Fear is the Mind Killer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a Medium Defensive Tank for House Aquila.
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- Market Status: Open
- Model: House Aquila Pandion Medium Battle Tank Mk.XII
- Modularity: Yes
- Weapons Systems: Can be retrofitted and replaced.
- Hardware: Can be replaced or Upgraded.
- Software: Can be implanted with a droid brain or upgraded.
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Earlybird System
- Holographic Display:
- Insulated Circuitry
- Isotope 5A Reactor
- Leather
- Lights
- Life Support Systems
- Magnetic Rails
- Magnetic Projection System
- Oxygen Supply
- Radar Systems
- Rangefinder
- Repulsorlift Generator
- Scanner
- Sealant
- Secondary Shield Generator
- Shield Generator
- Targeting Computer (Advanced)
- Transmitter
- Transperisteel
- Ultrachrome B
- Weapon Systems
- Classification: Hybrid Hover/ Track Battle Tank
- Role: Defensive Tank
- Size: Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Armaments: Very High
- Defenses: Extreme
- Magnetic Pressure Defense System
- Ultrachrome B Armour plating
- CROSS Shield System
- Backup Shield Projector System
- Earlybird System
- Insulated Circuits
- Floodlights
- Rear Mounted Small Defensive Launchers (Chaff / Flare / Smoke)
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Low
- Propulsion: Repulsorlift / Tracks.
- Minimum Crew: 1
- Optimal Crew: 5
- Passenger Capacity: 12
- Cargo Capacity: Low
- Advanced Cooling Systems: Deep UV cooling systems prevent engine and weapons overheat.
- Advanced Targeting: High Quality Rangefinders, Scanners and Targeting computers afford accurate weapons.
- Automated Control: Advanced 270 degree central holographic HUD allows ease of control of whole machine by user or AI.
- Automated Loading: Automated loading from armoured ammo caches allows for fast rate of fires.
- All Terrain Tracks: Tracks which are made to handle most natural environments.
- Ballistic Dampeners: Projected Magnetic Field Generators allow defense against physical projectiles.
- Earlybird Activation: Linked to CROSS shield system, protects against ambush.
- Hermetic Seal: The tank is a sealed unit, capable of keeping out foreign substances.
- Hydraulic Anchor: Anchor arms to brace main cannons or keep stable on many surfaces.
- Insulated Circuits: Circuits are protected against power surges.
- Life Support Systems: Life support systems to cycle materials allowing long term occupation.
- Magnetic Rails: High tech magnetic rails on moving parts to allow speedy swivels and movements.
- Munitions Storage: Large Munitions stores allow for long combats.
- Next Gen Engine: An Isotope 5 composite reactor core engine affords extreme power.
- Redundant Shielding: contains both a CROSS shield and standard deflector shield.
- Repulsorlift Hover: Has the ability to hover via repulsorlift generators.
- Sloped Armour Plating: Sloped armour to allow for higher deflection rates.
- Universal Ports: Weapons, armour and Hardware are completely modular and upgradeable.
STRENGTHS
- Focused Fire: The Pandion while focusing on defense, is in essence a blockade tank whose firepower leaves little to be desired. With a powerful main gun capable of sporting powerful weapons such as the powerful House Aquila 'Buzzard' Plasma Railgun. This combined with 4 additional support guns peppered across the chassis and turret of the tank connected with auto loading systems and an advanced cooling system to allow continuous streams of fire.
- Ironclad: The Mk.XII was built to be the penultimate blockade Tank. the Pandion was built in order to be able to hold defensive lines alongside support vessels in such an array that it would be able to shield them from harm. Be it in its ability to project a mono-directional deflector-shield, its reactive armour CROSS system or simply being in the shadow of its thick slanted armour plating thick enough to withstand blasts from even crafts larger than its own class and maintain functionality. Little short of a turbolaser would see the immediate destruction of a Pandion outright.
- Magnetic Dampening Array: The Pandion is capable of projecting a field from itself similar to the field projected by the Starling Swarms, simulating a massive increase in gravity within its range through the use of magnetic fields in an up to 35m radius around themselves without negatively impacting itself. This field exists in order to aid the unit in out-dueling other tanks, droids or armoured units in close range combat. As well as pulling solid projectiles such as missiles or high impact rounds off target and into the ground while not effecting energy weapons by multiplying their effective weight relative to their own mass.
- Advanced Systems: Made to be at the razors edge of the universal arms race, the Pandion from its high power yield engine to its cooling system and Advanced HUD are manufactured from premium parts that have been procured through deals with other trusted manufacturers within the space of the CIS.
- Ion / Energy Resilient: Due to the Armour plating of the Pandion, it is highly resistant to energy weapons and ion blasts which dissipate across its armour plating.
