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On the drawing board three years prior to its introduction, the first two prototypes of the ''Zeus'' would receive their first "test run" when they were forced to fight off an assault on the [[Hesperus II]] factory by the [[Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery]].  As the enemy broke through Lyran lines, the two 'Mechs were called up to assist, and through sheer novelty and long-range firepower, forced the [[Kurita]]ns to pause. This allowed additional reinforcements to push DCMS forces back. While successful in holding off the attack, these prototypes were noticeably more advanced than the production model and armed with a [[PPC]], which proved erratic and unreliable during the battle.  The cause of this behavior was later discovered to be insufficient shielding which created wild magnetic interactions between the weapon and the ''Zeus''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s engine.  To ensure the ''Zeus'' was delivered to the front-lines quickly it was decided to replace the advanced energy weapon with the simpler [[autocannon]].<ref name=TRO3025r/><ref name=TRO3039/>
 
On the drawing board three years prior to its introduction, the first two prototypes of the ''Zeus'' would receive their first "test run" when they were forced to fight off an assault on the [[Hesperus II]] factory by the [[Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery]].  As the enemy broke through Lyran lines, the two 'Mechs were called up to assist, and through sheer novelty and long-range firepower, forced the [[Kurita]]ns to pause. This allowed additional reinforcements to push DCMS forces back. While successful in holding off the attack, these prototypes were noticeably more advanced than the production model and armed with a [[PPC]], which proved erratic and unreliable during the battle.  The cause of this behavior was later discovered to be insufficient shielding which created wild magnetic interactions between the weapon and the ''Zeus''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s engine.  To ensure the ''Zeus'' was delivered to the front-lines quickly it was decided to replace the advanced energy weapon with the simpler [[autocannon]].<ref name=TRO3025r/><ref name=TRO3039/>
  
The 'Mech would first appear in significant numbers when the [[15th Lyran Guards]] recaptured the planet [[Sakhalin (LC)|Sakhalin]], and through the course of the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]] the ''Zeus'' had a long and storied history within the Commonwealth, becoming a well-respected assault 'Mech.  After the end of the [[Third Succession War]] advances had allowed engineers to mount a PPC on the ''Zeus'' again, with the resulting ZEU-6T model becoming the standard during the [[Fourth Succession War]] and later the [[War of 3039]].  The design also won high praise among [[mercenary]] units, none more so than [[Zeta Battalion]] of [[Wolf's Dragoons]].<ref name=TRO3025r/><ref name=TRO3039/>
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The 'Mech would first appear in significant numbers when the [[15th Lyran Guards]] recaptured the planet [[Sakhalin]], and through the course of the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]] the ''Zeus'' had a long and storied history within the Commonwealth, becoming a well-respected assault 'Mech.  After the end of the [[Third Succession War]] advances had allowed engineers to mount a PPC on the ''Zeus'' again, with the resulting ZEU-6T model becoming the standard during the [[Fourth Succession War]] and later the [[War of 3039]].  The design also won high praise among [[mercenary]] units, none more so than [[Zeta Battalion]] of [[Wolf's Dragoons]].<ref name=TRO3025r/><ref name=TRO3039/>
  
 
The ''Zeus'' would face resistance by some units of the former [[AFFS]] following the creation of the [[Federated Commonwealth]], whose "Davion pride" prevented them from making use of the 'Mech despite its superiority to many of their own machines.  Likewise as the FedCom military increasingly took on a Davion flavor many Lyran commanders were insistent that their pride and joy was too valuable to give up, and so prodded Defiance Industries to produce new models which made use of newly recovered [[Star League]] Lostech.  The debut of the ZEU-9S ''Zeus'' would see production of the previous variants discontinued and examples of this signature Lyran 'Mech shipped to all corners of the Commonwealth as a symbol of the new alliance.  By the time of the [[FedCom Civil War]] though, the majority of ''Zeus'' 'Mechs were in Lyran hands, with many of those given to Davion units having been relegated to rear-guard duty or sold to mercenaries.  New variants would continue to be produced for the [[LAAF]] and, following their capture of Hesperus II in [[3070]], the [[Word of Blake Militia]].<ref name=TRO3050U/><ref>''Technical Readout: 3050'', p. 164</ref>
 
The ''Zeus'' would face resistance by some units of the former [[AFFS]] following the creation of the [[Federated Commonwealth]], whose "Davion pride" prevented them from making use of the 'Mech despite its superiority to many of their own machines.  Likewise as the FedCom military increasingly took on a Davion flavor many Lyran commanders were insistent that their pride and joy was too valuable to give up, and so prodded Defiance Industries to produce new models which made use of newly recovered [[Star League]] Lostech.  The debut of the ZEU-9S ''Zeus'' would see production of the previous variants discontinued and examples of this signature Lyran 'Mech shipped to all corners of the Commonwealth as a symbol of the new alliance.  By the time of the [[FedCom Civil War]] though, the majority of ''Zeus'' 'Mechs were in Lyran hands, with many of those given to Davion units having been relegated to rear-guard duty or sold to mercenaries.  New variants would continue to be produced for the [[LAAF]] and, following their capture of Hesperus II in [[3070]], the [[Word of Blake Militia]].<ref name=TRO3050U/><ref>''Technical Readout: 3050'', p. 164</ref>

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