Class: Assault
Weight: 80 tons
DLC: HOTIS
The Federated Suns units that encountered this new 'Mech were confused, mistaking it for a Charger. As the war of 3039 progressed, it became clear that the Hatamoto-Chi, the first 'Mech in the Hatamoto chassis line, was something entirely different. Clearly matching the capabilities of the old Star League era Thug Battlemech, it appears that the Hatamoto-Chi still came from the Charger mold, likely because it was just easier and faster to use the already running Charger assembly line. It does so to its benefit too, retaining the ease to repair that's one of the Chargers few praise points, as well as removing at least some of the stigma surrounding that old maligned design.
Sarna wiki linkSpeed: 64 kp/h
Standard engine 320
Free tonnage (no armor): 42.5 tons
Engine hs: 2
Weapons:Trait slots: 7
Speed: 64 kp/h
Standard engine 320
Weight Saving: Endo-steel structure
Free tonnage (no armor): 46.5 tons
Engine hs: 2
Weapons:Trait slots: 7
Speed: 64 kp/h
Standard engine 320
Free tonnage (no armor): 42.5 tons
Engine hs: 2
Weapons:Trait slots: 8
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Speed: 64 kp/h
Standard engine 320
Weight Saving: Endo-steel structure
Free tonnage (no armor): 46.5 tons
Engine hs: 2
Weapons:Trait slots: 9
It is unknown exactly how Marcus Kurita got his hands on a prototype of the 'Mech design that would come to be known as the Hatamoto-Chi, but it is suspected that agents sympathetic to his causes managed to make it disappear from a Luthien Armor Works test facility. When the Warlord went rogue, and was declared ronin, after the founding of the Free Rasalhague Republic in 3034, he did not have long to use his Hatamoto, which he named 'Onimaru', before his death at the hands of a Lyran Loki operative. Upon Marcus' death, the 'Mech was passed on to his eldest son, Alexander Kurita.