Clan Elemental

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Not to be confused with the Elementals you find in fantasy.

Elementals are one of the main phenotypes of Clan Warrior, genetically engineered to serve as power armored heavy heavy infantry in the Battletech universe.

History

There were two developments which lead to Clan Elementals, first of all was the development of a powered exosuit for deep sea mining by Clan Goliath Scorpion in 2842. The second was Clan Hell's Horses developing a line of bulked-out soldiers. Clan Wolf wanted a slice of both of these actions. First their merchants bought the schematics for the Diving Suit designs in 2860 and soon had their Scientists began to adapt them for combat. These were ready for service in 2868 and were a nasty surprise for Clan Nova Cat. Hell's Horses challenged Clan Wolf for their new power suits and after some negotiating had their set of combat trials for the rights to manufacture the armor in exchange for the gene-tech. In the end, both sides got the others tech and they were happy with this as they both came out ahead, though other Clans would go out of their way to acquire both for themselves in the next few years. Another breakthrough for Elementals was the creation of the OmniMech’s universal docking ports. While originally made for swapping out weapons, it didn’t take too long to realize that Elementals could piggyback off of OmniMechs by mounting onto chassis docks to recharge their weapons and move along with the BattleMech units for mobility. So while reverse engineered Battle Armor by Spheroids was initially restricted to defensive warfare, Elementals were able to be on the offensive alongside their MechWarrior brethren.

Elementals

Your basic Elemental stands between 2 to 2.5 meters tall and is built like a brick shithouse. They're strong, fast and resilient. Most elemental drop-outs end up in the Labor caste. As it typical with Clan Warriors, they've been trained from Childhood to fight, survive, work together and fight with only the best of the best graduating. Even without Battle Armor, you would not want to throw down with an Elemental.

Your basic suit of Elemental armor weighs a tonne with 250 kg of armor and is equipped with jump jets. They can operate in the vacuum of space. It has two short range missile launchers on it's shoulders and two modular mounts for weapons built into it's arms. In infantry fights, an Elemental is a goddamn nightmare able to carve a bloody swath through squads of regular guys with guns while brushing off most fire. Against Battlemechs, they're small enough to hide, nimble enough to move around and durable to take a hit or two from Battlemech scale weaponry. The last thing that many a Federated Commonwealth or Draconis Combine Mechwarrior saw during the Clan Invasion was an Elemental busting into their cockpit.