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{{InfoBoxBattleMech
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{{Update Needed|[[Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons]]}}
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{{InfoBoxIndMech
 
| image = Marco.jpg
 
| image = Marco.jpg
| name = ''Marco''
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| Name = MR-8C Marco
| model = MR-8C
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| Manufacturer = [[StarCorps Industries]]
| manufacturer = [[StarCorps Industries]]
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| Use = Long Range Exploration <br> Scout
| Use = Long Range Exploration
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| Tech Base = Star League (Non-Tournment Legal)
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| Cost = 1,701,245<ref>''Record Sheets: Operation Klondike'', p. 70</ref>
Scout
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| Introduced = [[2719]]
|Tech Base =Inner Sphere
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| Mass = 30 tons
|mech type =IndustrialMech
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| Engine = [[GM 120]]
|feet=2
 
| cost = 1,701,245 [[C-bill]]s<ref>''Record Sheets: Operation Klondike'', p. 70</ref>
 
| introduced = [[2712]]<ref name=TROVA>''Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex'', p. 218</ref><ref name=TROVAR>''Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised Edition'', p. 216</ref>
 
| mass = 30
 
| chassis = [[StarCorps HD-5]]
 
| engine = [[GM 120 Fusion]]
 
 
| comsys = [[Astar 5]]
 
| comsys = [[Astar 5]]
 
| T&T = None
 
| T&T = None
| speed = 64
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| Top Speed = 64
| jump jets = [[HildCo L5]]
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| Armament = [[Small Laser]]
| armament =
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| Heat Sinks = 10
* 1x [[Small laser]]
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| Armor = 4 tons ([[Heavy Industrial Armor]])
| heat sinks = 10 [[single heat sink]]s
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| Equipment = [[Salvage Arm]], [[Cargo Bay]], [[Searchlight]], [[Environmental Sealing]]
| armor = [[ArcShield CHIL]]
 
| Equipment =  
 
* 1x [[Salvage arm]]
 
* 1x [[Cargo bay]]
 
* 1x [[Searchlight]]
 
* 1x [[Environmental sealing]]
 
 
| BV (1.0) =  
 
| BV (1.0) =  
 
| BV (2.0) = 304<ref>''Record Sheets: Operation Klondike'', p. 70</ref><ref>''Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons'', p. 76 - BV2 Listing from Record Sheets for MR-8C Marco"</ref><ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/4596/marco-mr-8c MUL Profile for MR-8C Marco ExploreMEch - BV2 aand Introduction Year]</ref>
 
| BV (2.0) = 304<ref>''Record Sheets: Operation Klondike'', p. 70</ref><ref>''Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons'', p. 76 - BV2 Listing from Record Sheets for MR-8C Marco"</ref><ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/4596/marco-mr-8c MUL Profile for MR-8C Marco ExploreMEch - BV2 aand Introduction Year]</ref>
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==Description==
 
==Description==
The '''''Marco''''' was the first true jack-of-all-trades ExplorerMech, outside of unique retrofitted [[BattleMech]]s that had previously served in such a role<ref name=TROVAR/>. Created as the ultimate expeditionary vehicle, the ''Marco'' was built with military-grade technology to meet the needs of explorers. It was described as a customizable BattleMech frame without weapons,<ref name=TROVA/><ref name=TROVAR/> albeit it was still created and rated as an [[IndustrialMech]] and not to proper BattleMech standards.
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Created as the ultimate expeditionary vehicle, the '''''Marco''''' was built with military grade technology to meet the needs of explorers. The design was not terribly successful, but there was enough demand to keep it in limited production for nearly a decade.  Previous 'Mechs used as "ExplorerMechs" were simply retrofitted [[BattleMechs]] that had been customized for exploration.<ref name=TROVA>''Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex'', pp. 218-219, "Marco Industrial 'Mech Profile"</ref> Two interesting features of the ''Marco'' are the two man cabin (which was a collapsible module that would only operate when the 'Mech was stationary) and the observation deck across the shoulders.
  
The ''Marco'' has environmental sealing in all its locations to keep hazardous environments out. It features a collapsible two-man cabin mounted on its rear torso which can only be used when the 'Mech is stationary, and a small observation platform bridging across its shoulders.  
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With collapse of the [[Star League]], the [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] took number of these mechs on his [[Exodus Fleet]] into the Deep Periphery. The design was used to Fleet's colonization efforts. After the establishment of the [[Star League in Exile]] and the death General Kerensky, the Pentagon Cluster colonies fragment into waring factions known as the [[Pentagon Powers]], These groups desperate for anything with fight with would end up refitting Marcos into combat machines uniquely used by the Cluster's warring factions.<ref>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp.158-159 MR-8D & MR-8E Marco - Background information of refit variants exclusive to Pentagon Cluster and the early days of the Clans.</ref>
  
