By the middle of the Jihad, after numerous campaigns against both Free Worlds and Blakist forces, the Lyran military inherited a significant number of salvaged and captured HRC-LS-9000
Hercules heavy BattleMechs. Although a promising design, the Hercules lacked the firepower and staying power typical of other Lyran designs. To address these deficiencies and enable the Hercules to better compete with existing heavy Lyran designs, the Lyran military developed a common Hercules refit design, the HRC-LS-9000S
Bellerophon.
Although technically a refit, the
Bellerophon strips the
Hercules down to its bones and requires extensive, permanent repair facilities to complete -- the
Bellerophon is not a simple field refit. The
Bellerophon replaces the
Hercules' 350-rated extralight engine and standard myomer with a 280-rated light fusion engine and triple-strength myomer. This substantially boosts the
Bellerophon's survivability and affordability while still allowing the
Bellerophon to match the
Hercules top speed of over 85 kilometers per hour, when needed. The
Bellerophon's structure and armor are otherwise almost identical to the Hercules, utilizing the same Northrup standard chassis, an extra half-ton of nearly maximized Aldis ferro-fibrous armor, and cellular ammunition storage.
With the mass savings from the smaller engine, the
Bellerophon is able to mount much heavier main guns than the
Hercules. The Hercules' extended-range particle cannon is upgraded to a heavy particle cannon and the LB10-X autocannon upgraded to an LB20-X autocannon. Although somewhat shorter-ranged than the
Hercules, the
Bellerophon's main guns nearly double the firepower, armor penetration, and weakness-seeking capabilities of the
Hercules' main guns, while adding head-capping capabilities that the
Hercules never possessed.
The
Bellerophon also makes changes to the
Hercules secondary weapons, partly to best manage its heat levels and triple-strength myomer activation, but also to mount more effective equipment and remove ammunition vulnerabilities. For close combat, the
Bellerophon replaces the
Hercules' left-arm mounted pulse medium laser with an extended-range model, and also replaces the
Hercules' left torso-mounted, twin Streak missile tubes with dual extended-range medium lasers. At point-blank range, the
Bellerophon can also utilize triple-strength myomer-enhance physical attacks, including a decapitating attack from its left battlefist. Anticipating that the large numbers of conventional infantry and unarmored Manei Domini fielded by the Blakists posed a large threat than missile salvos, the
Bellerophon trades the
Hercules' torso-mounted anti-missile system for a small pulse laser. With the forward-mounted small pulse laser, the
Bellerophon downgrades the
Hercules' ineffective, rear-mounted small pulse lasers to standard models, reducing the amount of mass dedicated to them while retaining a minimal capability for precision heat management and triple-strength myomer activation.
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BattleMech Technical Readout
Custom* Weapons
Type/Model: Hercules HRC-LS-9000S
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3071
Config: Biped BattleMech
Rules: Level 3, Standard design
Mass: 70 tons
Chassis: Northrup-502 Standard
Power Plant: 280 Pitban Light Fusion
Walking Speed: 43.2 km/h
Maximum Speed: 64.8 [86.4] km/h
Jump Jets: None
Jump Capacity: 0 meters
Armor Type: Aldis Heavy Ferro-Fibrous
Armament:
1 Defiance Disintegrator LB 20-X AC
3 Defiance Model XII ER Medium Lasers
1 Fusigon Heavy PPC*
2 Defiance A5L Small Lasers
1 Sutel Precision Line Small Pulse Laser
Manufacturer: Arcturan Refit Yards
Location: Arcturus
Communications System: Irian Orator-5K
Targeting & Tracking System: Irian 511
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Type/Model: Hercules HRC-LS-9000S
Mass: 70 tons
Equipment: Crits Mass
Int. Struct.: 107 pts Standard 0 7.00
Engine: 280 Light Fusion 10 12.00
Walking MP: 4 [5]
Running MP: 6 [8]
Jumping MP: 0
Heat Sinks: 11 Double [22] 0 1.00
Gyro: 4 3.00
Cockpit, Life Supt., Sensors: 5 3.00
Triple Strength Myomer: 6 .00
Actuators: L: Sh+UA+LA+H R: Sh+UA 14 .00
Armor Factor: 206 pts Ferro-Fibrous 14 11.50
(Armor Crit Loc: 1 HD, 5 LA, 7 LT, 1 CT)
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Head: 3 9
Center Torso: 22 31
Center Torso (Rear): 10
L/R Side Torso: 15 20/20
L/R Side Torso (Rear): 8/8
L/R Arm: 11 20/20
L/R Leg: 15 30/30
Weapons and Equipment Loc Heat Ammo Crits Mass
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1 LB 20-X AC RA 6 15 14 17.00
(Ammo Locations: 2 RA, 1 RT)
1 ER Medium Laser LA 5 1 1.00
1 Heavy PPC* RT 15 4 10.00
1 Small Laser RT(R) 1 1 .50
2 ER Medium Lasers LT 10 2 2.00
1 Small Laser LT(R) 1 1 .50
1 Small Pulse Laser CT 2 1 1.00
CASE Equipment: RT 1 .50
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TOTALS: 40 78 70.00
Crits & Tons Left: 0 .00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 13,539,820 C-Bills
Battle Value 2: 1,967 (old BV = 1,484)
Cost per BV2: 6,883.49
Weapon Value: 2,088 / 2,088 (Ratio = 1.06 / 1.06)
Damage Factors: SRDmg = 29; MRDmg = 14; LRDmg = 4
BattleForce2: MP: 4, Armor/Structure: 5/4
Damage PB/M/L: 4/3/1, Overheat: 2
Class: MH; Point Value: 20
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