The Fenrir is a Lyran assault BattleArmor design that features heavy firepower.
         Although the AFFC was the first Inner Sphere military force to deploy BattleArmor, the early AFFC designs proved somewhat inferior to the "second-generation" BattleArmor designs produced by other Inner Sphere powers in subsequent years.   Consequently, Archon Katherine ordered Lyran designers to develop new BattleArmor shortly after usurping the throne.   She hoped the new designs would close the gap between the BattleArmor capabilities of the Lryan Alliance and its rival powers, as well as underscore her realm's independence of the Federated Commonwealth.
         The Lyran designers based the Fenrir design on the NAIS-designed Sloth battle armor.   Using the same sturdy quad configuration as the Sloth, the Fenrir (named after the demon-wolf of Teutonic mythology) also boasts a large weapons array.

         The Fenrir was primarily designed as a highly mobile weapons platform, rather than a true BattleArmor suit, and is controlled from a cramped "cockpit".   The suit features a heavy-duty hardpoint that swivels so that weapons can be fired in a nearly 360-degree arc.   The Fenrir can be fitted with any of the following weapon configurations: three small lasers or machine guns, two small pulse lasers, a four-tube SRM launcher, or a single medium pulse laser (the medium pulse laser is the largest weapon ever mounted on a battle-armor chassis).
         Unfortunately, accomodating the weight of a swiveling mount and weapon arrays forced the Fenrir's designers to skimp somewhat on armor.   The Fenrir's sturdy legs give it considerable speed, however, and its designers concluded the light armor was an acceptable concession to the other design considerations.
         Typically, Fenrir troopers use hit-and-run tactics and try to use the design's superior firepower to overwhelm opponents before they can take advantage of the suit's weaknesses.

         The Fenrir is used mostly by the Merchant Princes of the Lyran Commonwealth, their friends in the Hanseatic League. It also sees major use by other governments that used to be under the sway of that nation, though the Merchant Princes alternate between acting like they don't exist or that such are still under the rule and therefore use them by consent.