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| Mech Armor Standard
|
|
| Type:
| Inner Sphere
|
| Weight:
| ?
|
Resource requirements
| Resource
| #
|
| Antimony:
| 0
|
| Bauxite:
| 0
|
| Beryllium:
| 0
|
| Chromium:
| 0
|
| Cobalt:
| 0
|
| Copper:
| 0
|
| Germanium:
| 0
|
| Gold:
| 0
|
| Hydrogen:
| 0
|
| Iron:
| 0
|
| Lead:
| 0
|
| Lithium:
| 0
|
| Manganese:
| 0
|
| Molybdenum:
| 0
|
| Nickel:
| 0
|
| Nitrogen:
| 0
|
| Organics:
| 0
|
| Plastics:
| 0
|
| Platinum:
| 0
|
| Precious Gems:
| 0
|
| Rare Earth Elements:
| 0
|
| Silicon:
| 0
|
| Silver:
| 0
|
| Sulfur:
| 0
|
| Titanium:
| 0
|
| Tungsten:
| 0
|
| Uranium:
| 0
|
| Vanadium:
| 0
|
| Water:
| 0
|
| Zinc:
| 0
|
|
| Blueprint production cost:
| ? RP
|
| Design research level:
| 8
|
| RP required:
| 15,000,000
|
| BP required:
| ?
|
Endo steel was designed especially for use in BattleMech skeletons. Using zero-G manufacturing techniques that uniformly mix high-density steel with lower-density titanium and aluminum, the process produces a metal twice as strong per unit of weight as standard skeleton materials, but at an increase in overall bulk. The Clans have refined endo steel production to the point of great efficiency, but the Successor States' use of the material is still severely hampered by the scarcity of orbital manufacturing facilities. BattleMechs built with endo steel need allocate only half the standard weight to the internal structure (rounded to the nearest half ton.), but the bulk of the alloy takes up 7 critical slots in Clan Mechs and 14 slots in Inner Sphere Mechs. Vehicles can NOT use endo steel structure.
