Chek Zun
Character
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a melee siege walker for the CIS
- Image Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/529384131182863395
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: The Commerce Guild
- Model: MA-05
- Affiliation: CIS
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Durasteel, Electromechanical actuators (12 in total. 2 for each leg and 4 for the head.), Droid components, Chemical Generator, Blaster Components, and Electro magnetic shielding parts
- Classification:: Heavy Walker
- Role: Melee Assault (Battering Ram)
- Size: Height: 5 Meters Length: 6 meters Width: 3 meters.
- Weight: 10,000 Kg
- Minimum Crew: 0 (Droid Programming)
- Optimal Crew: 0 (Droid Programming)
- Propulsion: Quadrupedal
- Speed: Fast
- Maneuverability: Average
- Armaments: High Front Plates. 2 light blasters
- Defenses: High Electromagnetic shielding, Durasteel plating.
- Squadron Count: 1
- Passenger Capacity: 0
- Cargo Capacity: None
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Strengths:
- Very Strong Front Armor. It's main strength as that is what it'll be using for most of it's bashing of things
- Good speed build up. Like any good device designed to slam itself into something else, it can pick up quite a bit of speed.
- It's Joints. Most walkers have a weakness in regards to their joints, this one is no exception. Being one of it's more exposed areas they can be targets to disable it.
- It's backside. Most of the highly thick and durable platings were used on the front end leaving the back more vulnerable. This is also a design choice to help release heat.
- Slower turning speeds.
- EMP conductivity. Due to it's emergency Electro Magnetic shieldin, the parts necessary for it are quite conductive to EMP and thus an emp blast can be used to quite a good effect on it.
- Hard to stop. Both a benefit but also a weakness, once charging at a target the walker can be quite hard to be put down, doesn't matter if it's into landmines, friendly forces, whatever once it's on it's charge the actuators take time to slow down less they cause a lockup in the limbs.
The MA-05 was designed to be a highly durable siege walker. Able to charge at high speeds to slam into anything that needs well battering. This armament comes from it's main cranial plate. This plate is very thick and is essentially the top of the walker's head. How it uses this is it's head is highly mobile and can be placed in a charging state so to allow for maximum damage. As well two additional weapons are on it, both being small blasters, on on the front on the front of the walker's face, and the other which is on it's back to allow for some type of coverage from behind. Both are fairly weak but are meant to give any type of protection in case of attacks from behind or battering program failures.
The Walker itself has no humanoid crew instead working on a droid AI much like the other spider droids, and walkers created by the Commerce Guild. The brains being tucked fare inside the walker's head. As for the power supply, it uses a tightly compact Chemical Generator. Now unlike the Spider walker's it isn't as easy to hit due to it being tucked inside the walker as well however to keep it so far in the back of the walker has less armor platings to allow for ventilation.
For mobility, the Walker uses electromechanical actuators at all joints to allow for free movement. However some of the joints have a bit more plating on them then the spider droids, thus making turning a bit slower for them. However when locked on a target, the Actuators can go into overdrive allowing the walker to run at a very fast pace, allowing for maximum smashing potential. Finally it also has an electromagnetic shield it can employ if in danger, however the shield itself drains the power supply very quickly and thus is set only to be used in case of an emergency.
For vision it uses a standard droid scanner, with additional interfaces for advanced and precise targeting for the most efficient head smashing of course. It does have some droid speech capabilities though this is mostly for ease in repairs and allowing other droids to have a frame of reference as to what is wrong with it, as it's main programming is that of war and smashing its face into everything
As well it should be noted since the walker's main job is to smash its face into things, constant maintenance of the frontal plates is required for maximum efficiency. Otherwise for the most part mechanically the walker is quite durable. It can be charged up through an external charging port on the underside of it's head.
