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Soren Iishi | |
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| Personal | |
| Affiliation | Terran Hegemony[1] |
| Career | |
| Profession | Engineer[1] |
Soren Iishi was a Supervising Engineer for General Mechanics, Inc.[1]
History[edit]
Soren Iishi was tasked with securing the Hegemony Armed Forces contract for a "highly mobile fast reconnaissance BattleMech" to not only provide as-yet unrealized mobility with BattleMechs, but to compete with the rumored Lyran design. He recruited a team of engineers which he dubbed "The Hive" and they set about trying to achieve a truly lofty goal, a flying ’Mech. The goal of a Land-Air ’Mech was still two centuries out of reach, but The Hive was successful in creating not only the prototype Jump Jet, but pairing it with the first jump-capable ’Mech, the prototype WSP-1X Wasp in 2464. The Hive continued to refine the technology, introducing the production Jump Jet and the WSP-1A in 2471[1][2]