Good Ol' Scoundrel
Image Source: Red Faction - hereIntent: Create the first war vehicle for the Wraithguard, and the first produced vehicle by Corondex.
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Development Thread: Aggressive Acquisition
Manufacturer: Corondex ArmsModel: 114
Affiliation: Wraithguard; Closed Market.
Modularity: No.
Production: Mass Produced
Material: Reinforced Duranium; Polarizing Field Insulation; Thermal Gel
Role: Mobile Rocket Artillery
Height: 2.5m
Length: 7.2m
Width: 3.9m
Weight: 50 t
Minimum Crew: 1
Optimal Crew: 3
Propulsion: Electric engine - > Tracks; Small repulsor engine when obstacles arise.
Top Speed: 110km/h
Armaments:
- Magnetically Accelerated Missile Launchers
- Shatter Beam Mounted Cannonhttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shatter_beam
Passenger Capacity: 0
Cargo Capacity: 0
Misc. Equipment:
- Ray and Particle Shield
- Active Protection System
- Non-explosive reactive Armor
- Standard Missile Configuration:
6 pods, 3 missiles in each:
Seismic-charge Missiles. - -or-
- Bunker Buster variant of above.
Strengths:
- Evasive: The speed and the type (un-guided ballistic) of the missiles fired make them hard to track and thus to be countered.
- Shielded Missiles: Each missile has a miniature shield generator that creates a small shield around the missile protecting it from the actions that aim to disable it.
- Damage: Due to the nature of its standard configuration - seismic missiles - the Hailstorm is able to deliver an extremely high amounts of damage upon areas it strikes, making each missile count a lot. This enables one vehicle to cover greater areas in destruction due to the larger than standard area one missile affects.
- Non-explosive reactive armor: Utilizing non-explosive reactive armor for the artillery, thus lacking the explosive liner, makes the bulging less energetic than on an explosive reactive armor. Hence, it offers lesser protection.
- Tracks leave tracks: While repulsor propelled vehicles would leave no tracks behind them thus making their hit shoot-and-scoop tactics absolutely perfect, the Hailstorm does leave tracks in non-urbanized ground making enemies able to possible predict its future location and outmaneuver it.
- Unguided ballistic missiles: The missiles, as they are unguided, cannot change their course midway if the target has moved from their location after the launch of missiles.
Description: The Hailstorm mobile rocket artillery does not differ from many other contemporary rocket artillery in the sense of defensive capabilities or movement. What differentiates it and makes it a very deadly weapon in the right arms is the ordnance it possesses. Utilizing the seismic technology, Corondex has designed missiles capable of wrecking great havoc in a larger than usual area. This makes the Hailstorm a very versatile artillery, being able to cover substantially more area of effect.
The active protection system it utilizes is fairly standard, being able to completely disable precision-guided attacks but not un-guided ones. It is vulnerable to precise jamming conducted by opposing forces on it. Other than that, it also possesses a polarizing field insulation giving it a much greater resistance to EMP and Ion attacks. The reactive armor and reinforced duranium are fairly generic and massively used around the galaxy in contemporary defence of warfare vehicles.
6 pods with 3 missiles in each make the Hailstorm a 'mule' of ordnance. All 6 pods are universal and are compatible with any other missile for rocket artillery. It is just the seismic charged missiles that are its standard configuration as stated earlier in the misc. equipment. A forward observer can synchronize his own targeting with that of the artillery via momentary signal connection for more precise and up to date target acquisition and accuracy.
In terms of history - the Hailstorm was researched by Harf & Reynos, a direct competitor to Corondex Arms. The company's headquarters were raided by Vitor Avendahl and a party of ApeX mercenaries led by Lieutenant Stirok with the aim of acquiring the plans. With outdated information on the headquarters defences, it was only Stirok, Vitor and one more mercenary to survive the blood bath within. They were able to narrowly escape with the plans and return them to Gad Ignashevic, Corondex's Director of Operations, who immediately began materializing the research plans.
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