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Revision as of 18:15, 27 March 2013
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| Celerity | |
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| Production information | |
| Manufacturer | Undisclosed |
| Production Year | 3052[1] |
| Model | CLR-02-X-D |
| Class | Ultralight |
| Cost | 5 to 6 million C-Bills (Estimated) |
| Technical specifications | |
| Mass | 15 tons |
| Chassis | Endo Steel |
| Armor | Duralex Light |
| Engine | 240 XXL Engine |
| Speed | 240 km/h (345.6 km/h with MASC) |
| Armament |
2x Ultra AC/5 |
| BV (1.0) | ? |
| BV (2.0) | ? |
Description
The Celerity is ComStar's attempt at creating an expendable drone reconnaissance BattleMech.
Though ComStar's drone project started immediately after the Battle of Tukayyid, initially utilizing swift ground based Combat Vehicles or VTOLs controlled from a modified Fury-based control hub, in the Jihad years under Precentor Ashok Sethi the project shifted toward an extremely specialized ultralight Four Legged BattleMech platform for the drones. [2]
Capabilities
The lightweight Celerity is built on an Endo Steel frame and is powered by a massive 240 rated XXL Fusion Engine, the bulky engine makes the animalistic drone capable of high-speed sprints, further enhanced by the addition of MASC to make it among the fastest ground units in existence.[2]
While not mounting any defensive weaponry, the Celerity's head is equipped with a Full-Head Ejection System and carries a C3i module, mitigating the drone's expendable nature while allowing the drone's data and expensive C3 system to be recovered. This is a good thing given the Celerity's sole single ton of armor and the fragile nature of its XXL Engine and XL Gyro, even a single skid following a misstep would almost cripple the design let alone combat fire on the battlefield.[2]
Variants
With its head equipped with similar modular mounting system as the proto-OmniMech the Mercury, the Celerity was intended to be highly adaptable to variations mounting any number of systems from an ECM Pod, TAG, a standard C3 Slave or even a Booby Trap, though no recorded instances aside from the C3i version are known.[2]