Star Adder (Blood Asp) I

The Star Adder (Blood Asp) I is a 90-ton assault brawler that fights close-in, cruising at 43 km/h and topping out near 65. Where the Prime configuration mounts twin Heavy Medium Lasers and a Medium Pulse Laser in each arm, this configuration carries a single Large Re-engineered Laser per arm. In place of the Prime's paired Gauss Rifles split across the torsos and its Streak SRM 6 in the center torso, this configuration fields an Improved Heavy Gauss Rifle in the center torso and four ER Small Lasers clustered in the left torso. Heat sinks number 14 Clan double against the Prime's 18 double, and the frame runs on a 360 Clan XL fusion engine and Clan endo steel structure under mixed Inner Sphere and Clan technology, where the Prime is built on a pure Clan tech base. Both share the rugged, field-serviceable frame and standard armor. Sheridan LM-TA 8-10 builds the type at Sheridan, with production also at Dante.