Although the ''Marco'' is a solid design, [[StarCorps Industries]]' whole ExplorerMech project was deemed a grand failure in retrospect. Development was difficult, and before finally succeeding with the letter "M", many prototype designs, dating back to [[2666]], including the ''[[Amundsen]]'', ''[[Burton]]'', ''[[Cook]]'', and ''[[DaGama]]'' turned out to be failures, some of them catastrophically so; the unnamed functional precursors of the ''Marco'' from the program were specialized machines for specific environments.<ref name=TROVA/><ref name=TROVAR/> As it turned out, after the ''Marco'' debuted in [[2712]], there had never been a large market for ExplorerMechs to begin with, and production was discontinued in [[2720]] after only eight years; StarCorps managed to sell two production runs of mostly -6 and -7 series models to the SLDF in what seems to have been a not-so-clean deal.<ref name=TROVA/><ref name=TROVAR/> By [[3070]], only few ''Marco''s were still known to exist, all of them of the -6 and -7 series.<ref name=TROVA/><ref name=TROVAR/>
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While in [[Inner Sphere]] through the Succession Wars, only few of the Macros would remain functional along with it's early models.<ref>''Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised'', p. 216 - MR-8 Marco - Background information regarding the 'Mech.</ref>
  
 
==Weapons and Equipment==
 
==Weapons and Equipment==
The ''Marco'' features a [[salvage arm]] in its right arm, a [[searchlight]] mounted in its center torso, and a military-grade [[small laser]] mounted in its left arm, while its hull is protected by four tons of [[heavy industrial armor]].<ref name=TROVA/><ref name=TROVAR/><ref>''Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons'', pp. 74-74 - MR-6, MR-7 and MR-8C ''Marco'' record sheets</ref>
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The ''Marco'' has environmental sealing in all its locations to keep hazardous environments out.  It has a collapsible two-man cabin mounted on its rear torso which can only be used when the 'Mech is stationary. It also has a small observation platform bridging across its shoulders.  The 'Mech features a salvage arm in its left arm, a four-ton cargo bay located in its right torso, and a search light mounted in its center torso.  For self-defense, the ''Marco'' has a [[Small Laser]] mounted in its right arm, while it's hull is protected by 4 tons of Heavy Industrial grade armor.<ref name=TROVA/><ref>"Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons", p.76 - MR-8C Marco, "Stats and other details not listed in TRO."</ref>
  
With the collapse of the [[Star League]], [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] took a number of ''Marco''s with him on the [[Operation EXODUS|Exodus]]. After the establishment of the [[Star League in Exile]] and the death of General Kerensky, the [[Pentagon Cluster]] colonies fragmented into warring factions known as the [[Pentagon Powers]] and these groups would create armed refits from the ''Marco''s they had available; the most common of these refits became known as the MR-8D, a less common as MR-8E.<ref name=HOK>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 146, 158</ref> It was noted that the -6 and -7 series models produced for the SLDF featured an integrated satellite uplink, remote-controlled floodlights, and a modular tool mount on the right arm.<ref name=TROVA/><ref name=TROVAR/> Although the MR-8D and -8E are said to derive from the limited number of -8C models that Kerensky's Exodus fleet had brought, the fact that neither refit retains the [[jump jet]]s suggests that they could well have been -6 or -7 models.
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==Variants==
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The series 6 and 7 model ''Marcos'' were created for the [[SLDF]]. These 'Mechs came equipped with an integrated satellite uplink, remote-controlled floodlights and modular tool-mount on the right arm. The remaining ''Marcos'' that exist as of [[3070]], are these variants.<ref name=TROVA/>  
  
The final -8C production model, which was only introduced in [[2719]], featured three [[jump jet]]s in the left torso for a total jump range of 90 meters, and two and a half tons of cargo space in the right torso; the previous -6 and -7 models had no [[jump jet]]s and used the tonnage for communications equipment.
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*;MR-6 : The first version of the Marco introduced in [[2712]], this version differs little from the later MR-8C. The MR-6 features 4 tons of [[Communication Equipment]] in the right torso and lacks Jump Jets of the late model. BV(2.0)=295<ref>"Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons", p.74 - MR-6 Marco, "Stats and other details not listed in TRO."</ref><ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/4594/marco-mr-6 MUL Profile for the MR-6 Marco ExplorerMech - Introduction Year info only.]</ref><ref name=TROVA/>
  
==Variants==
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*;MR-7 : Introduced three years after the MR-6 in [[2715]], the MR-7 is similar to the earlier version. The 'Mech's communication equipment found in the right torso is reduced by two tons to make way for a 1.5-ton Cargo Hold, while additionally a [[Remote Sensor Dispenser]] is added to the left torso to expand the an explore team's sensor radius.
*; MR-6 : The first known production version of the ''Marco'' lacks the [[jump jet]]s and cargo capacity of the later MR-8C. Instead, the MR-6 features four tons of [[communication equipment]] in the right torso. BV(2.0)=295<ref>''Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons'', p. 74</ref><ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/4594/marco-mr-6 MUL Profile for the MR-6 ''Marco'' ExplorerMech]</ref>
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BV(2.0)=295<ref>"Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons", p.75 - MR-7 Marco, "Stats and other details not listed in TRO."</ref><ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/4595/marco-mr-7 MUL Profile for the MR-7 Marco ExplorerMech - Introduction Year info only.]</ref>
  
