Larry Allen Barttelbort

Larry Allen Barttelbort
Personal
Affiliation	Blackstar Stables, Federated Suns
Profile
Profession	Arena Gladiator

History & Tactics

Larry Allen Barttelbort was a Solaris VII fighter. While fighting a team match in The Jungle on 3065 in his own AXM-1N Axman his machine's right leg was blown off and used as a club to kill Barttelbort's partner in a string of physical attacks while Barttelbort watched in horror. Barttelbort was unable to obtain repair parts due to the FedCom Civil War, but eventually scavenged the right leg from a TMP-3M Tempest. This started his love of tinkering on his own 'Mech, now referred to as "Temax".

During a grudge match in 3066, the Axman's entire right arm was destroyed. This forced another improvised repair, this time he attached an HCT-3F Hatchetman's right arm instead. The arm's first swing in combat buried the blade deep into the right shoulder of his opponent's Quickdraw. When the Quickdraw's answering kick knocked the Axman down, Barttelbort's makeshift repair failed and the arm ripped free from the shoulder. He lost that fight. After the FedCom Civil Barttelbort returned home to the Federated Suns' "Outback" and was hired on as a pirate hunter. In 3068, a salvaged CPLT-C1 Catapult provided replacements for a left torso and arm that had become too badly damaged to repair. Barttelbort installed an experimental HVAC/10 and Enhanced LRM-15 during these repairs (though their origins are murky). Barttelbort traded six tons of Artemis IV LRM ammo for the right arm of a scrapped NJT-2 Ninja-To in 3073. This ninth right arm replacement worked flawlessly for four years in a row of frequent combat.

Afterward only the head, center torso, and right torso of the original Axman remained. The 'Mech received its latest limb replacement during a Word of Blake raid in 3075, after Barttelbort squared off against a Blakist TDR-9M Thunderbolt. The Blakist's salvo shattered ninety percent of the Temax's left leg, destroying both the hip and upper leg actuator. Barttelbort's return shots breached the Thunderbolt's LRM magazine and triggered the 'Mech's auto-eject system. Rather than repair the Temax's original (Axman) left leg, Barttelbort appropriated his fallen opponent's leg instead.

BattleMechs

Barttelbort used an AXM-1N Axman in 3065. When the 'Mech got partially destroyed, he started a FrankenMech process that ended in the creation of what became known as Temax Cat Ninjabolt (after the 'Mechs that had contributed components).

Bibliography

• Experimental Technical Readout: Boondocks