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Name/Model:         Vespoid W1D
Designer:           Thunder
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Clan
Technology Rating:  F
Tonnage:            9
Configuration:      Biped ProtoMech
Era/Year:           Dark Age / 3150
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         887,396 C-Bills
Battle Value:       272

Chassis:              ProtoMech
Power Plant:          85 ProtoMech Fusion
Cruising Speed:       64.8 kph  
Maximum Speed:        97.2 kph  
Jump Jets:            ProtoMech
    Jump Capacity:    180 meters
Armor:                ProtoMech
Armament:             
    1 ER Small Laser
    1 Micro Pulse Laser
    2 ER Micro Lasers
Manufacturer:         Unknown
    Primary Factory:  Unknown
Communications:       Unknown
Targeting & Tracking: Unknown

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Overview:
    Its been said that a protomech could accurately mimic the capabilities of an old style Wasp
    or Stinger.  The Vespoid was created to achieve that goal.

Capabilities:
    The Wasp WSP-1D does not want to cooperate with being packaged into a Protomech.  Which
    comes down to the difference between Mech and Protomech engines, and their capacity to
    process heat.  The Mech gets away with its load-out of lasers and flamers because the engine
    can absorb that heat into its base capacity.  The protomech... can't.  In addition, the 1 to
    1 trade out of Chemical lasers for traditional lasers involves a cost in ammo.  No mater
    which way you cut it, the weapon's loadout does not want to fit.  So instead it was
    modified.
    
    The Medium laser was traded for an ER Small laser.  Range is lost, firepower is preserved.
    Small lasers become ER Micro lasers, reversing the range and firepower trade off.  The
    Flamer is traded for a Micro-pulse lasers.  This is a mixed trade off.  General firepower is
    improved.  Specialty firepower vs light targets and tree's is reduced.
    
    The net result, despite a lack of stand off firepower, remains true to the original WSP-1D's
    purpose of being unbound by ammo constraints.  Which would be fine, if not for a slightly
    lower battlefield life expectancy due to the reduced armor required to make room for all the
    lasers and their heat sinks.

Deployment:
    Despite being formally designed, and that battle history to consider,  there are no plans to
    actually produce Vespoids.  Their mobility or firepower is below the thresholds useful in
    modern combat.

Variants:
    Just how many Wasps and Stingers are there?  The modern ones built or rebuilt to keep up
    with modern combat are likely out of reach, but even now the majority of the ones in use are
    based on star league era models.

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Equipment                                                             Mass (kg)                 
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Internal Structure:                         ProtoMech                    900                    
Engine:                                85 ProtoMech Fusion              2,500                   
    Walking MP:                                 6                                               
    Running MP:                                 9                                               
    Jumping MP:                                 6                        600                    
Heat Sinks (ProtoMech):                         5                       1,250                   
Cockpit:                                    ProtoMech                    500                    
Armor Factor:                                   35                      1,750                   
    Type:                                   ProtoMech                                           

                                    Internal         Armor     
                                    Structure        Value     
    Head:                               2              1       
    Torso:                              9             16       
    Main Gun:                           -              -       
    R/L Arm:                            2              4       
    Legs:                               5             10       

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Weapons and Ammo                                       Location         Mass (kg)               
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ER Small Laser                                            T                500                          
Micro Pulse Laser                                         T                500                          
ER Micro Laser                                            RA               250                          
ER Micro Laser                                            LA               250                          

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                             
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Point Value (PV): 13
TP: PM,  SZ: 1,  TMM: 2,  MV: 12"j
Damage: (S) 2 / (M) 1 / (L) 0
Armor (A): 1,  Structure (S): 1
Specials: ENE
 
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