Version:1.0 Dervish DV-7T Config:Biped techbase:Inner Sphere era:3023 source:TRO 3039 - Star League rules level:2 mass:55 engine:220 Fusion Engine(IS) structure:IS Standard myomer:Standard heat sinks:12 Single walk mp:4 jump mp:4 armor:Standard(Inner Sphere) LA armor:14 RA armor:14 LT armor:17 RT armor:17 CT armor:22 HD armor:9 LL armor:21 RL armor:21 RTL armor:5 RTR armor:5 RTC armor:7 Weapons:4 Medium Laser, Left Arm Medium Laser, Right Arm LRM 15, Left Torso LRM 15, Right Torso Left Arm: Shoulder Upper Arm Actuator Lower Arm Actuator Hand Actuator Medium Laser -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Right Arm: Shoulder Upper Arm Actuator Lower Arm Actuator Hand Actuator Medium Laser -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Left Torso: LRM 15 LRM 15 LRM 15 IS Ammo LRM-15 IS Ammo LRM-15 Jump Jet -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Right Torso: LRM 15 LRM 15 LRM 15 IS Ammo LRM-15 IS Ammo LRM-15 Jump Jet -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Center Torso: Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Gyro Gyro Gyro Gyro Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Heat Sink Heat Sink Head: Life Support Sensors Cockpit -Empty- Sensors Life Support -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Left Leg: Hip Upper Leg Actuator Lower Leg Actuator Foot Actuator Jump Jet Heat Sink -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Right Leg: Hip Upper Leg Actuator Lower Leg Actuator Foot Actuator Jump Jet Heat Sink -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- systemmanufacturer:CHASSIS:Dorwinion systemmode:CHASSIS:Standard 55T systemmanufacturer:ENGINE:StarHeart systemmode:ENGINE:220 systemmanufacturer:ARMOR:Maximillian systemmode:ARMOR:105 systemmanufacturer:JUMPJET:Thumper systemmode:JUMPJET:Jump A Lots systemmanufacturer:COMMUNICATIONS:Achernar Electronics systemmode:COMMUNICATIONS:HID-21 systemmanufacturer:TARGETING:Federated Hunter systemmode:TARGETING:Mk. II overview:The refit kits are where Common Heart learned to talk before it learned to walk. Long before the StarHeart 240 was a doctrine — back when Memphis Motive Works was still a freight company with a machine shop and a grudge, not an arms manufacturer with a catalog — its technicians noticed the thing every merchant eventually notices: that the 'Mechs the Great Houses sold onto the used market were superb machines shackled to terrible supply chains. A Centurion or an Enforcer would soldier on for a century, but every one of them ran on a proprietary autocannon that ate a caliber of ammunition the March could neither manufacture nor reliably buy, and a raiding company a hundred light-years from a friendly depot does not get to reload. So the shop did what freight people do with a bad dependency: it engineered the dependency out. The Memphis Refit — the "-T kit," for TriStar — is a standardized package of parts and a weekend of yard work that pulls a common chassis's ammunition-hungry main gun and drops in an energy weapon the March's own fusion plants can feed forever. The kits were sold, openly and profitably, to anyone in the Periphery tired of running dry; they were also, quietly, the proof of concept for everything the Common Heart program would later formalize. One heart, one parts bin, no ammunition train you cannot carry — the doctrine was written in these four machines' engine decks a decade before anyone wrote it down. capabilities:The Dervish DV-7T is the odd kit out — the one refit the March made by standardizing a machine rather than disarming it. The stock Dervish came to Memphis as a fast, busy skirmisher: 5/8/5 on a 275-rated plant, throwing a fistful of everything — twin LRM-10s for the reach, twin SRM-2s for the clinch, a pair of medium lasers between them — and wearing thin armor to pay for all that motion. It was a good 'Mech having three arguments at once, and the Memphis yards did to it exactly what the program does to everything: they picked one. Out went the short-range SRM racks and the second ammunition train they dragged along; the twin LRM-10s gave way to a matched pair of Holly LRM-15s, the March's standard rack, concentrating the whole missile budget at the long range where a fire-support 'Mech earns its keep. A lighter 220-rated engine and the freed tonnage bought what the original conspicuously lacked — a real armor envelope, up by a quarter — at the cost of a step of speed: 4/4 now, a walker where the original sprinted. The March called it a bargain, because it had not been shopping for a skirmisher. It had bought a fifty-five-ton missile platform that holds its place in the line, feeds from one rack it stocks by the pallet, and shrugs off the return fire the fragile original used to run from. Common Heart was never anti-ammunition so much as anti-surprise: carry the missiles, by all means — so long as they are the missiles the March already stocks, and only the one kind. deployment:The refit kits fill the ranks the MMW catalog was too small to fill alone. For all the March's pride in home-built machines, a periphery brigade cannot 'Mech an entire order of battle out of one company's design bureau, and the refits are how TriStar makes up the difference honestly: common chassis, sourced on the open market or taken in salvage, run through the Memphis yards, and returned to the line speaking fluent Common Heart. They equip the second-line and garrison lances, stiffen the militia commands, and travel well — a refit's whole selling point is that it can deploy to the end of a supply line and keep shooting — so they turn up disproportionately in the expeditionary and raiding formations, alongside the Bast battalions, wherever the March intends to operate far from a depot. The kits themselves remain a product: MMW will sell a periphery neighbor the parts and the drawings to convert its own hulls, and frequently does, on the sound merchant logic that a customer who runs Memphis-standard weapons is a customer who buys Memphis-standard spares forever after. history:The refits predate the program that made them famous, and Common Heart has always been careful to give them the credit. The kits began in the salvage decades as pure necessity — a freight company with more captured and purchased 'Mechs than it could keep fed, and a shop floor stubborn enough to re-engineer the problem instead of accepting it — and they worked so well, so cheaply, and so repeatably that they became a business before they became a doctrine. Every lesson the Common Heart program would later carve in stone was learned first on these decks: that an energy main gun frees a raiding force from a supply line it cannot defend, that standardizing on weapons the company itself manufactures turns the arsenal into a revenue stream, that a machine you can service in a barn is worth more to the March than a machine that is merely superior on paper. When Melissa Starr's memorandum turned the habit into a program and the StarHeart 240 gave it a single heart, the refit kits did not go away — they simply became the entry level of a philosophy they had authored, the proof still parked in every March motor pool that the whole idea worked long before it had a name.