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Name/Model:         Raven RVN-4N
Designer:           Festy_Dog
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  F
Tonnage:            35
Role:               Scout
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Dark Age / 3084
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Advanced
Total Cost:         8,325,225 C-Bills
Battle Value:       962

Chassis:              Endo Steel
Power Plant:          280 XL
Walking Speed:        86.4 kph  
Maximum Speed:        129.6 kph 
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Standard
Armament:             
    2 ER Medium Lasers
    1 Narc Missile Beacon
    1 Small Pulse Laser
Manufacturer:         Promethean Armouries
    Primary Factory:  PA Ravensbourne Campus
Communications:       Unknown with Angel ECM Suite
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown with Bloodhound Active Probe

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Overview:
    Another of the Irongate Grenadiers' and Lost Caws' collaboration projects born of their
    think tank, the Yggdrasil Society. Like the other collaboration project mechs the RVN-4N
    never went into mass production, instead being a built-on-demand machine within Promethean
    Armouries' high-end mech range, made exclusively within their Ravensbourne facilities.
    
    The -4N was designed to be the pinnacle of electronic warfare wrapped in a small, agile
    package to best evade aggressors. Faster and better armoured than most other Raven variants
    available at the time, it's shortcomings were mediocre firepower, fragility (despite it's
    extra armour), and a massive price tag.
    
    Difficulties in parts procurement that affected both the RVN-4N and the GLT-6PS (in
    development at the same time) eventually led to the Yggdrasil Society founding a new
    battlemech electronics firm within the Ravensbourne Specialist Engineering Zaibatsu;
    Hrafnagaldr Intelligent Systems. Hrafnagaldr soon became the primary source for electronics
    used in Promethean Armouries' mechs.

Capabilities:
    Promethean Armouries' RVN-4N carried a formidable array of support equipment; bloodhound
    probe, angel ECM, TAG, NARC, and a C3 slave to contribute/benefit from shared target
    telemetry.
    
    The weapons loadout is almost an afterthought, largely for self-defence. The -4N's primary
    function was to facilitate and enable delivery of firepower from it's lancemates.

Variants:
    Promethean Armouries' mass production facilities on Loxley were always notorious for lower
    production volumes than they were believed to be capable of. This is because more time for
    quality control and craftsmanship was allocated than almost every other manufacturer in or
    adjacent to the Commonwealth. This doctrine even extended to PA's cheapest machines.
    
    Mech production on Ravensbourne followed the same doctrines with even greater emphasis. As
    such, mechs produced there were also quite rare because their production volumes were very
    low. These models were never ordered or offered in bulk for use by fighting formations. At
    most, a handful would be made for elite military units or mercenary companies. The RVN-4N
    was a perfect example of the latter.
    
    PA procedure was to provide any units designed in collaboration with Lost Caws to their
    siblings-at-arms at cost, which was quite helpful when Lost Caws were never a particularly
    profitable operation. They were prone to taking on lost causes and bleeding heart work, and
    Ravensbourne Specialist Engineering CEO Conrad Clausewitz would consistently support,
    subsidise and/or enable such tendencies during his tenure, to the point where jokes
    circulated within the Lyran mercenary community that Lost Caws were the charity arm of the
    eccentric RSE Zaibatsu.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 2.00                     
Engine:                                       280 XL                   8.00                     
    Walking MP:                                 8                                               
    Running MP:                                 12                                              
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Double):                         10 [20]                   0.00                     
Gyro:                                           XL                     1.50                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  104                     6.50                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      11             15       
    Center Torso (rear):                               4       
    R/L Torso:                          8             11       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  4       
    R/L Arm:                            6             11       
    R/L Leg:                            8             12       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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C3 Slave                                                  H                 1          1.00             
Narc Missile Beacon                                       RT                2          3.00             
Narc Missile Beacon (Ammo 12) [Homing]                    RT                2          2.00             
Angel ECM Suite                                           LT                2          2.00             
Bloodhound Active Probe                                   LT                3          2.00             
ER Medium Laser                                           RA                1          1.00             
Small Pulse Laser                                         RA                1          1.00             
ER Medium Laser                                           LA                1          1.00             
TAG                                                       LA                1          1.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 33
TP: BM,  SZ: 1,  TMM: 3,  MV: 16"
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 1 / (L) 0,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 3,  Structure (S): 2
Specials: AECM, BH, C3S, MHQ1, RCN, SNARC, TAG