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Intent: To create a troop transport for Suvian Sciences to sell, with high defence and no offence.
Development Thread: Will happily make if needed
Manufacturer: Blueprints and prototype by Makkik, Produced by Suvian Sciences
Model: M65 Troop Transport
Affiliation: Suvian Sciences' customers
Modularity: No
Production: Limit
Material: Durasteel, various materials
Description: The JSW Troop transport is made to be a fairly fast and durable method of getting squads of troops around enemy lines, or even barrel straight through them. It's six all-wheel drivetires are specially treaded for any terrain, allowing the vehicle to power through swamps, snow, grasslands, and hills. It is heavily armored, with durable tires, for getting squads of soldiers through tough situations, such as powering through blockades or bashing in to enemy outposts. It's not the fastest vehicle, so it is not reccomended for long-range transport, but it is highly effective for getting soldiers from one end of the battle-field to the other. Secondly, the vehicle contains an extremely limited particle shield generator, which can be activated for either ten five second periods, or a continous fourty-five seconds before the generator is drained of charge, and must be recharged- which takes about an hour. To make up for the vehicle's extreme defensive mechinisms, however, it has absaloutly no offensive measures. That's right. No guns. Turns out that after realizing how much energy was needed to power an engine storng enough to make the vehicle go at fairly high speeds, there wasn't enough energy output left for blasters. Go figure. The two closest things the vehicle has to a weapon is the heavily armored front, used for ramming through walls, fences, and bad guys, and a small nozzle which sprays boiling hot chocolate, stored ina tank above a heating generator, at high pressure. The vehicle's twenty gallon hot chocolate tank can be refilled through an external hatch. As the tank is coated with thick durasteel to withstand boiling temperatures, it's theoreticaly possible to refill the tank with just about any other liquid, but the engineer, Makkik, adivises against this. "If you did that, you wouldn't have any chocolate on board!" Also, the vehicle has no armor under it, meaning if it ran over a mine, had explosives strapped to it's underside, or, say, ran off a cliff.... it's doomed. Also, it's only enterance and exit is only large enough for a single human to pass through at a time, meaning it takes a few precious seconds longer to unload from it then from many troop transports. On a battlefield, this could be deadly to the vehicle's passengers.
Role: Troop transport
Height: 4.5 meters at highest point
Length: 7.3 meters
Width: 4.2 meters
Weight: 6 tonnes
Minimum Crew: 1
Optimal Crew: 2
Propulsion: Six wheels
Top Speed: 48 km per hour (30 mph)
Armaments: Ray shield generator, hot cocoa nozzle.
Passenger Capacity: 12 optimally, 20 max. Two more people if fridge removed.
Cargo Capacity: No cargo hold
Misc. Equipment: Communications reciever, fully stocked fully operable refridgerator (Makkik insisted), floodlights, shield generator, hot cocoa canon, cockpit.
