Simitus
03/23/25 08:04 AM
180.150.112.252
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I'm putting together an Amaris Civil War campaign centered on aerospace fighters, and going through some of the late prewar designs. It looks like General Fredasa's New Arms Order of 2735 really mixed things up, with New Age Systems developing a brand new light fighter (SPD-502 Spad) in 2749 and a few years later, Andurien Aerotech developing a new medium one (F-90 Stingray) in 2763. These are both FWL companies, and their production lines wouldn't have been collateral damage in the fighting, but I'm guessing that at a minimum, production was paused once the Amaris Civil War started while FWL foreign office tried to figure out who to back. Marik would have Ok'd them to restart production, backing Kerensky, leaving Amaris with whatever units were captured in the Hegemony but no way to make more of these state of the art, advanced fighters.
But then there's the SDS Mk 39 VoidSeeker line. They're based on the F-90 airframe, but are they produced in the FWL or the TH core worlds? They get a lot of sensitive stuff usually reserved for SLDF Royal units, like an XL powerplant, double heatsinks, ferro-aluminum armor, advanced ECM, etc... and I'm not sure how much of that would have been entursted to Andurien, or if they just bought the bare airframes from Andurien and finished fitting them out themselves in the Hegemony.
Both started production within < 2 years of the outbreak of hostilities, so its understandable the F90 wasn't produced in great numbers, but its implied there are thousands of VoidSeekers. Would Marik be selling to both sides, or does the TH have its own assembly line that was just based on the F90 airframe? Opinions welcome.
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Cray
03/25/25 07:03 PM
71.47.208.18
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The original Voidseeker was almost certainly produced in Hegemony core worlds because, as you noted, the Hegemony wasn't big on sharing Royal gear with the Houses. At the most it might've been produced by a branch of Andurien Aerospace, or Andurien Aerospace picked up the F-90 Stingray plans during the collapse of the Hegemony.
Production rate of the Voidseeker - by the thousands - was like nothing Andurien could've managed.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
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