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| Poleaxe | |
| Custom Design | |
| Designer | Valles |
| Production information | |
| Manufacturer | Kallon Industries |
| Model | POL-4X |
| Class | Medium |
| Technical specifications | |
| Mass | 55 tons |
| Chassis | Earthwerk GRF Standard |
| Armor | Kallon GuardStar Standard Armor Armor Layout Head: 9 Center (Rear): 28/7 R/L Torso (Rear) 20/6 R/L Arm: 18 R/L Leg: 26 |
| Engine | Core Tek 275 Fusion Engine |
| Speed | Regular & TSM Speeds Cruise Speed: 54.0 km/h (64.8 km/h) Flank Speed: 86.4 km/h (97.2 km/h) |
| Jump Jets | Rawlings 55 Jump Capacity: 150 meters |
| Armament |
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| BV (1.0) | |
| BV (2.0) | 1,373 |
Description[]
In 3021, one of the first orders of business for the newly formed alliance between the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth was to sit the finest minds available to Defiance Industries of Hesperus, Kallon Technologies, the University of Donegal, and the New Avalon Institute of Science down together in the same room to examine the question of providing both involved states with a Battlemech that would finally address the 'point blank' combat niche that had become increasingly common throughout the Succession Wars.
The difference in available tools and technology between the participating states would lead to the adoption of two different designs, but many techniques and much institutional knowledge was shared between the participants to make the machine that the Sian Division troops who were issued the first prototypes would dub, with backhanded but genuine respect, The Davion Justice Device.
This design uses experimental technology for this era due to the Mace & TSM.
The Mech design was created by for his fan story Tell The World That We Tried. The settle during the late Succession Wars Era, introduced new designs as well change events which saw couple newer technologies introduced.
Armament and Equipment[]
The Poleaxe was deliberately designed as a high performance, difficult-to-handle specialist. Based on a Defiance-designed adaptation of the long serving Griffin chassis, it was fitted with computer systems programmed by experts drawn from the massive UOD system, and myomers developed in the secure labs of NAIS. Kallon, long a leader in anti-aircraft platforms and technologies, had noted the vulnerability of its flagship products to close attack, and was delighted to provide production space at its Talon complex.
The resulting machine has a hundred and fifty meter jump range, and a top speed of a hundred kilometers per hour, and is armed with an array of lasers in three sizes and a heavily reinforced, weighted pole designed to be wielded in both of the mech's mighty battlefists. A single hit from the massive melee weapon was described by one test pilot with the onomatapeia 'Whackety-SPLAT' for its
ability to dismember a decommissioned Phoenix Hawk in one messy blunt impact, a joke widely adopted by the Poleaxe's users as the type spread throughout the AFFS.
Notable Pilots[]
During the last phase of an extended engagement on the planet Harpster, Leftenant Carlie Pinter found herself and her POL-4X separated from the rest of her lance by the surviving half of a Galedon Regulars company. With a damaged leg actuator slowing any attempt to retreat, Pinter charged her mech into close contact with the Combine battlemechs, crushing the chests of two Panthers in as many blows of her machine's club, and decapitating a Dragon with the third. The remaining three Combine mechwarriors poured the full power of their weapons into Pinter's already-battered Poleaxe and came within seconds of destroying it entirely, before she used a jump-jet assisted leap to pounce on one remaining target, and her lancemates arrived to direct their own weapons into her tormentors' rear armor.
Technical Notes[]
Total Cost: 6,132,782 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,373
Download Links[]
Downloadable PDF Record Sheet for the Poleaxe Mech
Downloadable MegaMek File for the Poleaxe Mech
Notes[]
- The Poleaxe conceived by Vallos, while only being featured brief mention at end it's book.