Thursday, May 3, 2007

Developmental Hermes Vehicles

These units are currently in development at Olympus. They are single or two man craft designed to replace the extremely vulnerable mini-copter craft currently being used by air police. Many units of the old Air Police helo's have been lost due to the rise of heavy weapons available to cyborgs and terrorists and agents provocateur from the Principality. These new, heavily armored craft are something between a landmate and a Helicopter Gunship in capabilty and price.

The model shown below is outfitted with twin mini-vulcans, one per arm and a tail-mounted, turreted auto-grenade launcher with ammo-pod capable of deploying smoke, flash-bang or HE/FRAG grenades as the situation warrants. Test models have usually set a loadout of rubber bulltes in one arm and AP rounds in the other. It is also capable of limited Hand-to Hand combat vs LandMates and vehicles. It is a Single Pilot model.

Below is a model under development as a Single Man version of the popular Wingless Fly. It incorporates heavier armor that a LandMate and a weapons suite including a tail-mounted mini-vulcan and four capacitor lasers recharged from the power system of the unit. These are capable of dialing up from single-barrel 1d6 shots to a one-time 40d6 linked blast that completely draims the capacitor. This weapon system was designed to make the Air Police effective against LandMate terrorism.

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