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==Description==
 
==Description==
The '''''Highlander''''' is one of the most well-known [[Star League Defense Force]] assault [['Mech]]s, serving with distinction for almost two centuries since first entering service in [[Introduction Year::2592]].  Initially designed as a dedicated city and installation defender, the original model featured a variety of weaponry along with fifteen and a half tons of [[ferro-fibrous]] armor, but perhaps its most useful asset were the three [[HildCo Model 10|HildCo]] [[jump jet]]s giving it a jumping range of 90 meters. Among the heaviest 'Mech designs to feature jump jets at the time, their original task was to allow the ''Highlander'' the ability to jump over inconvenient obstacles such as buildings and outpace other 'Mechs with a faster ground speed, but because of this increased mobility and its versatile weaponry the ''Highlander'' proved to be a capable fighter on any battlefield and within decades nearly every BattleMech [[regiment]] of the Regular and Royal Armies featured them.  However it was during the design's initial trial runs that [[MechWarrior (pilot)|pilots]] began using these 'Mechs in what would infamously become known as the "[[Death from Above|Highlander Burial]]".  Leaping into the air and landing directly on their enemy, a ''Highlander'' could literally drive a light 'Mech into the ground.  So successful was this maneuver that the design team reengineered the legs to withstand repeated death-from-above attacks and turned what had been a desperation move into an art form, giving ''Highlander'' pilots an additional psychological edge.<ref name=TRO3050Up220-210/><ref name=TRO2750p52-53>''Technical Readout: 2750'', pp. 52–53: "HGN-732 Highlander 'Mech Profile"</ref><ref name=TRO3025Rp114-115>''Technical Readout: 3025 Revised'', pp. 114–115: "HGN-733 Highlander 'Mech Profile"</ref><ref name=TRO3039p276-277>''Technical Readout: 3039'', pp. 276–277: "HGN-733 Highlander 'Mech Profile"</ref><ref name=TRO3050Rp174-175>''Technical Readout: 3050 Revised'', pp. 174–175: "HGN-732 Highlander Profile"</ref>
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The '''''Highlander''''' is one of the most well-known [[Star League Defense Force]] assault [['Mech]]s, serving with distinction for almost two centuries since first entering service in [[Introduction Year::2592]].  Initially designed as a dedicated city and installation defender, the original model featured a variety of weaponry along with fifteen and a half tons of [[ferro-fibrous]] armor, but perhaps its most useful asset were the three [[HildCo Model 10|HildCo]] [[jump jet]]s giving it a jumping range of 90 meters. The heaviest 'Mech design to feature jump jets at the time, their original task was to allow the ''Highlander'' the ability to jump over inconvenient obstacles such as buildings and outpace other 'Mechs with a faster ground speed, but because of this increased mobility and its versatile weaponry the ''Highlander'' proved to be a capable fighter on any battlefield and within decades nearly every BattleMech [[regiment]] of the Regular and Royal Armies featured them.  However it was during the design's initial trial runs that [[MechWarrior (pilot)|pilots]] began using these 'Mechs in what would infamously become known as the "[[Death from Above|Highlander Burial]]".  Leaping into the air and landing directly on their enemy, a ''Highlander'' could literally drive a light 'Mech into the ground.  So successful was this maneuver that the design team reengineered the legs to withstand repeated death-from-above attacks and turned what had been a desperation move into an art form, giving ''Highlander'' pilots an additional psychological edge.<ref name=TRO3050Up220-210/><ref name=TRO2750p52-53>''Technical Readout: 2750'', pp. 52–53: "HGN-732 Highlander 'Mech Profile"</ref><ref name=TRO3025Rp114-115>''Technical Readout: 3025 Revised'', pp. 114–115: "HGN-733 Highlander 'Mech Profile"</ref><ref name=TRO3039p276-277>''Technical Readout: 3039'', pp. 276–277: "HGN-733 Highlander 'Mech Profile"</ref><ref name=TRO3050Rp174-175>''Technical Readout: 3050 Revised'', pp. 174–175: "HGN-732 Highlander Profile"</ref>
  
