Festerruman Sachiel
The Warmaster
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create IFV for the Chaos Pact
- Image Source: SerpentTheGreen
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: The Chaos Pact
- Affiliation: The Chaos Pact
- Market Status: Open-Market (Only for sale or capture)
- Model: Loculus Infantry Fight Vehicle
- Modularity: Many of the weapons can be swapped out for multiple variants
- Production: Mass-produced
- Material:
- Quadanium steel
- Seigurium
- Classification: Armored Carrier
- Role: Infantry Fight Vehicle
- Size: Average
- Weight: Heavy
- 30 Tons
- Armaments: High
- Infantry Fighting Configuration
- (1) 47mm Slug-thrower Autocannon
- (1) Hull-mounted Maad-38 heavy laser cannon
- (2) E-Web(15) Heavy Repeating Blaster
- (6) Firing Slots for blaster rifle
- Flamethrower Configuration
- (1) 47mm Slug-thrower Autocannon
- (1) Hull-mounted Naplam Flamethrower
- (2) E-Web(15) Heavy Repeating Blaster
- (6) BT X-42 heavy flame projector
- Anti-Air Configuration
- (1) AG-2G quad laser cannon
- (4) Anti-Air concussion missile launcher
- (1) E-Web(15) Heavy Repeating Blaster
- Rocket Artillery Variant
- Heavy Artillery Variant
- (1) 240mm L/35 Howitzer
- (1) E-Web(15) Heavy Repeating Blaster
- Infantry Fighting Configuration
- Defenses: High
- Quadanium steel and Seigurium encased within a durasteel framework and bonded to a backing plate
- Quick-cycling shield generator
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Average
- Propulsion: Tracks
- Minimum Crew: 2 (Driver and Commander/Gunner)
- Optimal Crew: 11 (1 Driver, 1 Commander, and 9 Gunners)
- Passenger Capacity: 15 (Only Infantry Fighting Configuration)
- Cargo Capacity: Small
- Communication and Sensor Array: Due to the larger size available, Chaos Pact designers have been able to cram in a complex and advanced communication and sensor matrix. For communication, they are equipped with the CO-0012 com-scan, use a Macrolaser tracker and Tracking scope for locking onto targets with their autocannon.
- 67e fusion core as a powerplant and main engine
- Versatile: The Loculus Infantry Fighting Vehicle is considered to be a highly versatile platform with its 67e Fusion Core providing the power needed for almost every system that can be bolted on.
- Armor: The Loculus is quite effective at fending off most small arms and all but the heaviest portable anti-tank weapons even from its side and rear thanks to its composite multi-layered armor effective against both blaster and projectile weapons.
- Maintenance and repair: the Loculus is shockingly easy to maintain despite its brutish appearance. Any part can easily be cannibalized from other Loculus or replaced by most galactic-standard components. Due to its stripped-down and simple form the Loculus very rarely breaks down. When a Loculus is knocked out, bringing it back into combat is as easy as hosing off the remains of the crew, wielding up the holes with a durasteel plate, and maybe replacing the reactor. Many a Loculus on the battlefield have been resurrected dozens of times, bearing the same names and a greater hunger for vengeance.
- Cheap: The Loculus is extremely easy for the great forges on Herodor to manufacture, its hull being cast in a single go and parts stripped down to the bare minimum.
- Runs on anything: To make up for being a fuel-guzzling bastard, the vehicle's Fusion Core is designed to run off practically anything flammable. The crew has been observed placing literal woodchips into the fuel tanks when on long-distance missions and yet being able to run the tank just as well as if they had used high-quality fuel.
- Rolling Crematory: nicknamed such by the troops, the interior is so cramped together that a single blast bolt or solid-shot round can mangle dozens in a single instance. This means that in an emergency such as an ammunition cookoff, it takes far too long for most to escape and turn the entire vehicle into a cremation vault for all within.
- Awareness: It lacks the Sensall Active Sensor Array that its big brother is equipped with meaning that the Loculus has historically suffered from a lack of battlefield awareness on its flanks and rear. A large part of the firing ports being installed was to enable its infantry complement to help spot targets and engage them.
- Noise: To save space and to cut down manufacturing cost/time, the engine of the Loculus is exposed in the main compartment. Most crews of the Loculus go deaf from the noise and suffer bone fractures from the constant vibration after long periods of operating time, though most never experience these adverse health effects since most die in combat before this becomes an issue.
A derivative of the Mors Ferro Heavy Battle Tank, sharing the same hull though with a modified engine compliment, the Loculus Armored Personnel Carrier was born from a brutal but simple calculation. In the brutal battles that the Chaos Pact often found themselves in the lifetime of combat vehicles on the frontline was to be measured no longer than four weeks. To make a vehicle capable of lasting that long would limit the numbers that the Pact could field at a time when it was in desperate need of as many armored vehicles it needed as the Warmaster opened more and more fronts across the Galaxy. Therefore it was pointless to create a vehicle whose parts had a lifespan greater than those four weeks.
This greatly simplified and streamlined manufacturing costs, allowing the great war forges of Herodor to manufacture tens of thousands of Loculus APCs a day and give the troops on the ground the urgent infantry transport that they needed to subjugate entire worlds in the Warmaster's name. It has a surprising amount of supporters among its crews. Despite their low life expectancy, they praise it for its easy handling, simple maintenance, quick repair, and stunning firepower.
While many deride it as a steel coffin and rolling crematory, their opinion quickly changes as thousands of Loculus descend upon them unheeding of horrific losses to crush them under their threads.
