Model: Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc Model 201
Type: Mortar System
Scale: Character
Skill: Blaster artillery
Ammo: 12
Cost: 5,400
Availability: 2, X
Range: 10-100/400/1 km
Damage: By grenade type
Game Notes: The Model 201 has a small repulsor lift equipped tripod to reduce its weight. It’s designed to fire C-22 frag grenades, though it can fire other types as well.
Background: The Model 201 mortar system was a type of portable mortar artillery system manufactured by Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc. and costed 5,400 credits. A smoothbore weapon, the Model 201 used an electromagnetic mass-driver system to launch large-caliber shells over long distances. It was the weapon of choice for foes behind heavy cover, it fired in an arc rather than a direct line.
The Model 201 was constructed from three parts, the launcher, magazine and a heavy bipod. It was used by the Galactic Republic’s clone army during the Clone Wars against the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Model 201 was carried by teams three specialized clone artillery troopers, each of whom carried one part of the weapon. Efficient mortar teams could keep up a rapid rate of fire in the field.
Artillery stormtroopers part of Moff Gideon’s Imperial remnant used the Model 201 to fire thermal detonators.