Bombshell Genius
A Fargodeep prior to the installation of slat armor
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a tunnel boring machine
- Image Source: Sandvik
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Tunnel boring machine
- Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards
- Affiliation: Open-Market
- Model: Fargodeep tunnel boring machine
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Durasteel
- Classification: Tunnel boring truck
- Role: Tunnel boring
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Armament: Average
- 2 industrial-grade beamdrills
- 4 Anoat repeater electromagnetic plasma cannons (in two 360x90 mounts)
- Defenses: High
- Maneuverability Rating: High
- Speed Rating: Average
- Propulsion: Wheeled
- Minimum Crew: 1
- Optimal Crew: 2
- Passenger Capacity: 0
- Cargo Capacity: Very Small
- Integrated rangefinder
- Long-range communications array
- Sensor array
- Environmental control equipment (temperature control, air purifier, containment field)
- Electronic warfare package (sensor-jamming ECM, ECCM)
- Inertial compensator
- Tensor field generator
- Refrigerator unit
- Shield generator
- Slat armor: While less effective at defending against projectile attacks, it can still disrupt tandem charges and is lighter, as well as safer, than conventional ERA
- Can drill tunnels under a wide variety of terrain
- Heavy anti-infantry firepower
- High maneuverability
- Wheels are vulnerable to even small arms fire
- Exposed beamdrills
- Underground rumbling can give away its position if used at low depths
- Cannot drill under sand
Equipped with two frontal beamdrills, the Fargodeep tunnel boring machine is borne from the need to excavate tunnels in a frontline environment, and, unlike other tunnel boring machines, is armed and can engage infantry as well as unarmored vehicles, useful when the tunnel being drilled by a Fargodeep is compromised by the enemy and can then fend them off until reinforcements arrive. Due to the hazards of operating ERA-equipped vehicles when drilling a tunnel, especially if the enemy destroys one of these vehicles, the Fargodeep is equipped with slat armor instead. Of course, one of the main weaknesses of the Fargodeep is that the wheels are vulnerable to even small arms fire, and another weakness is that the ground rumbling above a Fargodeep can give its position away if used at low depths.
