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[Utilyan]

New hero....

http://mwomercs.com/.../hero/protector

[Lord Perversor]

Utilyan, on 03 September 2013 - 09:26 AM, said:

New hero....

http://mwomercs.com/.../hero/protector

It's Kerensky Orion!!

[FupDup]

That deliciously huge center torso...OM NOM NOM.

[TexAce]

I have to say this is one very beautiful mech. Very unique looking.

[Wolf Ender]

Edited by Wolf Ender, 03 September 2013 - 09:47 AM.

[TexAce]

Wolf Ender, on 03 September 2013 - 09:44 AM, said:

And this is I think the worst video I ever saw in my life.

[Mangonel TwoSix]

Hmm. Anyone got the hard points yet? I did not see them on its page.

Also I'm kind of underwhelmed. Maybe its just the color of the hero. But this one is ugly. First time I've thought that about a mwo design.

Well not every design can be the prom queen I guess.

[Wolf Ender]

New Hero Mech



"Protector" ON1-P

• Tonnage: 75
  
• Engine: 300 Standard
  
  • Top Speed: 64.8 kph
    
  • Max Engine Rating: 360
• Torso Movement:
  
  • 90 degrees to each side.
    
  • 20 degrees up and down.
• Arm Movement:
  
  • 20 degrees to each side.
    
  • 30 degrees up and down.
• Armor: 448 (Ferro-Fibrous)
  
• Internal Structure: Standard
  
• Weapons & Equipment:
  
  • Left Arm: Medium Laser
    
  • Left Torso: PPC, SRM 4 w/ Artemis IV FCS
    
  • Right Torso: Gauss Rifle
    
  • Right Arm: Medium Laser
• Hardpoints:
  
  • Left Arm: 1 Energy
    
  • Left Torso: 1 Energy, 2 Missile, 1 AMS
    
  • Right Torso: 2 Ballistic
    
  • Right Arm: 1 Energy
• Heat Sinks: 10 Double
  
• Jump Jets: 0 (0 Max)
  
• ECM Capable?: No
  
• Module Slots: 2
  
• Movement Archetype: Large
  
• 30% C-Bill Bonus

[Wolf Ender]

TexAss, on 03 September 2013 - 09:48 AM, said:

And this is I think the worst video I ever saw in my life.

agreed but i think it was produced by NGNG, not PGI

also, it's kind of ******* me off that the arms of the orion are carrying medium lasers yet they're so HUGE, but then that PPC below the SRMs is just..tiny...

[Utilyan]

I think they shoulda made it the Heavy ECM mech. with a CT ECM hardpoint.

They should hot fix it with ECM Center torso for the hero.

Heavys and heros don't a have ecm.........2 birds with one stone..... Plus you know it would sell better.

Edited by Utilyan, 03 September 2013 - 10:06 AM.

[FupDup]

A better video:
https://www.youtube....e&v=34CFdxya-hA

Edited by FupDup, 03 September 2013 - 10:10 AM.

[Utilyan]

FupDup, on 03 September 2013 - 10:07 AM, said:

A better video:
https://www.youtube....e&v=34CFdxya-hA

Thank God for that vid........METALLICA ORION.......much better .....we all were thinking it

[Thejuggla]

Been waiting for it for a while, the color is horrible but thankfully you can change it.

[Jolly Llama]

Great dual ERPPC mech....oh wait...those suck now. Won't be dropping a dime on this one. Could have been a kickass Warhammer replacement.

[Scrawny Cowboy]

Scale actually looks right frome the video, anyone have a screen shot of a side-by-side comparison?

[DegeneratePervert]

Will totally change the loadout, but I'm looking forward to this one.

[General Taskeen]

Lord Perversor, on 03 September 2013 - 09:27 AM, said:

It's Kerensky Orion!!

Correction: Kerensky's Orion uses a Snub-Nose PPC, which is designated as a "ON1-K "Kerensky"" not ON1-P

This is presumably the "antique" that Kurita found and piloted. Until the snub-nose PPC is available in game, we don't actually have an exact replica of the original.

Edited by General Taskeen, 03 September 2013 - 10:58 AM.

[Why Run]

How are these so expensive?! One mech for nearly $30?! you at least get 6 for $30 in the Saber package deal add-on to Phoenix...!!!

[Kasiagora]

General Taskeen, on 03 September 2013 - 10:57 AM, said:

Correction: Kerensky's Orion uses a Snub-Nose PPC, which is designated as a "ON1-K "Kerensky"" not ON1-P

This is presumably the "antique" that Kurita found and piloted. Until the snub-nose PPC is available in game, we don't actually have an exact replica of the original.

I don't know where that stuff on Sarna about the ON1-K came from. I don't think it was there a few months ago, plus that entry has typos.
I don't know if there was ever any official information on what Kerensky's Orion actually had equipped on it. I remember when I was a kid there was a rumor that his was a basic Star League variant with the LB-X, endo-steel and whatnot, but with a second SRM-4. I have no proof of any of this and that ON1-K entry has a Snub Nose PPC which wasn't invented until 3067 when Kerensky's Orion was later piloted by Theodore Kurita until it was destroyed on Marfik in the Fourth Succession War, which lasted from 3028-3030. Even then there is no information that I can find off-hand on what the mech had on it when Kurita piloted it.

What I'm getting at here, is I think there's lots of lore, legend, and speculation on Kerensky's Orion. We all have our own beliefs on what we think it would ideally have been equipped with. But I don't think there's any evidence or proof suggesting what it actually was. I'd like to see people's speculations and I'd like to see supporting evidence one way or the other, it's a classic Battletech argument, but personally I don't think that ON1-K is it.

[Middcore]

Kasiagora, on 03 September 2013 - 12:13 PM, said:

I don't know where that stuff on Sarna about the ON1-K came from. I don't think it was there a few months ago, plus that entry has typos.
I don't know if there was ever any official information on what Kerensky's Orion actually had equipped on it. I remember when I was a kid there was a rumor that his was a basic Star League variant with the LB-X, endo-steel and whatnot, but with a second SRM-4. I have no proof of any of this and that ON1-K entry has a Snub Nose PPC which wasn't invented until 3067 when Kerensky's Orion was later piloted by Theodore Kurita until it was destroyed on Marfik in the Fourth Succession War, which lasted from 3028-3030. Even then there is no information that I can find off-hand on what the mech had on it when Kurita piloted it.

What I'm getting at here, is I think there's lots of lore, legend, and speculation on Kerensky's Orion. We all have our own beliefs on what we think it would ideally have been equipped with. But I don't think there's any evidence or proof suggesting what it actually was. I'd like to see people's speculations and I'd like to see supporting evidence one way or the other, it's a classic Battletech argument, but personally I don't think that ON1-K is it.

The Kerensky variant with the snub-nose PPC is official. The tabletop sourcebook it was in didn't come out until December 2011, though. As for why Sarna didn't mention it...Sarna is a fan wiki with lots of errors/gaps/typos, it's not surprising.

And the snub-nose PPC was invented during the Star League era according to canon sourcebooks, they retconned it in. But it fell out of use and the Combine didn't recreate it until the 3060's.