Editing Mackie (section)

== History ==
The ''Mackie'' is the first true [[BattleMech]], the result of a decade's worth of hard work by Terran Hegemony scientists and engineers putting the lessons learned from IndustrialMechs into a single 100-ton death robot. It was first put into combat testing on February 5th, 2439 against four remote controlled Tanks, piloted by one Colonel Charles Kincaid. Not a single one of the tanks could leave a serious mark against it, and after shredding the first three tanks into ribbons with its guns, Charles proved his point by smashing the last one flat with the ''Mackie'''s foot; winning the simulated battle and surpassing all expectations wildly, and the Hegemony immediately put this walking gun platform into service; first against the [[Draconis Combine]], and then proudly ensuring it made it's way to battlefields across the Inner Sphere for more than a decade before the plans for such a beast were leaked to one of [[Lyran Commonwealth|the great houses]], and finally ceased production during the [[Amaris Civil War]].

Though antiquated and almost never going to see real combat again, there are quite a few surviving examples of ''Mackie''s kicking around in the 31st century. Some of them even walk on their own still! Though like the grandpas they are, they're creaky and a bit slow.