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Design of the Tooka FSV
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Create an extremely reliable, durable and rugged wheeled vehicle that is quick, agile and highly modular and capable of fulfilling a variety of battlefield needs for the First Order's Military. Essentially, it fulfils the role as the First Order's Humvee.
- Image Source: Source
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: Canon Wheeled Vehicles
Designer:
Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation (Intellectual Property Holder)
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Manufacturer: Closed-Market
- First Order Corps of Imperial Engineers (Licensed Production)
- Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation (Intellectual Property Holder)
[*]Model: Mk.I Tooka Force Scout Vehicle
[*]Cost: 7,500 Credits
[*]Value: 11,000 Credits (Black Market Value)
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Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Core Imperial Confederation
- First Order
- Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation (Intellectual Property Holder)
[*]Modularity: Yes (Weapon Emplacement can be readily changed for Anti-Armour and Anti-Air Weapons or removed completely and converted into a marked unarmed ambulance)
[*]Production: Minor (First Imperial Army, First Order Security Bureau, First Order Special Forces, First Order Stormtrooper Corps)
[*]Material: Durasteel, Titanium, Transparisteel, Reflec (Special Forces & FOSB Only)
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Wheeled Force Scout Vehicle, Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle
- Role: Ambulance, Anti-Armour Platform, Anti-Air Platform, Infantry Fighting Vehicle, Scout, Tractor.
- Length: 6.0 Meters
- Width: 3.0 Meters
- Height/Depth: 3.2 Meters, 2.4 Meters (Weapon Station Removed/Collapsed)
- Size: Average
- Weight: 4.5 Metric Tons (High)
- Minimum Crew: 1
- Optimal Crew: 2 (Driver, Gunner)
- Propulsion: All-Wheel Drive (4x Wheels)
- Engine: FOCIE 5.0L Turbocharged 12-Cylinder Multifuel 1,118kW (1,500 Hp) Combustion Engine.
- Power/weight: 333hp/tonne
- Transmission: Electrically Operated Semi-Automatic Transmission (Eight-forward, Four-Reverse Gear)
- Suspension: Independent Progressive Coil Spring w/ Upper Control Arm and Lower Wishbone.
- Operational Range: 600km (373 mi)
- Combat Radius: 300km (186.5 mi)
- Speed: 150 km/h (Fast)
- Maneuverability: Four-Wheel All Wheel Drive (High)
- Armaments: Pintle-Mounted FWMB-10 Repeating Blaster (Low), Pintle-Mounted Z-6 Rotary Blaster Cannon (Average), Pintle-Mounted Minimag PTL Missile Launcher (High), Pintle-Mounted Rocket-Propelled Grenade Launcher Model 851 (High)
- Defenses: Durasteel-Titanium Laminate Armour (Low)
- Squadron Count: 8 (Low)
- Passenger Capacity: 4 (1x Passenger Seat, 3x Cargo Tray)
- Cargo Capacity: 400 Kg (Average)
- Fording Depth: 1.3 Meters
- Atmospheric Temperature Gauge (Digital)
- Bucket Seats (Leather)
- Brake Lights (Rear)
- Dedicated Weapon Power Generator
- Mirrors (Pillar Mount + Rear View)
- Four-Point Seat Harnesses
- Holographic Dash Display
- Hydrogen Battery
- LED Headlights
- LED Indicator Lights
- Odometer
- Rear-View Mirror
- Roll Cage
- Safety Handles
- Speedometer
- Tachometer
- Transparisteel Windshield & Rear-Window.
- Deploy-ability: Thanks to their modest size in comparison with other Imperial-type Armoured Vehicles, Tookas can be deployed on a battlefield very quickly and two manned Tookas can be carried albeit barely by Atmospheric Assault Landers and deposited with frightening speed. This offers Stormtroopers and Special Forces Personnel quick and reliable access to heavy support weapon firepower in expeditionary or assault operations.
- Durasteel Tyres: Unlike archaic tubed or tubeless tyre designs that rely on the tyre's rubber membrane to maintain a seal for the gas contained within the Tooka's tyres are actually constructed from an intricate Durasteel-Titanium lattice; thin innumerable albeit tough strands of Durasteel-Titanium create the Tyre's shape before having the vulcanised rubber sheath pulled over it which has the heavy-duty high-grip tread on it. This makes the Tooka immune to the effects of tyre punctures, as there is no gas which gives the tyre inflation; although they can still be heavily damaged or destroyed by explosives such as grenades.
