Harry Potter and the literally Hittlers

[Kami Meran]

The station was abuzz with action. [member="Tysk Willamina"] was called in. as was [member="Sanya Val Swift"] and @Yula Kenezevic this was going to be a giant project Deran Meran was currently teaching several young clam members to build shells.
the ideas here were to make this thing near unstopable.
the thing would be Length: 92.5 meters Width: 23 meters Height: 21 meters and with a Mass of: 3000 tons it would be soo
fun to take the giant out on a milk run.

 

[Tysk Willamina]

[member="Kami Meran"]

Tysk had received the call and she was moving to come and look, remaining there in her more regal looking armor that gave the royal blue and fur lining a display with the cape. her sonic shotgun and assault rifle were on her back but she had the twin blades. her beskad and her blade of sorrow. The most impressive piece of tech she had seen in a long time. The call for help to the mandalroian clan mother was something she hadn't expected but not for lack of trying. With all fo the dangers that had been going into the restoration efforts and planning. She was looking at more of what they could do on Mandalore to try and help the planet after what happened and left the blame game and going after people to the other hotheaded mandalorians who would fight anyone. "Bring us in to look after her so that we'll be able to help our sisters."

 

[Klesta]

She wondered what kind of fate awaited her if she was to take part in this project. Oh, sure, she thought of the prospect of outfitting a mobile fortress with the aid of [member="Kami Meran"], [member="Tysk Willamina"] and [member="Sanya Val Swift"], also to be used as a mobile headquarters, to be highly attractive. The AT-AA couldn't cut it as a mobile HQ, and she decided to go with a squadron of minesweeping main battle tanks rather than to keep the 10 AT-STs she had left after the Alexandria campaign. She found that the AT-STs were too slow, vulnerable to minefields (even though minefields were not usually used by the Sith Order, preferring direct confrontation, the Rebellion may have to fight criminal elements that have minefields) But it was in the early stages of construction. Ringovinda Systems had two products that could be used for this: the Kaeshana 20mm hypervelocity cannons and the Kami 88mm hypervelocity cannons. After what transpired on Ziost, she would still feel as if her Sith training was more about being a grunt worker for defense projects than anything that would actually help her further her understanding of the Force. Once at the station, she can't help but imagine that the item, her potential future mobile headquarters, would look like a centipede with dozens of weapons on it.

 

[Kami Meran]

Kami commed the approaching ships guiding then threw the Junk yard that was the sector of meran space.
" come in i'll put the kettel on." she joked looking at the bass of the superwalker. currently the thing was the size of a small dreadnaught.
the plans called for it to be terrifying it was a weapon of intimidation as well as a weapon of war.
" Cmon in i have a few plans to slow you."

 

[Tysk Willamina]

[member="Kami Meran"]

Tysk moved in whille she was looking at many of the things here, arrivig to just see the different ones from meran clan. She got a few looks maybe but wasn't going to harm them when she bowed her head looking to give her clan sister a place to start. "I will admit, I was surprised you contacted us little sister. There are not a lot that seem to want to cooperate within the clans now with everything happening." So she was gllad to see a few of he things that they might be ale to make. The designs of this massive walker could give them more of a chance to coordinte and expand the clans themselves reach wise. "Just say what you would like to see and we'll seek to help you."

 

[Candez Stoon]

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Invitation by Message. Hi!

Candez caught a ride after being invited by [member="Kami Meran"] to see something being made. Of course he jumped in excitement when one of his inspirations invited him to see something they were making. Was it a new weapon? Something powerful? He was eager to find out. He came to the station and waited in the landing bay, wondering where she could be. He had only been on the station once, and even then it was in the hangar only. And he also wondered why he was invited in the first place, but that thought was overcome with excitement.

 

[Klesta]

"That vehicle ought to give a band of Sith Lords a run for its money and, as such, should have multiple slugthrower emplacements, and I know from experience that the best calibers to kill Sith Lords with are in the 12-20mm range. Usually, if you expect to fight Sith Lords, you need to have enough power so high explosive or incendiary rounds will still cause serious damage and explode right in front of Sith Lords: armor-piercing is a plus. Larger calibers are better used for fighting other vehicles. You'd want vehicles like these to be able to engage both infantry and vehicles. I'd propose 12-14 20mm Kaeshana emplacements, as well as a few anti-aircraft missile launchers and a few dual turbolasers. Not too many pieces of equipment, or else it will become a nightmare to maintain. Logistics can pose a problem and I know it can. I might be pretty green as a ground commander but using it as a mobile headquarters means that it should be able to face a variety of threats, especially if one accepts that it will be a little slow"

[member="Tysk Willamina"], [member="Kami Meran"] and [member="Candez Stoon"] knew that such a massive vehicle wasn't without its drawbacks. She wants to fight the Sith Order, but the Sith Order isn't the kind of enemy to rely on combat vehicles much. She always loathed the Sith Order for relying too much on space magic and their lightsabers; while highly effective at close quarters, long range was their downfall.

