Jackrabbit (ComStar Sourcebook version)

Mass: 25 tons

Chassis: Skobel 100-ROB Endo Steel

Power Plant: Nissan 175

Cruising Speed: 75.6 km/h

Maximum Speed: 118.8 km/h

Jump Jets: None

Jump Capacity: 0 meters

Armor: Krupp 200 Ferro-Fibrous

Armament:

4 Machine Guns
2 SRM 4

Manufacturer(s):

Skobel 'MechWorks (Terra / CS)

Communications System: Exeter LongScan 200

Targeting & Tracking System: Garret T15AJ

 

Overview:

ComStar Sourcebook

OVERVIEW
The Nexus has a checkered past. Two years before the Amaris coup of the Star League, the SLDF developed the Jackrabbit at its Skobel MechWorks (2764). Skobel had put the Jackrabbit through only preliminary testing when Amaris's troops seized the factory.

Needing more weapons to battle the SLDF relief forces, Stefan Amaris ordered the Jackrabbit mass-produced for his Republican army. The would-be dictator deployed more than 500 Jackrabbits against the Star League soldiers they were intended to protect. Blowing up a Jackrabbit became one of the SLDF's favorite pastimes.

General Kerensky recaptured the Skobel MechWorks plant relatively intact during the Liberation of Terra, but refused to use the 'Mech Amaris had sent against its developers. He shut down the factory, and ComStar kept it closed for several centuries. Kerensky's army took no Jackrabbits on the Exodus. Outside Our Blessed Order, few records of the 'Mech's existence remain.

Precentor Martial Focht modified the Jackrabbit's design, replacing the engine with the faster Nissan 200, removing the ballistic and missile weapons and installing jump jets and an array of energy weapons. The newly refitted and renamed Nexus was in production.

CAPABILITIES
The Nexus is a fast mover that can reach a target, deliver a good, solid punch and get out just as quickly. Its speed, combined with the McArthur anti-missile system, makes it difficult to hit, and its Rawlings 55 Jump Jets make it difficult to follow.

An impressive combination of medium- and short-range energy weapons allows for good volleys in a combat situation. Blankenburg Technologies' shoulder-mounted medium laser provides the punches at a distance, and Intek's efficient shoulder-mounted small pulse lasers were chosen for force in tight situations. The main slugging power, howerver, comes from Blankenburg Technologies' excellent medium pulse lasers, mounted in place of the Jackrabbit's hand actuators.

DEPLOYMENT
Though widely available for only a few months at the time of this report, the Nexus has already been deployed in the Fourth Army's 366th Division (Wolf Bait). The 366th Division, decimated by Clan Wolf hit-and-run raids on Tukayyid, used large numbers of Nexus 'Mechs to replace their losses. Though tested largely by raw recruits, the 366th Division's initial reports on the new Nexus look promising.

[Editor's Notes: The last paragraph under Overview lists the armament as ballistic and missile, and the speed as 1 place lower than the Nexus. This version is based on the Nexus from the ComStar SB, which is different from the TR3058 version.]

Type: Jackrabbit CS

Technology Base: Inner Sphere Level 2 3058

Tonnage: 25

BV : 417 Cost : 2056459

ACTUATORS: RA RH LA LH
HEAT SINKS: RL1 LL1
ENDO STEEL: 6LA 8LT
FERRO FIBROUS: 6RA 8RT

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Jackrabbit: ComStar Sourcebook version - TR3058 version

Jackrabbit (TR3058 version)

Mass: 25 tons

Chassis: Skobel 100-ROB Endo Steel

Power Plant: Nissan 150

Cruising Speed: 64.8 km/h

Maximum Speed: 97.2 km/h

Jump Jets: None

Jump Capacity: 0 meters

Armor: Krupp 200 Ferro-Fibrous

Armament:

2 SRM 4
4 Machine Guns
1 AMS

Manufacturer(s):

Skobel 'MechWorks (Terra / CS)

Communications System: Exeter LongScan 200

Targeting & Tracking System: Garret T15AJ

 

Overview:

Technical Readout: 3058

OVERVIEW
The Nexus has a checkered past. It began as the Jackrabbit, a light 'Mech developed by the SLDF at Skobel MechWorks just two years before the Amaris Civil War. Mere weeks after Skobel finished the Jackrabbit's preliminary testing, Stefan Amaris's armies seized the factory. Amaris the Usurper ordered the Jackrabbit mass-produced for his Republican army; ultimately, the would-be dictator deployed more than five hundred Jackrabbits against the Star League soldiers for whose use they had originally been intended.

General Kerensky recaptured the Skobel MechWorks plant relatively intact during the Liberation of Terra, but refused to use the 'Mech that Amaris had sent against its developers. He shut down the factory, and ComStar kept it closed for several centuries. Kerensky's army took no Jackrabbits on the Exodus. Outside ComStar, few records of the 'Mech's existence remained.

In 3054, ComStar 's Precentor Martial Focht modified the Jackrabbit's design, replacing the engine with the faster Nissan 200, removing the ballistic and missile weapons, and installing jump jets and an array of energy weapons. The BattleMech, newly refitted and renamed Nexus, soon began production.

CAPABILITIES
The Nexus is a fast mover that can reach a target, deliver a solid punch and get out quickly. Its speed and its highly effective McArthur anti-missile system makes it difficult to hit, and its Rawlings 55 Jump Jets make it difficult to pursue.

An impressive combination of medium and shortrange energy weapons allows for devastating volleys in most combat situations. Blankenburg Technologies' shoulder-mounted medium laser provides the punches at a distance, and Intek's efficnet shoulder-mounted small lasers give the Nexus excellent firpower in tight situations.

The 'Mech's main slugging power, howerver, comes from Blankenburg Technologies' excellent medium pulse lasers that have replaced the Jackrabbit's hand actuators.

DEPLOYMENT
Since mid-3055 the Nexus has been deployed in the ComStar Fourth Army's 366th Division (Wolf Bait). The 366th Division, decimated by Clan Wolf hit-and-run raids on Tukayyid, used large numbers of Nexuses to replace their losses. The Nexus is expected to live up to every word of the 366th Division's promising initial reports.

[Editor's Notes: The last paragraph under Overview lists the armament as ballistic and missile, and the speed as 1 place lower than the Nexus. This version is based on the Nexus from TR3058, which is different from the ComStar SB version.]

Type: Jackrabbit 3058

Technology Base: Inner Sphere Level 2 3058

Tonnage: 25

BV : 429 Cost : 2131875

ACTUATORS: RA RH LA LH
HEAT SINKS: 2RL 2LL
ENDO STEEL: 6LA 8LT
FERRO FIBROUS: 6RA 8RT

Jackrabbit: ComStar Sourcebook version - TR3058 version

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