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Down loading................Completed.
Sender: Special forces agent Apheral
Mission completed at 06:00 hours. Loses kept to a minimum. Northern casualties high. Due back at Southern military command 09:00 hours.

I didn't write this stuff and don't listen them crap on about "good old mother land North" we've started producation on copy heavy gears already. Special forces agent Apherals mission was to secure a copy of the new northern heavy gears.

Type: Combat Monocycle (Like those found in the anime 'Venus Wars')
Threat Value: 757.7ArmourOffensive: 1514.4Light: 2Defensive: 691.6Heavy:4Miscellaneous: 67.0Overkill: 6

Size: 5
Default Size: 9
Crew: 1
Cost: $681,899
Production Type: Mass Production
Indiv. lemon Dice: 3
Movement: Ground (Primary)
Combat Speed: 13MP ( 78 kph)
Top Speed: 26MP (156 kph)
Maneuver: +4
Deployment Range: 200 km
Sensors: 0
Sensor Range: 2 km
Communications: 0
Communications Range: 10 km
Fire Control: +2

Perks:
Target Desig: 6 (rating 1)
Advanced Neural Net: 10 (+1 maneuver, Learning ability)
Env. Protect (Desert): 1
Reinf. Armour (Front): 8 (8 points front)
Reinf. Armour (LS): 2 (2 points left side)
Reinf. Armour (RS): 2 (2 points right side)
HEAT Resistant Armour: 2 (2 points vs HEAT)

Flaws:
Frag Chassis: -5
Poor Towing Cap: -4
Ineff. Combat Comp: -3
Vulnerable to Haywire: -9
Exposed Movement Sys: -5
Exposed Crew Compart: -5

Weapons:
Gatling Laser Cannon: FixedForward 2/4/8/16 +1 x20 40 ammo, +1 ROF

Background:
The discovery of the GUNDAM prototype sent shockwaves thru the southern command ranks. Realizing that they could not hope to built a gear prototype in the amount of time available to them, they turned in desperation to the Territorial Arms Skunk Works to come up with a viable alternative...

Capabilities:
Early on, it was decided that a gear design would take too long to design and test, so the project team decided on building their munch vehicle around a monocyle chassis with an autobalancing gyro for the prerequisite stability and maneuverability needed for the design. The design philosophy followed by the design team was contained in the quote "speed is life". For the advanced maneuverability needed to stay alive, the designers exporpriated the latest NNet technology from both Dynamic Systems and Obelisk Electronics.

The resulting vehicle could turn on a dinar and burn across the battlefield at an astonishing 150 kph. The cost of this maneuverability was protection. The armour is only sufficient to stop small arms fire and shrapnel even with the reinforced frontal armour which is sufficient to stop autocannon fire. The cockpit is very exposed, but the pilots seem to like it that way. In fact, most of the pilots might be considered candidates for the lunatic asylum. This reputation was earned because of each pilots insistance that they be considered the 'Top Gun'. The competition between them got so extreme that the project manager had to call a stop to their 'authorized field testing' that involved racing through the nearby forest at 120 kph.

The cycle's firepower is concentrated around a gatling laser due to its accurate high-volume of fire and low recoil. The advanced targeting computer allows the pilots to kill a Jaguar with one shot, but the pilots have to get close in order to do this. True to their nature, the testers enjoyed playing chicken with their targets, closing to point-blank range in order to get their kill. A target designator was add-on when it was realized that they could call in guided mortar rounds from their gear cousins or supporting Barnaby.

The tactics involve operating out of a specially modified Banaby with increased armour and weaponry. A group of twelve cycles and their support staff would operate out of this vehicle, with two gears for support.

