Technical Readout: 2750

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Technical Readout: 2750
Attribution
Development	Sam Lewis
Writing	Clare Hess Dale Kemper Jim Long Blaine Pardoe Boy Petersen
Cover art
Illustrations	Dana Knutson
Chronology
Era(s)	Star League era Succession Wars era
Publication information
Type	Technical Readout
Publisher	FASA
Released	1989
Pages	160
Product Code	8613
ISBN	1555600891

Contents 1 Description 2 From the back cover 3 Contents 4 Notes

[edit] Description

Technical Readout: 2750 concerns itself with the models of 'Mechs, ASFs, tanks, hovercraft, personal equipment and WarShips in use during the first Star League. It provides Level 2 variants (before the Clans were introduced) of common 3025-era assets.

[edit] From the back cover

“

In the year 2750, humanity was in the midst of a golden age. United under the interstellar government of the Star League, all mankind prospered and enjoyed an improved quality of life made possible by advances in technology, commerce, human rights, and the arts. Humanity had truly inherited the stars. But those same advances also carried a curse, for the engines of war from the Star League era possessed power unequalled in the Successor States today. BattleTech Technical Readout: 2750 provides illustrations, statistics, and other vital information about the BattleMechs, AeroSpace Fighters, Tanks and Hovercraft, Personal Equipment, and combat JumpShips of the Star League.

”

[edit] Contents

• Star League Technology

• Weapons
  • Ballistics
    • Gauss Rifle
    • Ultra AC/5
    • LB 10-X AC
  • Energy
    • Small Pulse Laser
    • Medium Pulse Laser
    • Large Pulse Laser
    • ER Large Laser
    • ER PPC
  • Missiles
    • OS Missile
    • Streak SRM-2
    • Swarm LRM
    • Thunder LRM
  • Defense
    • AMS
    • Arrow IV

• Electronics
  • Artemis IV
  • Beagle Active Probe
  • Guardian
  • MASC
  • Narc

• Construction Materials
  • CASE
  • Double heat sink
  • Endo Steel
  • Ferro-Fibrous Armor
  • XL Engine

• Costs – table with purchase costs for above equipment

• BattleMechs
  • Light 'Mechs
    • Mercury
    • Thorn
    • Mongoose
    • Hermes
    • Hussar
  • Medium 'Mechs
    • Sentinel
    • Wyvern
    • Crab
    • Kintaro
  • Heavy 'Mechs
    • Champion
    • Lancelot
    • Exterminator
    • Bombardier
    • Guillotine
    • Flashman
    • Black Knight
  • Assault 'Mechs
    • Thug
    • Crockett
    • Highlander
    • King Crab

• Aerospace Fighters
  • Trident
  • Swift
  • Spad
  • Zero
  • Rogue
  • Tomahawk
  • Hellcat II
  • Gotha
  • Ironsides
  • Hammerhead
  • Rapier
  • Ahab

• Vehicles
  • Gabriel
  • Ripper
  • Beagle
  • Rotunda
  • Nightshade
  • Cyrano
  • Lightning
  • Zephyr
  • Kanga
  • Chaparral
  • Thor
  • Demon
  • Marksman
  • Magi
  • Burke
  • Fury
  • Rhino
  • Puma

• WarShip Weapons and Equipment
  • Naval Autocannon/10
  • Naval Autocannon/20
  • Naval Autocannon/25
  • Naval Autocannon/30
  • Naval Autocannon/35
  • Naval Autocannon/40
  • Killer Whale
  • White Shark
  • Barracuda
  • Naval Laser 35
  • Naval Laser 45
  • Naval Laser 55
  • Light NPPC
  • Medium NPPC
  • Heavy NPPC
  • Lithium-Fusion Battery

• WarShips
  • Bug-Eye
  • Vincent
  • Essex
  • Lola
  • Aegis
  • Congress
  • Black Lion
  • Sovetskii Soyuz
  • Cameron
  • Potemkin
  • Texas
  • McKenna
  • Confederate
  • Titan

• Personal Equipment
  • Emergency Jet Pack
  • EMP Pulse Mine
  • Rifle/Pistol Silencer
  • Flash Suppressor
  • Grapple Rod
  • Mauser 960
  • Combat Suit
  • MediPack
  • Gripper Gloves
  • Vibro Lock Pick Kit

[edit] Notes

• This book is an interesting glimpse into the Star League era's levels of technology, though some items within would be precluded by later updates that resulted in these items not fitting into the various game systems as well (ex: Bug-Eye).