 

[Kami Meran]

" Welcome to the station" kami said over the tannoy seeing the others flinch "Sorry volume"..." Sorry the volume is a bit loud .. there that should be it. " kami fumbled with the dials. " i'll be down with you in a few seconds. Till then look arround i have a Buffet set up. so we can spit ball." Kami said as she left the console.

 

[Tysk Willamina]

[member="Kami Meran"]

Tysk listened and as the voice was booming out she remained there on the ground floor. looking at everything they hd to work with and who she had to work with here... she didn't really know any of them and her hands remained across her chest when she turned to look at the food taking some of it. The small flicking of her eyes across the others gave her a lot to work with when the clan mother wanted to learn what the teenager wanted to make or bring about. She went over taking a little food and remaining quiet and stoic in her stance when she adjusted the cape of her armor with a few more things. She was uncertain about all of the people and wanted to know for more tactical reasons who they were.

 

[Klesta]

Seeing that she was a little disappointed that her talk of which weapons to mount to get Sith on their toes fall on deaf ears, she decided to go eat instead. Yula was highly passionate about what weapons could be used against other items, knowing that a mobile fortress must be able to defend against infantry, like Sith, vehicles, both airborne and ground-based. She just took what she perceived was the right amount of food for her, which wasn't quite as much as she used to. That was a little... bizarre to say the least: she stopped eating after a single cookie, which she doesn't feel guilty eating because they are usually associated to the dark side. But she saw [member="Kami Meran"] fumble with the dial and that hurt her ears somewhat, not unlike a stun grenade like those used on Maramere against her. That was something brutal, she knew as much, and requiring one to speak up. Yet she gazed upon [member="Tysk Willamina"], who ate her share of the food before she did.

 

[Kami Meran]

" Sweet you guts are here [member="Yula Knezevic"] we met digging crystals id like to introduce you to [member="Tysk Willamina"] a fellow Mandalorian and [member="Candez Stoon"] my new Gunsmith and employee who i want to involve in more new builds." she said stepping down on to the lowerdeck. she was dressed in little more than a pait of overalls and training shoes ans a breast wrap. " i give you the .. blarg we haven't named it yet, but it will be a beast. just need to work out weapons. i can get a load of cheap old reprublic cannons, but this is our big shot." she admitted approaching the group.

 

[Tysk Willamina]

[member="Kami Meran"]

Tysk was looking at her when she had a small look on her face before she prepared to hear from the others. Wanting to let all of them have more interest. "We'll see and what it is you want to make is always impressive little one. We'll just have to see what we can do with some fo the weapons for ourselves." She said it with a small grin now though waiting to see the rest of the idea and what she would be abel to put on it. "The more weapons though the less mobile it will be and we are going to want to make sure it can be moving around given some of the forces we have faced so far. Or some of the creatures that the sith have brought against us in different battle."

 

[Kami Meran]

[member="Tysk Willamina"] [member="Yula Knezevic"][member="Candez Stoon"]
" Mobility isn't its issue. this thing as literally... Have either of you guys played Dungeon delver? in it you have a player who's job it is to soak up damage and deal it we call them tanks. this is a big tank it has to take the damage. it's job is to draw aggro and deliver massive amounts of damage. " kami admitted sitting down.
" this thing is a blaster sponge. it just draws the fire and fires on the opponents, "

 

[Klesta]

"Dungeon Delver? Very similar conceptually to World of Build-a-Bear Knights, but I found Chronicles of Taladu to be a lot simpler to play. Also tanks must be able to engage a variety of opponents even though their mobility might not be ideal. You have to both absorb and deliver fire"

Yula examined the blueprints [member="Kami Meran"] showed [member="Tysk Willamina"] and [member="Candez Stoon"]. It was a little tricky to ask about the defenses of this machine, but that was just one thing that determined what use she could get out of this mobile headquarters as a ground commander. While everyone and their dogs accepted that the mobility of this vehicle won't be that great, and neither were their closest comparables, she planned for the possibility of Sith being an infantry nuisance, so she wanted a pretty hefty dose of suppressive, defensive fire under the form of Kaeshanas. Yes, the very same Kaeshanas mounted on her fighter. 10 Kaeshanas on each side of the centipede and the enemy will be facing a walking bunker. Not as dense as she would like but there was only so much the regulatory authorities were willing to grant them, Commonwealth or otherwise. The Sith Inquisitor often talks about how people used Force-powers for something other than weapons: if only I knew pyrokinesis, she thought.

"Quad (turbo)lasers, missile launchers, small-caliber point-defense cannons: to engage heavy ground vehicles, aircraft and infantry respectively. Better have not too many different types of equipment onboard, or else maintenance will cause a problem. My question is: what kind of fire can the armor on this centipede withstand? Does it come with shield generators?"

