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Name/Model:         Champion CHP-4C
Designer:           09-Tyba
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  E
Tonnage:            60
Role:               Skirmisher
Configuration:      Biped BattleMech
Era/Year:           Civil War / 3063
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         11,568,960 C-Bills
Battle Value:       1,760

Chassis:              Bergan XIV Endo Steel
Power Plant:          Vlar 300 XL
Walking Speed:        54 kph    
Maximum Speed:        86.4 kph  
Jump Jets:            None
    Jump Capacity:    None
Armor:                Starshield
Armament:             
    1 Grizzard Model 200 Gauss Rifle
    2 Guided Technologies 2nd Gen Streak SRM 6s
    2 Diverse Optics ER Medium Lasers
Manufacturer:         Bergan Industries
    Primary Factory:  New Earth
Communications:       Garret T-11C
Targeting & Tracking: Mercury-IV

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Overview:
    Imported from fan-made TRO:3063, organized and directed by Steve Satak. Which of the writing
    team created this mech is unknown.
    
    The Champion CHP-4C is the latest iteration of this four- hundred-year old design. The
    engineers in our Blessed Order have used recently recovered plans to guide them in
    rebuilding this machine from the bottom up. The result is a fitting tribute to this storied
    war machine?s many years of service.

Capabilities:
    Having set up a secure section at Bergan Industries on New Earth, our Blessed Order?s
    Science and Research Department has carefully crafted a new ?Mech using the latest
    technology at our disposal. The original Bergan internal structure has been completely
    replaced with endo steel that provides much stronger ?bones? for the engineers to build on.
    The rest of this BattleMech has been similarly updated, including provision for hand and
    lower arm actuators.
    
    As with the CHP-3N, a Vlar 300 extra light engine provides for quick deployment at speeds
    approaching ninety kilometers per hour. The armor has been increased by fifty percent over
    the CHP-3N to provide ample protection for this version of the Champion.
    
    The CHP-4C carries two tons of ammunition for the Model 200 Gauss rifle, which has greater
    range and striking power than the autocannon it replaces. Although not as flexible as the
    LB-X, the Grizzard is well known for its ability to destroy opponents with a single shot. A
    Champion pilot can exploit holes punched through enemy armor with two recently developed
    Guided Technologies 2nd Gen Streak launchers. The paired six-tube racks fire with unerring
    accuracy and are well known for their efficient use of ammunition.
    
    The CHP-4C retains the double heat sinks of its predecessor and thus runs very cool.
    Comprehensive cooling is necessary because the ?Mech is not protected by Cellular Ammunition
    Storage Equipment. Reloads for the Streak launchers are stored in the center torso, where
    they are protected by large amounts of Starshield armor.

Deployment:
    Comstar has been quietly converting their stockpiles of Champions to the 3Q3 for the past
    three years. Recent events - the fall of Terra, the expulsion of our Blessed Order from the
    Marian Hegemony and the growing bond between the Free Worlds League and the Word of Blake -
    heighten the sense of urgency. Thus, the CHP-4C has been rushed into production as well,
    albeit in limited numbers.
    
    The majority of those models have been distributed to the six divisions of the ComGuards
    Fourth Army deployed to monitor the Capellan-St. Ives conflict. Our Precentors squelch
    rumors that Comstar has begun manufacture of a new ?Mech; meanwhile our Blessed Order
    continues its covert work at the new classified facilities.
    
    Recent events have established the value of the 4C model. Several refitted Champions of Our
    Blessed Order?s Third Army saw action during the recently concluded fighting against Clan
    Ghost Bear in the Draconis Combine. The most notable engagement took place towards the end
    of the fighting, with the Twelfth Division on Mualang. The Twelfth were forced to withdraw
    under heavy fire from the Ghost Bear?s own Twelfth Bear Chevaliers.
    
    As their comrades retreated, a lone Level II of mixed Champion BattleMechs issued a
    challenge to the pursuing Chevalier forces. The six ?Mechs engaged their pursuers in a
    formal Batchall. The Comguardsmen fought valiantly and while they eventually lost the fight,
    they bought their comrades sufficient time to organize a retreat offworld

Variants:
    Our Blessed Order?s technicians are experimenting with a single variant: the CHP-4C3 removes
    tubes from each missile launcher to make room for CASE, an additional laser, more armor and
    a C3i module.

Notable MechWarriors:
    Adept Epsilon II Nicole Cantrell
    
    Cantrell has had a meteoric rise within the ComGuards. Serving with the Thirty-ninth
    Division on Outer Volta, she challenged a Clan Jaguar Star Commander to single combat. She
    defeated the Clan commander, but at the cost of crippling her CHP-3N Champion. For her valor
    in combat, Precentor Martial Steiner-Davion ordered Cantrell?s machine refurbished to the
    CHP-4C standard, complete with lower arm and hand actuators. Cantrell stands ready to defend
    her adopted homeworld, Borghese, against any perceived threat.
    
    Bondsman Gilbert Rowthorne
    
    Former Adept Rowthorne and his comrades were temporarily attached to the Twelfth Division to
    assess the effectiveness of the new Champion design at the start of the Ghost Bear
    incursion. In the face of overwhelming force, he and the acolytes in his Level II issued a
    Batchall to the lead Nova. The six Champions fought against Clan OmniMechs until falling to
    a swarm of Elemental battle armor. Rowthorne and two of his surviving ComGuardsmen earned
    praise from their enemies and as a sign of respect were adopted as Beta Galaxy bondsmen.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                         Endo Steel                 3.00                     
Engine:                                       300 XL                   9.50                     
    Walking MP:                                 5                                               
    Running MP:                                 8                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 0                                               
Heat Sinks (Double):                         10 [20]                   0.00                     
Gyro:                                        Standard                  3.00                     
Cockpit:                                     Standard                  3.00                     
Armor Factor:                                  184                    11.50                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               3              9       
    Center Torso:                      20             30       
    Center Torso (rear):                               9       
    R/L Torso:                         14             20       
    R/L Torso (rear):                                  7       
    R/L Arm:                           10             17       
    R/L Leg:                           14             24       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location          Critical     Tonnage   
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Streak SRM 6 (Ammo 30)                                    CT                2          2.00             
Streak SRM 6                                              RT                2          4.50             
Gauss Rifle (Ammo 16)                                     LT                2          2.00             
Streak SRM 6                                              LT                2          4.50             
2 ER Medium Lasers                                        RA                2          2.00             
Gauss Rifle                                               LA                7         15.00             

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 43
TP: BM,  SZ: 3,  TMM: 2,  MV: 10"
Damage: (S) 5 / (M) 5 / (L) 2,  OV: 0
Armor (A): 6,  Structure (S): 3
Specials:
 
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