V5.00# Wolf SpiderSRM %sCCpA@ML 3 3 3 2 1 5     g2 (Unknown)h (Unknown)8 (Unknown)9 (Unknown)9 (Unknown) 88 gg2hh  9 9x( The Wolf Spider can only be described as a catastrofic mistake and the sole factor in the bankruptcy of the small firm that was once called United Solar Armories. It was suppose to be an efficient urban combat machine. It was suppose to be the defining maching to put the company on the proverbial map. Research and developement and the construction of the prototypes financially destroyed United Solar. One problem after another, one failure after another. Two mech-warriors buried and four proto types demolished, the project was scrapped.  The design was suppose to be a threatening urban combatant. It was suppose to mount a large autocannon with energy back up. It did not. The origional autocannon they attempted to use was a class 10, but the structure of the hip joints of the rear legs could not take the recoil - so instead of redesigning obviously inferior joints the designers to cut corner halved the size of the cannon. The Wolf Spider was also suppose to be able to keep pace with light mechs of its time, but again inferior joints in the legs proved faulty under the stress so the top speed was dropped to just over 85 kph. Not impressive. The reduction in speed and weaponsize did drop the total mass to only 35 tons from the origionally proposed 45. Now mounting a class 5 auto cannon with 2 medium sized lasers and a small facing front, and a single small laser facing rear the first Wolf Spider crept off the assemply line.  The Wolf Spider never made it to real combat. In the first live fire excercise the autocannon not only jammed but sent a surge throw the weapons system that fried the targeting computer and other control systems, shorting out not only the pilots ejection system but also the heat sink system causing the reactor to melt down. Killing the mech and the pilot. The second run of tests was going much better until the pilot tried to make a turn at full run while fire the autocannon and literallty ripped off its own right rear leg, sending it carrening into a building on the urban proving grounds that United Solar used for testing its vehicles. One variant was proposed that stripped the cannon and replaced it with an array of short range missles. 2 short range 2 racks with infernos and 2 short range 4 racks with standard ammo and an additional heat sink. It was never built.     [ none ] (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown)