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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a top tier dedicated assault/siege tank
Canon Link: N/A
Restricted Missions: N/A
Primary Source: N/A
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Tenloss
Model: AAV-M1
Affiliation: Affiliation: Tenloss, Restricted sales
Modularity: Yes, the tank is compatible with most available vehicle upgrades and all Tenloss vehicle upgrades
Production: Limited
Material: Trimantium, Titanium, Thermal Gel, Reinforced Duraplast, armorweave, matrix armor, carbyne filament inlay, agrinium, and other vehicle components.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification:: Tank
Role: Assault/Siege Tank
Size:
Height: 3m
Length: 11m
Width: 4.5m
Weight: 90 tonnes
Minimum Crew: 3
Optimal Crew: 5
Propulsion: Tracked
Speed: 20kph
Maneuverability: Very low
Armaments:
120mm Howitzer
48 Rounds of Ammunition - mix can ONLY include the following: Standard HE, Standard HEAT, BDK-M1, BDK-M2
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1-3 Tenloss RAB Weapons (One weapon on commander cupola is standard. Two additional weapons on two additional hatches are optional)
Defenses: Very high
Squadron Count: 1
Passenger Capacity: None, though up to a squad may ride atop the tank at personal risk.
Cargo Capacity: None outside of room for personal gear and extra equipment for the vehicle
SPECIAL FEATURES
Standard Targeter
IFF Indicator
Standard Tracking Suite
Standard On-Board Computer System
Advanced Damage Control Systems
Armored and Water Jacketed Ammunition Storage
Heavy Shield Generator
HFB-HVV Fusion Reactor
TTAA-C
Matrix Armor
BLR-C/S-M1
Improved suspension
Strengths:
Annihilation in its Wake - The AAV-M1 has very quickly shown its worth in trials and tests, even earning itself a name from the test crews piloting the vehicle. Dubbed ‘Taneesa’, or ‘Slaughter’ in Huttese, the AAV-M1 sports a 120mm projectile cannon and is the first vehicle produced by Tenloss capable of utilizing the BDK series ammunition recently released for production. With the power of fission at its fingertips, there are few things in the galaxy able to stand against the Taneesa.
Ironclad - Utilizing varied layers and angles of armor, the AAV-M1 is largely safe from most conventional forms of attack. Incoming shells are often deflected from the vehicle or stopped by the armor plating. In addition, the Taneesa is resistant to EMP and Ion weapons as well as sporting a heavy resistance towards radiation and thermal weaponry. Also, the vehicle is resistant against kinetic attacks and sports a limited resistance against lightsabers. Lastly, the AAV-M1 possesses a heavy shield generator, giving it a further layer of protection.
Protected Ammunition - As the tank can carry the BDK series ammunition, thought and care was given over to the ammunition rack within the vehicle. To help prevent ammunition detonation within the vehicle, the ammo rack is both armored and jacketed in water.
Ponderous - Heavy, slow, and clumsy the AAV-M1 is not known for its ability to cross fields and flank enemy formations. The tank possesses a top speed of 20kph and as such is easily outflanked and outmaneuvered.
Precious Cargo - While the Taneesa does possess equipment designed to lower the risk of an ammunition explosion, there is no real way to fully prevent the entire risk. Therefore, should a penetrating round hit the ammunition stores, the sympathetic detonation will destroy the Taneesa entirely and, should the vehicle be carrying MDK series ammunition, possibly a large area around it as well.
Hamstring - A tracked vehicle, the Taneesa possesses a major flaw in the inherent design. Damage to the tank’s treads can immobilize the vehicle entirely. The Taneesa does try to work around this flaw and the issue of ground pressure with dual tracks on either side of the vehicle, though in the end it is only one minor layer of redundancy. Destroying or ‘tracking’ the Taneesa will prevent the tank from moving forward or back entirely, rendering it more or less immobile, only able to pivot somewhat in place.
Conceived as the first true ‘Assault’ Tank manufactured and produced for the market, the Armored Assault Vehicle Model 1 is largely the first of its kind both for the galaxy and for Tenloss itself. As such, the AAV-M1 is ultimately the culmination of years of dedicated research and development into the field of armored warfare easily making the vehicle one of the latest and greatest tank designs since the release of the Skocha over a decade ago.
As the vehicle’s designation code details, the AAV-M1 is a dedicated assault or siege vehicle intended for use in battlefield situations where heavy defenses, large fortifications, and trenchworks are present. For this reason, the vehicle was designed with two things in mind: firepower and survivability.
The vehicle’s firepower is possibly the primary point of focus for the vehicle. In fact, the AAV-M1’s unique ability to carry, load, and fire the newest projectile ammunition produced by Tenloss, the BDK series, has given rise to the tank’s nickname. Dubbed the ‘Taneesa’ by test crews, the word means ‘to annihilate’ or ‘one who annihilates’ in Huttese, though it is largely taken to mean ‘Annihilator’ when translated into Basic. Firing the newest BDK ammunition, the Taneesa assuredly lives up to its name and easily earns its place at the top of the food chain for assault vehicles.
While a simple slugthrower cannon by most interpretation, the Taneesa’s main cannon fires chemically accelerated kinetic projectiles. While the vehicle can fire standard high explosive and high explosive anti-tank munitions, the tank truly shines when utilizing the BDK fission shells. The first Tenloss vehicle designed to fire the nuclear munitions, the Taneesa is able to outright level the battlefield in a tactical sense. Utilizing BDK shells, the vehicle easily obliterates bunkers, shatters defensive lines, and lays waste to entrenched positions with each report of its 120mm cannon.
For self defense, the Taneesa sports a more modest arsenal in comparison to the powerhouse main armament. Orders stock, the Taneesa sports a single Repeating Accelerated Beam weapon, or RAB, mounted above the commander’s hatch on the cupola for anti-personnel and anti-air capabilities, though two more RAB weapons can be ordered and attached to the loader and driver’s hatch if desired. Each RAB can be controlled and fired manually using the standard grips and firing mechanisms featured by each weapon. However, each weapon can be remotely fired from within the tank itself using the appropriate controls, meaning that the crew can accurately and safely operate self defense weaponry from within the confines and armor plating of the Taneesa.
Defensively, the Taneesa shines through, though perhaps not as obviously as the raw firepower it carries. First and foremost, the tank sports a heavy shield generator emitting a powerful ray shield over the tank itself. Using scaled-down starship technology, the ray shield projects just a few molecules inwards from the external hull. This reduces the workload on the shield generator itself as it routes through micro-emitters set inside the armor plating itself. In addition, it prevents the use of shield disruptors and ensures that troops equipped with such devices cannot bypass the shielding outright to apply shaped charges and other novelty explosives against the Taneesa’s hull indiscriminately.
Moving inwards, the external layer of armor is a layer of Tenloss Tank Armor Applique, a form of ceramic armor featuring an integrated Faraday Cage. This applique gives the Taneesa formidable resistance against EMP and ion weaponry as well as repelling magnetic grenades, bombs, and charges from properly adhering to the vehicle’s hull. Below this is a layer of reinforced trimantium forming the ‘true’ external armor of the vehicle. This reinforced trimantium is actually a series of layers where sheets of carbyne mesh are sandwiched between layers of trimantium armor plating. This is done on a molecular scale and forms a solid armor plate that has unique flexion capabilities. This means that incoming kinetic strikes generally bounce off as a result of the armor slope and the slight ‘give’ in the reinforced trimantium plating or are ‘caught’ as the slight ‘give’ arrests the projectiles as they attempt to penetrate the material.
Below the reinforced trimantium are the next two protective layers: Matrix armor and titanium reinforcement. Designed to stop whatever the trimantium cannot, thick panels of matrix armor are set into place to add to the Taneesa’s survivability. Rugged, durable, and tough to crack, these armor plates are further reinforced by titanium ‘rebar’ set into the matrix armor panels. This addition of titanium allows the matrix armor to yield just enough to prevent shattering or cracking while also providing support to the panel as a whole, preventing warping while under intense heat and pressure.
Forming one of the inner layers of the Taneesa’s hull is a section of reinforced duraplast. This material has a twofold purpose: to slow or stop lightsabers and to help absorb kinetic and thermal energy. While not entirely lightsaber resistant, properly reinforced duraplast shows exceptional resistance to damage and can even slow damage from lightsaber attacks, something which most, if not all, tanks in the field are vulnerable against. Backing the duraplast layer is a thin layer of agrinium. This layer is carefully installed to ensure no gaps or breaks in the material remain after assembly. Agrinium is highly resistant to all forms of radiation and is the primary form of radiation protection on board the vehicle.
