The Steiners are big fans of large melee weapons, and while they didn't have access to the plasma sword, instead they ran a heat sink access directly to the engine and ran the heat directly out to the blade of a big axe, dubbed the Heat Tomahawk. Bleeding off excess heat from secondary weapons by giving it to your opponent is a nice bonus to the sheer damage it does.

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The handheld Thunderbolt 20 launcher is substantially more threatening than the UAC10, and massed fire can put out a frightening amount of firepower at long range. It lacks the critical-seeking efficiency of an LRM20, but that's a sacrifice the Steiner are willing to make. A mech with no center torso is just as destroyed, after all.

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All of these "Zaku" have a revolutionary boosting system that mounts jump jets, but allows them to be fired in such a way as to boost the mech forward at substantially enhanced speeds without moving far above the ground. It's not a true LAM system, but it works well, and while the UAC10 is not the strongest primary weapon, it gets the job done.

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