Phantom (Individual BattleMech)
Sarna News
- HEXTECH Review - Wave 3 Brings More Urban Options To Your Battlefield
- Your BattleTech News Round-Up For March, 2024
- Crashing 'Mechs With Jennifer Brozek, Author Of The Rogue Academy Trilogy
- Getting The Word Out With Rem Alternis, Catalyst Community & Marketing Director
- Bad 'Mechs - Yeoman
- Read more →
 | This article needs to be updated with material from Hour of the Wolf. Once these titles clear the Moratorium period, or if they already have, please consider revisiting this article and updating it with the new material. |
 | This article may require cleanup to meet BattleTechWiki's quality standards. The specific problem is: review needed. |
- This article is about the individual BattleMech. For other uses, see Phantom.
Phantom was an Atlas II BattleMech and the personal 'Mech of Devlin Stone.
Operational History[edit]
Devlin obtained his 'Mech when he broke free of the Blakist prison camp on Kittery, taken from the arsenal of the Blakist garrison. It was a standard model AS7-D-H, built in the factories of Hesperus II during the years the Word held that world.[1]
Stone piloted it during all the Jihad, and at his command engaged the engaged and downed the Awesome of Precentor Cameron St. Jamais at the battle of Terra.
When Stone retired from his post as Exarch in 3130, Phantom retired with him, and both disappeared. However, after Stone's returned in 3145, the 'Mech returned at service.[2]
During the last battles in North America, Malvina Hazen's warriors remained on the lookout for Phantom: Malvina wanted to kill Stone herself, but offered a ransom to any Falcon which BattleROM proved he had hit Phantom, and they focused specially in any 'Mech of Stone's Lament, which shared Phantom's colors... but don't find him. That absence make Malvina even more furious, blaming Stone by cowardice, and all Lament's warriors paid in blood for it.[1]
But the reality was than Stone didn't pilot because he wasn't able to: his cryogenic freezing process had caused a neurological dysfunction than make him impossible to use a Neurohelmet.[1]
It is implied that Stone moved Phantom from Geneva to England, and later Detroit, thinking of using it in battle. As its colors made it too easily identify, at some point it was covered with gray primer[3]Closes"</ref>
After the Republic's surrender, a group of Clan Sea Fox found it in a Republic depot at the end of May 3151. The 'Mech was moved to a salvage facility at the city of Thunder Bay in North America. As the Atlas II had been repainted and its security system wiped, the Clansmen were unable to identify it.[3] Two days later, the previously RAF MechWarriors Jack Traver and Mia Fowler used their position as Wolf warriors to claim it as salvage. It was only when duo arrived at Galatea alongside ex-Ghost Knight Justin Hall that the 'Mech was finally identified. With Hall at its helm, Phantom would become a part of the mercenary unit the three founded: The Cheetahs[3]
Characteristics[edit]
Initially, Phantom was a common AS7-D-H, but as the battles of the Jihad took his toll, more and more components were replaced with improved equipment both from Clan and Inner Sphere sources. This included Phantom's extended-range lasers, extra-light engine and heat sinks, all swapped out for ClanTech versions, as improved technologies of Case II, and Angel ECM suite and cockpit systems augmented with additional armor for extra protection. Phantom was characteristic for his distinct black-and-bones color scheme adopted by Stone's Lament's regiment, which made him as much a weapon of terror as one of war. His presence in the field struck fear and awe amongst allies and enemies alike, and become Stone's trademark.[1]
Phantom from BT:Legends
_BTLegends.jpg)