- Universal Upgrade: Pushed to the point of being a strength, the Pandion is less of a tank and more of a universal weapons platform capable of being retrofitted with almost any set of weapons equipment, supplementary hardware and software of the platform's size-class.
WEAKNESSES
- Sluggish: Defensive Tanks need not move much, relying far more on the swivel speed of its turrets rather than the speed of its tracks or movement. Fast units would be able to strafe circles around the Pandion least it was at a stand-still, giving access to its rear or side armour.
- Field Dichotomy: The Pandion is only capable of deploying one of its wide angle fields, either its monodirectional barrier or its magnetic projectile dampening field, but seeing as one of them conflicts with the other, its impossible to upkeep both simultaneously.
- Simplistic Radar: The Pandion requires the use of other scouting craft in order to feed it information, additionally the dampening field severely reduces the range of its radar due to EM interference, causing it to become snow blind. Requiring direct line of sight or basic sonar in order to scan over longer ranges while the dampening field is up.
- Shield Pop: Ion weapons will drop the Pandions projected shields quickly while rapid fire weapons are supremely effective against the CROSS system.
- Energy Weapons: Energy Based weapons are able to almost totally ignore the dampening effect of the field projected by the Mk.XII, otherwise metallic ammunition requires to have specifically anti magnetic properties.
DESCRIPTION
The Pandion was built first and foremost to be a juggernaut on any battlefield that it is placed on, a heavily defensive medium tank capable of being outfitted with a veritable arsenal of alternate weaponry for any given situation. The sheer compatibility of the Mk.XII's systems make the Pandion Battle Tank more akin to a multipurpose weapons platform than a tank in its truest sense. Nonetheless, the variable load-out down to the ability to replace the materials of the armour plating makes the new Medium Tank from House Aquila a timeless model capable of performing throughout the ages.
The new House Aquila Mk.XII sports impressive offensive firepower, capable of handling the companies' own impressive Buzzard plasma railgun affording it an almost unparalleled long range frontal arsenal. Capable of pairing with up to three other Heavy Blaster pivot guns across its surface and a twin linked top gun with an ultrachrome ballistic shield for cover. The combined weapons and their versatility with the auto-loading features leading to deep ammunition reserves internally shielded within the Tank afford the units to hold lines over long term engagements.
Finally, the defensive capabilities of the Pandion are unparalleled within tanks of its own class, its own thick sloped armour plating allows blasts to deflect off its surface short of a direct hit, while direct hits are mitigated heavily by the superior synthetic steel. Although the tempered carapace of the tank protects those within it, they pale in comparison to the Advanced ten layered CROSS barrier which surrounds the ship at all times, backed up by a hybrid deflector shield which is able to be projected outwards in a 35 meter radius, providing cover for allies to flock beneath and fire from safety through the monodirectional barrier. However, should heavy ordinance seek to threaten the Pandolin its capable of dropping such meager measures, deploying its trump card.
The Magnetic dampening system, acting like enhanced gravity many folds over dragging metallic projectiles and missiles into the earth at the Pandolins' feet.
The Pandion was built first and foremost to be a juggernaut on any battlefield that it is placed on, a heavily defensive medium tank capable of being outfitted with a veritable arsenal of alternate weaponry for any given situation. The sheer compatibility of the Mk.XII's systems make the Pandion Battle Tank more akin to a multipurpose weapons platform than a tank in its truest sense. Nonetheless, the variable load-out down to the ability to replace the materials of the armour plating makes the new Medium Tank from House Aquila a timeless model capable of performing throughout the ages.
The new House Aquila Mk.XII sports impressive offensive firepower, capable of handling the companies' own impressive Buzzard plasma railgun affording it an almost unparalleled long range frontal arsenal. Capable of pairing with up to three other Heavy Blaster pivot guns across its surface and a twin linked top gun with an ultrachrome ballistic shield for cover. The combined weapons and their versatility with the auto-loading features leading to deep ammunition reserves internally shielded within the Tank afford the units to hold lines over long term engagements.
Finally, the defensive capabilities of the Pandion are unparalleled within tanks of its own class, its own thick sloped armour plating allows blasts to deflect off its surface short of a direct hit, while direct hits are mitigated heavily by the superior synthetic steel. Although the tempered carapace of the tank protects those within it, they pale in comparison to the Advanced ten layered CROSS barrier which surrounds the ship at all times, backed up by a hybrid deflector shield which is able to be projected outwards in a 35 meter radius, providing cover for allies to flock beneath and fire from safety through the monodirectional barrier. However, should heavy ordinance seek to threaten the Pandolin its capable of dropping such meager measures, deploying its trump card.
The Magnetic dampening system, acting like enhanced gravity many folds over dragging metallic projectiles and missiles into the earth at the Pandolins' feet.
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