Aithne Charr
Heir of Fire
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[SIZE=14.6667px]Intent: To create a tank destroyer to take down heavily armored vehicles and targets. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Development Thread: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Manufacturer: Keshiri Driveworks[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Model: Usurper Class Tank Destroyer[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Affiliation: Approved Keshiri Driveworks Customers[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Modularity: No[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Production: Mass Produced[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Material: [/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Dual-Layered Quadranium Plating[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Fusion Drive Core[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Electronical transfer cables[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Role: Heavy Tank Destroyer[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Height: 3.5 meters[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Length: 10.8 meters[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Width: 3.8 meters[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Weight: 125 tonnes[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Minimum Crew: 3 Man Crew[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]1 Loader[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]1 Gunner[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]1 Pilot[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Optimal Crew: 6[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]1 Loader[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]1 Gunner[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]1 Spotter[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]1 Tank Commander[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]1 Pilot[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]1 MG Operator[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Propulsion: Tracks[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Top Speed: 30km/h [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Armaments: [/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Dual 150mm Main Mass Driver Cannon[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Quad light laser cannon (Only able to defend the right side)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Squadron Count: [/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px]3[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Passenger Capacity: None[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Cargo Capacity: None[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Misc. Equipment: [/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Infrared and Night vision Photosensor array.[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Integrated targeting systems[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Single fusion drives[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Integrated radar and communications array[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Strengths[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px]: (Provide, in list format, a minimum of [/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px]1[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px] strength of this submission.)[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Ain’t nothing getting back up - This weapon is meant to wipe out the enemy in one or two shots before they can respond with so much as a glance in your direction, with that in mind, the idea to place two large mass driver cannons on the vehicle was decided on. This choice was to allow more variety when it comes to the shells being used on the enemy forces.[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Armor for Days - When you get a big gun, you need armor for that gun. This was the idea behind the use of two layers of thick Quadranium armor, all angled to help further improve the spread of energy when struck by both energy and physical weaponry.[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Slow as a Bantha - While not actually slow as a Bantha, but in the same way you should not use these things if you expect to cover alot of ground, because instead of doing so, you will be crawling along kilometers behind your forces, or making them sitting ducks as they wait for you. This makes targeting them with artillery and airstrikes a bit easier as they are more predictable in their ability to alter course. [/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Always facing forward - There is absolutely no turret on this thing, meaning that this vehicle must always shoot forward with the only movement in the cannon itself so that it can make adjustments to better find and hit its target. With that in mind, it must turn all of its body in order to find its enemy, making turning and fighting anything that gets behind it a bit harder than in normal main battle tanks.[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=14.6667px]Swamps, Mud, and Marshes… - This thing will sink the moment it enters any of these. While not immediate, the end result will still be the same and as such restricts this tank’s usage by quite a bit. It as such will also find trouble in places where conditions are similar, such as snow and now it could pack in and around the treads, but will not have the same crippling effect as mud, swamps, and marshes. [/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px] [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Description: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]The Usurper was created with the singular though of power in mind. The guns were the main thought when it came to the creation of the Tank, focusing on getting as much punch out of them as possible but this would come with it difficulties that the crews and that Solan soon figured out rather easily. Such a weapon would not be a fast nor be a mobile creation, nor would it be able to support a turret emplacement and would be forced into the role of a front facing self propelled gun. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]And so, the need for power, armor, and ammunition versatility was required. This is where the last decided the first. Instead of using an energy based weapon which while better for long range combat, would in the end be restricted if it found itself against certain targets. It was decided upon at that point that a physical based weapon, a Mass Driver would be a more appropriate choice as the ammunition could be changed to fit many situations from anti-tech based, to anti-armor, and high explosive as examples. But this did not end there, the use of two cannons was decided in order to maximize the punch of the weapon and increase its fire rate. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Thus came the problem. Such power required the gun to be secured to the chassis and as such this means that the addition of a turret was impossible. And so it sacrificed any ability to turn its gun on its own power and with that obvious weakness laid on the armor. Two layers of armor was added to the tank, providing a rather strong defense against any incoming weapons, but providing the tank with another rather defining weakness. Compared to other craft in the galaxy, this one was a snail, a heavy snail that is so much so that it cannot be used in locations that others could. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]The extra armor added too much weight for the weapon to be reliably used in places where the ground would drag it down and slow it even more than it was already slowed, mud showing the craft slowing to 5 km/h while marshes and swamps completely trapped the craft. It created a strong tank with some locations absolutely impossible for the Usurper to be used in. [/SIZE]
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