Adhered to the back of the agrinium plating is a layer of standard armorweave. This coating, of sorts, is designed to reduce, if not outright entirely prevent, spalling within the vehicle due to kinetic impact against the Taneesa’s hull. It should also be noted that in between the innermost layers of armor plating (such as between the matrix armor and duraplast) a layer of thermal gel is installed. This layer is to help protect the crew and internal mechanisms from kinetic impact as well as to aid in reducing thermal damage to the tank and crew.
The Taneesa, being a large and heavily armored vehicle, requires a substantial form of energy output. As such, the vehicle is equipped with a HFB-HVV fusion engine manufactured by Tenloss itself. This heavy duty vehicle engine powers the vehicle in its entirety and propels the ninety tonne monster across the battlefield.
The AAV-M1 possesses most of the standard equipment found on armored fighting vehicles across the galaxy such as targeting equipment and IFF transponders, among other such gear. What makes the AAV-M1 stand out, however, is the more advanced and specialized equipment mounted and installed on the Taneesa. The first component is protected storage for the ammunition carried on board the vehicle. All ammunition is stored inside a sealed compartment armored with both matrix armor and agrinium. The armor is double layered half to increase protection and half to allow a sealed compartment for a basic water-jacketing system around the ammunition container. This helps prevent penetrating impacts from piercing the ammunition rack and, in the event the armor is pierced through, has a potential chance for dowsing any possible fire or conflagration the moment it starts, reducing the chance for an ammunition explosion.
In addition, the Taneesa sports an improved suspension system and an advanced damage control system composed of on board computers and internal sprinkler systems as well as an automatic distress beacon in the event internal sensors detect the Taneesa’s crewmembers are completely disabled or if the crew has been killed entirely. Also mounted inside the vehicle is the Tenloss communications module, the BLR-C/S-M1. This comms module allows the vehicle to operate as a command tank when needed, but is primarily designed to ensure constant and consistent communications between the tank and the command echelon of the engagement to improve coordination between the tank and friendly forces in the field.
The Taneesa does have its flaws and drawbacks, however, much like any piece of equipment does. The most obvious flaw is that the vehicle’s main armament is a fixed-forward cannon. This requires the vehicle to outright face the target it wishes to engage making the vehicle both a fairly easy target and an easy vehicle to flank. While the amount of armor plating on the vehicle is substantial and impressive, easily reaching over 30cm in most areas of the hull, the lack of a turreted weapon means that the vehicle must maneuver itself appropriately or else it will be unable to engage the enemy properly with its main weapon. This, by extension, means that the vehicle is unable to engage targets or threats to the sides and rear of the vehicle. Because of this, the Taneesa is vulnerable when flanked as it cannot bring its formidable offensive weaponry to bear on the enemy.
Possessing tracks, the AAV-M1 falls under the major drawback of vehicles with tank treads: immobilization and maneuverability. The Taneesa’s top speed is a modest 20k/h making it the slowest armored vehicle manufactured by Tenloss and further compounding the vulnerability of the vehicle against faster, flanking assailants. In addition, damage or outright destruction of one or more of the vehicle’s tracks will easily immobilize the vehicle, preventing the Taneesa from doing much more than pivoting in place provided the other track is intact. The design of the Taneesa helps alleviate this to some extent as the vehicle has not two, but four treads with two per side. However, while this does help to some extent, it does not remove the inherent vulnerability of tracked vehicles.
Lastly, the Taneesa is the first and only current vehicle designed to carry and fire the Tenloss BDK ammunition series. This means that any Taneesa carrying BDK ammunition is carrying small, cannon-fired fission explosives. Penetrating hits that manage to pierce and detonate the ammunition will almost always destroy the tank, though if the AAV-M1 in question is carrying BDK ammunition, the explosion will be much, much greater than a standard ammunition detonation. In the event BDK ammunition detonates the tank will cease to exist for the most part as the vehicle is ripped apart in a nuclear explosion, often leaving a fairly massive crater in the process. Designers alleviated the issue as much as possible with on board damage control systems and an armored ammunition rack, but in the end the risk of a penetrating impact is impossible to entirely negate. As such, it is advised to give the Taneesa clearance as it engages the enemy, half to prevent backblast from BDK detonations as they are fired at nearby enemies and half to prevent increased losses of nearby troops and vehicles as the Taneesa vaporizes itself and anything close by should the ammunition rack detonate.
Despite these drawbacks, the Taneesa is decidedly one of the more dangerous and lethal vehicles produced by Tenloss for use on the field. Reserve your AAV-M1 today and see how easily it crushes enemy resistance, paving the way for a victorious charge into the breach it rips open.
