[Abe Sargent]

Kallon in a Nutshell makes:

The Ontos Heavy Tank, 95 ton tank debuting in 2832, and rocking a variety of variants over the eras. The base version ran 8 medium lasers and 2 LRM5s. But you can find variants with LRM20s and so forth, In the 3050s, an upgrade to new tech gave it a fusion engine, medium pulse lasers, an LRM15, an SRM4 and 6, Artemis IV for them all, CASE, and ferro-fib armor. They now make this upgraded version here at Nanking


The Partisan Heavy Tank, an 80 ton monster that debuted in 2791 and rocked 4 AC5s and 2 machine guns, with a variety of variants made. One good, but older variant (which we encountered) has 4 LRM 15s. Two newer variants of a Tank called the Air Defense Tank are pretty good.. One has ferro-fib armor, 2 LB5Xs, two Ultra AC5s, and is pretty good against flyers. Another rocks a pair of LB10Xs, 2 Ultra Ac5, and such. They come with C3 slaves, which are not common here in the FedCom, so they aren’t made at the local Plant. They are made at other Kallon plants. They are working on a FedCom special that uses the ubre-popular Rotary AC5, and their version of that Partisan is supposed to roll out in a few months. That’ll be the one we get.


The Wolverine – Kallon created and introduced the Wolverine for the Star League centuries ago. It was a pretty good mech. House Davion upgraded their Wolverine factory on the captured Nanking to make some new guys. They make the 7D variant. It has an XL engine, ferro-armor, MASC to speed you up, ultra AC5, medium pulse laser, SRM6 with CASE, and jump jets. We don’t like XLs, but it’s not that shabby. Kallon has already approved designs for an 8D Variant that has XL engine, endo, rotary AC2, MASC still, SRM6 streak, ER Medium Laser and a targeting computer for the AC2 and laser. It may have some heat issues though (just 10/20 heat sinks). It’s a better design, frankly, which they have begun to work on a prototype of it. Best estimate right now is prototype in three months or so, and begin working on the line switch over a few months, make them early next year.

The Exterminator – In order to save money, in the early 3000s, Kallon began to produce Exterminators on the old blueprint, with none of the high-tech stuff. It just looked like an Exterminator and had a similar weapons payload. They have a wacky new version that shoots things with Narc Pods and ER medium lasers and lots of weird stuff. We don’t like it that much. An Exterminator that does not have all of this fun stuff is not really an Exterminator, and they only make 1/month. It’s also on an exclusive contract to ComStar, since it rocks an iNarc and iC3.


Shadow Hawk – They had a Shadow hawk plant that wants doing too well, and have been a part of Project Phoenix and have retooled it to make the 5D variant of the Shadow Hawk. It rocks a Rotary AC5, streak SRM4, two medium lasers, and lots of fun! It’s very similar to the version that Lang’ll be making over on Caph. They expect it to begin producing Mechs around February 3065.



Nanking did have a huge local garrison, the Nanking SMM. That was destroyed in the Civil War in the early stages. It had 2 regiments of armor, one of mechs, and 2 of infantry. We cannot leave Nanking poorly defended, but we need troops elsewhere.

For now, everyone who came on the mission stays. Major Mei Zhen starts scouring for a useful mercenary to help us out.


Over the next few months, we’ll fly in more units to fix up our flotilla. We’ll be here for a while, essentially garrisoning the place. I sell that salvaged Leopard to help defray the costs of repairing our damaged fleet.



End of the First Nanking Campaign