ORMMS-1 Lancer

**Mobile Suit Name:** Orion Miniature Mobile Suit-01 Lancer

**Armour/Armour Material:** Super-Ceramic Composite Laced With Photon Armour Plates

**Height:** 5m

**Weight:** 8 tons (Empty), 10 tons (Fully loaded)

**Tier:** Basic

## Weaponry

**LOADOUT:** The ORMMS-01 Lancer can only use one of it’s primary weapons at a time, which is either it’s rifle, shotgun, or bazooka. It’s combat knife is always stored on it’s self as a back-up weapon.

**1x OMR-1 Assault Rifle:**  A 30mm rifle based off the GH-001’s head vulcan. It is essentially a single barreled head vulcan, with a reciprocating barrel, and due to other modifications made, it keeps a decent rate of fire, along with having very controllable recoil. It has a 50 round magazine, and a fire control system that’s linked to the cockpit of the Lancer.

**1x OMS-02 Assault Shotgun:** A 40mm semi-automatic, magazine fed shotgun. It’s a simple completely original weapon designed for the Lancer’s specific usage in mind, it has a 12 round magazine capacity.

**1x OMRL-03 Bazooka:**  A 90mm bazooka-style weapon, it has a basic FCS and relies almost entirely on the built in sensors of the Lancer for targeting. It fires dumbfire rockets in a few basic varieties from 7 round magazines. HE, HEDP, and HEAT rockets.

**1x OMK-04 Combat Knife:**  A tanto-style combat knife, meant for close quarters combat. It’s edge is a good balance between sharpness, and edge durability. Allowing the knife to be used for hundreds of hours, and leads to an easy maintenance cycle. It’s stored directly on the chest in a quick release sheath.

## Equipment

**2x Triple Smoke Grenade Launchers:**  A pair of triple smoke grenade launchers, they can be fired either in a barrage of all six grenades, or they can fire each grenade singularly. Each grenade is an airburst style grenade, generating a large cloud of IR blocking smoke.

## History

The production of Lancer started back during the time of the original Orion Union alongside several other MINI MS projects and designs that were floated at the time, though only initially reached the stages of some early designs and concepts due to a lack of consistent powersource before its full assimilation into the New Empire in 6107. It’d only be when the Orion Rebels really began to pick up momentum a few months later that the records and early production plans of the Lancer would see the light again to counter the Mini MS that the New Empire had begun deploying against them. Being among a few suaves of data the rebels managed to steal back from the Empire in raids on their older facilities. With their limited resources, the Rebels took their own approach to building a finalized model. Following very close design specs to their larger mobile suits with high quality head sensors and a Minimized version of their Photon Batteries to solve the power problem.

Using a few extra exploits and even a garbage-can production facility as a front a few times, the Rebels also managed to produce the Super Ceramic interlaced with Photon Armour plates to cover the suits body. Similar facilities also used to produce a variety of weapons, including the original shotgun from the stolen design concepts. And even repurposing scuttled GH-001 heads to produce its assault rifle, though its Bazooka was a labor of love amongst some lower level engineers responsible for restoring the original blueprints along with some test pilots agreeing that the Lancer needed more firepower. A few sketchy original designs later using some particularly durable garbage cans and tacked on FCS units later,  the Rebels were convinced of a bazooka’s utility and had some more qualified engineers polish out the design for full production alongside the Lancer itself and the rest of its arsenal

Performance: The Lancer is a relatively high-performance generalist machine, it’s made by the Orion Union to counter the Shiranui, and lightly armored AFVs. It’s design comes from taking design cues from “RC”-type Mobile Suits, as such it inherits high quality sensors located in its head. It is also equipped with a speciality “sniping”/long-range dedicated sensor.

Another good quark of having a miniaturized Photon Battery, leads to the Lancer being spaceworthy, and its 8 Verniers give the suit a high degree of nimbleness for a mecha of it’s size. It’s armor is durable against infantry small arms, and glancing hits from ATGMs, or even higher caliber weaponry like 90mm or 120mm cannons won’t completely destroy the suit. Though when it comes to any proper mobile suit scale weaponry, the Lancer like any other miniaturized mobile suit will be torn to shreds very quickly.

The Lancer’s other quark is having a very mobile frame, sprouting superior joint strength to the Shiranui, it can use it’s knife to great effect, along with being able to run at a quite impressive pace.

## Speed

**Straight line acceleration:** 0.5

**AMBAC maneuvers:** 3

**Direction changing speed:** 1

**Powerplant:** 1x  Miniaturized Photon Battery

**Generator Output:** 50% of a normal Photon Battery

**Main Thruster Count:** N/A

**Vernier count:** 8 (4 per shoulder)