plant:          275 XL
Walking Speed:        54 kph    
Maximum Speed:        86.4 kph  
Jump Jets:            Standard
    Jump Capacity:    150 meters [210 meters]
Armor:                Stealth
Armament:             
    1 Heavy PPC
Manufacturer:         Unknown
    Primary Factory:  Unknown
Communications:       Unknown with Guardian ECM Suite
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown with Advanced Targeting Computer

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Overview:
    The Ling Zhan, which translates as spiritual warfare, is a medium trooper mech that is a
    modern day successor to the mantle of mechs like the Griffin.  Its a skirmisher intended to
    use its mobility and long range to pressure the enemy's flanks or delay their advance.  It
    is of course designed by the Capellans, and while it was produced too late to be a Xin Sheng
    mech,  it certainly fits in.

Capabilities:
    As with many modern Capellan Designs, the Ling Zhen focuses on the effective mix of
    electronic superiority, mobility, and devastating firepower.  While its ground speed is
    nothing remarkable, the addition of partial wings extends the mechs airborne mobility
    greatly.  This maneuverability allows it to dictate engagement ranges which in turn lets the
    Stealth systems play an active roll in making this mech a nightmare to pin down.  Finally a
    Heavy PPC gives the concentrated firepower to threaten larger mechs, and intimately
    discourage those few mechs with the capability to close on the Ling Zhan.  The PPC is backed
    by enhanced targeting systems to stabilize it against the mech's own mobility.  Finally a
    TAG system completes the load-out, controlling the all too familiar storm of Arrow IV rounds
    the Capellans are infamous for.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                          Standard                  5.50                     
Engine:                                       275 XL                   8.00                     
    Walking MP:                                 5                                               
    Running MP:                                 8                                               
    Jumping MP:                               5 [7]                                             
Heat Sinks (Double):                         13 [29]                   3.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  3.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  168                    10.50                     
    Type:                                    Stealth                                            

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              8       
    Center Torso:                      18             26       
    Center Torso (rear):                               6       
    R/L Torso:                         13             20       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  6       
    R/L Arm:                            9             18       
    R/L Leg:                           13             20       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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TAG                                                       H                 1          1.00             
2 Jump Jets                                               CT                2          1.00             
Targeting Computer                                        RT                3          3.00             
3 Jump Jets                                               LT                3          1.50             
Partial Wing                                            LT/RT               8          4.00             
Guardian ECM Suite                                        RA                2          1.50             
Heavy PPC                                                 RA                4         10.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 45
TP: BM,  SZ: 2,  TMM: 2,  MV: 10"/14"j
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 2 / (L) 2,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 6,  Structure (S): 3
Specials: ECM, ENE, JMPS1, STL, TAG