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Ok I'm working on part two of "Without Rescue" right now but I need a little information and don't know where to look. Any info or good guesses would be very helpful.
What are the weapons of a Shiro and what is the name of the large staff with the blade it carries?
What are the weapons of the Hitotsune Kozo and the name of it's melee weapon?
What are the weapons on the Raven?
What are those weapon's ranges?
What are the ranges of the basic sensors of a mech?
Mech sensors operate on at least four different sensing systems. The real limit is that the fire control systems cannot achieve locks beyond about a kilometer for even the longest range weapons.
System 1 - Visible light and infrared (thermal) - would have a limit of line of sight for visible light and nearly so for infrared. System 2 - Radar/Lidar - Limit here is line of sight and discrimination. Line of sight here is a little different though because radar can see through most of what visible light and infrared cannot. Lidar would be usable under any condition visible light would be and have the added benefit of a much lower electromagnetic signature. It is quite likely a target could be illuminated by lidar without knowing it. System 3 - Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) - Detects metallic targets by their influence on electromagnetic field lines, range and reliability vary greatly by planetary conditions, ore deposits, lightning, etc. The drop off in sensing would be a squared relationship, ie twice as far at a quarter the ability. System 4 - Seismic - Think of the earthquaking generated by a 100 tons walking around. Influenced by geology and planetary seismic conditions.
The lower tier of active probes and ecm suites ( IS Beagle Active Probe and IS Guardian (?) ECM suite) have a range of approximately 250-300 meters. Clan active probes and ECM suites run about 400 meters. The IS Bloodhound Active Probe and the upper ECM suite (whose name escapes me) can reach out to near 600 meters.
The Raven has changed its armaments severl times as newer variants have come out. It typically has an active probe and an ecm suite as part of every loadout. Variants with Target Acquision Gear (TAG) or Narc are quite common. Early variants had medium lasers and SRMs. Later versions use medium lasers, an LRM launcher, and a Narc launcher.