*; MR-7 : Introduced three years after the MR-6 in [[2715]],<ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/4595/marco-mr-7 MUL Profile for the MR-7 ''Marco'' ExplorerMech]</ref> the MR-7 is similar to the earlier version, but reduces the [[communication equipment]] carried by two tons to make way for a one and a half ton cargo hold and a [[remote sensor dispenser]] which was added to the left torso to expand the explorer team's sensor radius. BV(2.0)=295<ref>''Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons'', p. 75 - MR-7 ''Marco'' record sheet</ref>
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In what would be come [[Clan Space]], several forces desperate for equipment, refitted and armed ''Marco'' ExplorerMechs. These weaponized versions are typically no match for dedicated combat units. They were uniquely made and found among the [[Pentagon Powers]].
  
*; MR-8D : Introduced in [[2801]], this field refit of the standard MR-8C removes all the standard equipment, including the [[jump jet]]s, retaining only the [[environmental sealing]]. In the place of this equipment, the MR-8D carries a [[large laser]] in the left arm and an [[SRM-4]] with one ton of ammunition in the right torso. 10 [[single heat sink]]s cool the weapons. BV (2.0) = 436<ref>''Record Sheets: Operation Klondike'', p. 71</ref><ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/2073/marco-mr-8d MUL Profile for MR-8D ''Marco'']</ref>
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*;MR-8D : Introduced in [[2801]], this version removes all the standard equipment, retaining only the Environmental Sealing of the 8C. In place of the rest of the standard equipment, the ''Marco'' 8D carries a [[Large Laser]] in the left arm and an [[SRM-4]] with one ton of ammunition in the right torso. The jump jets are also removed. Ten heat sinks cool the weapons. BV (2.0) = 436<ref>''Record Sheets: Operation Klondike'', p. 71</ref><ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/2073/marco-mr-8d MUL Profile for MR-8D Marco - BV2, Alpha Strike Card, and Intro Year.]</ref>
  
*; MR-8E : This refit version, introduced at the same time as the -8D, removes the same equipment and sports 12 [[single heat sink]]s to disperse the heat from two [[medium pulse laser]]s in the right torso and two [[medium laser]]s in the left arm. BV (2.0) = 476<ref>''Record Sheets: Operation Klondike'', p. 72</ref><ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/2074/marco-mr-8e MUL Profile for MR-8E ''Marco'']</ref>
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*;MR-8E : This refit version introduced at the same time as the 8D uses twelve heat sinks to disperse the heat from two [[Medium Pulse Laser]]s in the right torso and two [[Medium Laser]]s in the left arm. This version cannot jump. BV (2.0) = 476<ref>''Record Sheets: Operation Klondike'', p. 72</ref><ref>[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/2074/marco-mr-8e MUL Profile for MR-8E Marco - BV2, Alpha Strike Card, and Intro Year.]</ref>
  
 
==Design Quirks==
 
==Design Quirks==
The ''MR-8C Marco'' features the following [[Design Quirk]]s:<ref name=TROVAR/>
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The ''MR-8C Marco'' features the following [[Design Quirks]]:<ref name=TRO:VArp216>''Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised'', p. 216, "Marco 'Mech Profile"</ref>
* [[Extended Torso Twist]]
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* [[Extended Torso Twist]]
* [[Bad Reputation]]
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* [[Bad Reputation]]
* [[Obsolete|Obsolete (2720)]]
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* [[Obsolete]] ([[2720]])
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
* In the story ''[[Trial of Faith]]'' at least three ''Marco''s are mentioned, from which one functional unit was cobbled together as of [[3050]]. Despite being described as an "older model" it has [[jump jet]]s, suggesting that there was perhaps a model with jump jets preceding the -6 series.
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As of this writing, there MUL Profile for MR-6 and MR-7 variants have not been updated with current BV2 or an Alpha Strike Card.
 
 
* When the ''Marco'' was introduced in ''Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex'', the write-up mentioned the [[jump jet]]s (which would amount to one and a half tons), but they were omitted in the stat sheet and a four ton cargo hold was given. This was corrected in ''Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised'' where the jump jets are included in the stats and the cargo bay is reduced to two and a half tons.
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
* ''[[Historical: Operation Klondike]]''
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*''[[Master Unit List]]''
* ''[[Master Unit List]]''
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*''[[Record Sheets: Operation Klondike]]''
* ''[[Record Sheets: Operation Klondike]]''
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*''[[Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons]]''
* ''[[Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons]]''
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*''[[Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex]]''
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*''[[Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised Edition]]''
 
 
 
  
[[Category:Star League BattleMechs]]
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[[Category:Industrial 'Mechs|Marco]]

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