Cavalier
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| Cavalier | |
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| Manufacturer | Albion Advanced Technologies and Products, General Motors |
| Use | Line Unit |
| Weight Class | Medium |
| Tech Base | Inner Sphere |
| Cost | 400,000 C-bills |
| Introduced | 3058 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Mass | 1,000 kg |
| Top Speed | 10 km/h |
| Armament |
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| Armor Type | Standard |
| BV (1.0) | Flamer = 33 Machine Gun = 31 Small Laser = 37 SRM = 35 |
Description
To respond to sagging morale in the Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth due to large part to the Lyran secession, Prince Victor Steiner-Davion ordered new units created that represented a visual aesthetic that appealed to many AFFC troopers. Military engineers responded with a battle armor design that was essentially a reworked version of the Inner Sphere Standard. They simply moved around some armor plates and received a unit that could jump ninety meters at a time and had enough armor to withstand a blast from a large pulse laser. By 3070, all Federated Suns facilities has switched over from producing the Inner Sphere Standard to the Cavalier.
Armament
Like the Inner Sphere Standard, the Cavalier has a modular weapon mount that can accept a flamer, small laser, or machine gun. The only actual difference between the two suits is that the Cavaler's missile launcher is an SRM-1 with three reloads. The laser is most useful against hardened targets, while the machine gun is highly effective against unarmored infantry. The flamer is threatening to both.