Finished: Project V/26

Fiery monkeys in the Kerensky Cluster

Apparently I got excited about this stuff as the project practically flew from start to finish. This also happened with the recent Diamond Sharks so maybe new and different was a good motivator for me. Of course I was boosted by my decision of not attempting to do roundels or any such difficult things.

Point 5 - Fire Moth Prime

As we have seen these before, the somewhat speedy Fire Moth with its normal top speed of 160km/h, not to mention the MASCed 200+km/h rapidity was also the lightest of the lights with its mere twenty tons of mass. At least it had a bit more varied weapon than its Starmate Howler: two ERMLas in one arm, a SRM-6 in the other, and a SRM-4 on one shoulder. Being the Point number five it was the Star's commander and quite likely the MechWarrior in question was also ranked a Star Commander.

Point 4 - Howler

The only actual BattleMech of the Star was a totem 'Mech of the Fire Mandrills, or one of them at least. This twenty-tonner ran almost 120km/h on good terrain and as a stroke of genious had a triple of LRM-5 launchers installed on the right shoulder, along with three tons worth of long range missiles. Yes, the Howler sported fists, too, but Truborns abhorred barbaric melee fighting so they didn't count as actual weapons.

Kit Fox Prime

Each of the three Kit Foxes were super boringly configured the same exact way, so the only way the visually differed from each other was by their highlights. These three were both heavier and slower than the two more senior Points and they didn't quite reach three-digit speeds. In the Right Arm the Kit Fox had an LB-5X AutoCannon and a Streak SRM-4 launcher. The opposite arm had, in addition to a fist, an ER Large Laser right next to a Small Pulse Laser.

Of course I could claim, had I painted the lasers differently, that some of them were B configs where the LB-5X was actually an UAC/10 and the SSRM-4 an SRM-6, while the ERLLas was downgraded to ERMLas and the SPLas to an ERSLas. But I had not thought of this that far.

Point 3

Point 2

Point 1

The Star's Point 1 was the unit's lowest-ranking Warrior. Maybe this was also depicted with the Kit Fox looking like it was about to fall. Or maybe it was just taking a nickel-ferrous Gauss slug or a PPC blast into its front left corner. That could happen to anyone, regardless of rank and experience level.