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TSG Quartermaster Equipment Inventory

Stats and costs are read live from the MegaMek unit files — every designation links to its full technical readout. Also published as Appendix E of The Outback Chronicle.

The following inventory was compiled from TriStar corporate records, TSG quartermaster databases, and direct observation. It represents equipment in active service with the Tennessee Star Guards and affiliated Periphery March defense forces. — Order of the Open Book

SIDELINE: On Naming Conventions. The Memphis system's Egyptian naming tradition dates to the original colonization — the star was named Ra, the planets after Egyptian deities — and TriStar's vehicle designs continue it, lending the roster a distinctive regional identity.

The "M-series" combat vehicles (Malcontent, Malevolent, Malice) are a deliberate departure, emerging from the post–Fourth Succession War period when TSG veterans were, shall we say, less than pleased with New Avalon's policies. The names stuck. The aerospace wing uses weather designations — Tempest, Tornado, Tsunami, Typhoon — reflecting Lackland's naval-aviation influence on TSG doctrine.

Combat Vehicles

The armored core of the March: locally built, fusion where raids demand shared logistics with the 'Mech line, fuel-cell where they don't, and named — mostly — for the deities of a star called Ra.

Designation	Weight	Motive	Power Plant	Speed	Cost	Role
Krait AH-5A	5 t	Hover	25 Fusion	140 kph	₳92K	Forward reconnaissance · sensor picket
Momba AH-5B	5 t	Hover	25 Fuel Cell	140 kph	₳45K	Light screener · reconnaissance
Skink AH-5C	5 t	Hover	25 Fuel Cell	140 kph	₳100K	Laser designation · artillery spotting
Horus AT-25A · AT-25B	25 t	Tracked	100 Fusion	43 kph	₳543K–615K	Distributed fire support
Hathor AT-40A · AT-40B	40 t	Tracked	240 Fusion	65 kph	₳1.3M–1.38M	Cavalry screening · breakthrough support
Bast AT-50A · AT-50B	50 t	Tracked	200 Fusion	43 kph	₳1.82M–1.97M	Main battle tank (light chassis)
Bast AT-60A · AT-60B · AT-60E1	60 t	Tracked	240 Fusion	43 kph	₳2.57M–2.66M	Main battle tank
Malcontent AT-50A1 · AT-50B1 · AT-50C1 · AT-50D1	50 t	Tracked	250 Fuel Cell	54 kph	₳1.39M–1.5M	Heavy cavalry (fuel-cell)
Malice AW-50A · AW-50A2 · AW-50B2 · AW-50C1 · AW-50D1 · AW-50E1 · AW-50F1 · AW-51A · AW-51B · AW-51C · AW-51D	50 t	Wheeled	180 ICE	43 kph	₳717K–1.48M	Multi-role AFV · "budget omnitank"
Malevolent AH-50A · AH-50B · AH-50C · AH-50C · AH-51A · AH-51E · AT-52A	50 t	Hover	165 Fuel Cell	86 kph	₳1.31M–2.08M	Rapid assault · flanking
Ra Fire Support Tank AT-80A · AT-80B · AW-65A	80 t	Tracked	240 Fusion	32 kph	₳2.94M–4.41M	Long-range fire support · siege

Scout crews call the 5-ton Krait the "Coffin Racer," with a mixture of gallows humor and genuine affection: its casualty rate is the highest of any TSG vehicle type, and volunteers consistently exceed available slots. The Bast — "Bad Kitty" to her crews — is the standard main battle tank; "Bad Kitty bites back" is both motto and reputation. The Horus is the only Common Heart design running non-Starheart engines, using a Taurian-sourced 100-rated reactor to fill a capability gap.

The recovered Arrow IV homing missile turned two 'Mal' variants into the March's guided-artillery arm: the wheeled Malice AW-51C plants itself and fires TAG-guided homing rounds with a precision no tube gun can match, while the hover Malevolent AH-51E lobs and relocates faster than counterbattery fire can answer. They are the shooters at the end of the "Eye of Ra" chain the Skink's designator, the Glasshopper's mast sight, and the Sanddiver DIN-G03 all feed.

BattleMechs

Fewer 'Mechs than a House regiment, and every one of them chosen. The roster leans scout, cavalry, and command — the tools of a force that intends to be found only when it wants to be.