 

[Candez Stoon]

[member="Kami Meran"] voice blasted over the speakers, and he thought he had gone death. An exaggeration, of course. He waved when he saw her and the others, and then turned to see what he had been called for. And his mouth fell open in awe.

Candez looked upon the giant machine once he found it. It was big. And he was no expert on vehicles, but weapons were his thing. And it had plenty of those. He grinned at the amount of firepower it had. He gave a little two finger salute to [member="Yula Knezevic"] and [member="Tysk Willamina"] when he was introduced to them. Then his eyes went back to the giant vehicle. He looked back at them in confusion when they started talking about games, something he wasn't too into. Too much time shooting things and testing things.

"It's a lot of weapons. What about ammunition? Enough room for all that?" As for the energy based weapons, was there room for their ammunition sources? One lucky shot into one of the ammunition storage areas, and boom, it's gone. With so many weapons there would need to be plenty of ammunition. All it would take was a spark inside, a missile through the shielding and armor. "And you really know your weapons" he said to Yula. He was impressed.

 

[Tysk Willamina]

Tysk was looking at Kami as she gave a nod... they would be able to use it better and have some interesting scenarios in this case. if it was a heavily armored and armed tank for soaking up damage. "If it is large enough and protected enough the quintessence reactor that has been worked on using sleg could be used. We designed it for large ships and heavy walkers or ground vehicles that want a strong edge. As well as specialized plating that will continue to get stronger as it ages with beskar." She said it while bringing up the specs. "We'd have to increase the sie by fifty percent for the centipede but the reactor draws in and exponentially increases the energy output. Using crystals and the information we have gotten we are working at figuring out how to augment and increase the firepower of our cannon."

 

[Kami Meran]

Kami posted at [member="Tysk Willamina"] " that's what we need to use. the bigger the better, " she smiled looking over to [member="Candez Stoon"] " That answer your question? most of the weapons are Plasma and lasers but shells and missiles can be stowed easily " then she turned to [member="Yula Knezevic"]
" that's why i asked you all here to try and work out the kinks and work out the ideas. " she smiled

 

[Klesta]

"The same ages-old question: 12.7mm Korribans or 20mm Kaeshanas. Both of these use slugs. The 12.7mm Korriban is a better weapon to use against infantry than the 20mm Kaeshana, and the 20mm Kaeshana is better against vehicles, but in both cases it is best to use armor-piercing slugs: these come in high-explosive varieties nowadays. The main question is: how many of each of these to outfit?"

I might know more about weapons than your average 15-year-old, but I'm not sure I would make my future Sith apprentices, if any, endure the tedium of endlessly being made to be grunts in design projects for military hardware. However what I will make them endure, is piloting attack craft: I often find Sith to overestimate certain things and underestimate others, especially if they actually wish to maintain order in the galaxy, and rule over it, she thought. Perhaps everyone and their dogs have accepted that the centipede walker that the main battery will be energy-based: heavy quad lasers, dual turbolasers or even quad turbolasers, which will be used to hunt down heavy vehicles. But [member="Tysk Willamina"] talks about a mesh that can be aged to give the armor plating the strength of beskar, and promises to be lighter than said beskar, if sufficiently aged: she estimates that a few hundred tons can be saved, bringing the behemoth from 3000 tons to 2500 tons or so. Plus the average repeater blaster fires at an effective rate comparable to the Korribans or Kaeshanas: 3-4 shots per second when firing, about 50% cooldown time between shots, for about 90-120 shots per minute.

"One would expect heavy walkers to be prime targets for Jedi as well as Sith, when facing armies with Jedi or Sith in tow; the reason why I prefer slugthrowers for the anti-infantry weapons has to do with the ammunition vs. lightsabers. You probably know that, while repeater blasters can be deflected by lightsabers, slugs cannot"

[member="Kami Meran"] [member="Candez Stoon"]

 

[Tysk Willamina]

Tysk was listening at it as she spoke. "The jedi at least the ones in the silvers have developed more ways to handle the things they normally can't handle. The blades we made for them to handle mandalroian iron is more then a fine example as there is little short of quantum crystalline armor plating that would be able to repair faster then it can be cut. Additionally with the work on improving their personal shields and energy absorbing equipment they know how to combat larger vehicles and develop them to be heavily anti sith and darksiders." She was looking at Kami and bringing up a few more things. "There is some additional equipment we should be able to use."

 

[Kami Meran]

Kani beemed
" im lookinh in to using Alu steel for most of it. Hjirna stone in some parts of the thing. more the legs. stop any direct hits killing it instantly. " she smiled looking out at [member="Tysk Willamina"] [member="Yula Knezevic"] and [member="Candez Stoon"].
" Look i know in an annoyance who builds weird things on a whim. but it's been a pleasure working with you all i hope we can alll work together in the future. " dam she always felt melancholy at these things. like she never added anything.