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The Wyvern is the first Omni-Helicopter ever designed.
Following the destruction of the FedCom Civil War, the Federated Suns required more machinery to replace their decimated military capacity. One of the regions that needed rebuilding was the Sun's VTOL fleet, and sent contracts for several new VTOL designs to supplement and ultimately replace current VTOL designs. Michaelson Heavy Industries, however, submitted only one.
The original prototype was called the MHI Standard Helicopter and combined Omni-technology with an experimental three-ton chin turret, capable of carrying 10 of its 12 free tons. The rest of the vehicle was of a typical VTOL construction with a main rotor/tail rotor arrangement, a modest quantity of armor plating and a decent 100 SFE engine to propel the helicopter to decent speeds. The base cost of the MHI Standard Helicopter was projected to be around a million C-Bills before considering pod-mounted equipment. While not overly impressive in any single area, the Standard Helicopter prototype showed itself to be very reliable and the variants were projected to be able to fill just about every single role the Federated Suns would ever have. MHI factories were provided additional funding in 3067 by the Suns in order to expand their industrial facilities on Ruchbah.
As luck would have it, the MHI Standard Helicopter would never serve in the AFFS. The Word of Blake would launch an invasion of Ruchbah in 3069, quickly overwhelming the defenders and capturing the entire planet, including the industrial equipment and the prototype helicopter. The invading personnel tested the helicopter for itself and were impressed with its performance, naming this helicopter the Wyvern. The WoB attempted to produce Wyverns out of the factory by 3070 but were repeatedly sabotaged by the local resistance, resulting in few Wyverns available for the WoB military. Those that made it to the front were usually used by elite Manei Domini troops with variants designed to use pod-mounted C3I and advanced equipment or even captured clan weaponry. Many Manei Domini pilots died in these Wyverns, not as a result of combat but as a result of curious, random, unexplained system failures. Since no Wyverns have catastrophically failed in similar ways after the fall of the WoB, these failures are usually attributed to acts of the Ruchbah Saboteurs.
After the fall of the WoB and the formation of the Republic of the Sphere in 3081, the RotS military contracted the still-intact miltary complex on Ruchbah to bolster their own VTOL fleet, with some industries liscensing the design to built on Terra. The new RotS variants exchanged the WoB's C3i systems for a regular C3 system. The Wyvern was finally being produced en-masse by a major power, and saw considerable success until the loss of Ruchbah during the Dark Ages made it very difficult for the RotS to replace Wyvern casualties.
Ruchbah is under Capellan ownership by 3145. Testing is underway on the Wyvern Omni-Helicopter and it's believed that the Capellans are likely to incorporate the Wyvern into their own VTOL fleet.
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MHI Wyvern Omni-Helicopter Base
Base Tech Level: Experimental (IS)
Level Era
Experimental 3070
Advanced 3070-3079
Standard 3080+
Tech Rating: E/X-F-F-D
Weight: 30 tons
BV: 267
Cost: 1,037,500 C-bills
Movement: 8/12 (VTOL)
Engine: 100
Internal: 18
Armor: 80
Internal Armor
Front 3 20
Right 3 15
Left 3 15
Rear 3 12
Rotor 3 2
Turret 3 16
Quirks:
Easy to Maintain
Pod Space:
12 tons (10 in chin turret)
11 crits
Variants:
Prime
ER PPC (Chin Turret)
A
2x ER ML (Chin Turret)
4x LRM-5 (Chin Turret) (2 tons ammo)
B
2x ER ML (Chin Turret)
4x SRM-4 (Chin Turret) (2 tons ammo)
C
UAC/5 (Chin Turret) (1 ton ammo)
4x Rocket Launcher/10 (front)
BA Transport
2x ER ML (Chin Turret)
8 tons pod troop space
Hybrid Transport
1x ER LL (Chin Turret)
1x Machine Gun (Chin Turret) (.5 tons ammo)
4 tons pod troop space
WoB Invictus
Large VSP Laser (Chin Turret)
C3i
VTOL Jet Booster
WoB Dominus
Plasma Rifle (Chin Turret) (2 tons ammo)
Machine Gun (Chin Turret) (.5 tons ammo)
C3i
VTOL Jet Booster
WoB Infernus
Snub-Nose PPC (Chin Turret)
6 tons pod troop space
WoB Comminus
PPC (Chin Turret)
2x MML-3 (Chin Turret) (2 tons ammo)
RotS Prime
Large X-Pulse Laser (Chin Turret)
C3 Slave
RotS A
Rotary AC/5 (Chin Turret) (2 tons ammo)
RotS B
Rotary AC/2 (Chin Turret) (1 ton ammo)
'Mech Mortar 1 (Chin Turret) (1 ton ammo)
RotS C
6x MML-3 (Chin Turret) (2 tons ammo)
C3 Slave
RotS D "Hydra"
10x Medium Chemical Laser (Chin Turret) (2 tons ammo)
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