This mecha is based on a mecha from Super Dimensional Cavalry: Southern Cross that was omitted from the Robotech RPG. Images and background courtesy of Rob Morgenstein. The Following Mecha Stats and Background were generated by Rick R. Mortis and formated to the style sheets created by Dave Deitrich and Chris Meadows. Please feel free to copy or redistribute this file, please just do not claim that it is your own work. Thanks.
CMR-12 Satyros Combat Mountanering Robot
RPG Stats and Background by: Rick R. Mortis.
Technical Info from the Robotech Technical Files, by Robert Morgenstern.
BACKGROUND
The Satyros was devised as an engineering robot used to reclaim nose-dived Zentraedi warships, to help construct defensive emplacements in mountainous terrain and to provide mobile hardened command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) relay stations for alpine infantry. After the Zentraedi Holocaust and the following years of unrest and uncertainty, many communities desired more protective locations in out of the way locations, such as canyons and blast craters. As such, the Satyros frequently assisted in building these communities, when their duties didn't keep them occupied elsewhere.
Due to the poor radio propagation environment of mountainous terrain, the Satyros assisted the Alpine forces of the Tactical Corps in maintaining communications between their units. This battloid was equipped with a powerful communications relay capability that is evidenced by the twin arrays located to either side of the head. The Mk. I was an unarmed military construction/salvage/mining robot for use in the mountains. With the Southern Cross Army originating in South America, they quickly discovered the vulnerability of this mecha in a combat situation without built-in weapon systems. Therefore, the Southern Cross Robotech Research Department devised an armed refit for this battloid
to assist in mountainous combat arenas in the Andes mountains. After years of use of the Mk. I, the Southern Cross designed a newer version optimised for its combat role as well as keeping its engineering capabilities to support the Southern Cross in mountainous terrain referred to as the Mk.
II. With its powerful winches, the Satyros was also used as an armoured recovery vehicle and in maintenance areas to lift heavy equipment.
Many Satyros were destroyed during the Second Robotoech War by the tehnologically superior Bioroids, or during the Invid Invasion. Several Satyros equipped units did survive the invasion, and managed to carry on succesful gurilla campaigns against the Invid in the Andes and other mountainous areas.
RPG STATS
Vehicle Type: One-man Combat Mountaineering Robot
Crew: One; no room for a passenger.
M.D.C. BY LOCATION:
*Head 60
Hands (2) 30 each
Arms/Grapplers (2) 120 each
Legs (2) 150 each
Missile Launcher 150
**Main Body 250
Rear Thrusters 50
EU-10 or E-21 Gun pod 100
*Destroying the head of the Satyros will destroy all the mecha’s radar, communications and sensors. The mecha is now -2 to strike, parry and dodge.
**Destroying the main body will shut down the mecha.
SPECIFICATIONS
Running: 110kph
Jumping: 60m up or across.
Height: 5.9m
Length: 2.4m
Width: 2.9m
Weight: 10.2 tons
Powerplant
1 Protoculture Power Plant
2 Allison BRT-3 Thrusters on the back
2 Allison MRT-3 Thrusters in the legs
WEAPON SYSTEMS
- EU-10 Gun Pod. The main weapon of the Satyros is a hand-held EU-10 Energy Rifle, very similar to the EU-11 used by the VHT-1 Hover Tank.
- Purpose: Assault.
- Range: 1800m
- Mega-Damage: 1D6 x 10 MD
- Rate of Fire: Equal to the total hand-to-hand attacks of the pilot.
- Payload: effectively unlimited.
- Short-Range Missile Launcher. The Satyros has a short-range missile launcher in the chest. The missiles are concealed behind an armoured panel, which flips open to fire.
- Purpose: Assault.
- Missile Type: Any type of SRM can be used.
- Range: Depends on missile type
- Mega-Damage: Depends on missile type
- Rate of Fire: One at a time, or in volleys of 3, 6, 9, 12 or 15.
- Payload: 15 Missiles
- Grapplers. While designed for mountaineering and salvage rather than combat, the Satyros’s grapplers can be used as weapons, but only do minimal damage.
- Purpose: Climbing/Salvage
- Range: 240m
- Mega-Damage: 1D4 MD
- Rate of Fire: Once per turn each.
- Hand to Hand Combat. Rather than use any weapons, the Satyros can opt to engage in hand to hand combat.
- Punch: 2D4 MD
- Kick: 2D6 MD
- Leap Kick: 3D6 MD
- Body Flip/Throw: 2D4 MD
- Body Block/Tackle: 2D6 MD plus knockdown.
- Optional E-21 Gun Pod. Rather than use the EU-10, the Satyros can use the E-21 Gun Pod. The E-21 has it's own built-in targeting system, adding a +2 bonus to strike with the gun pod.
- Purpose: Assault.
- Range: 1200m
- Mega-Damage: 1D4 x 10 MD
- Rate of Fire: Equal to the total hand-to-hand attacks of the pilot.
- Payload: effectively unlimited.
STANDARD EQUIPMENT FOR THE SATYROS:
- Provides accessories to support an infantry team. Knee rings for mounting ropes and a chest bar for rigging off of.
- The Satyros has wrist and toe spikes to assist it in climbing as well as fully rotating shoulder and upper arm joints.
- Radar: Range: 50 km. Standard operation.
- Radio/Video Communications: Wide band, directional radio and video telecast capabilities. Range: 2000km, or can be boosted by satellite.
- Laser Targeting System: Close range; 3 km
- Combat Computer: Calculates, stores & monitors data on the control panel computer screen or Heads-up display
- External Audio Pickup: Range: 300 ft (91.5 m). A sound amplification system that can pick up normal conversation up to 300 feet away.
- Loudspeaker: A loudspeaker system is built into the craft, which can be used to amplify the pilot's voice up to 90 decibels.
- Searchlight: All of the battloids have a high-powered searchlight mounted in their heads. Range: 50 meters.
- Optics: Infrared: Range: 2000 feet (610 m). This optical system projects a beam of infrared light that is invisible to the normal eye, but detectable by the mecha's sensors. The system allows the pilot to detect hidden/concealed objects by their IR reflectiveness. The beam will be visible to anyone with IR sensitive optics, however.
- Optics: Nightvision: Range: 2000 feet (610 m). A passive light image intensifier that emits no light of its own, but relies on ambient light which is electronically amplified to produce a visible picture.
- Optics: Thermal Imager: Range: 2000 feet (610 m). A passive optical heat sensor that detects infrared radiation projected by warm objects and converts that data into a false-colour visible image. The system enables the pilot to see in the dark, in shadows, and through smoke, and also adds a +10% bonus to pilots using a tracking skill.
- Protoculture Engine: The Satyros is powered by a Protoculture engine, giving is an average life span of 12 years. Constant use will cut that time to about half.
- 180 Degree Rotation: The Satyros can rotate its torso 180 degrees.
HAND TO HAND COMBAT BONUSES:
See Robotech RPG Book 5, Page 19 for Battliod Combat Training.
Designers Notes
Japanese Name: TC-MoS-Satyros Super Dimensional Cavalry: Southern Cross
Episodes Seen in: None
Conversion Notes
The RPG chose to use the Satyros as the basis of the EBSIS Reconnisance Destroyer Battloid. The Satyros did not appear in the animation, but may have appaered in SDC: Southern Cross.
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