Designation	Weight	Motive	Power Plant	Speed	Cost	Role
Mongoose MON-80 · MON-90	30 t	Biped	240 Fusion	86 kph	₳2.58M–5.26M	Reconnaissance · C3 hub
Dingo DIN-G01 · DIN-G02	40 t	Biped	240 Fusion	65 kph	₳3.49M–3.56M	Quad cavalry · ambush
Sanddiver DIN-G03	50 t	Biped	300 XL	65 kph	₳9.64M	Stealth spotter · Arrow IV designation · 300 XL tier
Thunderbolt II TDR-60A · TDR-60A1 · TDR-60A2 · TDR-60B · TDR-60C	60 t	Biped	240 Fusion	43 kph	₳4.97M–5.66M	Multi-role heavy
Lancer LNC-60A	60 t	Biped	300 XL	54 kph	₳12.16M	Cavalry screen · 300 XL tier
Marauder MAD-10T	75 t	Biped	300 XL	43 kph	₳15.97M	Command · heavy assault
Battleaxe II BTL-AX80A · BTL-AX80B · BTL-AX80C	80 t	Biped	240 Fusion	32 kph	₳6.6M–7.06M	Assault · breakthrough
Marauder II MAD-210T	100 t	Biped	300 XL	32 kph	₳22.44M	Command · heavy assault

The Mongoose MON-80 was the first production 'Mech from Memphis Motive Works, and the choice of a 30-ton reconnaissance design over anything heavier tells you everything about TSG priorities. The Dingo is a quad — four legs, bred for stability, terrain handling, and the low profile of an ambush — though nobody on Memphis calls it that: the data plate says "Dingo" for an old Terran predator, but the machine so resembles the planet's own sand-diving creature that the nickname Sanddiver won before the first production run cleared the line. Fifty years on, the 300-XL Sanddiver DIN-G03 finally settled it — MMW stamped "Sanddiver" on the data plate itself and let "Dingo" retire — and turned the big quad from a striker into a stealth spotter: a Guardian ECM suite to vanish on open ground and a TAG in the sculpted 'mouth' to designate targets for Arrow IV homing artillery, killing at ranges no gun aboard it could reach.

Field Refits

The other half of the 'Mech roster: common Great House chassis bought on the open market or taken in salvage, run through the Memphis yards, and returned to the line speaking fluent Common Heart. The "-T kit" pulls an ammunition-hungry autocannon and drops in an energy weapon the March's own fusion plants can feed forever — the upgrade business that seeded the whole doctrine a decade before it had a name.

Designation	Weight	Motive	Power Plant	Speed	Cost	Role
Clint CLNT-8T	40 t	Biped	240 Fusion	65 kph	₳3.57M	Refit kit · fast striker
Centurion CN12-T	50 t	Biped	200 Fusion	43 kph	₳3.47M	Refit kit · energy-for-ammo medium
Enforcer ENF-7T	50 t	Biped	200 Fusion	43 kph	₳3.53M	Refit kit · jump-capable brawler
Dervish DV-7T	55 t	Biped	220 Fusion	43 kph	₳4.69M	Refit kit · fire-support platform

The refits are older than the program that made them famous. The Centurion CN12-T trades its autocannon for a PPC, the Enforcer ENF-7T for twin large lasers, the Clint CLNT-8T for a large laser on a fast 6/6 striker — three machines that will never again be found dead of an empty magazine. The Dervish DV-7T is the odd kit out — the one refit made by standardizing rather than disarming: the March traded the stock Dervish's speed and its busy mixed armament (twin LRM-10s, twin SRM-2s, thin skin) for twin LRM-15s, a thicker hide, and a single ammunition train — a fast skirmisher rebuilt into a slower, tougher fire-support platform that feeds from one rack the depot already stocks. MMW still sells the kits and drawings to periphery neighbors — on the sound merchant logic that a customer running Memphis-standard weapons buys Memphis-standard spares forever after.

Aerospace Assets

The weather wing — Tempest, Tornado, Tsunami, Typhoon — named in the naval-aviation tradition Lackland lent to TSG doctrine, and flown, wherever possible, on the same Starheart plants as everything else.

Designation	Weight	Motive	Power Plant	Speed	Cost	Role
Tempest Aero	30 t	Aerodyne	Fusion	10/15 thrust	₳1.88M	Interceptor · patrol
Tornado AS-40A	40 t	None	Fusion	8/12 thrust	₳2.38M	Ground attack · close air support
Tsunami AS-60A · AS-60B · AS-60C	60 t	Aerodyne	Fusion	6/9 thrust	₳3.55M–3.76M	Multi-role · air superiority
Typhoon AS-80A	80 t	Aerodyne	Fusion	5/8 thrust	₳5.5M	Strike · DropShip escort
Glasshopper AV-25A	25 t	Vtol	110 Fuel Cell	108 kph	₳987K	Rotary-wing scout · light attack

The Tempest's racing heritage gives it exceptional thrust-to-weight; one of the earliest Common Heart designs (3005), it has trained generations of TSG pilots. The Glasshopper rounds out the rotary-wing scout role — quiet, cheap, and, its crews insist, harder to hit than it looks.

