Ernst Ostmann

Ernst Ostmann
Character Profile
Affiliation Terran Hegemony
Profession BattleMech Designer

Ernst Ostmann was a BattleMech Designer working for Ostmann Industries.[1]

History[edit]

Ostmann was the designer of the OWR-2M Ostwar, a job finished in 2470.[1]

When full-scale production was ready circa 2500, the Ostwar was obsolete by Hegemony standards, and no orders were made. Ostmann Industries found itself facing financial ruin and Ernst Ostmann was forced to look beyond Hegemony borders. Other nations, especially the Free Worlds League and Capellan Confederation were interested in the design even it being an old weapons platform as it came from a Hegemony-based company. As at that time the Terran Hegemony was pursuing Director-General Deborah Cameron's Strategy of Aggressive Peacemaking, Ostmann got the approval to export the antiquate 'Mech to the Great Houses.[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 1, p. 6: "OWR-2M Ostwar"

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