Version:1.0 Mongoose MON-80 Config:Biped techbase:Inner Sphere era:2830 source:TRO 3039 - Succession Wars rules level:1 mass:30 engine:240 Fusion Engine(IS) structure:IS Standard myomer:Standard heat sinks:10 Single walk mp:8 jump mp:0 armor:Standard(Inner Sphere) LA armor:9 RA armor:9 LT armor:10 RT armor:10 CT armor:15 HD armor:9 LL armor:12 RL armor:12 RTL armor:3 RTR armor:3 RTC armor:4 Weapons:4 Medium Laser, Left Arm Medium Laser, Right Arm Medium Laser, Center Torso Small Laser, Head 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: -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Right Torso: -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Center Torso: Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Gyro Gyro Gyro Gyro Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Medium Laser -Empty- Head: Life Support Sensors Cockpit Small Laser Sensors Life Support -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Left Leg: Hip Upper Leg Actuator Lower Leg Actuator Foot Actuator -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- Right Leg: Hip Upper Leg Actuator Lower Leg Actuator Foot Actuator Heat Sink -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- manufacturer:Memphis Motive Works primaryFactory:Memphis overview:The MON-80 is the oldest machine in the Memphis Motive Works catalog and the quiet founding act of everything the company became. When Amaris's fall took ConMag and its Mongoose lines with it, the Inner Sphere's finest light recon 'Mech became an orphan — and in 2830, the year Starr Traders took the name TriStar Interstellar, the company's newly chartered 'Mech works chose the orphan as its first product. The engineers made one change, and it was the change that defined the next two and a half centuries: rather than tool up for the original's powerplant, they enlarged the chassis to thirty tons so it would take the 240-rated engine Memphis already built. Melissa Starr's memorandum — one heart, many bodies — had found its first BattleMech body; the Ra fire support tank had proven the heart in 2813. The Common Heart program would not have its name for another two hundred years. It had its proof of concept immediately. capabilities:The MON-80 keeps everything that made the Mongoose the Star League's darling and adds the March's signatures. It is fast — 129 kph flat out — and it fights entirely without ammunition, a trio of Defiance B3M lasers and a backup small laser giving it teeth that never need a supply column. Above all it talks: the Mongoose's legendary communications fit, the reason SLDF recon lances were commanded from its cockpit, made it the natural ancestor of the Guards' talk-first doctrine, and the TriStar Multilink suite carried by modern production hulls keeps the bloodline honest. A 'Mech that sees everything, tells everyone, and asks its quartermaster for nothing is not glamorous. It is, the March would gently note, the entire idea. deployment:The MON-80 is everywhere the March is: the eyes of the Guards' 240 lances, the standard recon mount of all three capital-world militias, the workhorse of the Security Regiments' 'Mech elements, and a steady export in the "vetted customer" trade. Two hundred and forty years of continuous production have made it the most numerous machine ever built at Memphis, and its parts commonality with everything else in the catalog means a Mongoose is never far from a spare — which, given where Mongooses go, is frequently the difference between a recon report and a memorial service. history:The resurrection was not romantic at the time; it was inventory management. ConMag's death had stranded Mongoose hulls across the Inner Sphere with no source of support, and TriStar — already the March's salvage house — saw a product with a captive market and tooling requirements Memphis could meet. Two centuries of unglamorous service followed, the MON-80 doing recon's thankless work through the Succession Wars without ever once being anyone's poster.