Upgrade Cost: -
95 tons
260 Base Armor
Starts with 14 Weapon slots +1 every 4 levels
Minimum Level 80
Manufacturer: Talbus Armaments
Starting Weapons: 1 Khron, 1 Sikuliaq, 2 Creeping Chill, 6 Crystalion, 4 White Knight
Level 1 bonuses: -7 Speed, +10% Ice Damage, Slow (5), 5% Freeze, Dodge (-8)
Level 125 equipment: 7 Cockpit, 5 chassis, 5 Engine, 5 Shield
Level 125 bonuses: +17 Speed, +62% Ice Damage, 16% 3xDamage, Slow (63), 36% Freeze, Crit-kill 6%, Dodge (-8), Laser Shield (36), Laser Shield 15%, Missile Shield (36), Projectile Shield (36), Fire Shield (36), Fire Shield 7%, Ice Shield (36), Ice Shield 8%, Fork Shield 20%, Wide Fork Shield 33%
Once issues with the Queen were sorted out Cog-Marshal Taggart approached Talbus Armaments and commissioned a specific mecha design for his personal use. He didn’t want to pilot it and didn’t care if it required one or two pilots but he did want it to house and protect himself, key members of his command staff, and be able to command the operation of at least 26 companies of at least 30 mecha each simultaneously. It needed to protect itself if necessary and dominate the Electronic Warfare within 100 kilometers. Then he simply said “Impress me.” and he was.
The end result was the King class Mobile Command and Control Center. Ninety-five tons of armor, shielding, communications and electronic warfare equipment, with a crew of two and able to carry 6 command level personnel with full access to communications, each other and a strategic holographic display all walking on two very large feet. It uses some of the best sensors and communications systems Talbus Armament has ever developed, separate computers are used for the crew piloting and fighting the mecha and the communications and sensors used by the command personnel but they can share data. Jamming equipment will even hinder most area effect missile swarms guidance and target coordination systems
Unfortunately this is not a fast moving mecha although it can bring its weapons to bear easily it isn’t going to win any races and has trouble evading and dodging incoming attacks. However, the armor is the thickest Talbus Armaments has ever used, based on technologies developed with all their lighter mecha, meaning the hits it can’t dodge it can usually take. Although they figured a command mecha will never be alone unless its escorts have been killed the King MC3 is armed. Offensive capabilities are provided by up scaled versions of the freeze cannon used on the Sever with very smooth and quick responding actuators, so although the mecha is slow its weapons are not, modifications for lower recharging time and faster firing rate make these weapons deadly to anything. The arm mounts were designed to swing through a 300 degree arc so that they can cover the rear as well as front of the mecha and because it’s easier to swing the freeze cannons around than the entire mecha.
(Unfortunately my scanner is out so my illustrations for this are not available I'll have to try another way. Looks like a Rook with a white paint job but slightly taller instead of missile launchers all over its torso and shoulders it would have sensors similar to the right arm of the Sever and two freeze cannon from the Severs left shoulder for arms. The three most commonly used colors for Chess pieces are Black, White and Red, the Bishop is Black, the Rook red a color often used to designate artillery units, the Pawn, Knight, Queen and King should be colored so that there are two mecha of each color. Also all numbers in the statistics are subject to change to make the mecha playable and balanced.)
Submitted by Sean Wadey#356579