- Fast: With a whopping multi-fuel combustion engine sitting under its' hood the Tooka is capable of reaching a top governed speed of 150 km/h and accelerates from 0-100 km/h in approximately 5.5 seconds, the engine Governor can also be removed by Engineers in the field to give the vehicle's a greater top speed at the elevated risk of rolling the vehicle in sharp turns due to its' high center-of-gravity.
- Mechanically Reliable: These vehicles are as reliable and durable as it gets, they can be driven and operated for days and hundred upon hundreds of kilometres in the Galaxy's most unforgiving conditions and continue functioning with little issue, the same can often not be said for vehicles with advanced propulsion systems such as Repulsors.
- Maneuverable: Tooka Protected Mobility Vehicles can turn in extremely tight circles thanks to its' all-wheel drive system, it can also withstand advanced driving maneuvers such as fishtailing and hand-brake turning. Traction is also impressive the Tooka is capable of operating in any terrain, Snow, Ice, Mountains, Forests? You name it the Tooka can move in it. Although amorphous bogs tend to prove troublesome.
- Modularity: The vehicle can quickly have its' anti-personnel blaster cannon replaced in a workshop with Anti-Tank or Anti-Air weapons making it an ideal light vehicle to deploy alongside Special Forces Troops or a Stormtrooper Expeditionary force. The weapon emplacements can also be folded permitting the vehicle's combat-ready storage aboard the First Order's Atmospheric Assault Landers, from where it can simply be driven off making it an excellent support for Expeditionary Assault.
- Reflec Coating: Available on the Special Forces and FOSB variants is a special coating of Reflec which helps conceal the vehicle's cross-section from sensors and radar. Providing unconventional warfare Troops with the possibility to keep their tactical movements covert. At close-range however despite the Reflec the vehicle's thermal and IR signature is visible from the grille and at the vehicle's exhaust to the rear.
- Transparisteel Windshield: The vehicle's windshield is constructed of a high-grade transparisteel and has been forged so as to be highly resistant to blaster-based and projectile type weapons giving the crew protection over the frontal firing arc from typical Infantry small arms. Sufficiently powerful support weapons, explosives and concentrated small arms however can damage and destroy this Transparisteel Windshield; with the potential to send hazardous pieces of transparent metal towards the crew in the case of explosive striking the vehicle.
- Electro-Magnetic Pulse: The Tooka's onboard computer which handles display information and manages the electrically assisted transmission is vulnerable to high-powered EMP attacks; the effects of which on the Tooka cripple its' operational mobility with effects ranging from forcing the computer to reboot and thus temporarily disabling the Tooka or completely frying the ECU and necessitating workshop repairs.
- Exposed Crew: All three principal members of the crew are vulnerable to attack at any given time; the gunner is extremely vulnerable and is offered no protection or blast shield by their station and both the Driver and Passenger to his left can be fired upon from their flanks due to the lack of armoured doors.
- Exposed Passengers: Passengers riding on the edge of the Cargo-Tray via handle-grip are extremely vulnerable and could make traversing the weapon platform difficult. Optimally the Tooka should only be carrying one passenger in the passenger seat beside driver.
- Firing Arc: Any weapon mounted in the Tooka's Pintle-Mount can only be rotated a maximum ninety degrees left or right from the axis of advance, making it unable to pivot and engage targets behind the Tooka.
- Front Grill: As a combustion engine powers the vehicle it has a narrow Durasteel Grill at the front of vehicle to faciliate air-intake into the engine compartment. If a well-placed high-powered blaster shot were to slam into the Tooka's front grill it could disable the engine and force it to a stop leaving the crew and passengers highly vulnerable to attack.
- High Center of Gravity: The Tooka is very maneuverable, yes. Although this isn't without disastrous potential. Attempting to turn the Tooka at high speed is likely to be met with roll-over which can cause serious injuries to the crew, especially the Gunner who has no safety harness that could tether them to the vehicle.
- Hostile Armour!: While it's highly modular the standard and most common variant of Tooka is armed only with a Z-6 Rotary Blaster Cannon in a rotating weapon station and is of questionable effectiveness particularly against heavily armored vehicles. That said it does well against Infantry and is moderately useful to engage slow-moving low-altitude aircraft.
