Editing Vision Quest (BattleMech)

{{InfoBoxBattleMech
|image=Vision_Quest.png
|name=''Vision Quest''
|manufacturer=[[Clan Nova Cat]]
| production year=2828
|year reference=
|model= VQ-1NC
|class=Heavy
|cost= 
|Tech Base = Mixed
|mech type =BattleMech
|mass=60
|chassis=[[Endo Frame Brim-8]]<ref name=trogc30>''Technical Readout: Golden Century'', p. 30 "VQ-1NC VISION QUEST"</ref>
|armor=[[HardShell Class-I Ferro]]
|engine=[[MotivX 300 XL]]
|comsys=[[Nova Cat Comms Package A]]
|T&T=[[PreyStalker TTS 5.4]]
|heat sinks=12 [[Double Heat Sink]]s
|speed=86<ref name=trogc30/>
|armament=
*1x [[improved Gauss rifle]]
*2x Clan [[ER Large Laser]]s
*3x [[Medium Pulse Laser]]s
|BV (2.0)=2,401<ref name=trogc31>''Technical Readout: Golden Century'', p. 31 "VQ-1NC VISION QUEST 30"</ref>
}}

==Description==
The '''''Vision Quest''''' was created by [[Clan Nova Cat]] to honor the memory of [[Khan]] [[Sandra Rosse]] and the future she foresaw for both the Nova Cats and Kerensky's [[Clan]]s as a whole.

It was a rather mundane 'Mech, though.  More attention was paid to its symbolic worth than its value on the battlefield. Still, the ''Vision Quest'' was a solid workhorse which could easily anchor a defensive line or backstop an aggressive charge.<ref name=trogc30/>

The last known ''Vision Quest'' was destroyed at the end of Clan Nova Cat's rebellion against the Draconis Combine during the [[Draconis Combine Civil War]]. It was also the same one once piloted by the Founding Khan of the Nova Cats, [[Phillip Drummond]], and destroyed while being Piloted by the last Khan, [[Jacali Nostra]].{{cn}}

Long preserved as a relic, it was brought along during the Nova Cats' move to the Inner Sphere. During the last days of the Nova Cats it was refurbished, restored to fighting fitness by the remaining Nova Cat techs after sitting idle after over 300 years. It was destroyed on Irece along with the Nova Cats' genetic repository and their last Khan in a nuclear strike on the facility as the Draconis Combine systematically annihilated the rebellious Clan as punishment for rebelling and siding with the losing faction of the Civil War.{{cn}}

==Weapons and Equipment==
The ''Vision Quest'' was built around an [[improved Gauss rifle]], two newly developed Clan [[ER Large Laser]]s and three [[Medium Pulse Laser]]s.<ref name=trogc30/>

==Design Quirks==
The ''Vision Quest'' has the following [[Design Quirk]]:<ref name=trogc31/>
* [[Extinct]]

==Variants==
*; ''Vision Quest'' (Clan) : Only four years after its introduction, the ''Vision Quest'' was retooled to Clan tech standards, boosting its armor and swapping out the improved Gauss rifle for a [[Ultra AC/20|Class-20 Ultra autocannon]].<ref name=trogc30/> BV (2.0) = 2,458<ref name=trogc102>''Technical Readout: Golden Century'', p. 102 "VISION QUEST"</ref>

*; ''Vision Quest'' 2: A joint effort with [[Clan Snow Raven]], this version brought the [[Gauss rifle]] to Clan specifications and traded the pulse lasers for [[ER small laser]]s, as well as increasing the [[Heat Sink]] count to thirteen and adding a [[Targeting Computer]].<ref name=trogc30/> BV (2.0) = 2,556<ref name=trogc103>''Technical Readout: Golden Century'', p. 103 "VISION QUEST 2"</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[It Ends in Fire]]'' (short story)
* ''[[Technical Readout: Golden Century]]''

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