 
As with other [[Star League]] era designs the ''Highlander'' would suffer the [[lostech|loss of technology]] brought about by the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], and when StarCorps' factory on [[Son Hoa]] was devastated towards the end of the [[Second Succession War]] the original HGN-732 became virtually extinct.  An agreement between StarCorps and [[Hollis Incorporated]] to rebuild destroyed chassis from scratch using readily-available technology kept the line going until the mid-3030s when limited production was restarted by StarCorps on Son Hoa and [[Corey]], producing barely a dozen new 'Mechs per year.  These HGN-733 ''Highlander''s were used in small numbers by the [[Capellan Confederation]] and [[Lyran Commonwealth]], commonly as part of [[lance]]s containing ''[[Exterminator]]s'', ''[[Victor]]''s, ''[[Grasshopper]]''s and ''[[Catapult]]''s.<ref name=TRO3050Up220-210/><ref name=TRO3025Rp114-115/><ref name=TRO3039p276-277/>
 
As with other [[Star League]] era designs the ''Highlander'' would suffer the [[lostech|loss of technology]] brought about by the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], and when StarCorps' factory on [[Son Hoa]] was devastated towards the end of the [[Second Succession War]] the original HGN-732 became virtually extinct.  An agreement between StarCorps and [[Hollis Incorporated]] to rebuild destroyed chassis from scratch using readily-available technology kept the line going until the mid-3030s when limited production was restarted by StarCorps on Son Hoa and [[Corey]], producing barely a dozen new 'Mechs per year.  These HGN-733 ''Highlander''s were used in small numbers by the [[Capellan Confederation]] and [[Lyran Commonwealth]], commonly as part of [[lance]]s containing ''[[Exterminator]]s'', ''[[Victor]]''s, ''[[Grasshopper]]''s and ''[[Catapult]]''s.<ref name=TRO3050Up220-210/><ref name=TRO3025Rp114-115/><ref name=TRO3039p276-277/>
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''From [[MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries#Call to Arms|''MechWarrior 5: Call to Arms'' Expansion Pack]]:''
 
''From [[MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries#Call to Arms|''MechWarrior 5: Call to Arms'' Expansion Pack]]:''
*; HGN-733PP : Introduced in [[3025]] as a melee-enhanced version of the standard HGN-733P, the HGN-733PP moves the SRM-6 to the left torso, drops one of the right-torso medium lasers and downgrades the LRM rack to an LRM-15, allowing it to carry an [[Sword (weapon)|assault ''katana'']] in its left arm.<ref name=MW5CtA>''MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, Call to Arms''</ref>
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*; HGN-733PP : Introduced in [[3025]] as a melee-enhanced version of the standard HGN-733P, the HGN-733PP moves the SRM-6 to the left torso, drops one of the right-torso medium lasers and downgrades the LRM rack to an LRM-15, allowing it to carry an [[sword|assault ''katana'']] in its left arm.<ref name=MW5CtA>''MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, Call to Arms''</ref>
  
 
*; HGN-RS ''Redshank'' : The personal Hero 'Mech of [[Roz Sheridan]], senior member of the [[Dragon's Breath (Mercenary Command)|Dragon's Breath]] mercenary unit, ''Redshank'' is based off the HGH-733, dropping the SRM rack to mount an additional ton of autocannon ammo and an extra medium laser in the right torso as well as allowing it to carry a massive assault claymore in its left arm.<ref name=MW5CtA/>
 
*; HGN-RS ''Redshank'' : The personal Hero 'Mech of [[Roz Sheridan]], senior member of the [[Dragon's Breath (Mercenary Command)|Dragon's Breath]] mercenary unit, ''Redshank'' is based off the HGH-733, dropping the SRM rack to mount an additional ton of autocannon ammo and an extra medium laser in the right torso as well as allowing it to carry a massive assault claymore in its left arm.<ref name=MW5CtA/>
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==Design Quirks==
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== Design Quirks ==
 
The ''Highlander'' has the following [[Design Quirks]]:<ref>''BattleMech Manual'', p. 92: Design Quirk Table - Highlander Entry</ref>
 
The ''Highlander'' has the following [[Design Quirks]]:<ref>''BattleMech Manual'', p. 92: Design Quirk Table - Highlander Entry</ref>
 
* [[Command BattleMech]]
 
* [[Command BattleMech]]
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==Notable Pilots==
 