Vehicle Stats: UHWD-50 Garbage Truck

Name: UHWD-50 Hazardous Waste Disposal Vehicle
Type: City Garbage Truck

Threat Value: 125
Offensive: 0.00 Multiplier: 0.00
Defensive: 75.71 Multiplier: 151.41
Miscellaneous: 299.49 Perk/Flaw: 17.80

Production: Mass Production
Cost/Unit: $39,063 Producer: Northern Bounty
Size Scale: 8 Mass: 16,581.375 kg

Crew: 1 Bonus Actions: 0
Movement Type: Ground Only
Ground Speed: 78 kph 13MP (Drives like a maniac)
Maneuver Bnus: -2 (Hey, this ain't no Ferrari!)
Deployment: 200 km (Runs on 'natural' gas)

Armor Rating: 12/24/36 Steel Equiv: 144 mm
Sensor Rating: 0 (Cheap metal detectors)
Sensor Range: 1 km (Finds dumpsters every time!)
Comm Rating: -1 (Yo! Speak up!)
Comm Range: 5 km (Average city block area)
Fire Control: 0 (Whatcha looking at, buster?)

Weapons: Code/Arc:Ammo: Comments:
None None None Whattya expect on a trash truck?

Perks:
Garbage Bay (90 Cubic meters) (Can haul A LOT of trash)
Flame Resistant (Can haul BURNING trash)
Double Towing Capacity (Can haul burning trash TRUCKS)
Limited Life Support (Can haul SMELLY trash)
Rugged Movement System (Can haul over trashy streets)
Searchlight (50m forward) (Can haul trash at NIGHT)
Tool Arms (Size 4 X 2) (Can lift trash dumpsters)
Ram Plate (Can trash CARS!)
Urban Friendly (Talks trash too)

Flaws:
Large Sensor Profile (rate=2) (It's a BIG truck)
Poor Off-road Abilities (Be careful at the landfill)
Sensor Dependant (No windows)
Decreased Maneuverability (-1 in hover mode)
Traceable Emissions (Phew!)
Weak Underbelly (Nobody's perfect)

Designer's Comments:
A perennial favorite among Sanitation Engineers in the Northern Confederacies, the UHWD-50 Urban Hazardous Waste Disposal Vehicle was born during the turbulent and dark days in the wake of the CEF invasion.

In the post invasion period, city managers found more and more often that they were beset by hordes of jubulant Terra-Novans, eager to party and vandalize after years living under strict curfews and military controls. Chaos reigned for a time, and the once orderly and well-patrolled streets in the Northern Confederacies were strewn with confetti and the detritus of post war fervor.

It was in these difficult times that a new company rose to the forefront. Northern Bounty, a failed defense contractor remembered up till then as the producer of the "Slip-n-Cling-on" rapid-deployment APC (advertised as "The Quicker Picker Upper", a vehicle with a notorious history for absorbing forces rapidly and then tearing through the middle) came to the rescue with an innovative new urban renewal vehicle, the UHWD-50. The UHWD, known affectionately by its many drivers as "UHWD", is a heavily armored and well protected machine, able to make dumpster-recovery runs under heavy enemy fire safely. Its spacious (90 cubic meters) dump bay is easily able to contain the most messy or cantankerous loads, and deploy them rapidly and effectively at the local landfill. Its heavy armor plating has been coated with heat-dissipating plastics to make it invulnerable to incendiary attacks (such as Molotov cocktails), or various forms of corrosive or combustible waste materials (like burning jet fuel). Two twin piston lifting arms allow the UHWD to lift the ten-ton Norlight Co. Heavy Duty Industrial-Sized TrashMatico(tm) brand improved-reinforced Dumpster units with ease and grace, while a powerful quartz-lens searchlight and metal-detection system allows the UHWD to locate concealed/camouflaged trash containers in night or storm conditions. In addition, the UHWD's metal detectors allow it to avoid any anti-vehicular mines that may be lying in its path, protecting its fragile underbelly.

