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As a result, while it's well armored and pretty damn fast for something that big, it's main armaments are pitiful a Magna Hellstar PPC and an Autocannon/5, both built into it's lower torso, with some Small Lasers added in essentially as flavor. See, the Banshee's fusion engine is massive bigger than anything else it's manufacturer makes, and takes up a lot of it's overall mass. Simply put, in trying to speed up the typically ponderous Assault class, the poindexters from Defiant Industries who put this thing together forgot to scale up the weapons to compensate. It took centuries for a decent version of the Banshee to hit the battlefield, in which it's reputation actually allowed the improved version to sneak in and cause serious damage because everyone was focused on the "real" threats on the battlefield. As a result, they've mostly been passing between owners at a furious pace, with the lion's share of the original production run ending up in Lyran Commonwealth territory. This misbegotten Mech was initially developed by Defiant Industries and put into service in 2445 by the Terran Hegemony, as a contemporary to the Mackie and the Emperor with almost twice their top-speeds as a standard, but eventually gained a reputation as infinitely less useful than either of those designs, but ended up seeing a full-production run since the Hegemony really wasn't in a position to argue, and only stopped a decade later after nobody would touch the damn things. If given the choice between piloting this thing or getting into Battle Armor against an Assault Mech, most pilots will take the Battle Armor, or even just a fucking rifle and a ladder and see if they get lucky, rather than get inside this 95-ton hunk of shit. This thing may be one of the worst mechs ever created in it's weight class, and maybe even in the fiction of BattleTech in general. The Banshee is a Assault 'Mech from BattleTech known for doing one thing, and one thing only sucking.