Venom SDR-11GX

Mass: 35 tons
Tech Base: Mixed
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Experimental Tech
Era: Dark Ages
Tech Rating/Era Availability: X/X-X-X-A
Production Year: 3126
Cost: 6,579,810 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,629

Chassis: Crucis-II, Newhart Refit SVII Rebuild Endo-Steel
Power Plant: VOX 280 Fusion XL Engine
Walking Speed: 86.4 km/h
Maximum Speed: 129.6 km/h
Jump Jets: Rawlings
    Jump Capacity: 240 meters
Armor: Kallon FWL Special Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
    4  (CL) Medium Pulse Lasers
Manufacturer: Nimakachi Fusion Products Limited
    Primary Factory: Tematagi
Communications System: Omicron 4002 Networking Channel
Targeting and Tracking System: TRSS Eagle Eye

Overview:
In the 3110s and '20s, the DCMS began shedding a number of it's older designs
on to the secondary market, and the Venom, supplanted by the mech it was
intended to replace, suffered. Desperate to not lose out on profits for the
time it would take to retool the Venom line back to the Spider, Nimakachi
Fusion Products Limited developed the -9G, which hearkened back to the original
Spider in many ways, while retaining it's own identity. A deal with the DCMS
allowed Nimakachi to upgrade the aging -K series Venoms still in service with
the Combine for a minor fee.


Capabilities:
The years of service many of the Venom units in the DCMS experienced revealed a
subtle flaw in the skeleton of the modified Spider chassis, where the shins of
many Venoms were showing wear patterns consistent with a mech almost a century
older, necessitating a complete skeletal rebuild. Fortuitously, Nimakachi's
designers had such a refit concept on hand, allowing them to upgrade the
relatively weak armor of the -K series while retaining it's weapons load.
Further, this armor upgrade would allow the new Venoms to take on more Japanese
look harkening back to the armor of a samurai. A deal with Diverse Optics
netted the new Venoms a pair of Medium Variable Speed Pulse Lasers, giving the
-9G an incredible damage curve at close range.


Deployment:
While the -9G Venoms served admirably in the DCMS, the greater presence of
Reflective armor on a number of Davion light BattleMechs relegated the Venom to
raiding rather than dueling. Happily for Nimakachi, the various Gameworlds of
the Inner Sphere began snapping up the -9G, where expert pilots have been seen
downing opponents in machines with double the Venom's mass.


Notable 'Mechs & MechWarriors:
Jun "Doctor Pain" Shizumi: Doctor Shizumi does not fit the mold set down by his
predecessors on Solaris VII, being neither the stereotypical humorless samurai
nor the amoral mercenary. Instead, this quiet pediatrician quite literally
stumbled into the seat of a BattleMech during an open sim night at a Kobe bar.
A clean sweep of the challengers there, including a recruiter for a small
Cooperative, netted Shizumi a part time contract with the coop, where he began
to gain fame. By 3132, Shizumi was fighting in the open classes, where he
earned accolades for managing to take down a Barghest from Bromley Stables.


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Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass
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Internal Structure: Endo-Steel                    58 points                2.00
    Internal Locations: 6 LA, 6 RA, 1 LL, 1 RL
Engine:             XL Engine                    280                       8.00
    Walking MP: 8
    Running MP: 12
    Jumping MP: 8 Standard
    Jump Jet Locations: 4 LT, 4 RT                                         4.00
Heat Sinks:         (IS) Double Heat Sink        11(22)                    1.00
Gyro:               Standard                                               3.00
Cockpit:            Standard                                               3.00
    Actuators:      L: SH+UA+LA+H    R: SH+UA+LA+H
Armor:              Ferro-Fibrous                AV - 107                  6.00
    Armor Locations: 2 CT, 3 LT, 3 RT, 2 LA, 2 RA, 1 LL, 1 RL

                                                      Internal       Armor
                                                      Structure      Factor
                                                Head     3            9
                                        Center Torso     11           16
                                 Center Torso (rear)                  4
                                           L/R Torso     8            13
                                    L/R Torso (rear)                  3
                                             L/R Arm     6            10
                                             L/R Leg     8            13

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Equipment                                 Location    Heat    Critical    Mass
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2 (CL) Medium Pulse Lasers                   RT        8         2         4.00
2 (CL) Medium Pulse Lasers                   LT        8         2         4.00
                                            Free Critical Slots: 1

BattleForce Statistics
MV      S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:      4    Points: 16
8j         4       4       0       0      1     0   Structure:  2
Special Abilities: ENE, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA