Zeus

The Zeus is an assault Inner Sphere BattleMech. It was designed to be an assault 'Mech that was fast enough to keep up with heavy 'Mechs, and to be easy to maintain.

An attack that broke through the Lyran lines forced them to request the factory send the two Zeus prototypes, since they were all the factory had built at the time. They provided the edge needed to hold off the attack, but the battle revealed a serious flaw with the PPC shielding. With Zeus production needed as quickly as possible, there wasn't time to solve the problem, and an autocannon was used instead, resulting in the ZEU-6S. The problem was eventually corrected with the ZEU-6T.

In lore, the Zeus is a favorite of House Steiner and the Lyran Commonwealth.