Upgrade Cost:
10 tons
20 Base Armor
Starts with 1 Weapon slots +1 every 6 levels
Minimum Level 3
Manufacturer: Talbus Armaments
Starting Weapons: 1 Light Autocannon (projectile, damage 3, speed 110)
Level 1 bonuses: 0 Speed, +5% Projectile Damage
Level 110 equipment: 3 Cockpit, 1 chassis, 0 Engine, 3 Shield
Level 110 bonuses: 30 Speed, +40% Laser Damage, +40% Projectile Damage, 30 Precision, Laser Shield (55), Laser Shield 10%, Missile Shield (55), Projectile Shield (55), Fire Shield (45), Fire Shield 5%, Ice Shield (45), Ice Shield 5%
The third most common Red Ant variant named for distinctive copper and bronze plating used in its armor was created in the Society of Cogwerk Planets. Although ballistic weapons are very common on the Fringe and in Cogwerk space there are also many unusual and exotic weapons many of which strike with an ionic energy discharge similar if not exactly the same as lightning. Some of these weapons are designed to just cause damage others are designed to short out and overload circuitry and power systems disabling a mecha. The effects of such weapons can be mitigated with the right materials and by grounding the target.
The Copper Ant protects itself from such weapons with its unusual armor and with grounding spikes or cleats on the bottom of its feet. This has a slight disadvantage however of removing most of the softer materials used on the underside of mecha feet meaning this light weight 10 mecha will tear up roads as badly if not worse than many heaver mecha. It’s also quite a bit noisier than most light mecha when it moves.
Talbus Armaments makes the Copper Ant with either a hydrogen fuel cell or a chemical multi-fuel power plant. The exhaust pipes for these stick up over the shoulders of the mecha and you can tell what type of engine it has by whether those pipes are venting steam of smoke. Some people say you can tell the type of fuel being used by the color of the smoke. Talbus Armaments suggests only the hydrogen fuel cell version be used outside of atmospheres and that they take no responsibility for a pilot taking chemical multi-fuel power plants through a gateway to a world with a combustible atmosphere.
(Looks like a copper and bronze or brown and orange Red Ant with exhaust pipes on its back, speed was reduced due to speed of projectile weapons maximum damage bonus was reduced because it does not specialize in just one type of weapon and is therefore more flexible, I was considering giving it a missile damage bonus in which case they would all be reduced to 30%)
Submitted by Sean Wadey#356579