To the joy of many of its pilots, the UHWD sports a military-grade armored movement system, rolling forward on eight heavy-duty self-sealing roadwheels, able to plow relentlessly over broken glass and tank traps with impunity. UHWD pilots also enjoy the standard urban defense platings welded just under the roll-bar protected cabin area, perfect for 'nudging' away errant cars that may be hazardously parked in refuse-reclamation zones. City planners love the UHWD's brake-lights and turn signals recently added by Northern Bounty, a move that single-handedly reduced traffic fatalities on Nothern roads by 50%! Environmentalists have applauded Northern Bounty's use of armor-vehicle style compressed natural gas fuels, though the thick black emissions created by the UHWD's rugged engine system do occasionally tend to cause burning and itchy eyes in personnel not protected within the UHWD's NBC-protected crew cabin.

Northern Bounty Corp. Official Statement:
Nothern Bounty Corp. officially, totally, and categorically denies allegations leveled at us by Puffies Military Surplus Vehicles Co., that the UHWD-50 Hazardous Waste Disposal vehicle is merely a cosmetically altered SNCO APC from the invasion years, and thus violates Confederacy Dictate #21246 prohibiting untaxed sales of recovered and rennovated lost military vehicles. We hope the presence of two heavy hydraulic ram-piston arms on the UHWD, in addition to its clearly civilian-oriented brake-lights and turn signals will lay these allegations to rest finally and for all.

Bonaparte

Type: Police Mini-Tank from Dominion
Height: approx. 2m
Engine: Internal combustion
Crew: 2
Top Speed: Ground 120 km/h (20 MP)
Maneuver: +1
Armour: 12
Fire Control: 0
Communications: 10 km 0
Sensors: 2 km +2
Deployment Range: 300 km

Weapons:
Light Bazooka (Turret)
40 rounds
Heavy Machinegun (Rear)
400 rounds

Perks:
Pollution Protection
Low Profile
Smoke Launcher R6
Loudspeaker
Limited Life Support
Searchlight 50m

Flaws:
Annoyance: Cramped Crew Compartment
Annoyance: Damages Road
Exposed Auxiliary Systems
Offensive Score: 553.4
Defensive Score: 256.5
Miscellaneous Score: 63.6
Threat Value: 291
Default Size: 7
Actual Size: 5
Pre-Production Cost: 407,400

Notes:
This design is based on the original manga and anime. Yes, Bonaparte really is that fast and maneuverable. The main gun is a cannon, not a bazooka, but the LBZK's stats came closest, its damage rating is definitely not in the snub cannon range. It fires a range of munitions, including stun, gas, high explosive, glue shells and even armour piercing discarding sabot rounds - god only knows how it gets a decent muzzle velocity with such a short barrel though. The HMG is in a ball mount on the rear of the vehicle and has the full 180 degree fire arc. Later on in the manga Bonaparte is equipped with a taser mounted coaxially to the main gun. Bonaparte is tough - it takes the full brunt of a 30mm vulcan (MAC) attack with damage to only it's external auxiliary systems. Bonaparte's sensors are very good - it can track vehicles by their acoustic signatures and can scan the inside of a car's trunk! (presumably using sonar or millimetre wave radar) The crew compartment is very cramped - the driver lies down with the commander sitting above them up into the turret with their feet either side of the driver (or, as often in the case of Leona, on Al's head). All track vehicles damage roads to some extent but Bonaparte seems to do an especially good job of it (even more so in the anime). In the short story "Phantom of the Audience" Bonaparte in equipped with wheels to prevent this. Pollution Protection costs 1pt and consists of filters on the air intakes to protect the engine from the bacterial cloud and a special coating on the exterior surfaces to protect them from acid rain. Bonaparte is capable of popping out his treads to brace them against opposite walls to climb up lift shafts, clefts between twin towers etc. I haven't figured this into the perk cost yet. Depending on whether you believe the manga or the anime Bonaparte is either limited production or scratch built. The 'new' Bonapartes in Dominion: Conflict are massed produced. At the end of the manga Bonaparte's smoke dischargers are replaced with two boxes - if anyone has any idea what these are I would be very grateful to know (missile launcher perhaps?). I will write up Silhouette stats for the 'new' Bonapartes if and when more info appears in Dominion: Conflict.