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Black Omega

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Natasha and the Bounty Hunter
« on: May 12, 2011, 10:24:45 PM »

Hey guys,
Did the old Wolf's Dragoons book tell the tale of how the Bounty Hunter stole Natasha's Marauder?  And was this Marauder if fact the 3 PPC, double heat sink monster that I saw in a book recently (klondike maybe)??????  And how did Natasha get the Warhammer?  Thanks for the answers.
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Re: Natasha and the Bounty Hunter
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2011, 12:07:31 AM »

The relevant passage is found in the Wolf's Dragoons Sourcebook on page 124.  Essentially, during Anton Marik's revolt in 3014, both Lieutenant Kerensky and the Bounty Hunter were assigned the same operations area on Nova Roma.  The Bounty Hunter's team reported that a certain ravine was clear for Kerensky's heavy lance to move through, and she proceeded into the ravine, wherein her unit was promptly ambushed by a number of Loyalist mechs.  With her Marauder heavily-damaged and overheating, she ejected and made her way back to friendly lines...but not before watching the Bounty Hunter's Griffin begin dragging away her own Mech.

The Marauder itself was detailed in RS:3085 Unabridged; Project Phoenix (pg. 189).  It downgrades the engine to a 225 and adds 3 jump jets, mounts 14.5 tons of armor, replaces the weapons loadout with 3 PPCs (RA, LA, and RT) and 5 medium lasers (RA, LA, R/L/CT), and mounts 16 Double Heat Sinks.  It is unclear whether Natasha piloted this Marauder variant, or if it was retrofitted to this standard via lostech upgrades by the Bounty Hunter.  The common wisdom is that this is the variant piloted by Natasha, which gives the BH the reason for colluding with the Loyalists and ambushing Natasha for her Mech (since there's easier ways to acquire a bog-standard Marauder).

There is some speculation that the Warhammer Kerensky piloted hereafter belonged to the Bounty Hunter, but there is no confirmation, and she'd have to work VERY fast to steal it from him, as she appears in a Warhammer in 3015 when she killed Anton Marik after he massacred Dragoon hostages (including Joshua Wolf) on New Delos in an effort to take over command of the Dragoons.  Thus I believe rumors of the 'Hammer belonging to the BH to be unfounded.
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Re: Natasha and the Bounty Hunter
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2011, 05:46:25 AM »

Thanks Rob.  I was just reading in Tales of the "Black Widow" the senario where BH ambushes NK again.  The widows are trying to "rescue" techs from Micheal Hasek-Davion and he hires BH to protect him.  NK sees the Marauder and goes ballistic.

Given that the Marauder was her special variant, is there any reason to suppose that her new Whammy was the royal version or something modified close it???

Also, if BH modified the Marauder, where did he get the DHS's in 3015???
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Re: Natasha and the Bounty Hunter
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2011, 09:14:51 AM »

Given that the Marauder was her special variant, is there any reason to suppose that her new Whammy was the royal version or something modified close it???

Natasha's Warhammer was a standard variant as far as anyone knows.


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Also, if BH modified the Marauder, where did he get the DHS's in 3015???

Same place Gray Noton got his (assuming his Rifleman was upgraded in some way).
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