Pinard Protectorates Limited
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A privately held company, Pinard Protectorates Limited was founded in 3020. Most of it's contracts come from the Taurian Concordat government, but focus on the planetary militia level rather than the TDF level. Small arms and personal armor are what allowed PPL to expand after incorporating, and they've never forgotten it.[1]
Contents
Overview
Though persistent rumors suggest that Pinard Protectorates Limited produces the Rommel tank, this isn't correct. The company was briefly merged with the Alphard Trading Corporation, which led to a joint venture with ATC and Kali-Yama Weapons Industries. PPL builds the engines and several other parts used in the J. Edgar and Fulcrum hovercraft produced by this joint venture.[1]
The Pinard Protectorate facilities on the water-world of Perdition consist of three separate factories on miniature islands. The defenders here must use large, vulnerable air and sea transports to move reinforcements between factories, because traveling along the sea bottom by 'Mech is too slow to be practical for the distances involved.[2] A fourth facility, once a part of PP Ltd, has resumed independent operations as the Taurian branch of Alphard Trading Corporation.
Hansen's Roughriders destroyed all the manufacturing facilities on Macleod's Land in 3074.[3] The company gambled by trying to expand the Perdition facility, but in 3075 two-thirds of those production lines were destroyed by Longwood's Bluecoats as they turned traitor.[3] In late 3076 Pinard Protectorates Limited was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and both Taurus Territorial Industries and Vandenburg Mechanized Industries were considering acquiring Pinard.[3]
The CEO of Pinard Protectorates Limited is Linus MacLeod.
Manufacturing
Pinard Protectorates Limited has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
MacLeod's Land
Note: These facilities were destroyed by Hansen's Roughriders in 3074.[3]
| Components produced on MacLeod's Land:[4] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| Mechs | |
| LCT-1V Locust[4] | Light BattleMech |
| LCT-5T Locust[citation needed] | Light BattleMech |
| LCT-5V Locust[citation needed] | Light BattleMech |
| STG-5R Stinger[citation needed] | Light BattleMech |
| STG-3R Stinger[4] | Light BattleMech |
| STG-5T Stinger[citation needed] | Light BattleMech |
| CLNT-3-3T Clint[citation needed] | Medium BattleMech |
| Battle Armor | |
| Asterion | Battle Armor |
| Vehicles | |
| Bulldog Medium Truck | Wheeled Vehicles |
| Chassis | |
| Bergan VII | Locust[4] |
| Earthwerks STG | Stinger[4] |
| Jump Jets | |
| Chilton 360 | Stinger[4] & Clint[citation needed] |
| Machine Gun | |
| SperryBrowning | Shipped to Pinard and Taurus for Thunderbold & Warhammer[4] to Sterope for APC & Taurus for Marshal[citation needed] |
| Light Machine Gun | |
| Sperry Browning | Locust[citation needed] |
| Machine Gun Array | |
| Protectorate Array Assembly | Locust[citation needed] |
| Anti-Missile System | |
| Deprus Swarmshot | [citation needed] |
Perdition
Note: Two thirds of these production lines were destroyed by Longwood's Bluecoats in 3075.[3] Between the 3075 attack and subsequent raids by Word of Blake forces all of the industry on Perdition had been destroyed by 3081.[5]
Pinard
| Components produced on Pinard:[9][10][11] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| Mechs | |
| MAD-3R Marauder[9] | Heavy BattleMech |
| Vehicles | |
| Plainsman[10] | Hovercraft - Medium Tank |
| Light SRM Carrier[citation needed] | Wheeled Vehicles |
| Bulldog Medium Truck[11] | Wheeled Vehicles - Civilian Support Vehicle |
| I.C.E. | |
| Locom-Pack 140 | Plainsman[10] |
| Locom-Pack 250 | [citation needed] |
| Chassis | |
| GM Marauder | Marauder[9] |
| Fusion Engine | |
| 145 Leenex Fusion | [citation needed] |
| Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles | |
| StarSlab-3 | Plainsman[10] |
| Communications System | |
| Neil 5000 | [citation needed] |
| Olmstead 30 | Plainsman[10] |
| Targeting-Tracking System | |
| Maxwell TA55 | Plainsman[10] |
| TracTex Alpha-1 | [citation needed] |
| Medium Laser | |
| Martell | Marauder /Shipped to MacLeod's Land for Locust, to New Vandenberg for Marauder, to Organo for Sabre, to Perdition for Thunderbird and to Taurus for Locust, Marauder, Warhammer and Lightning[9] |
| SRM-2 | |
| Harvester 2K | Plainsman[10] |
| SRM-6 | |
| Harvester 20K | Plainsman[10] |
Organo
| Components produced on Organo:[12] | |
|---|---|
| Component | Type |
| AeroSpace Fighter | |
| SB-27 Sabre[12] | Light Aerospace Fighters |
| Frame | |
| Aeroframe 1[12] | Sabre |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 119
- ↑ Objective Raids, p. 159, "Pinard Protectorates Limited"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 189, "Pinard Protectorates Limited profile"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Objective Raids, p. 158, "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on MacLeod's Land"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 117, "Taurian Concordat"
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 Objective Raids, p. 159, "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on Perdition"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Technical Readout: 3039, p. 30, "Produced J. Edgar Components"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Technical Readout: 3060, p. 22, "Produced Light SRM Carrier Components"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Objective Raids, p. 160, "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on Pinard"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade, p. 80, "Produced Plainsman Vehicle Components"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex, p. 26, "Produced Bulldog Truck Components"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Objective Raids, p. 159, "Produced Pinard Protectorates Limited Components on Organo"