Version:1.0 Mongoose MON-90 Config:Biped techbase:Inner Sphere era:3054 rules level:3 mass:30 engine:300 XL Engine(IS) structure:IS Endo Steel myomer:Standard heat sinks:10 IS Double walk mp:10 jump mp:0 armor:Ferro-Fibrous(Inner Sphere) LA armor:10 RA armor:10 LT armor:11 RT armor:11 CT armor:15 HD armor:9 LL armor:14 RL armor:14 RTL armor:3 RTR armor:3 RTC armor:5 Weapons:4 Medium Laser, Head Medium Laser, Center Torso Medium Laser, Right Arm Medium Laser, Left Torso Left Arm: Shoulder Upper Arm Actuator Lower Arm Actuator Hand Actuator IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous -Empty- -Empty- Right Arm: Shoulder Upper Arm Actuator Lower Arm Actuator Hand Actuator Medium Laser IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous IS Ferro-Fibrous Left Torso: Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Fusion Engine ISTargeting Computer Medium Laser IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel IS Ferro-Fibrous Right Torso: Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Fusion Engine IS Endo Steel BeagleActiveProbe BeagleActiveProbe IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel IS Endo Steel Center Torso: Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Gyro Gyro Gyro Gyro Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Fusion Engine Medium Laser IS Endo Steel Head: Life Support Sensors Cockpit Medium 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 -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- -Empty- manufacturer:Memphis Motive Works primaryfactory:Memphis overview:The MON-90 is the promise the MON-80's history made, kept. When the Helm Memory Core opened the Star League tier, MMW's engineers reached — exactly as the old hull's story foretold — for the scout first, and in 3054 delivered the Mongoose reborn on the recovered arsenal: the same thirty-ton reconnaissance body, now carrying the StarHeart 300 XL, an Endo Steel skeleton, Ferro-Fibrous plate, and the double heat sinks that let all of it fit at weight. It is the advanced-tier answer to the question the March had been asking since the Clans first appeared on its horizon — what does the Guards' oldest doctrine look like when it stops being limited by two-hundred-year-old technology — and the answer, characteristically, was not a bigger 'Mech. It was a faster, sharper-eyed version of the smallest one. capabilities:Where the MON-80 talks, the MON-90 sees — and having seen, hits. The 300 XL drives the little scout past 160 kph, fast enough to break contact with anything a Clan star can field and quick enough to re-cross a battlefield before its picture goes stale. The recovered tonnage buys two instruments the standard Mongoose never had: a Beagle Active Probe that strips the concealment off hidden units and reads through the electronic murk the Clans travel inside, and a Targeting Computer that turns the hull's four B3M lasers from a scout's nuisance armament into a precision battery able to place its fire exactly where the probe found the target. It keeps the Mongoose's ammunition-free endurance and its comms heritage; it adds the Star League tier's eyes and its aim. A scout that sees through the enemy's tricks, shoots with a sniper's discipline, and outruns the consequences is precisely the machine a talk-first force wants pointed at an OmniMech. deployment:The MON-90 goes where the Clans might, and where the standard scout's picture is not enough. It screens the 300-XL assault lances alongside the Lancer and the advanced Marauders, rides point for the Memphis Battalion, and equips the reconnaissance elements of the Clan-facing 21st Morven Grenadiers and 33rd Broken Wheel Cavalry — the formations that needed an active-probe scout the moment they stood up. It is rarer and costlier than the MON-80 it supplements rather than replaces: the March still fields the old hull by the hundred for ordinary work and reserves the -90 for the frontages where seeing through an OmniMech's ECM is worth an extralight engine's price. history:The MON-90 is where the March's advanced tier began, and the choice was pure Memphis. When the recovered technologies matured after the Fourth Succession War and MMW needed a first platform to prove them on, the company passed over every heavier, more marketable hull and refitted the scout — because the Guards' emerging C3 doctrine wanted its network in its eyes first, and no design in the catalog had reconnaissance heritage to match. The decision was mocked off-world as typical Memphis modesty: the great houses debuted their lostech in assault 'Mechs, and Memphis debuted its in a thirty-ton reconnaissance machine nobody outside the March had thought about in a century. It was not modesty. It was priority. The scouts got the future first, in 3054, and by the time the Clan-facing regiments stood up the MON-90 was already the instrument they reconnoitered with — the smallest 'Mech in the catalog carrying the newest technology in it, which the March considers self-explanatory.