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Pinard Protectorates Limited | |
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Corporation Profile | |
Founding Year | 3020[1] |
Affiliation | Taurian Concordat |
Headquarters | Daniel (Pinard III)[2] |
Leadership | CEO |
Product(s) | |
Manufacturing Plant(s) |
A privately held company, Pinard Protectorates Limited received most of its contracts from the Taurian Concordat government but focused on the planetary militia level rather than the Taurian Defense Force.[1]
Contents
Overview[edit]
After its founding in 3020, small arms and personal armor are what allowed Pinard Protectorates Limited to expand. Though persistent rumors suggested that they produced the Rommel tank, this wasn't correct. The company was briefly merged with the Alphard Trading Corporation, which led to a joint venture with ATC and Kali-Yama Industries. PPL built the engines and several other parts used in the J. Edgar and Fulcrum hovercrafts produced by this joint venture.[1]
The Pinard Protectorate facilities on the water-world of Perdition consisted of three separate factories on miniature islands. The defenders had to use large, vulnerable air and sea transports to move reinforcements between factories, because traveling along the sea bottom by 'Mech was too slow to be practical for the distances involved.[3] A fourth facility, once a part of PPL, had 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. The company gambled by trying to expand the Perdition facility, but in July of 3075 two-thirds of those production lines were destroyed by Longwood's Bluecoats as they turned traitor and joined the Roughriders' attack on pro-Taurian facilities. In late 3076, Pinard Protectorates Limited was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and both Taurus Territorial Industries and Vandenberg Mechanized Industries began to consider acquiring PPL.[4]
Manufacturing[edit]
Pinard Protectorates Limited has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
MacLeod's Land[edit]
These facilities were destroyed by Hansen's Roughriders in 3074.[4] By 3079, the remaining 10% of their workforce had returned to work, and the factory was operating at 20% of its maximum output.[5] Production of the Locust started in 3079, and Clint and Stinger 'Mechs were the company's next priorities.[6]
Components produced on MacLeod's Land:[7][8] | |
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Component | Type |
Mechs | |
LCT-1V Locust[7][6] | Light BattleMech |
LCT-5T Locust[6] | Light BattleMech |
LCT-5V Locust[6] | Light BattleMech |
STG-5R Stinger[9] | Light BattleMech |
STG-3R Stinger[7] | Light BattleMech |
STG-5T Stinger[citation needed] | Light BattleMech |
CLNT-3-3T Clint[10] [11] | Medium BattleMech |
Battle Armor | |
Asterion | medium battle armor |
Marauder (Battle Armor)[8] | heavy battle armor |
Vehicles | |
Bulldog Medium Truck | Wheeled Vehicles |
Chassis | |
Bergan VII | Locust[7] |
Earthwerks STG | Stinger[7] |
Jump Jets | |
Chilton 360 | Stinger[7] and Clint[citation needed] |
Machine Gun | |
Sperry Browning | Shipped to Pinard and Taurus for Thunderbolt and Warhammer[7] to Sterope for APC and Taurus for Marshal[6] |
Light Machine Gun | |
Sperry Browning | Locust[6] |
Machine Gun Array | |
Protectorate Array Assembly | Locust[citation needed] |
Anti-Missile System | |
Deprus Swarmshot | [citation needed] |
Perdition[edit]
Note: Two thirds of these production lines were destroyed by Longwood's Bluecoats in 3075.[4] Between the 3075 attack and subsequent raids by Word of Blake forces all of the industry on Perdition had been destroyed by 3081.[12][5]
Pinard[edit]
During the Jihad the plant didn't lose any personnel, but it was only operating at 80% of its maximum productivity in 3079.[5]
Organo[edit]
During the Jihad, the Organo plant didn't lose any personnel, but in 3079 it was only operating at three-quarters of its maximum production.[5]
Components produced on Organo:[21] | |
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Component | Type |
Aerospace Fighter | |
SB-27 Sabre[21][22] | light aerospace fighter |
Frame | |
Aeroframe 1[21] | Sabre |
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 119: "Pinard Protectorates, Ltd."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Objectives: Periphery, p. 9: "Pinard - Pinard Protectorates Limited"
- ↑ Objective Raids, p. 159: "Pinard Protectorates Limited"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 189: "Corporations of the Concordat - [Pinard Protectorates Limited]"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Objectives: Periphery, p. 3: "State of the Industry at a Glance (Dec 3079)"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Objectives: Periphery, p. 7: "MacLeod's Land - Pinard Protectorates Limited"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Objective Raids, p. 158: "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on MacLeod's Land"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Technical Readout: 3145 Mercenaries, p. 7: "Produced Marauder Battle Armor"
- ↑ Technical Readout: Clan Invasion, pp. 88–89: "STG-5R Stinger"
- ↑ Objectives: Periphery, p. 7: "MacLeod's Land - Pinard Protectorates Limited"
- ↑ Recognition Guide: ilClan, vol. 31, p. 13
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 117: "Taurian Concordat"
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 Objective Raids, p. 159: "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on Perdition"
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 Technical Readout: 3039, p. 30: "Produced J. Edgar Components"
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Technical Readout: 3060, p. 22: "Produced Light SRM Carrier Components"
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised, p. 14: "Bulldog"
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised, p. 14: "Pit Bull"
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Objective Raids, p. 160: "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on Pinard"
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade, p. 80: "Produced Plainsman Vehicle Components"
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex, p. 26: "Produced Bulldog Truck Components"
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Objective Raids, p. 159: "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on Organo"
- ↑ Objectives: Periphery, p. 8: "Organo - Pinard Protectorates Limited"
Bibliography[edit]
- Handbook: Major Periphery States
- Jihad: Final Reckoning
- Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers
- Objective Raids
- Objectives: Periphery
- The Periphery
- Technical Readout: 3039
- Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade
- Technical Readout: 3060
- Technical Readout: 3145 Mercenaries
- Technical Readout: Project Phoenix
- Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex
- Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised