The Antipode was produced by Maltex right before its 
venerable thug design.  The Antipode was created with 
balance in mind, designed to dish out large amounts of 
damage quickly, while remaining viable after its ammo was 
depleated.  The first Variant failed to put out enough 
firepower at various ranges, and while it ran cool, it it had 
many critics.  The N3 Variant attempts to split the firing 
groups into long and short range weapons and splits the 
number of heatsinks almost in half.

Capabilities:
The LRM 20 is a fearsome weapon, and allows the 
antipode considerable long range capabilities.  Replacing 
the Large lasers on the arm with twin PPCs increases the 
long range fire potential significantly.  because the 
PPC's performance drops at short range the N3 has 
difficulty using them in tandem with the short range missile 
6 launcher.  To overcome this flaw, the designers added 
twin medium lasers in the center torso to compliment the 
SRM 6s and in extremely close range a quad set of 
machine guns can be brought into play allong with 
physical attacks.  While the design is somewhat slow, the 
long range firepower is enough to keep its opponents 
occupied until it closes into short range.

Deployment:
The NTP-N3 Antipode was origionaly deployed in several 
units of the star league defence force, while most were 
destroyed durring the first succession war, several chassis 
were discovered in 3027 in a brian cache on planet in the 
federated commonwealth.