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The Hathor is what happens when the Common Heart program's one inflexible rule meets a forty-ton hull: the StarHeart 240 goes in — it always goes in — and the engine ends up weighing nearly half the tank. Most design bureaus would call that a failure of proportion. Greene & Harvester's suspension engineers, handed the problem, were by all accounts delighted, and built the high-speed tracked running gear the surplus power was begging for. The result races past 90 kph on terrain of all types — a tracked vehicle with a hovercraft's schedule — and stands as the program's happiest accident: the mandate did not choose an engine for this tank; the tank was grown around the engine, and grew fast. Launched in 3025 alongside its lighter sibling the Horus, the Hathor pioneered the motive systems, atmospheric plant, and fire control that the Bast main battle tank would inherit outright a decade later — letting crews rotate between the family's platoons with minimal retraining, and letting the program office observe, of the Bast, that arriving second has its advantages.