Quickscell Company
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[edit] Overview
The Quickscell Company is a military goods manufacturer with branches across the Inner Sphere. Though known throughout the Sphere, their products are notorious for being of low quality.
Quikscell Company - Capellan Confederation Branch
Quikscell Company - Federated Suns Branch
Quikscell Company - Free World League Branch
Quikscell Company - Lyran Alliance Branch
[edit] History
At the time of the Clan Invasion, the Quikscell plant on Pandora was in the firing line, as was the Red Devil Industries plant on the same world. While the Red Devil plant was lost to the Clan Jade Falcon forces that attacked Pandora, Quikscell had already used funding from the Federated Commonwealth to relocate one of their manufacturing lines to Richvale and had recently acquired the rights to produce a number of Red Devil vehicles. One of those vehicles was the Condor, which Quikscell began producing from Richvale. In the wake of the FedCom Civil War Quikscell targeted local militia units and desperate regular units as customers for their new, upgraded version of the Condor, counting on the need for equipment dominating over the poor reputation earned by most Quikscell products.[1]
The aggressive marketing campaign for the new Condor was hugely successful, with orders dramatically outstripping the production output available from the Richvale plant by 3075 as units such as the 4th Skye Rangers and 6th Lyran Guards buying large quantities of the new tank. In addition to commissioning an extra production line at Richvale, company executive Burton Richards had the novel idea of shipping vehicles out to customers as unassembled component kits, sold at a slight discount, which could then be assembled by the tech staff at the receiving unit. This idea proved successful, although not without breeding reliability problems for a number of units. With the Jihad escalating the level of conflict throughout the Inner Sphere the demand for these vehicles increased continually, with the Condor seeing action on worlds like Skye and Coventry against the Word of Blake and with units as far afield as the Duchy of Andurien, Regulan Principality and Duchy of Orloff purchasing the Condor.[1] Quikscell further expanded their Richvale plant by acquiring a license to manufacture the Saxon APC from Cyclops Incorporated.[2]
During the long Jihad, the facility on Ares, suffers heavy capital and personnel losses of 85%, and the operating capacity of the factory is reduced to 52% of their main production volume in 3079.[3] To bolster their meagre military industrial base, the Filtvelt Coalition converted the Quickscell repair facility on Broken Wheel to enable it to produce hovercraft from 3080 onwards, although production initially went to local defense concerns before the Filtvelt Citizen's Militia received any equipment.[4]
[edit] Leadership
The CEO in 3067 is Josef Kenworth and Sean Veranov FWL.[5]
[edit] Manufacturing
Quikscell Company has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
[edit] Ares
[edit] Broken Wheel
| Components produced on Broken Wheel:[8] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| Pegasus[8] | Hover Vehicles |
| Light Thunderbolt Carrier[8] | Wheeled Vehicles |
[edit] Layover
| Components produced on Layover:[9] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| Heavy Tracked APC | Tracked Vehicles |
| LRM Carrier[9] | Tracked Vehicles |
| Scorpion[9] | Tracked Vehicles - Light Tank |
| SRM Carrier[9] | Tracked Vehicles |
| Tracked APC | Tracked Vehicles |
| Vedette[9] | Tracked Vehicles - Medium Tank |
| SitiCide 60 | I.C.E. |
| InterComBust 100 | I.C.E. - Scorpion[9] |
| InterComBust 180 | I.C.E. - LRM and SRM Carrier[9] |
| Locom-Pack 250 | I.C.E. - Vedette[9] |
| ProtecTech 6 | Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles - Vedette and Scorpion[9] |
| ProtecTech Light | Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles - LRM, SRM Carrier and Scorpion[9] |
| Basix 200 | Communications System - Vedette and Scorpion[9] |
| Communicator | Communications System - LRM, SRM Carrier and Scorpion[9] |
| LongCom | Communications System |
| FireScan with IndirecTrack | Targeting-Tracking System - LRM, SRM Carrier and Scorpion[9] |
| OptiSight-12 | Targeting-Tracking System - Vedette and Scorpion[9] |
| OptiTrack Techniques | Targeting-Tracking System |
| Gatling Gun 20mm | Machine Gun - Vedette and Scorpion[9] |
[edit] Kalidasa
[edit] Gallery
[edit] Oliver
| Components produced on Oliver | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| LRM Carrier - "Oliver" | Tracked Vehicles |
| SRM Carrier - "Oliver" | Tracked Vehicles |
| Scorpion | Tracked Vehicles - Light Tank |
| InterComBust 120 | I.C.E. |
| InterComBust 180 | I.C.E. - LRM and SRM Carrier |
| Lexington Ltd. High Grade FF | Armor - FF - BattleMechs & Vehicles |
| Communicator | Communications System |
| FireScan with IndirecTrack | Targeting-Tracking System |
[edit] Pandora
| Components produced on Pandora:[12][13] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| Tracked APC[12][13] | Tracked Vehicles |
| Scorpion[12][13] | Tracked Vehicles |
| LRM Carrier[12] | Tracked Vehicles |
| SRM Carrier[12][13] | Tracked Vehicles |
| Chalchiuhtotolin Support Tank[14] | Wheeled Vehicles - (As of 3085) |
| Indra Infantry Transport[13] | Wheeled Vehicles |
| InterComBust 60 | I.C.E. - APC[12] |
| InterComBust 100 | I.C.E. - Scorpion[12] |
| InterComBust 180 | I.C.E. - LRM and SRM Carrier[12] |
| Gorvachs 230 | Fusion Engine - Chalchiuhtotolin[14] |
| Forging MD4 Ferro Fibrous | Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles - Chalchiuhtotolin[14] |
| ProtechLight | Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles - Scorpion[12] |
| Basix 200 | Communications System - Chalchiuhtotolin[14] |
| OptiSight-12 | Targeting-Tracking System - Chalchiuhtotolin[14] |
[edit] Richvale
| Components produced on Richvale:[15] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| Condor Hover Tank (Upgrade)[1] | Hover Vehicles |
| Ontos Heat[15] | Tracked Vehicles |
| Saxon APC[2] | Hover Vehicles |
| Pitban 285 | Fusion Engine - Ontos[15] |
| Lexington Ltd. High Grade Ferro-Fibrous | Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles - Ontos[15] |
| Irian E.A.R. | Communications System - Ontos[15] |
| Wasat Aggressor | Targeting-Tracking System - Ontos[15] |
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Technical Readout: 3075, p. 54, "Condor Hover Tank (Upgrade)"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Technical Readout: 3075, p. 48, "Saxon APC"
- ↑ Objectives: Capellan Confederation, p. 3, "State of the Industry Table"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 117, "Filtvelt Coalition"
- ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 134, "Quikscell Company Profile"
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 Objective Raids, p. 141, "Produced Quikscell Company Components on Ares"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 Objectives: Capellan Confederation, p. 7
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Objectives: Periphery, p. 24
- ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 9.14 Objective Raids, p. 95, "Produced Quikscell Company Components on Layover"
- ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 10.15 10.16 10.17 10.18 10.19 Objective Raids, p. 129, "Produced Quickscell Company Components on Kalidasa"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Tactical Handbook
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 Objective Raids, p. 56, "Produced Quikscell Company Components on Pandora"
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Objectives: The Clans, p. 13, "Quickscell Company"
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Technical Readout: 3085 Supplemental, p. 48, "Clan Jade Falcon Wheeled Tank production and timeframe introduced".
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Technical Readout: Prototypes, p. 62, "Produced Ontos Components"
