M E A T B A G
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a ‘next-gen’ Droid Tank.
- Image Source: OG-9 Homing Spider Droid | Wookieepedia Article.
- Canon Link: Not Applicable.
- Permissions: Not Applicable.
- Primary Source: Repurposed Canon Articles, Stun Tank, SPHA.
- Manufacturer: The Trade Federation - Select Subcontractors.
- Secondary Manufacturer: Republic Engineering Corporation [Undisclosed and Unknown ICly.]
- Affiliation: Select Clientele.
- Market Status: Closed-market.
- Model: TF04 Droid Tank; Swordfish Pattern.
- Modularity: Yes
- Variable Warheads.
- External Aesthetics.
- Production: Mass Production.
- Material:
- Armourplast Armour Plating.
- Durasteel Reinforced Alusteel Skeleton.
- Carbon-Durasteel Reinforcements.
- Various Droid Tank Material and Components.
- Classification: Droid Tank; Fortress Feller.
- Role: Mobile Artillery; Anti-Armour, Anti-Emplacement, Anti-Fortification, Anti-Personnel, Etc.
- Size: Average Rating.
- Length: 8 Metres.
- Height: 8 Metres.
- Width: 8.5 Metres.
- Weight: Very Heavy Rating.
- Armaments: Extreme Rating.
- Primary Weapon: [Dorsal Turret.]
- [1] Variable Emplacement:
- Secondary Weapon: [Ventral Turret.]
- [1] Variable Emplacement:
- [2] Repeating Ion Blaster Cannons [Chin-mounted, Fixed Forward.]
- Hybridized; Capable of Firing Both Ionized and Plasmatic Bolts.
- [4] Mini-Proton Torpedo Launcher Pods [Retractable Cowling.]
- Twenty Miniaturized Proton Torpedoes per Retractable Pod.
- Primary Weapon: [Dorsal Turret.]
- Defenses: High Rating.
- Heavily Reinforced Composite Armour Plating, with additional Carbon-Durasteel Reinforcements.
- Standard Energy-charged Ablative Plating.
- Standard Deflector Shielding (Ray, Particle, and Concussion Barriers; Overlaid.)
- Inclusive Ionic Shielding.
- Inclusive EWAR, Electronic Countermeasures, Chaff and Flare Launchers.
- Maneuverability Rating: 65 DPF - Average Rating.
- Speed Rating: 85 Km/H (Maximum Speed, Flat Terrain) - Average Rating.
- Propulsion: Quadrupedal All-Terrain Leg Armatures.
- Minimum Crew: No Organic Crew; Droid Tank.
- Optimal Crew: No Organic Crew; Droid Tank.
- Passenger Capacity:
- None.
- Cargo Capacity: Very Low Rating - Maintenance and Repair Tools and Equipment.
- Standard Servomotors, with Gyroscopic Stabilization System.
- Standard Fusion Drive System(s.)
- Standard Compact Fusion Power Plant.
- Standard Hazard and Damage Control Systems.
- Standard Navigational System(s), Ground-Penetrating Sensors (Hazardous Terrain).
- Standard Combat Sensors and Targeting System(s). [Including Ground-Penetrating Sensors.]
- Standard Communications System, Holonet Transceiver with Encryption/Decryption Networks [Military Encryption Keys.]
- Integrated Droid Brain(s) with Heuristic Processors.
- Missile Deactivation Transmitter (Short-Range.)
- Anti-Ordnance EM Probe (Long-Range.)
- Anti-Laser Aerosol Launchers.
- Aural-Biological-Chemical Scrambler.
- Armourplast Armour Plating - Extreme Resistance to Small Arms (Energy Weapons.)
- Self-aware and Self-propelled Droid Tank; Fortress Feller.
- Comprehensive Countermeasure, Sensor and Targeting Suite.
- Heavily Armoured, and Outfitted with a Variable and Extremely Lethal Array of Weapons.
- Heavy Automaton and Slaved Systems; Combat Performance is Significantly Hindered if Disabled by EMP attacks or excess Ionization.
- Limited EMP and Ion Resistance(s); Sustained Damage is Dependent on Attacking Device(s) Potency / Scale and Proximity.
- Fixed Forward Weaponry; Constant Reorientation to achieve New Target-locks.
- Exposed, External Weapon Mounts - Structural Exploitation; Possible Disarmament.
- Exposed, External and Armoured Photoreceptors - Structural Exploitation; Sensor and Visual Impairment.
Developed by the various minds within the Trade Federation, the TF04 Droid Tank; Swordfish Pattern was designed to be a heavy mobile weapons platform that held the capabilities to devastated armies, or force a Fortress’s walls to crumble. What made the Swordfish extremely dangerous was not that it was a wholly automated piece of mechanized armour, but the weaponry that the Droid Tank was outfitted with. With two modular turret assemblies mounted both above and below the central bulb-chassis, the Swordfish could be outfitted with an extremely deadly array of ordnance; ranging from sustained composite beams lasers to the gravitic terrors of heavy tensor weaponry. While their outfitting would likely vary from one engagement to the next, the destructive capabilities of the Swordfish were unquestionably the same. It was a mobile force of synthetic nature that was meant to topple any opposition that stood before it - should that hostile force be of corporeal nature. There was little that could be said of the threats who wielded the non-corporeal realm, known colloquially as the Force. From there, the Swordfish was outfitted with an array of unconventional weapons that were rarely seen across the battlefield that ranged from hybridized ion blasters and micro-proton torpedo launchers. Thus, with every factor combined, it mattered little what weapon the Swordfish was equipped with - death and destruction would follow in it’s stomping wake.