- Mines: Heavy enough to trigger Anti-Tank mines these defensive weapons can flip a Tooka over at best and utterly obliterate them at worst. The Tooka's largely flat hull doesn't help with the deflection of force and unsecured passengers can be thrown clear of the vehicle after an anti-personnel or anti-tank mine has detonated beneath it.
- Small Arms Fire: The Took's armour is resistant to small-arms fire albeit concentrated and sustained weapons fire can seriously damage the chassis stripping away its' tough Durasteel-Titanium Laminate Armour. The Tooka cannot withstand dedicated anti-tank weapons and thrown explosives such as fragmentation grenades which can cause crippling or disabling damage particularly if they land directly beneath the chassis or in close proximity to it.
- Transversely Mounted Engine: The Tooka's engine is mounted on the transverse and while this allows for a reduction in overall length it presents a greater target to an enemy engaging from the front. An enemy with a high-powered weapon such as a laser cannon or shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon who fires at the Tooka's frontal arc could very well mobility kill the vehicle. Leaving the crew and passengers stranded.
The Mk.I Tooka Force-Scout Vehicle is a right-hand all-wheel drive, all-terrain multipurpose vehicle that can be used in a wide variety of different roles on the battlefield from an Infantry Fighting Vehicle to an unarmed ambulance that can quickly evacuate battlefield casualties where air casevac isn't possible or too dangerous for the craft in question. what makes the Tooka so valuable to the First Order's Stormtrooper Corps is that it can be loaded (albeit barely) Onto an Atmospheric Assault Lander, providing Infantry Platoons with instant access to support weapon platform support. The Tooka is capable of having a number of weapon systems mounted on it including the Z-6 Rotary Blaster Cannon, FWMB-10 Repeating Blaster, Minimag PTL Missile Launcher or a Medium Mortar making it a truly flexible vehicle capable of tackling a variety of threats though due to its' light armour is capable of being decimated by the same kinds of weapons it carries with concentrated fire. As a true all-terrain vehicle with a powerful combustion motor the Tooka can move admirably across virtually any terrain and climb steep inclines thanks to a whopping 1,500 horsepower sitting behind its' grille. The Tooka's large engine is mounted on the transverse to reduce the vehicle's overall length; this has the effect of making the engine's cross section greater over the frontal firing arc however increasing its' vulnerability especially behind the engine grill which is a necessity to bring oxygen in for the combustion engine's cooling system. To aid with the logistics of supporting combustion engines in the field FOCIE Engineered the Tooka's motor to be a multi-fuel engine permitting the usage of virtually any combustible liquid as fuel although the motor performance can vary wildly with the use of high-grade versus low-grade fuels.
The Tooka is quite comfortable for its' passenger and drive with tough leather bucket seats for maximum grip on the occupants and ease of cleaning surface damage. Each seat is equipped with a pillar mounted safety harness system to secure the seat's occupant to the vehicle in the vent the vehicle rolls-over. Unfortunately many troops in the field neglect to equip the harness due to the fact it's a four-point harness leading to deaths and accidents on vehicle rollover not unheard of under training conditions. The Tooka is equipped with a roll cage to give its' chassis greater stability and prevent the occupants from being crushed as it rolls across hard surfaces such as across rock scattered across hills, its' dash offers the driver a number of holographic displays with information pertinent to the vehicle such as speed, engine revolutions, gear number, kilometres travelled on the current engine, engine temperature and oil pressure along with more than a dozen other features either represented by numerical values or symbols which are subdued or active depending on whether or not the driver's attention is required for whatever the symbol represents. The vehicle's transmission is an electrically-assisted computer controlled semi-automatic clutchless gearbox with paddle shifts on the steering wheel to permit manual selection of the gears without worrying the driver about having to maintain the correct accelerator-to-clutch ratio seen in clutched manual transmissions. While using such a transmission modestly extends maintenance time it makes turning the vehicle and shifting down several gears quickly from high speed significantly safer and reduces the risk for overly-zealous Troopers from prematurely wearing out the mechanical parts.
SUBMISSION MODIFICATION RECORDS
- 25/03/2019: Edited the Affiliations, Manufacturer, Designer to include the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation and Core Imperial Confederation. Specified Closed-Market.
