ATV Articulated Hauler (Robot)
This vehicle resembles the Scammell and xxxxx ATV haulers. The cab
section resembles a normal 20thC articulated truck cab, except that it
is a half-track vehicle. The articulated Trailer, which is some 10m in
overall length, has a tracked drive rather than the conventional
unpowered 3 wheeled axles found on 20thC bogies.
Both the cab section and trailer section are heavily armed and
armoured. The cab section has twin turrets mounting twin pulse lasers
and a single railgun. In addition it has twin 6 tube mini missile
launchers and a twin tube SRM launcher. The trailer section has 4 roof
turrets with twin pulse lasers and a single railgun, 8 side turrets
mounting single ion cannons, 4 twin tube mini missile launchers, and a
second twin tube SRM Launcher.
The cab section can carry 4 passengers comfortably internally, whilst
the trailer can carry 2 borgs and 4 infantry. In the convoys two
haulers carry 2 Lopit merchants and two Lopit Technicians, whilst the
other carries 4 Lopit Merchants.
Dimensions Length Width Height Cab Overall 4.7m 3.3m 4.7m Cab Cargo
Area x2 0.5m 0.8m 2.2m Trailer Overall 10m 3m 3m Trailer Cargo Area
(main) 6m 2.4m 2.6m Trailer Cargo Area (subsiduary)x2 5m 1m 0.5m
Weights
Cab 9,298kg
Trailer (unladen) 12,464kg
Trailer (max laden) 70,000kg
ATV Scout (Robot)
The ATV Scout looks very similar to the old Coalition MKIV Troop
Transport. It's a 3 axle (1+2) vehicle, 10 wheeled vehicle, with
limited hover (approx 0.5m) capabilities. The Scout carries two Lopit
Infantry Troopers and has a 1.2mx2mx2m cargo bay.
Sky Raider
To all intents and purposes this minion looks like a Northgun Sky King.
However apart from it being a robot it is 25% faster and better armed
and armoured. It is always 'ridden' by a Lopit Infantry trooper to
maintain the pretense that it's a piloted vehicle. In extreme
circumstances the trooper can actually use a hand held weapon to
augment the Sky Raider's weaponry. Lopit
The Lopit are a range of Human robots created by Archie purely to
maintain the pretense that Titan Industries has its manufacturing
facility in the Mid-West. These robots (except when configured as a
Borg) are either 5'6", 5'8", or 5'10" tall and may be male (70%) or
female (30%). All Lopit appear to have Cyber-Armour, Amplified Hearing,
and a single strange monocular. They otherwise appear to be human.
Lopit Merchants appear to have no additional augmentation, whilst
Technicians have a forearm variable frequency/range laser. Infantry
usually have a forearm mini-missile on the left arm and forearm vibro
blade on the right arm (15% have this combination reversed). Borgs
usually have a forearm plasma blaster on the right arm, forearm
mini-missile on the left arm, and vibro claws in both hands.
All Lopit are armed at all times. Standard sidearms are C11 Laser
Pistols (45%), Wilks Laser Pistols (30%), NG-Super Laser Pistols (20%),
or xxxxxx. Merchants carry a Wilks xxxxx(70%) or xxxx. Technicians
carry a Wilks xxxxxxx (55%), (40%), or . Infantry carry a C12 Assault
Rifle(55%), C14 Fire Breather(30%), (10%), or C27 Plasma Rifle(5%).
Borgs carry either a C12 and C40R Borg Railgun (70%) or a C27 and
TX-500 Railgun. If there has been a problem with ambushes in a given
location then 2 of the Borgs will have Shermian railguns instead!
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