Truck Streets

Truck Streets, former 'MechTech and arena gladiator, fought and scrabbled xyr way up from the back-alley tent-shanties of Celestia City on Hardcore to the seat of a BattleMech. Having grown tired of the corruption of the arena circuit, Streets made the shift to mercenary work when xe signed on with the Dust Devils in late 3063.
==MRBC Dossier - 3065==
===BattleMech===
The bulk of the machine that Streets named Gutter Knight upon acquiring and repairing it began as a Crusader, though by this point it has changed hands (whether sold, traded, inherited, salvaged, repossessed, or lost as a wager) and been rebuilt with parts of dubious origin so many times in it's multi-century life that putting together a comprehensive history of the original 'Mech would be impossible. Upon joining the Devils and finding in their Chief Technician a fellow enthusiast for unusual 'Mechs, Streets took advantage of the unit's upgrade program for owner/operators with gusto. 
The result of their collaboration is a FrankenMech in the truest sense of the word, sporting the cockpit, torso, left arm, and legs of an ancient CRD-3L Crusader, a Magna 260 XL reactor taken from a JM6-DD JagerMech, and the right arm and hatchet of an AXM-1N Axman. The lighter engine and use of ClanTech allowed Gutter Knight to retain the 3L's jump capability while upgrading the LRM-10 and SRM-4's to fifteen- and six-tube launchers, respectively. The existing laser mounts (one on the left arm, three on the right) were upgraded to ClanTech ER mediums, and the left arm machine gun to a ClanTech heavy version. An additional ton of armor and the migration of all the 'Mech's ammunition to CASE-protected bins in the left torso help offset the increased vulnerability of the bulkier engine, while new ClanTech double heat sinks married to a tier-3 thermal exchanger keeps Gutter Knight running cool through extended firefights. Finally, upgraded myomers allow the FrankenMech to run faster and hit harder than its component donors, which suits Streets' experience as an arena brawler just fine. 
Gutter Knight is painted in the Devils' typical camel, with a splatter pattern of coral on the lower legs and forearms over coils of barbed wire rendered in granite. Streets' personal heraldry, a rodent skull on a black shield over a pair of crossed, spiked baseball bats, adorns the upper-left torso. 
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