DropShips

The lift. The Mule II is the muscle of the TSG's planetary reach; the Caravan hauls the freight that pays for all of it.

Designation	Weight	Motive	Power Plant	Speed	Cost	Role
Mule II Battalion Transport · CV · Combined Arms · Tri Star Interstellar	16,700 t	Spheroid	ICE	—	₳182.7M–186.59M	Military transport (modular)
Caravan Block C · Fleet Tanker	75,000 t	Spheroid	ICE	—	₳762M–764.4M	Bulk freight · fleet tanker

The Mule II is not a refit. She never was. Sixty years of development (2960–3018) produced an entirely new military transport that merely resembles the civilian Mule for operational security; the "refit" designation is deliberate misdirection. She flies in four variants — line transport, fighter carrier (CV), combined-arms, and the commercial Tri Star Interstellar hull.

JumpShips & Stations

The strategic layer — and the closely held one.

Designation	Weight	Motive	Power Plant	Speed	Cost	Role
Enterprise 3023	275,000 t	Aerodyne	ICE	—	₳41.75B	Merchant carrier (armed)
Commerce Space Station · Warehouse	100,000 t	None	—	—	—	Fixed jump-point station

The Enterprise class is one of the best-kept secrets in the Periphery March: locally assembled JumpShips. Five docking collars where most Inner Sphere hulls carry two to four, and fourteen PPCs that are genuine defensive capability, not token armament. The Commerce-class station is the fixed backbone — 322 docking collars across the network — that lets TriStar pipeline cargo independent of jump schedules.

SIDELINE: Disposable Assets? ROM analysis of TSG scout doctrine noted the high casualty rate among 5-ton hover crews and concluded it indicated poor training or inadequate equipment. They were wrong.

TSG scout crews are volunteers who understand exactly what they are signing up for. The Krait's job is to find the enemy and report back; sometimes "report back" means "die while transmitting." The crews know this. They do it anyway. ComStar never understood that kind of loyalty — it cannot be purchased or coerced, only earned.

SIDELINE: The Dragoons Grudge — And Its End. Wolf's Dragoons built the original Marauder II in 3012 and for decades controlled access to the design, treating the TSG as a "minor league" operation. The MAD-series Marauder II was TriStar's answer: a 100-ton assault \'Mech to match it, built entirely from Periphery March resources.

When the Clan Invasion revealed the Dragoons' true origins, Periphery March frustration turned to cold fury. Tennessee Starr's death at Luthien — covering the withdrawal of the Dragoons' Beta Regiment — ended the enmity. Jaime Wolf attended the memorial on Memphis. The grudge was buried with the man who had earned the right to carry it.

SIDELINE: The Common Heart Program. Most aerospace fighters, many \'Mechs, and a good share of the combat vehicles run the same 240-rated Starheart fusion plant. A 60-ton fighter and a 40-ton \'Mech share power plants: spares stockpiled for one work in another, and technicians learn one engine to maintain the fleet.

The Starheart 300 XL, added after the Clan Invasion, enabled the Marauder and Marauder II at the assault weight while keeping the logistics commonality. "Good Enough for Long Enough" is not a compromise. It is survival.

→ The Common Heart Program — the full doctrine: Melissa's memorandum, the StarHeart 240, the licensed arsenal, and the Taurian heart.

Equipment Assessment Summary

The Tennessee Star Guards and affiliated Periphery March forces operate a military built for their strategic situation: defensive operations, long logistics tails, and independence from New Avalon support.

Self-sufficiency — most equipment is locally produced or maintainable with local resources.
Combined arms — \'Mechs, vehicles, infantry, and aerospace fight together, not independently.
C3 integration — coordination is prioritized over raw firepower; units concentrate force fast.
Defensive optimization — extensive reconnaissance and screening, deliberately limited assault assets.
Dual-use infrastructure — TriStar's commercial assets convert to military use rapidly, multiplying effective strength on mobilization.

This is not an army designed to challenge the AFFS directly. It is an army designed to make conquering the Periphery March more trouble than it's worth. So far, it has succeeded.

— Quartermaster Corps, Tennessee Star Guards
Compiled for internal distribution · annotations by the Order of the Open Book

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