==Notable Pilots==
* [[Rhonda Snord]], who commanded [[Snord's Irregulars]] after her father [[Cranston Snord]] retired, piloted a ''Highlander''.  The words "Heavy Metal" were painted on the barrel of the Gauss rifle, and several external speakers were mounted, which she would use to flood the battlefield with twentieth-century rock and roll.  Despite her fondness for Elvis Presley, she was well aware of the disruptive value provided by heavy metal music.<ref>''Rhonda's Irregulars'', p. 17</ref>
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* [[Rhonda Snord]], who commanded [[Snord's Irregulars]] after her father [[Cranston Snord]] retired, piloted a ''Highlander''.  The words "Heavy Metal" were painted on the barrel of the Gauss rifle, and several external speakers were mounted, which she would use to flood the battlefield with 20th-century rock and roll.  Despite her fondness for Elvis Presley, she was well aware of the disruptive value provided by heavy metal music.<ref>''Rhonda's Irregulars'', p. 17</ref>
 
* [[Cal Jorgensson]], younger brother of Ghost Bear Khan [[Hans Ole Jorgensson]] and the last Khan of [[Clan Widowmaker]], piloted a modified ''Highlander'' when he accidentally (or deliberately) killed [[ilKhan]] [[Nicholas Kerensky]] in a duel between himself and Wolf Khan [[Jerome Winson]] during a [[Trial of Refusal]].<ref>''Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption'', pp. 1, 8</ref>
 
* [[Cal Jorgensson]], younger brother of Ghost Bear Khan [[Hans Ole Jorgensson]] and the last Khan of [[Clan Widowmaker]], piloted a modified ''Highlander'' when he accidentally (or deliberately) killed [[ilKhan]] [[Nicholas Kerensky]] in a duel between himself and Wolf Khan [[Jerome Winson]] during a [[Trial of Refusal]].<ref>''Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption'', pp. 1, 8</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
* Author [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]] stated in a [https://web.archive.org/web/20221102192457/https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/out-of-the-archives-the-battlemechs-i-wrote-about-or-designed/ blog entry] that, according to his memory which he admitted could be wrong, the ''Highlander'' was among the BattleMechs for which he wrote the original background as initially published in ''TRO:2750''; for some of these he also designed the stats.
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* Author [[Blaine Lee Pardoe]] stated in a [https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/out-of-the-archives-the-battlemechs-i-wrote-about-or-designed/ blog entry] that, according to his memory which he admitted could be wrong, the ''Highlander'' was among the BattleMechs for which he wrote the original background as initially published in ''TRO:2750''; for some of these he also designed the stats.
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* Plastic HGN-732 is included in [[BattleTech: ComStar Command Level II]]
  
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
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Day of Heroes (24).jpg|A ''Highlander'' firing on a ''[[Cataphract]]'' from ''[[Day of Heroes]]''
 
Day of Heroes (24).jpg|A ''Highlander'' firing on a ''[[Cataphract]]'' from ''[[Day of Heroes]]''
 
Highlander OpKlondike.jpg|A [[Clan Blood Spirit]] ''Highlander'' during [[Operation KLONDIKE]]
 
Highlander OpKlondike.jpg|A [[Clan Blood Spirit]] ''Highlander'' during [[Operation KLONDIKE]]
Northwind Highlander cover promo.jpg|A range of ''Highlander''s from ''[[Northwind Highlanders (scenario pack)|Northwind Highlanders]]''
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HighLander.jpg|A range of ''Highlanders'' from ''[[Northwind Highlanders (scenario pack)|Northwind Highlanders]]''
Historical Liberation of Terra I cover.gif|''Royal Black Watch'' ''Highlander'' realizing a Highlander burial attack during the ''[[Amaris Civil War]]''
 
 
CCG Unlimited Highlander.jpg|HGN-732 ''Highlander'' in motion from ''[[BattleTech Trading Card Game|CCG]]''
 
CCG Unlimited Highlander.jpg|HGN-732 ''Highlander'' in motion from ''[[BattleTech Trading Card Game|CCG]]''
 
CCG Mercenaries Highlander.jpg|[[Rhonda Snord]]'s custom ''Highlander'' from ''CCG''
 
CCG Mercenaries Highlander.jpg|[[Rhonda Snord]]'s custom ''Highlander'' from ''CCG''
 
MW4-M Highlander.png|Model of ''Highlander'' from ''[[MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries|MW4]]''
 
MW4-M Highlander.png|Model of ''Highlander'' from ''[[MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries|MW4]]''
ComStar Command Level II - Highlander.jpg|''Highlander'' miniature from ''[[BattleTech: ComStar Command Level II]]''
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Historical Liberation of Terra I cover.gif|''Royal Black Watch'' ''Highlander'' realizing a Highlander burial attack during the ''[[Amaris Civil War]]''
 
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