OOC ACCOUNT
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a heavy patrol bike for the Brotherhood of Darkness
- Image Source: Credit to Creator
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Brotherhood of Darkness
- Affiliation: Brotherhood of Darkness
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Balthazar-Class Heavy Patrol Bike
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Classification: Patrol Bike
- Role: Personal Transport
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Armaments: Low
- Defenses: High
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: High
- Propulsion: Wheels
- Minimum Crew: One
- Optimal Crew: One
- Passenger Capacity: None
- Cargo Capacity: None
STRENGTHS
- Speed Boost: The Balthazar-Class has a turbo thruster that allows it to go fast on the battlefield
- Armored Frame: The Balthazar-Class has an armored frame that allows it to survive much more punishment
- Modification: The Balthazar Class can be modified with different upgrades due to its simple programming
- Simple Controls: Likewise the Balthazar Class has simple controls so anyone can learn to use it
- Low Armaments: The Balthazar-Class has low amount of armaments, to defend itself with
- Wheels Unarmored: The wheels are unarmored and thus present a vulnerability that the bike can spin out of control if the wheel is destroyed
- Small Cap: The Balthazar-Class has a small cap within its main thrusters, allowing a well placed sniper shot to destroy the entire thing
- Hackable: Due to its rather simple controls, the bike is hackable by any slicer with reasonable skill
The Balthazar-Class Heavy Patrol Bike is the first generation of patrols bikes for the Brotherhood of Darkness. Made in response to the overall whelming amount of firepower of the Brotherhood Military who lack subtly in patrolling the streets. The Dark Forgemaster himself built the bikes using his own two hands, tweaking them to make them understandable to all the species being recruited into the brotherhood's many divisions that make up the Brotherhood's Deadly Arsenal. Although the bike was not durable like a tank, the overall benefits outweighed the policy of firepower over military might in a recruitment capacity. The Balthazar-Class Heavy Patrol Bikes would begin to be deployed through the exchange program with the Mancheron Kajidic on Darvannis. Replacing their ancient hutt vehicles that while effective even during this age would prove costly to maintain. The Mancheron Kajidic would first use them to quell an slave uprising on the planet through combined arms using the heavy patrol bikes to draw the enemy into a cavern that was defended heavily by the Mancheron Thugs. The slave uprising would be dealt with in due time but no one could foreseen that the heavy patrol bike was actually useful in combat instead of simply being a fast mode of transportation. Although the bike had simple controls, it was hackable by any slicer with reasonable skill level meaning that the operator was still fully vulnerable. While the Dark Dwarrow tried to fix this problem by adding modification to the vehicle, he lacked the actual underground technical knowledge to prevent slicers from hacking into the patrol bike to take over its systems. Despite these flaws they have been produced for the Brotherhood of Darkness and put into storage for the time being until the regime was ready to rise from the shadows once again to follow the vision of Kyrel Ren.
