Combat Frame Data: XCD-104-2

Model
number: XCD-104-2

Code
name: Eschaton

Nickname: Eschaton Kai

Classification: stealth attack combat frame

Manufacturer: Browning Engineering Corporation design modified by Faust Hayden

Operator: HALO

First
deployment: CY 40

Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest

Height: 18 meters

Weight: 92 metric tons

Armor
type: “1D” carbyne laminar armor

Powerplant: cold fusion reactor, max output 2950 KW

Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 4x 38,900 kg, 4x 21,700 kg, 2x 36,300
kg; top speed 3681 kph; maneuvering thrusters: 24, 180° turn time 0.60 seconds;
legs: top ground speed 200 kph

Sensors: radar, thermal, optical array; main binocular cameras
mounted in head; Vercingetorix laser targeting system

Fixed
armaments: 3-tube missile pod, replaces upper left arm, can load high explosive, anti-armor, and other specialized ordnance

Optional hand armaments: x2 three-section heat staff, can lock to form x2 heat bo, stored
crossed on backpack, hand-carried in use; plasma carbine, power rated at 1.3 MW, barrel detaches to form plasma sword rated at 0.45 MW, hand-carried in use

Special equipment: Dynamic optical camouflage, A.I. operating system

HALO pilots Theodore Red and Faust Hayden escaped their first run-in with the SOC’s new Grand Dolph combat frames by the skin of their teeth. After limping to Browning Corp’s secret Vercingetorix testing facility in their damaged XSeeds, the duo raided Browning’s stash of XSeed parts to effect emergency repairs.

Red’s XCD-104 XSeed Eschaton had suffered damage that reduced its combat performance below the acceptable threshold. To get his comrade back in fighting form and increase their collective chance of survival, CF tech Faust indulged in a flight of creative improvisation.

After fixing the damage to Eschaton’s drives, armor, and dynamic cloak, Faust took it upon himself to rectify the XSeed’s lack of ranged attack capability. He replaced the XCD-104’s missing upper left arm with a spare missile pod from his own XCD-103 Eisenpferd. The pod’s three tubes could be loaded with an assortment of specialized warheads, dramatically increasing Eschaton’s combat versatility. Faust and Red dubbed the upgraded CF the XCD-104-2 Eschaton Kai.

Despite these upgrades, Red still found himself at a disadvantage during the XSeeds’ rematch with the Grand Dolphs over Bigelow City. Wehrbund Bavaria pilot Ivan Eckhart helped Red even the odds by loaning him one of the two plasma carbines carried by his XCD-102 Emancipator. The significant boost in effectiveness afforded by the addition of ranged weapons convinced Red to never again pilot a CF without them–a decision which would have major repercussions.

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