Yao Lien

Yao Lien
Yao Lien
Production information
Manufacturer Ceres Metals Industries[1]

Martinson Armaments[citation needed]

Production Year 3086[2]
Model YOL-4C[1]
Class Medium
Cost 8,305,261 C-bills[2]
Technical specifications
'Mech type Inner Sphere BattleMech
Mass 55 tons
Chassis Celestial Prototype BD1Y Endo Steel
Armor Durallex Medium Ferro-Fibrous
Engine Ceres Motors 275
Communications System CeresCom Model 21Rs with ECM and C3
Targeting Tracking System C-Apple Churchill
Heat Sinks 10 double
Speed 86 km/h
Jump Jets Chilton 950 Improved Jump Jets
Armament

2x snub-nose PPC

BV (2.0) 1,586[1][2]


Description[edit]

Formerly a Word of Blake design, the Yao Lien is a Capellan Confederation BattleMech based on the Blakists' Celestial series OmniMechs.

The Yao Lien started life as the Eidolon, a mass-produced FrankenMech constructed under the orders of Cameron St. Jamais using excess parts from the Celestial OmniMechs Precentor Manei Domini Apollyon denied him. With House Liao discovering the existence of the top secret Liberty-based Martinson Armaments facility that built it, the CCAF interrupted Operation SCOUR's recapture of the planet to secure the plant for themselves, dismantling the facility and spiriting it away before anybody in Stone's Coalition realized it was even there. Initially using captured parts before switching to locally manufactured subcomponents, the rebuilt facility on Capella was turning out the now renamed 'Mech for the Confederation shortly after the recapture of Terra.[1]

Intended as a broken terrain and urban combat spotter for Blakist Level IIs, the Yao Lien compensates for its relatively slow ground speed with a large number of improved jump jets, while ten tons of ferro-fibrous armor and ten double heat sinks give the design reasonable combat endurance. As with much captured and repurposed Blakist military hardware, a Guardian ECM suite and standard C3 slave are located where the Eidolon formerly mounted an improved C3 computer.[1]

Weapons and Equipment[edit]

A holdover from the Eidolon's grab-bag construction, the Yao Liens sole weaponry is a pair of Ceres Arms Thrasher snub-nose PPCs mounted in its right arm.[1]

Variants[edit]

  • Eidolon 
    First appearing in December 3077, save for different component manufacturers, utilizing Donal model snub-nosed PPCs for example, the sole notable difference between the Word of Blake model and the Yao Lien was the use of C3i. BV (2.0) = ???[1]

Design Quirks[edit]

The Yao Lien / Eidolon has the following Design Quirk:[3]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Technical Readout: 3085 Supplemental, pp. 30–31: "YOL-4C Yao Lien"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 MUL online date for the Yao Lien
  3. BattleMech Manual, p. 91: BattleMech Quirk Table - Eidolon Entry

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