MCC-123-1 Samson
Technical Data
Model number: MCC-123-1
Code name: XSeed Marine Custom Command Type
Nickname: Samson
Classification: custom anti-Controller heavy armor
Manufacturer: UC Arms
Operator: UC Marine Corps
First deployment: CY 97
Crew: 1 pilot in lower cockpit in torso, 1 gunner/navigator in upper chest cockpit
Height: 20 meters
Weight: dry weight 105 metric tons, full weight 195 metric tons
Armor type: “1D” carbyne laminar armor
Powerplant: cold fusion reactor, max output 2700 KW; 2x supplemental carbyne capacitor, max storage 1000 KW
Propulsion: EM impellers: 2x 104,800 kg, 4x 36,615 kg, 4x 15,785 kg, 4x 12,250 kg, top speed 2700 kph; maneuvering impellers: 32, 180° turn time 0.90 seconds; legs: top ground speed 190 kph, gyro-balanced for ground use
Sensors: gravitic, radar, thermal, optical array; main binocular cameras mounted in head
Fixed armaments: x2 plasma sword, stored in recharge racks on back, output rated at 0.7 MW; high-power plasma cannon, output rated at 8 MW, back-mounted, rotates 90 degrees into firing position; x2 103 kg articulating railgun, pauldron-mounted; x2 8-tube MLRS rack, loads cluster missile carrying 7000 dual-purpose submunitions or tactical nuclear missile, output rated at 1 kiloton; x2 rotary weapon array, wrist-mounted, each mounts x6 2-shot missile pod and x6 1.1 MW laser cannon; x4 defense drone, ion field projector and EM impellers, stored in charging racks in hips
Standard hand armaments: heavy plasma rifle: output rated at 3 MW, magazine or internal capacitor-fed, each magazine holds 40 charges
Optional ranged armaments: 3-tube missile pod: attaches to right pauldron, can load high explosive, anti-armor, spray missiles, anti-beam cloud missiles, ECM “chaff” missiles, or any combination thereof; x2 supplemental drone, stored in charging racks on outboard sections of missile blocks
Special Equipment: ion field projector, heavy armor docking system
General Notes
Following the Ynzu attack on Orlando colony in CY 96, UC Arms launched a project to determine how a single Controller combat frame had shredded a whole squadron of their state-of-the-art MCF-123 XSeed Marines. The nationalized arms company applied the lessons learned to a new design intended to fight and defeat Ynzu Controllers.
The UC Arms team looked to supremely powerful CFs of the past such as the AZZ-003 Heavy Armor Z and the XCD-103 + XCD-102 Heavy Armor Eisenpferd for solutions. The result was a heavy armor upgrade designed to make a standard XSeed Marine a match for a Controller CF. Not only did the upgrade double the XSeed’s armor protection, it multiplied the unit’s offensive force with a pair of battleship-scale railguns, a high-output plasma cannon, and a set of two innovative rotary bracers mounting six missile launchers and six laser cannons each. To deny entire areas of space to highly mobile enemies, the heavy armor package included two MLRS racks whose eight tubes could fire cluster missiles containing 7000 submunitions each. For planetary defense, the cluster munitions could be changed out for 1 kiloton tactical nuclear warheads. This arsenal supplemented the XSeed Marine’s standard loadout of two plasma swords, a 3 MW plasma rifle, and a modular 3-tube missile pod.
Besides its extra set of carbyne laminar armor, the Marine heavy armor package carried a number of drones similar to those of the AZX-001 Heavy Armor X, but lacking onboard generators. To save weight, the drones docked in canisters on the heavy armor’s hips to recharge. An additional two drones could be added via optional charging docks plugged into the missile racks. Each drone could project an ion field to protect itself or its parent CF from plasma weapons. These fields could overlap, allowing the heavy armor to repel even sustained Ynzu fire.
The complex task of managing these myriad systems led UCA to add a weapons tech station beside the main cockpit in the unit’s chest. The weapons tech coordinated with the onboard A.I. to direct the drones and handle long-range weapons fire while the pilot focused on close combat and maneuvering.
Once UC Arms brought a prototype to the testing stage, they sought the expertise of UCMC Colonel Cotton Sweetwater. After putting the new heavy armor through the gauntlet–sometimes personally–the Colonel judged the overall concept sound and suggest several improvements, most of which UCA implemented. One of his stronger suggestions led to UCA reconfiguring the dual cockpits to be placed vertically instead of side by side since, in the Colonel’s words, “No one has confidence in a war machine with loveseats.”
UCA submitted their final heavy armor design to the UCP General Staff, who deemed it too expensive for mass production. Colonel Sweetwater obtained the prototype as his personal command CF, which he dubbed Samson.
Brian
Overpowered and overarmed much? 🙂 Battleship sized rail guns? Tacnukes?
They name is Overkill
xavier
Not when it comes to fighting an enemy CF that can level mountain ranges.
Brian,
Understood. But that’s one pimped out mech.
And it’s glorious!
xavier
Glad you enjoy it
Brian,
Just as a humourous aside. I can imagine someone coming up with a Pimp my mech ™ series. It would be fun to see what fans and artists come up with the most over the top mech designs
xavier
@Xavier:
Yo dawg, I heard your mech needs lots of guns, so I made you a gun that shoots guns so they can shoot while you shoot.
And then I got really inspired and made you a shield out of laser-swords.
Andrew:
Thanks man! Did you add the multiple rocket launchers firing thousands of rockets with all kinds of submuntions? And the ability to drop MOABS from the chest when in flight?
Rail guns. Lots and lots of rail guns too 🙂
xavier
I was actually going to make that joke first, but the MLRS with sub-munitions come standard on this behemoth, so it seemed redundant.
Philip
No no no! You can never have enough of them. Like Lego!
xavier