Pinard Protectorates Limited
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A privately held company, Pinard Protectorates Limited was founded in 3020. Most of it's contracts come from the Taurian Concordat government, but focus on the planetary militia level rather than the TDF level. Small arms and personal armor are what allowed PPL to expand after incorporating, and they've never forgotten it.[1]
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Overview
Though persistent rumors suggest that Pinard Protectorates Limited produces the Rommel tank, this isn't correct. The company was briefly merged with the Alphard Trading Corporation, which led to a joint venture with ATC and Kali-Yama Weapons Industries. PPL builds the engines and several other parts used in the J. Edgar and Fulcrum hovercraft produced by this joint venture.[1]
The Pinard Protectorate facilities on the water-world of Perdition consist of three separate factories on miniature islands. The defenders here must use large, vulnerable air and sea transports to move reinforcements between factories, because traveling along the sea bottom by 'Mech is too slow to be practical for the distances involved.[2] A fourth facility, once a part of PP Ltd, has resumed independent operations as the Taurian branch of Alphard Trading Corporation.
Hansen's Roughriders destroyed all the manufacturing facilities on Macleod's Land in 3074.[3] The company gambled by trying to expand the Perdition facility, but in 3075 two-thirds of those production lines were destroyed by Longwood's Bluecoats as they turned traitor.[3] In late 3076 Pinard Protectorates Limited was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and both Taurus Territorial Industries and Vandenburg Mechanized Industries were considering acquiring Pinard.[3]
The CEO of Pinard Protectorates Limited is Linus MacLeod.
Manufacturing
Pinard Protectorates Limited has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
MacLeod's Land
Note: These facilities were destroyed by Hansen's Roughriders in 3074.[3]
| Components produced on MacLeod's Land:[4] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| LCT-1V Locust[4] | Light BattleMech |
| LCT-5T Locust | Light BattleMech (As of 3067) |
| LCT-5V Locust | Light BattleMech (As of 3067) |
| STG-5R Stinger | Light BattleMech |
| STG-3R Stinger[4] | Light BattleMech |
| STG-5T Stinger | Light BattleMech (As of 3067) |
| CLNT-3-3T Clint | Medium BattleMech (As of 3067) |
| Asterion | Battle Armor (As of 3067) |
| Bulldog Medium Truck | Wheeled Vehicles - Civilian Support Vehicle |
| Bergan VII | Chassis - Locust[4] |
| Earthwerks STG | Chassis - Stinger[4] |
| Chilton 360 | Jump Jets - Stinger[4] & Clint (As of 3067) |
| SperryBrowning | Machine Gun - Shipped to Pinard and Taurus for Thunderbold & Warhammer[4] to Sterope for APC & Taurus for Marshal (As of 3067) |
| Sperry Browning | Light Machine Gun - Locust (As of 3067) |
| Protectorate Array Assembly | Machine Gun Array - Locust (As of 3067) |
| Deprus Swarmshot | Anti-Missile System |
Perdition
Note: Two thirds of these production lines were destroyed by Longwood's Bluecoats in 3075.[3]
Pinard
| Components produced on Pinard:[8] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| MAD-3R Marauder[8] | Heavy BattleMech (As of 3067) |
| J. Edgar | Hovercraft - Light Tank |
| Plainsman | Hovercraft - Tank |
| Light SRM Carrier | Wheeled Vehicles |
| Bulldog Medium Truck[9] | Wheeled Vehicles - Civilian Support Vehicle |
| Locom-Pack 140 | I.C.E. |
| Locom-Pack 250 | I.C.E. |
| GM Marauder | Chassis - Marauder[8] |
| 145 Leenex Fusion | Fusion Engine |
| StarSlab/7 | Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles |
| Neil 5000 | Communications System |
| TracTex Alpha-1 | Targeting-Tracking System |
| Martell | Medium Laser - Marauder /Shipped to MacLeod's Land for Locust, to New Vandenberg for Marauder, to Organo for Sabre, to Perdition for Thunderbird and to Taurus for Locust, Marauder, Warhammer and Lightning[8] |
Organo
| Components produced on Organo:[10] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| SB-27 Sabre[10] | Light Aerospace Fighters |
| Aeroframe 1[10] | Chassis - Sabre |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 119
- ↑ Objective Raids, p. 159, "Pinard Protectorates Limited"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 189, "Pinard Protectorates Limited profile"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Objective Raids, p. 158, "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on MacLeod's Land"
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 Objective Raids, p. 159, "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on Perdition"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Technical Readout: 3039, p. 30, "Produced J. Edgar Components"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Technical Readout: 3060, p. 22, "Produced Light SRM Carrier Components"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Objective Raids, p. 160, "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on Pinard"
- ↑ Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex, p. 26, "Produced Bulldog Truck Components"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Objective Raids, p. 159, "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on Organo"