![]() Originally designed as a heavy-hitting armored vehicle, the Şoarece sports three classes of Autocannon for its principal firepower, all mounted in the turret. With access to the Ontos, a smaller and ultimately superior combat vehicle, the demand for the slow and ponderous Şoarece fell off. The Şoarece was put into limited production at the Keystone factory, but barely a hundred units had been produced when the League captured Shiro III and with it Grumman Amalgamated's Ontos Heavy Tank production facility. It would be over two decades ( 2904) until the final form of this design was settled, by which time it had become a mammoth of a tank. It was envisioned as a low-cost, highly survivable design that could engage BattleMechs and equip the League's depleted defensive formations. The design was commissioned by then- Captain-General Philippa Marik in 2881. ![]() The Şoarece was an experimental superheavy combat vehicle produced for the Free Worlds League in the early decades of the Third Succession War.
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